Our O-lineman are getting a lot of praise, yet we are terrible at running the ball?

[GoobyPls]

Norwell, Turner, and even Williams seem to be getting a lot praise this year from various sites, yet without Cam we are bottom 5 in rushing yards and bottom 3 in ypc

In every Mccaffrey and Stewart thread everyone blames the line for their lack of production, yet everyone wants us to back up the brinks truck for a gaurd.

So what is it? Do our RB suck or is our line overrated 

 

[cardiackat88.]

Wasn't there just another thread that said Stew sees more 8 men in the box than any other RB in the league?

[rayzor]

pass blocking is good. run blocking, not so much but a lot of it has to do with scheme.

[rayzor]

Just now, cardiackat88. said:

Wasn't there just another thread that said Stew sees more 8 men in the box than any other RB in the league?

doesn't fit a narrative.

[mc52beast]

Brought this up yesterday. Our running game is almost non-existent w/o Cam, not sure how many sacks Cam has taken or avoided because he’s so mobile.

[Saca312]

Before the KB trade, we had the worst run blocking in the league. After, we had the best.

recently, we started losing our WRs so defenses aren’t afraid of stacking the box. Hard to do much in the passing game so lately defenses work against the run with success.

[The Lobo]

Maybe a scheme thing?

[Snake]

Running is a philosophy. The Saints for example retooled there whole offense to run the ball more. Our offense is centered around making chunk plays with WRs and using the read option as our rushing attack. 

[KillerKat]

If anything it's a telling sign of our coaches inability to improve in certain areas and to also create a gameplan that fits with what you have. If you have 3 all-pro linemen, you should be able to do a lot more on offense.

[PandaPancake]

47 minutes ago, rayzor said:

doesn't fit a narrative.

Yeah but you only vacuum your house twice a week!

[brandon_87]

55 minutes ago, GoobyPls said:

Norwell, Turner, and even Williams seem to be getting a lot praise this year from various sites, yet without Cam we are bottom 5 in rushing yards and bottom 3 in ypc

In every Mccaffrey and Stewart thread everyone blames the line for their lack of production, yet everyone wants us to back up the brinks truck for a gaurd.

So what is it? Do our RB suck or is our line overrated 

 

Line doesn't suck, rb's don't suck, it's all the bullshit we do before the handoff... Fakes on top of fakes, on top of fakes. Read option kills any rb star line... Ask DWill... The option plays are destroying our run game 

[KillaCamNewton]

We could have the Cowboys OLine and not be able to run the ball with how predictable our running plays are. When teams know the play and stack the box accordingly its not hard to stop

[GoobyPls]

1 hour ago, cardiackat88. said:

Wasn't there just another thread that said Stew sees more 8 men in the box than any other RB in the league?

I guess Lesean McCoy didn’t get the memo

 

You know basically every good RB gets 8 men in the box. Even the saints RB face a lot 8 man boxes

[GoobyPls]

1 hour ago, stbugs said:

See @Saca312‘s post above. Second half of the year has been much better run blocking. Not sure about Stewart but McCaffery is averaging 4.7 ypc in the last 8 games.

You mean the second half when the coaches said screw it let’s run Cam 10 times a game 

 

Look at the game logs, Cam was our leading rusher in 5 of the 8 last games . Our running game was still trash outside of the a few games