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Situations and play calling
First-and-ten still leans run
Holds upThe record backs this up, season after season.
This one is in the FanIQ library with the full rule, the reason it works, and every season we checked.
What the record says
Held in 20 of 20 seasons, from 157,663 records measured.
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- The Snap That Tells You What's ComingOn a first-and-ten with the game still close, the quarterback's feet give away the play call more reliably than almost anything else on the field.
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