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  • October 27, 2018 at 5:03 pm #92909
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    Vincent Bonsignore@VinnyBonsignore
    Not too shabby for a team that “sabotaged” its draft future to trade up to the top of the 2016 draft to pick Jared Goff.

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    October 28, 2018 at 12:03 am #92919
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    from http://www.espn.com/blog/philadelphia-eagles/post/_/id/26276/going-for-it-eagles-success-leads-to-a-more-aggressive-minded-nfl

    Dating back to 2002, there had been only one instance of a team going for two while down eight points. Then it happened twice in three weeks.

    It’s just further evidence of a sea change occurring across the NFL where teams are ratcheting up their level of aggressiveness, brought on by a perfect storm of circumstance that includes a rise in analytics, the enforcement of rules that (further) benefit the offense, and an Eagles Super Bowl run that was defined by an attacking, out-of-the box approach.

    According to ESPN Stats & Information and Elias research:

    There have been 59 two-point conversion attempts so far this season, which is the most through Week 7 since the rule was instituted in 1994.

    Teams have gone for two points in the first half 12 times, the most through Week 7 since at least 2001. The previous high in that span was seven.

    Fourth-down tries are also on the rise. Teams have gone for it on fourth down 200 times. That’s the second-most fourth-down conversion attempts through Week 7 since at least 1991.

    And despite this being the second-highest rate of fourth-down tries since at least 1991, the league is converting fourth downs 53.5 percent of the time this season, which is the best rate through Week 7 since 2012

    October 28, 2018 at 12:38 am #92922
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    ME: According to Football Outsiders, the Rams rank 1st when the run is to left OT, 8th when the run is to right OT, and 1st when the run is to the middle (they do it as G-C-G). BTW incidentally, the Rams rank 1st in number of runs stuffed for the first time since I have looked at F.O. OL stats going back years.

    October 28, 2018 at 12:51 am #92923
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    October 28, 2018 at 12:56 am #92924
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    October 28, 2018 at 1:34 am #92929
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    from https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/2018/10/27/dallas-cowboys-ezekiel-elliott-todd-gurley-los-angele-rams/

    Gurley faces eight-or-more defenders in the box on just 9.03 percent of his runs. Out of running backs with over 100 carries, no other back is less than 13 percent.

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