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Message: [QUOTE="nzm136, post: 2732253, member: 2531"] Have you actually ever played football before? Good freaking Lord, offenses and defenses don't get tired equally. [URL='https://www.wsj.com/articles/baylor-bears-the-best-offense-in-college-football-is-also-the-laziest-1447358072']The Best Offense in College Football Is Also the Laziest[/URL] There you go. That's an article about the Art Briles offense at Baylor (and the root of the current Syracuse offense). One of they key elements of the very offense that you're blindly defending is that the defense get more tired than the offense because it has to react to the offense. So, where offensive players can take plays off, defensive players cannot. And to be clear, I picked this article because it outlines the purest form of the style of offense that you're advocating. Also, you don't even have to go behind the pay wall to understand it. But beyond that article, there are a myriad of other articles, forums posts, etc. where the concept of defense being harder than offense is thoroughly flushed out. And to be clear, because this is clearly being lost on you, high beta offenses (score fast or fail fast offenses), don't have drives that last as long as traditional offenses, because they either score, or they get off of the field. A steady grind absolutely does tire defenses out. That's why our defense falls apart when we 3-out a couple of times in a row against physical teams (sound familiar?), even though we're 'better conditioned' (as per your claims many times over). But regardless, an offense that scores quickly gives the opposing offense more time, and thus options, with which to respond. Again, that's just math, and, to be clear, it's been my position (and continues to be my position), that the difference is marginal. But gun to my head, I would rather have 59:20 to answer than 52:00. [/QUOTE]

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