Penalties thread…somm thotz

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from Football Outsiders

http://www.footballoutsiders.com/info/fo-basics

Teams with more offensive penalties generally lose more games, but there is no correlation between defensive penalties and losses.

Specific defensive penalties of course lose games; we’ve all sworn at the television when the cornerback on our favorite team gets flagged for a 50-yard pass interference penalty. Yet overall, there is no correlation between losses and the total of defensive penalties or even the total yardage on defensive penalties. One reason is that defensive penalties often represent good play, not bad. Cornerbacks who play tight coverage may be just on the edge of a penalty on most plays, only occasionally earning a flag. Defensive ends who get a good jump on rushing the passer will gladly trade an encroachment penalty or two for ten snaps where they get off the blocks a split-second before the linemen trying to block them.

In addition, offensive penalties have a higher correlation from year to year than defensive penalties. The penalty that correlates highest with losses is the false start, and the penalty that teams will have called most consistently from year to year is also the false start.

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Back to me

Where the 2014 Rams ranked in terms of false starts—

And it’s interesting.

With 32nd representing the most and 1st representing the least, the Rams are ranked 24th. Problem is, the following teams were worse than them last year: Seattle, Indianapolis, New England, and Arizona.

With “beneficiary” it’s the opposite. Being ranked 1st means teams had more false starts called against your defense, which is a good thing. In this, the Rams are ranked 6th.

[Agamemnon]

There are a lot of ways to look at penalties. The unforced errors, errors caused by laziness or sloppy play, If you do the basic fundamentals right, you would probably cut penalties in half. imo

Agamemnon

[InvaderRam]

well it would seem that penalties would not be such a big deal. or at least would not be a big deal in terms of putting wins up.

problem is those teams below the rams had effective passing games. i think the rams can overcome the penalties if they can just freaking pass the ball effectively. a healthy starting qb is a good start. gotta get the oline fixed. gotta develop a dominant running game. and hopefully that give foles enough space to be effective throwing the ball.

then penalties won’t be such a big deal.

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