Somebody needs to show this to our rb's

[jramsey4]

You think they didn't gameplan to run alot and mix up the pass last year. I guess things just happened? Funny how when things go well we are just lucky, but when things go poorly the coaches can't gameplan.

Pretty amazing!!

I never said our success was luck, unless you consider being stack at the RB position with two superstars the lucky part. When you have talented RB's and Oline any coach can look like a genius, but its a charade. When this team gets out of its comfort zone of running it down the D throat we fall apart. Its quite easy to see that.

[Assault&Battery]

yeah, but we also run the ball when we're maintaining a lead.

If we're down by large deficits, as we were against arizona and philadelphia, we're passing to play catch up.

I am beginning to seriously wonder, however, if we would do better to run the ball nearly all the time. If we go three and out, so be it if we don't turn the ball over or let the other team score off of a fumble or interception. One of the backs will break a long one if we just keep feeding them.

uhhhhhhhhhh no!

[Assault&Battery]

man, it would certainly save some face for us even if we didn't get a w. I know the games are different, but in college, if you watched the tenn-fla game, lane kiffin ran 3 downs almost everytime and mixed in some play action every now and then. It really made that game closer than it should have been. If we do that, and our defense does their part, we're in every game.

very sad that you have an elite wr and cant even use him to his potential!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Proudiddy]

very sad that you have an elite wr and cant even use him to his potential!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah it sucks, but we can find ways to utilize Smitty even if you run pretty much every down. We can hit him with screens and slants. The key right now is to keep Jake from chucking it downfield until he gets his sh*t together - IF he gets it together.

[panthers55]

I never said our success was luck, unless you consider being stack at the RB position with two superstars the lucky part. When you have talented RB's and Oline any coach can look like a genius, but its a charade. When this team gets out of its comfort zone of running it down the D throat we fall apart. Its quite easy to see that.

Of course we are a running team and we do much better mixing it up. Guys like Otah and Vincent are great run blockers but only average in pass protection. The reality is we need to throw the ball, we just need to not try and air it out deep everytime. Quick hitters, screens and other timing passes will slow down the pass rush and keep the linebackers and corners from blitzing at will.