So watching college football today the announcers always make a statement like “That drive took 10 minutes so the defense got a good rest”. How is that rest only beneficial to the defense and not for the opposing offense?
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Two things… one is the offense controls the action. If someone on offense is a bit tired they can take a play sort of easy and the only consequence is the ball won’t be thrown/handed to them. It will go to someone else. The defense if you’re tired and take a play easy they are going to throw the ball to you and it’s gonna be a touchdown cause you tried to take it easy. It’s basically if you’re the offense and you take it easy then they just go with someone else on offense. If you’re on the defense and you take it easy they are gonna go for you and expose that.
Also after every play the offense controls when the ball is snapped… so on D you have to haul ass back into position so they can’t snap it while you’re out of position. On offense they can see you’re not in position and just wait till you are to snap it. So even after the play the defense has to run faster to get back first.
There’s also positional things like if you’re blitzing you’re running toward the QB and trying to fight people off… if you’re a blocker you just stand still and try not to move when they are trying to push past. Try it with a friend and see which is harder and takes more out of you.
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