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Why did we fell behind by 21 points in the first half?
To me it was the inability of both our O, & D to manage the 1 st down plays....on offense, it looked to me that we were stuffed on 1st down plays, and many times ended up in 2nd & long, when we had to throw.......usually that throw was mostly unsuccessful, which ended up in 3rd & long. That is the hardest to make on a consistent basis.
But not only on offense we had problems on 1st down plays....on D that was even worse....our D was regularly giving up 5-6 yds on 1st down plays....followed by 2-3 yds on 2nd downs, and we had no choice stopping them on 3rd & 1 plays!
It took both sides to figure it out, and beginning in the 2nd half our 1st down performance drastically changed......we started moving the ball on 1st downs, and more time than not we made another 1st downs on our 2nd down plays. That was the biggest reason for our offense's success in the 2nd half.
Same goes for our D.....we started bringing more & more pressure on them on 1st down plays....their wildcat failed them on multiple occasions......once they had 3rd & long....they were toast!
To me it was the inability of both our O, & D to manage the 1 st down plays....on offense, it looked to me that we were stuffed on 1st down plays, and many times ended up in 2nd & long, when we had to throw.......usually that throw was mostly unsuccessful, which ended up in 3rd & long. That is the hardest to make on a consistent basis.
But not only on offense we had problems on 1st down plays....on D that was even worse....our D was regularly giving up 5-6 yds on 1st down plays....followed by 2-3 yds on 2nd downs, and we had no choice stopping them on 3rd & 1 plays!
It took both sides to figure it out, and beginning in the 2nd half our 1st down performance drastically changed......we started moving the ball on 1st downs, and more time than not we made another 1st downs on our 2nd down plays. That was the biggest reason for our offense's success in the 2nd half.
Same goes for our D.....we started bringing more & more pressure on them on 1st down plays....their wildcat failed them on multiple occasions......once they had 3rd & long....they were toast!