Matchup
“I know, I know — look to Football Outsiders, right? Find the opponent’s run defense rankings. That’s all I need to know for matchup, isn’t it?”
Well. Yeah.
That was easy.
Shall we move onto the next lesson?
(Kidding.)
While identifying how strong the opposing team is at stopping the run is the main thing you need to do in order to assess “matchup,” I am actually going to throw a couple extra things at you in this lesson.