Sustaining drives is obviously vital to a successful offense. Today, I wanted to evaluate unsuccessful ones, looking at three-and-outs for new Steelers OC Arthur Smith and Pittsburgh since 2019 by season.
Let’s jump right in. Here is a visual of total plays on three-and-out drives (bar), first down success (orange square = six yards or >= 40-percent of the needed yardage), second down success (red square = six yards or >= 50-percent of the needed yardage), and total successful plays (dot):
Lots of valuable information to unpack. First, we see that four of the five teams that Smith coached had the least three-and-out plays, encouragingly.