>According to a Wall Street Journal study of four recent broadcasts, and similar estimates by researchers, the average amount of time the ball is in play on the field during an NFL game is about 11 minutes.
>In other words, if you tally up everything that happens between the time the ball is snapped and the play is whistled dead by the officials, there's barely enough time to prepare a hard-boiled egg. In fact, the average telecast devotes 56% more time to showing replays.
>So what do the networks do with the other 174 minutes in a typical broadcast? Not surprisingly, commercials take up about an hour. As many as 75 minutes, or about 60% of the total air time, excluding commercials, is spent on shots of players huddling, standing at the line of scrimmage or just generally milling about between snaps.
>In the four broadcasts The Journal studied, injured players got six more seconds of camera time than celebrating players.
>>According to a Wall Street Journal study of four recent broadcasts, and similar estimates by researchers, the average amount of time the ball is in play on the field during an NFL game is about 11 minutes.
>>In other words, if you tally up everything that happens between the time the ball is snapped and the >play is whistled dead by the officials, there's barely enough time to prepare a hard-boiled egg. In fact, the average telecast devotes 56% more time to showing replays.
>>So what do the networks do with the other 174 minutes in a typical broadcast? Not surprisingly, commercials take up about an hour. As many as 75 minutes, or about 60% of the total air time, excluding commercials, is spent on shots of players huddling, standing at the line of scrimmage or just generally milling about between snaps.
>>In the four broadcasts The Journal studied, injured players got six more seconds of camera time than celebrating players.
Very good post
Kayden Sullivan
>Wall Street Journal Stopped reading there
Ethan Jackson
hate anime
Nathan Moore
thanks
Aaron Wilson
>Wall Street Journal they took down pewdiepie so this is all propaganda u shill
Hudson Edwards
>>/r/eddit
Jonathan Cook
>11 minutes How much time is a NFL match? 30 min?
Brody Lopez
3 hours
Carson Lopez
3 hours? I can't believe it
Ethan Wood
Really? You think the presnap isn't part of play? I bet it was a woman who wrote this garbage.
Connor Martinez
>being so dense you cannot comprehend the importance of pre-snap play
Full pleb.
Christian Clark
yeah tell me about it
Gabriel Lopez
What is that pre-thing? that pre-thing is in those 3 hours or is a plus? Just a spaniard informing himself
Cooper Barnes
>shots of players huddling, standing at the line of scrimmage or just generally milling about between snaps
Confirmed for having no idea how football works.
William Roberts
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Austin Phillips
Pre-snap is when plays are called and adjusted, it often takes longer than the play itself. In the huddle, a play is called, sometimes with a back-up play (a kill play). When the QB gets to the line, he looks at the defense and decides whether to run the called play, change to the kill play, change to a completely different play entirely or maybe just change the side of the field you're running the play. These moments of non-action are what differentiate great players from good.
Lucas Moore
Football isn't as simple as it looks.
When the play is called and the players line up, the QB, some of the linemen on offense, LBs or Safety, and rbs are looking at what they think the team is gonna do and make adjustments based on that. It's can be the difference in a TD or a pick 6.
Jaxon Ramirez
Thanks
Eli Rodriguez
Here's an example. That player picked off or intercepted the pass because his CB partner read the play and told him to jump it.
The defense is also doing the same thing. Usually it's a middle linebacker who will adjust the the defense in response to the QB adjusting the offense. If you watch a game and hear the QB yelling random words and see the middle linebacker screaming and making hand signals, that's what's going on. Nowadays, the quarterback and the linebacker have 1-way communication with a coach inside their helmet (the coach is talking to them, but the players are not talking to the coach).
There's not really a comparison in any other sport. It's essentially management and I can understand how it's not impressive or considered "action" to the average spectator, but for those who understand the game it can be the most compelling part of a game. It's pure strategy directly preceding game action. And it's awesome.
Matthew Reed
>the quarterback and the linebacker have 1-way communication with a coach inside their helmet (the coach is talking to them, but the players are not talking to the coach).
I thought the communication lines were closed once the teams have lined up?
Adrian Martinez
When that presnap happens, the QB can start whenever he wants to play? And there is a time limit for the presnap?
Ryan Lopez
Yes, there have about 40 seconds to get the play called, make subs, line up and snap the ball.
Brandon Scott
Not to mention that the time in the huddle can be the difference between winning a game or losing one. It's also used for various strategies like managing the clock so you give your opponent less time to work with
Jacob James
As soon as the offensive line is set, the play can begin. The offense does not have to wait for the defense to be ready. That's why defense doesn't usually huddle and defensive play calls are simple and short compared to offensive play calls. There's a time limit of 40 seconds from the end of the last play until the next play has to be snapped.
Blake Stewart
But during the presnap, the qb can start whenever he wants or he has to wait that 40 secs?
>The offense does not have to wait for the defense to be ready.
Not true, if the offense makes a sub, they have to give the defense a chance to also sub.
Yeah, the qb can start right away.
Aaron Rodgers does this to his advantage sometimes when a defensive player is taking his to get subbed off. You can't have more than 11 players on the field, so even if that player is a foot on the field and the QB snaps, it's a penalty against the defense.
Leo Lee
NFL Films video on the ridiculous and absurd complexity of play calling.
>Bunch left nasty wild halfback left scat Y choice zebra shallow cross z post x scout on one >ready?
Nathaniel Wood
The coach calls the play before the players line up. Its not really communication per she because all the coach or coordinator does is give them a play and that's it
Sebastian Ross
The reason Jerry Rice was so good, aside from the stickum, was because he memorised his routes so well. Many players forget their route, WR being guilty of this the most, and usually just run
Ryan Martinez
was basically going to say this. You could say the same thing about baseball too, in fact baseball probably has a lot less than 11 minutes of ball in play time, but what goes on before the ball is in play is just as if not more important than when it does. The suspense/strategy are what sets football (and baseball, since I mentioned it earlier) apart from other sports
