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What Exactly Happened to our Vaunted Rushing Attack?

Hoenheim

By Hoenheim,
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grimesgoat Experienced

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Did a quick count and it looks like we ran 14 times on first down and passed 11 times on first down.  It feels like we always run Stew up the middle on first down, but its really not like that.

The good news is we held the ball 35 minutes, which is the true goal of running the ball.  Keep the defense fresh.  Control your destiny.

The fact we beat a very good team at their place while spotting them 100+ yards in penalties feels like cause for happiness, but not here I guess.

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Ace_Aladdin Newbie

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55 minutes ago, CRA said:

Cam hasn't been running much this season.  Our vaunted rushing attack has always existed with him being the center piece of it. 

J-Stew got most of his yards doing power & zone it’s more of the defense putting in a extra guy to stop the run. 

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Borat Collaborator

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1 hour ago, saints4lifeagain said:

You drafted a slot receiver to play RB in the top 10?  :)

Yeah, McCaffrey is a massive threat in the passing game, but not exactly a bell cow and Stewart is getting old. Couple that with subpar run-blocking and there's not much there. 

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brandon_87 Newbie

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Shula happened.

 

With Chud and previous, we had a rushing attack, but after he left, we have slowly regressed in rushing. Not that it's a bad thing because I for 1 am a fan of airing it out, but our designed runs are just predictable now in my opinion, defenses key in on them and they get dropped for minimal gains almost every time

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GoobyPls Mentor

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1 hour ago, Hallin'AllDaeDae said:

Do you watch the games ? Like do you even fugin watch ?

Teams priority number 1 against us is stop the run make Cam's arm beat you, and he's doing it

This is a false narrative, the patriots and saints barely stacked the box. They stopped our run nickel and diming us, the lions didn’t stack the box unless we came out in a jumbo set,

 

It has to do with the fact our run blocking is terrible and has been terrible for 2 two years. Then add to the fact Stewart is slower than molasses and Mccaffrey is a slot receiver it’s a terrible recipe

 

And stacking the box is not an excuse, Fournette is literally going up against 8 man in the box every single rush and he has produced  

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shaqattaq Grand Master

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1 hour ago, Hoenheim said:

We are currently sitting in the bottom half of the league in rushing yards per game , Stewart is averaging  a paltry 3.3 YPC  on the season , and McCaffrey at a horrendous 2.8 YPC.  Jonathan Stewart literally averaged 1.2 yards per carry on 18 attempts against the Lions, that is god aweful. We're blessed our passing game has been flourishing recently. 

To give Stew credit he averaged close to 5 YPC against the Saints, Patriots . However , McCaffrey is consistently getting terrible turnouts with his rushing averages , but I guess I can chalk most of that off to him not getting into a rythm and getting so few carries (only 3 carries against the Lions ...). 

So what is going on here? Is it the run blocking? play calling? Stew getting old or McCaffrey unable to break tackles? 

In Stew's defense, this week he spent the entire 4th quarter running out the clock. Not that he was killing it prior to that.

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