There has been a lot of discussion this season about why Ollie's numbers haven't been great through the first three games (including people mentioning us changing our zone vs gap schemes from last year)... but looking through the PFF numbers for the first three games this year, I didn't find that much of a difference.
For 2023, PFF categorized 278 carries & broke them down as 88 zone (31.7%) and 190 gap (68.3%).
For 2024, PFF categorized 59 carries & broke them down as 20 zone (33.9%) and 39 gap (66.1%).
According to those numbers... the breakdown of zone vs gap runs is almost identical to 2023. A difference of +/- 2% equates to less than 1 carry per game.
So my question is: Have we actually been running things that differently that we did last year? Or does it just feel that way because the results haven't been great?
For 2023, PFF categorized 278 carries & broke them down as 88 zone (31.7%) and 190 gap (68.3%).
For 2024, PFF categorized 59 carries & broke them down as 20 zone (33.9%) and 39 gap (66.1%).
According to those numbers... the breakdown of zone vs gap runs is almost identical to 2023. A difference of +/- 2% equates to less than 1 carry per game.
So my question is: Have we actually been running things that differently that we did last year? Or does it just feel that way because the results haven't been great?
