Three Ways to Increase your Team's Chances of Winning

Detroit Lions Returner Jamal Agnew

Football season is fast approaching and hopefully everyone has the same objective to be crowned champions at the end of the season. Becoming a champion is not easy. It does not happen overnight and it takes hard work, dedication, and commitment to winning the small battles throughout the season. Here are three categories that as a team you must dominate in order to increase your chances of winning.

• Win the Turnover Battle

As an offense your job is to score points and protect the football. Turning the ball over not only ends your drive but it gives the opposing team an extra opportunity to score. This ultimately decreases your team's chances of winning. Creating turnovers as a team (interceptions, fumbles, blocked kicks, etc.) gives the ball back to your offense and increases your chances of winning. 

• Dominate the Time of Possession

As mentioned above, turnovers are important because they give teams extra time to control the ball. Successful teams want to maximize the total time their offense possesses the football because it minimizes the opposing team's chances of scoring. Defense’s are always aiming for 3 and outs and offenses who run the ball effectively typically have the most success because they are “controlling the clock” or winning the time of possession battle.

• Win the special teams battle for starting  

Special teams is perhaps the most critical of all 3 phases of football because it dictates starting field position for both offense and defense. The goal of special teams is to put your offense on a short field through punt/kick return and to put your defense on a long field through punt/kickoff. Winning this battle gives your team a huge advantage to put points on the board. 

Teams who are preparing for the season this fall I encourage you to highlight the importance of winning the turnover, time of possession, and field position battle. In order to score points you have to dominate in these fields. It is nearly impossible to find a team who has won in these categories but lost the game. 
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