JONESBORO -- The numbers on their own tells a story: 2 for 33.
That's Arkansas State's conversion rate on third downs over its past three games against Louisiana-Lafayette, South Alabama and Massachusetts.
Third and fourth downs are the "critical plays" Coach Butch Jones so frequently speaks to, so he made sure to watch a cut-up of all 33 snaps prior to his Tuesday news conference.
"It's going to sound crazy, but it's execution," Jones said when asked if he could pinpoint a reason for ASU's third-down troubles. "It's not that we did not have the right play calls, it's not that we did not know what was going on.