The reason some of us have been drawn to toxic differential is that it is an interactive statistic. Coaches have been preaching the importance of avoiding turnovers since the football was first inflated, but toxic differential makes the point that it's not merely enough to avoid turnovers; you need to generate big offensive plays, as well. On defense, while you obviously want to avoid big plays, you can't just sit back and play a deep prevent defense all the time; you have to create turnovers, too. On both sides of the ball, gambling to generate a big play often leaves you open to committing a big error. Toxic differential does a good job of showing how well teams balance risk and reward.