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Originally Posted by -King-
Why run in those situations then? If passing is almost always better, why run on 2nd and 3rd and shorts?
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Because those are situations where yards per play doesn't matter as much and success percentage matters more in achieving the first down. Also it allows you to super exploit the defense there.
I would argue that if some team was crazy deep chucking team and had a low comp pct that perhaps always throwing on 1st and 10 wouldn't always be a good idea, but Patrick's comp is at a career high and in prior years it is never a weakness despite how much we throw.