Fuzzy Math On The Benn’d Around
July 18th, 2012
“Olie, man, that didn’t even work on the chalkboard.”
You all remember the heinous, mind-numbing, bang-your-head-against-a-wall Benn’d around play, an obsession of Greg Olson that clearly was designed to pad the wallets of cardiologists across Tampa Bay.
If you blocked it out, here’s the 2011 compilation on YouTube. However, one of the runs, the successful one, is not a Benn’d around but a straight handoff in front of Josh Freeman. But it seems the stat geeks at Football Outsiders studied this play for a fancy 2011 season almanac and mistakenly included the nine yard run referenced above as a Benn’d around.
Their bad numbers tricked Pat Yasinskas, who wrote up the data on ESPN.com.
Benn carried the ball six times on reverses last year. Only three of them went for positive yardage. The longest gain was nine yards. The other two gains went for three and two yards. Benn also carried for losses of four, five and 12 yards.
I’ll total it up here. Benn carried six times on reverses for a grand total of minus seven yards.
Joe will not stand for the Benn’d around getting so much credit. In fact, it was executed five times for -16 yards.
Joe’s personal favorite was the last time the Benn’d around was seen — 3rd-and-2 in the red zone. Olson should have been relieved of his headset at that moment.
July 18th, 2012 at 8:07 pm
Get after ’em Joe!!
July 18th, 2012 at 8:09 pm
Olson did not have a clue how to run the ball.
The Benn Around was a poorly conceived and implemented play.
It was the kind of play a desperate team runs
July 18th, 2012 at 8:21 pm
Joe that caption to the pick is hilarious.
July 18th, 2012 at 8:23 pm
I remember the guys on NFL Radio calling this offense “Stone Age”. And Brian Billick also stated something similar. Raheem didn’t hire Olsen
July 18th, 2012 at 8:34 pm
if you bet games…. bet against the jags! Olsen/mularkey/ gabbert = less than 10 points a game
July 18th, 2012 at 8:43 pm
they only ran that like 5 times last year? thats a shock. I swear that was a week in week out play. maybe the 5 seems like 50 because it was so mind numbing
July 18th, 2012 at 9:15 pm
agree completely with everything, that benn’d around was just a facepalm waiting to happen.
July 18th, 2012 at 9:22 pm
Hey yo Joe,
I’m so thankful for you 2 guys. You put in all the work to find good Buc news from all the different sites, so that all I have to do………… is 1 Click. It saves me so much time and makes my addiction so much easier to feed.
Thanks.
Bro-Hugs All Around!
July 18th, 2012 at 9:30 pm
I am still surprised at the sheep around here. It was not an Olsen obsession for the Benn Around play. It was our fearless GM that pressured the coaching staff for Benn to get his hands on the ball. We will see how many time the jags will run this play and then the truth will come out how much this rock star was calling the shots around hear the last couple of years.
July 18th, 2012 at 9:36 pm
I am still surprised at the sheep around here. It was not an Olsen obsession for the Benn Around play. It was our fearless GM that pressured the coaching staff for Benn to get his hands on the ball. We will see how many time the jags will run this play and then the truth will come out how much this rock star was calling the shots around hear the last couple of years.
July 18th, 2012 at 10:00 pm
I’m still suprised you are calling yourself a buc realist thinking like that. Gettin the ball in someone’s hands means putting him on the field in a position to make plays. The end around was not a position to make plays when the blocking was awful
July 18th, 2012 at 10:00 pm
Also notice how many tackles he broke
July 18th, 2012 at 10:09 pm
I guess I have to spell it out for you. He did not how to run the routes so Freeman did not look his way. Dominick was watching his second round pick do nothing. He made sure that in no uncertain terms that Benn get his touches in a game. That is how the end around became a routine play.
July 18th, 2012 at 11:30 pm
with only 5 touches on the bend around it was hardly a routine play. And just how is it you know such intricate details on this? Do you have a friend of a friend who heard this? Perhaps you heard it on a sports radio show?… Or maybe you spoke to Dom directly? Theres no way possible for you to know what you have just stated is a fact. Its fine to state your opinion but stop spewing garbage as fact if you dont know wtf you are talking about.
July 18th, 2012 at 11:33 pm
You should relieved of your keyboard for the grammatical mistakes in that article… Have a tiny bit of professionalism
Such a loving fellow you are. Joe uploaded a version that wasn’t the final one. The system glitches sometimes. It’s fixed now. –Joe
July 19th, 2012 at 1:33 am
Bareriino,
That kind of s***** grip post is what we don’t need on this blog. The rest of us ( minus one or two ) really appreciate what the Joe’s do to keep us informed. Write again when you can be a gentleman.
July 19th, 2012 at 3:17 am
Bareriino,
Why don’t you proof read your post, before calling someone out?
July 19th, 2012 at 8:31 am
Look, I dont think Greg Olsen was great by any means, but riddle me this guys, why did the Benn-around have success in 2010? He had same number of attempts with 6, but had 35 total yards. 5+ yards a carry is very successful.
July 19th, 2012 at 8:41 am
Bareriino, who p**sed in your Cheerios?
July 19th, 2012 at 9:00 am
You want to know how to tell when someone on here is talking at their arse? They include the term: “sheep…” I know of another fellow poster that uses this word. Hmm…who could it be? Oh and get off of everyone’s back grammar police. Does a typo ruin your day. Can your superior mind not comprehend it unless it’s written in grammatical perfection? Come on. Get over yourselves. Joe keep doing what you do. We love you for it. I come here multiple times a day for my crack…err Bucs fix. Best Bucs site EVER! or is it eevr? nmo wiat…um…sorwy – oops
July 19th, 2012 at 10:24 am
I think Buc N’ A said, verbatim, what I was about to write. Well done sir.
July 19th, 2012 at 4:05 pm
One problem with a Benn’d around is while Benn is running an arc from A to B, the CB covering him can run a straight line from A to B in less time, if he chooses to do so.