A term I've made up for when playing an option offense is "drive compression" - or that what you look for your team to do is to get better over the course of the game... and drives become "compressed" throughout the game, or become worse and worse.
If I take a 2-drive, rolling average of AFA drives against us in terms of total yards and yards per play, we get:
[total yards] [yards per play]
92 10.2
144 6.5
106 4.8
106 5.3
106 6.6
29 4.1
21 2.1
72 2.9
60 2.9
84 12.0
145 13.2
You can see the first two drives, they really ripped into us - over 10 yards/play. Then, they continued to gain yards (over 100 yds per two drives), but the yds per play dropped significantly.
Then, our defense really shut their offense down, that is - until our subs came in and they started gaining a lot of yards again.
This could be due to them being worn down by our size or us getting used to their execution speed. But it is good to see the team get better as the game went on. Hopefully, the team is able to carry over this performance into Navy so they don't get off to as strong of a start.
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