I am worried

[8Jah]

You're going to have to explain why you have to eat clock somewhere. This argument doesn't make any sense to me. If you run an up-tempo offense, why would you want the opposing defense to get as much extra rest as possible? If anything, you'd want the reverse with an uptempo offense: a defense that gets a lot of turnovers and 3 and outs, but is susceptible to big plays.

If your drives are taking less than 2minutes in a high power, up-tempo offense you don't have a choice dude. Unless you are playing another uptempo team or a team that just sucks, you are ceding time of possession. If you can force a good team into three and outs that is great...but a good team is going to have their drives. So your philosophy better be something other than ball control. BdB: let them run the ball, eliminate big plays, try to get the 3-and-outs when you can and then stiffen in the red zone. Give them little chunks in bounds and make them drive the field. If their new downs conversion rate is x%<100% against you then their chance of scoring in an 80 yard possession is x^8 <<100%. Be opportunistic and focus on the TOs 'cause the more plays they run/possession the higher their turnovers.Turnovers lets your 'score fast' offense get some time of possession advantage back.

 

[Rob the Buff]

This is why they have put Moeller in at OLB. He may not rack up a ton of numbers out there but he helps set the edge and allows the rest of the LB's to catch up. If there was one team I expected to kill us on the edge it was Oregon, and they didn't.

Leavitt also changed up the alignment to take the edge rush out. Slowed the pass rush way down but made it nearly impossible to get the edge. Leavitt is a friggin genius, and our front 3 are total studs to be able to hold up in the middle while he does that.

 

[Nor Cal Buff]

If your drives are taking less than 2minutes in a high power, up-tempo offense you don't have a choice dude. Unless you are playing another uptempo team or a team that just sucks, you are ceding time of possession. If you can force a good team into three and outs that is great...but a good team is going to have their drives. So your philosophy better be something other than ball control. BdB: let them run the ball, eliminate big plays, try to get the 3-and-outs when you can and then stiffen in the red zone. Give them little chunks in bounds and make them drive the field. If their new downs conversion rate is x%<100% against you then their chance of scoring in an 80 yard possession is x^8 <<100%. Be opportunistic and focus on the TOs 'cause the more plays they run/possession the higher their turnovers.Turnovers lets your 'score fast' offense get some time of possession advantage back.

What I'm suggesting is that time of possession is a nearly meaningless stat in a sport like football where teams trade possessions and that doesn't change whether you're uptempo or traditional.*

Also BdB doesn't really square up with being opportunistic and focusing on TOs. By taking more risks to get TOs you're more susceptible to giving up big plays. You can't focus on both. If you focus on TOs in the passing game, that means you're jumping routes, but that opens you up to big plays on double moves. If you focus on stripping the ball in the running game, you're going to miss more tackles, which also means more big plays on the ground. You can't have it both ways.

*In the old days when offenses were all slow and ran the ball a lot it might have been a decent proxy. But correlation does not mean causation.