Superself said:
Lets not be stupid here.
We want balance. The stats I listed above is in support of us running it more...not to run PERIOD. Damn, why do people always have a need for common sense stuff to be spelled out to them?
I'll repost this:
when wannstedt was around, so many people here criticized him for just lining up and pounding the ball or running whatever play regardless of how feeble the attempt was because the defense wasn't giving us that look that we needed for the play to work. O.J. McDuffie, for one, recalled how the Wannstedt regime wouldn't call plays that favored our guys when it came to matchups.
the new OC likes the pass. that's obvious. i still don't think we'd be winning games with our running game. it honestly hurts when you have negative total yards running anywhere but behind the LT-LG combination. should i copy and paste the play-by-play?
here are a few running plays that were drive killers just last week:
(:13) R.Williams right tackle to MIA 16 for -3 yards (J.Allen).
(12:14) R.Williams right end to MIA 46 for -2 yards (P.Surtain).
(11:38) R.Williams left tackle to MIA 43 for -3 yards (J.Browning).
(9:14) R.Brown left tackle to KC 2 for 8 yards (E.Warfield).
PENALTY on MIA-D.McIntosh, Offensive Holding, 10 yards, enforced at KC 10 - No Play.
(13:19) R.Brown right tackle to MIA 36 for no gain (E.Hicks).
also, keep in mind that KC was ranked 30th in defending the pass before last week.
and FFS did you think... did you think just for a second, that we might be running the ball late in those games when we're winning to take time off the clock? we ran the ball 17 times in the 2nd half of the panthers game. we ran the ball 20 times in the 2nd half of the denver game. we haven't had the luxury of running the ball and spending the clock late in the game in all of the losses.
take out ronnie's long run in the chiefs game, and we amounted a whopping 2.2 ypc for the rest of the game. but you want double the carries. so we'd have 28 carries for 58 yards for most of the game. we might spring a long one (i'm aware that the possibility of a long run, even though it goes against EVERYTHING this running game stands for, should always be factored in), but how pathetic is that running game that we manage 2.2ypc except for 1 play a game?
we have to pass more, we have to spread out the defenses to get 8-9 guys off of the line. it's not going to be easy, but our passing game has to get it done before our running game can succeed. god knows, the opportunities have been there.
