PFF: Carolina's Run Game Struggled For Most Of The Season Because Shula Literally Crapped The Bed On How To Use CMC & Stewart

[Cary Kollins]

Like someone mentioned, in the postgame interview on ESPN Steve Young said to McCaffrey something along the lines of “Why don’t they run you out of the I?!”and McCaffrey responded “That’s a great question. Why don’t you tell coach that! We’ll both tell coach that!” and they had a good chuckle.

I’m sure Shula and Rivera will get around to addressing this in July.

[TheSpecialJuan]

meh

[Hoenheim]

McCaffrey's actually made it clear in a few different instances that he wants more playing time at running back and more carries (two recent examples being his interview with Deon Sanders after the Falcons game and then that instance with Steve Young on Monday Night). 

Its unfortunate but he's in a quagmire for a rookie running back. All of our backs have been healthy this year and I think the coaches love Jonathan Stewart to absolute death. He became the franchises leading rusher this season, he's only 30 , and he just cashed in a nice performance against the Dolphins. He's just not going to get enough carries to get in a rythm like he could at Stanford . I'm pretty sure Stewart's only totally healthy season as far as the Rivera era was the 1st year in 2011 .  I'm not really sure that McCaffrey will really have the opportunity to dominate like he did in college as long as he's here honestly, the coaches don't want to use him that way and prefer Stewart to take the vast majority of carries . 

[Bartin]

This is such a useless article. So where are the stats showing he is much better when we do run those plays this year? Also comparing college where he has a dominant OL to the NFL is retarded.

Shula may be the worst but this article proves literally nothing.

[MasterAwesome]

So let me get this straight...PFF decides to tally up the percentages of how often we run out of certain concepts and instead of then proceeding to provide useful data in breaking down his YPC out of each concept, they decide to just stop there? And....y’all are really actually eating this sh&$ up? For anyone who pied the OP and/or posted something to support the validity of this article...y’all are either so blind with hatred for Shula that you’ll believe anything negative about him, or...I’ll just stop there.

 

Come on people...don’t be sheep.

[ecu88]

2 hours ago, Jon Snow said:

Anyone with more than two brain cells to rub together knew this already.  Just saying.

I am one cell short to rub together.

[t96]

3 hours ago, Saca312 said:

An interesting take from PFF. Apparently, it seems his lack of production could in fact be traced to scheme.

They say if this were the 2016 running scheme, CMC would have far better production than he is now. 

https://www.profootballfocus.com/news/pro-is-a-shift-in-scheme-keeping-mccaffrey-grounded

Something to think about. 

 

I find it kind of funny that you rip PFF to shreds at times and then go base a thread off of what they say. 

[t96]

2 hours ago, GoobyPls said:

It funny how you use PFF when it suits your narrative, but when it doesn’t you shrug them off as a joke.

 

All I know is CAP is averaging 6.6 ypc with that same line Mccaffrey and Stewart are using. 

Mostly in mop up duty against the Dolphins. I like CAP and think he deserves a bit bigger role, maybe even over Stew at some point but trying to compare their YPC is silly.

[PrimeTimeHeel]

the problem is we are telegraphing our runs on loaded boxes. 

 

 

[GoobyPls]

Just now, thomas96 said:

Mostly in mop up duty against the Dolphins. I like CAP and think he deserves a bit bigger role, maybe even over Stew at some point but trying to compare their YPC is silly.

When CAP gets carries in meaningful time he still has put produced Mccaffrey 

 

Show me a run Stewart or Mccaffrey have had this season better than this one 

 

[lightsout]

Football isn't so simple where the right scheme will fix all. We didn't do much different last week than we have all season. Same plays, just not as much in A gap as we have tried the first half of the season. I formation, shotgun, singleback. Doesn't matter if the blocking isn't there. The OL plays well, RBs look good. It's that simple. No 1,000 yard back got that yardage with a bad OL.

 

We didn't run more powers or counters. We executed them and ran a few less inside zone or iso plays. Literally all the difference.

[rainwater]

Did anyone actually read the article? PFF didn't provide any info that would say running more powers/counters would be effective. Is CMC actually effective this year in those runs? No. So why would running them more somehow fix the running game?

[Mr. Scot]

I'm not a PFF fan, but this does bring up a point. 

Back when we were looking for an offensive coordinator, we interviewed guys who ran systems that didn't fit our personnel at all. Why would you do something like that? I believe it's because Rivera didn't even know, or care. He probably figures offense is just offense.

In the same vein, I wonder: Does Shula know the difference between these things, or is it something he doesn't bother with?

Some coaches know and understand the deep details of the game. Others do not.

From what I've seen of our coaches, I'm pretty sure they fall into category number two.

[iamhubby1]

48 minutes ago, GoobyPls said:

When CAP gets carries in meaningful time he still has put produced Mccaffrey 

 

Show me a run Stewart or Mccaffrey have had this season better than this one 

 

 

    For someone who always harps on garbage time stats. That run is the epitome of garbage time. The Phins had given up long before that run. 

 

    I like Cap as well as anyone. And am rooting for him to be more involved as the season goes. Especially, because with our WR corp. is in a bit of a mess. We should be running the ball a bit more. 

 

    IMO, if we can continue to run the ball well. Cap will be getting a larger share of the carries.