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https://www.theringer.com/nfl/2019/11/13...ar-jackson

According to Michael Lopez, the NFL’s director of football data and analytics, through the first nine weeks this season, teams have gone for it on fourth-and-2 35 percent of the time and 53 percent of the time on fourth-and-1. In 2018, teams went for it on 24 percent of their fourth-and-2s during the same span. Sixteen years prior, teams went for it on fourth-and-2 only 16 percent of the time. This season, teams are going for it on fourth-and-2 about twice as often as they did in 2008, the year before Belichick’s 2009 gamble. This is not to say NFL coaches are ready to cut their punters—it’s still a deeply conservative league—but the change, however gradual, is undeniable.

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[BostonCard]

https://www.theringer.com/nfl/2019/11/13...ar-jackson

According to Michael Lopez, the NFL’s director of football data and analytics, through the first nine weeks this season, teams have gone for it on fourth-and-2 35 percent of the time and 53 percent of the time on fourth-and-1. In 2018, teams went for it on 24 percent of their fourth-and-2s during the same span. Sixteen years prior, teams went for it on fourth-and-2 only 16 percent of the time. This season, teams are going for it on fourth-and-2 about twice as often as they did in 2008, the year before Belichick’s 2009 gamble. This is not to say NFL coaches are ready to cut their punters—it’s still a deeply conservative league—but the change, however gradual, is undeniable.

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