Chargers 2013 Offense Analysis

[TABF]

Love breakdowns like this.

http://www.footballperspective.com/the-2013-san-diego-offense-was-uniquely-efficient/

[Steve]

I do agree with the fact that offense will be somewhat different. If the D gets some turnovers, plays better, and we get Floyd back, we probably won't be the same slow, plodding offense we were at times last year.

But the real key is field position. How else do you explain a crappy D that allows people to move up and down the field at will, yet doesn't surrender that many points? Sure, the fact that the other teams offense isn't on the field that much helps. Teams were very efficient against us, Yuba has bored us all at nausum with that one, and he isn't wrong with that as a fact. It just isn't as important if you make a big play to stop someone and we usually did. And add that with all the yards we give up, as long as we have field position we can trade that distance and not give up points.

Sure, we give up some big plays (or did), but if you have enough field to trade, who cares. It just means we have further to go on O, and that didn't seem to be a problem. Our problem wasn't moving the ball it was finishing drives, and that is a problem whether we have long drives or short.

There just isn't a good stat for field position, so the stat/analytics guys will keep missing the obvious, looking for new football wisdom (like the guys in Moneyball did), when the real issue is that we fell back on some really old football knowledge.

The rest of the league seems to ignore the idea of time of possession. Sure, it's great for padding the stats, and wearing out defenses, but what about your own D?

[RTPbolt]

An interesting analysis. Basically we were just super efficient at moving the ball and keeping it for long drives. We had so many 5-8 minute drives last year and that just eats at the other teams ability to score and it kept our weakness off the field (our D). If our D makes even marginal improvement or just plays to the level they were at when we closed the season I think its not farfetched to say we will win those games where we struggled to close last year....our offense will have the ball even more against lesser teams.

Its all about field possession and keeping the mistakes minimized. The offense really was dictating pace with Matthews until his injury took him out. I think adding Floyd back in and taking out VB and Tutu from as many snaps should really help this offense. Floyd was a good mid range threat and sideline WR for us and he can still stretch the field for the longer throws. It will be interesting to see if we take advantage of a deeper game a few times a game more than last season with Floyd and possibly Reese in there.

I love our offensive makeup. We stick with the same basic formula and we should have a good offensive team with more talent than last year.

[Wheels]

A bunch of us had been hoping for an offensive scheme that emphasized short quick throws to take advantage of some of Rivers' strengths. Looks like it's a nice fit.