dropback
a lowering, as of prices or standards, especially to a previous level: Auto manufacturers requested a dropback in emissions standards.
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How to use dropback in a sentence
Yet thanks to their coverage unit, they’ve managed the 10th-best sacks-per-dropback rate, sixth-best opponent passer rating and second-best defensive success rate.
Joe Burrow, Ja’Marr Chase And The Bengals Are Ahead Of Schedule | Ty Schalter | October 29, 2021 | FiveThirtyEightHe said that was not a problem with Jurgensen, a dropback passer who stayed in the pocket created by the offensive line.
Vince Promuto, Pro Bowl football player for Washington in 1960s, dies at 82 | Matt Schudel | June 3, 2021 | Washington PostEverything looked like a nail to Brown’s Wolverines, who blitzed quarterbacks on just over 40 percent of dropbacks during those four games.
Can New Coaches — And A New Vision — Fix Michigan’s Defense? | Richard Johnson | April 8, 2021 | FiveThirtyEightEven better, DBOE is based on the probability of a play being a dropback, a metric that’s fairly opaque to a defensive play-caller since they often simply match big bodies to big bodies when the offense trots out their personnel.
Are Defensive Play-Callers Consistent Enough To Be Exploitable? | Josh Hermsmeyer | December 24, 2020 | FiveThirtyEightThe Tennessee Titans’ reclamation of Ryan Tannehill — third in the league in play-action dropback percentage and fourth in the league in QBR this season through Week 6 — adds further evidence.
Who’s The Best Quarterback From The Much-Hyped 2018 Draft Class? | Josh Hermsmeyer | October 27, 2020 | FiveThirtyEight
Other Idioms and Phrases with dropback
Step back, retreat. For example, When it was time for a group picture, Mary dropped back.
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