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[QUOTE="nzm136, post: 3511578, member: 2531"]
Pace

You don’t account for pace. Throwing up raw numbers is stupid. (And, I’m being kind by not using stronger, more accurate words.) An offense that scores 2 TD’s on 1,000 drives isn’t better than an offense that scores 1 TD on 1 drive, even though it has 2x the points.

The above is an extreme example to illustrate a point. But the game has gotten much quicker in the last 20 years. Many of our opponents move faster, and we absolutely move faster. Failing to take that into account will cause recent results to be overstated.

If you “don’t give a  about efficiency,“ then you fundamentally don’t understand math, analysis, or football. That’s like saying you don’t give an  about knowing whether what you’re saying is right. Your numbers are at best irrelevant, and at worst misleading and actively deceptive.

And to be clear, style matters because it dictates pace. Pace determines plays. Getting mildly more yards and points on significantly more tries isn’t a good thing. More yards/points isn’t necessarily a good thing. That concept isn’t hard to understand. I cannot fathom how you fail to grasp the 3rd grade math necessary to get it.

Lastly, to anyone who has working eyes and a basic understanding of math, football, or how life works in general, Babers’ offenses, save for one year, aren’t better, and they’re probably worse. Look at the numbers. We aren’t scoring more when we have the ball, and we’re stressing the defense more. How is that a good thing? Seriously, give it actual thought and try to answer that question.
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