They ran a balanced attack and stayed out of third-and-long situations.

They want to stop the run, put you in a second-and-long, third-and-long situation, and allow them to know when you're going to throw the ball.

Peete said part of the problem with the offense is that it gets caught in too many third-and-long situations.

When faced with three third-and-long situations in the first half, he scrambled and rushed for the first down by himself.

But if a team can't run the football, then they are forced into third-and-long situations.

He has charts of tendencies, knowing what each club does in, say, third-and-long situations.

Today, the strategy was one of the reasons the Cowboys were forced into so many third-and-long situations.

We had too many third-and-long situations against Green Bay and that hurt us.

"It's the only way we'll regularly be able to stay out of second-and-long and third-and-long situations."

Your best chance against those guys is a lot of third-and-long situations.