I was watching an old video of famous offensive line coach Alex Gibbs teach the way he coaches his offense. It was a long, multi-part video that I had to stop watching because the audio went out of sync. But within the half hour I caught, he said something very key. The overall emphasis to measure the success of his offensive line each year.
“Our (offense) is predicated on two things. Everything you’re going to hear today is going to be predicated on: no negatives. If there are runs that are negatives, I don’t give a f*** how good those good ones were…we want to be the bottom team in negatives…if the run is a no negative, we never create third and real long….