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Fumble Recovery And An All Around Swarming Presence

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Georgia Tech loves to put the ball on the ground.

NINE fumbles in their last 3 games, but they only lost two of them. How many teams recover 7 out of 9 offensive fumbles? Seems beyond unlikely.

This is where we need to have bodies just attacking not only the ball carrier but making sure that we keep a gang like mentality on the ball itself.

GT will put the ball on the ground tomorrow, it's just a matter of us picking it up.
 
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Just a guess, based on their offense, that alot of those were unforced and occurred in their own backfield hence only two lost.
 
TheU1984 said:
Just a guess, based on their offense, that alot of those occurred in their own backfield hence only two lost.
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Even with the triple option and pistol it seems like a pretty high number to me, especially when you consider a team like Army who has run the ball 300 times this year already only has 9 fumbles the entire season.

Right now they are averaging 3 fumbles a game (good for 123rd out of 125), they only averaged 1.9 per game last year.
 
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Definitely need to win the to battle tomorrow. I feel like we put it on the ground 9 times alone last Saturday.
 
TheU1984 said:
Definitely need to win the to battle tomorrow. I feel like we put it on the ground 9 times alone last Saturday.
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Funny now after that game we have an identical offensive fumble recovery rate as Georgia Tech.

But we are also top 10 in fumbles created, 9th in takeaways per game. We've recovered 85.71% of the fumbles we've created on defense (18th best).

If we can recover 85 percent of GT fumbles tomorrow, we're going to be in great shape.
 
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They only lost two of those fumbles, because of the offense they run, it is a product of it

With a regular pro style or spread O, players are taught to attack the ball. Thats why when someone fumbles, the D usually recovers because they have 2 to 3 guys flying to it.

On the other hand with the triple option, defenders are taught to play their man (assignment) instead of the ball itself. That means when a GT player fumbles, there is normally only 1 guy around the ball most of the time.

Its just a product of that offense, nothing the other teams are doing wrong
 
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