Situations and play calling

When a team is behind with the clock running out before halftime or the end of the game, it all but abandons the run

Holds upThe record backs this up, season after season.

This one is in the FanIQ library with the full rule, the reason it works, and every season we checked.

Held in 27 of 27 seasons, from 56,866 records measured.

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The Running Game Doesn't Win Games. Winning Games Creates the Running Game.Fourth-quarter run rate swings fifty points from blowout leader to blowout loser. Almost everything people believe about establishing the run is this chart, read backwards.

FanIQ carries this one in full: the rule itself, why it works, the season-by-season record, and the related laws.