I'm sorry I must of missed something, statistically wasn't Tebow and the Broncos awful in the RZ last season?
stop thinking red zone and start thinking goalline/short yardage. tebow is 7 for 7 in scoring a td from the 3 yard line and in in the nfl. www.thebiglead.com/index.php/2012/0...ick-an-extra-point-before-the-fourth-quarter/
There was a thread about this awhile ago (before Tebow came, I believe). It actually seems to make sense -- overall, if you have a player that can make the 2 point conversion consistently (over 50% of the time?) a team would benefit from trying for it every single time. However, no team in the history of the NFL has ever used this strategy. Not sure why... possibly because it's really really hard to get the 2 point conversion constantly. Then. Comes. Tebow.
No team has done it because there isn't enough job security for the coach to do it. If you miss on one in one game and lose because you didn't kick the XP you will be killed. Only an established coach try it and they might not even at that point.
Tebow is deadly w/in the RZ. Very difficult to defend against an absolute bull who can throw. He crushes any DB who tries him on the edge.
Not to rain on anybody parade. But if u get 3 chances at the 3 yard u probably will score a TD I bet 90+% of the time.
So really, no coach has done it because of tradition. Since every team has done it a certain way, varying from that way has become a taboo and can get a coach fired if it doesn't work. They said the same thing about passing to Tight ends.
the makes 2 very big assumptions: 1) that you will score at least 2 touchdowns every game 2) that you will always, at worst, alternate missed conversions and made conversions, never having a string of 2 or more misses.
idk...we got 4 tries vs pit in the afc championship game and came up empty. tebow would have been helpful back then
No it's not. Are you trying to say that our 2nd D is just as good as the 1st line? The real measuring stick will be on the field against a real opponent in the game that counts. Our 2nd D, however good you think it is, is not on the the level as first defences. Hence, it's not an appropriate measuring stick to gauge QBs' performance.
Who's on the "2nd team" D that the 2nd string offense is playing against ? Scrub players and camp bodies? When I made the comment, the first team offensive line is actually what was on my mind. There's been a ton of talk about the lack of depth on the Oline. Common sense holds that our 2nd team Oline is far behind our first team. But, when talking about the D, they are stacked with lots of depth at just about every position. There's actually a question as to which guys will start in certain positions (obviously, CB is excluded here). But as far as LBs, Dline and Safeties go ? You don't think the 2nd team D is much better than the 2nd team O ?
No, you said 90%. The Jets were 0/1 against the Steelers in the AFCCG when they got 3+ chances. Not to rain on anyone's parade, but seems like that's less than 90%.
