in the works

by Spesh , Los Angeles, Saturday, February 14, 2009, 17:08 (6255 days ago) @ PaulM

Can't do anything re: Thomas right now. Currently we enter the H, F, X, Y, and Z for each play. But that wasn't done for 2005 or 2006. So there's no way of telling concretely whether Thomas was in on a play action pass unless the ball was thrown to him (because that is kept track of, obviously).

But we have stats on play action for 2005, 2006, and 2008.

The short of is that the overall play action numbers in 2008 were actually better than in 2006, but not quite as good in 2005. My guess is that the numbers look great because of all the deep passes off play action.

At the same time, the number of PA passes has gone down from 141 to 93 to 70.

The one area that has been most intriguing to examine is our use of play action from Regular personnel. As you can see with the Aldridge data, we pretty much sucked. For the season we actually were 10-28 passing with that personnel, but the other groupings did much better. 2005 was off the charts in Regular (32-49 for 450 yards) but then we dipped way down in 2006 (11-21 for 140 yards).

Hope this is enough until we do a larger piece on it later in the spring/summer.