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Tolbert had one carry today


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This, to me, was Shula's biggest flaw today. In a game dominated by pouring rain, needing to establish the run and stay balanced, with a lead for much of the game, with Cam struggling to make throws and receivers struggle to make catches, he chose to call Tolbert's number once.

 

Once. One time.

 

Tolbert is one of the best weapons on this team and we pretended he didn't exist. In Shula's defense, Tolbert is best in short yardage and we were facing 3rd-and-longs all day, but still, I don't see how you don't do a better job of incorporating him into the gameplan.

 

Minor complaint, I'm glad we played well enough to win, but I hope we fix this for ATL and our impending playoff game.

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I can't pie this enough.

 

in the pouring rain, should have ran Tolbert on first and second down.  Instead, we were determined for the boom or bust of Williams, who was more bust than boom today and was completely ineffective in the second half due to not being able to cut anymore because of weather.  In a way, My mind still doesn't believe this game happened today after the massive amount of heartbreakers we lost the past 2 seasons.

 

All of that said, This game was huge for us, but next week is just as important as this game.  We can rest then, we're 1 week away from being in position to make a super bowl run.

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This, to me, was Shula's biggest flaw today. In a game dominated by pouring rain, needing to establish the run and stay balanced, with a lead for much of the game, with Cam struggling to make throws and receivers struggle to make catches, he chose to call Tolbert's number once.

Once. One time.

Tolbert is one of the best weapons on this team and we pretended he didn't exist. In Shula's defense, Tolbert is best in short yardage and we were facing 3rd-and-longs all day, but still, I don't see how you don't do a better job of incorporating him into the gameplan.

Minor complaint, I'm glad we played well enough to win, but I hope we fix this for ATL and our impending playoff game.

I agree, I was saying this during the game day thread, in the red zone we decided to pass or the 3rd and 2 and I was screaming Tolbert!!!! Tolbert!!!! Guess Shula did not hear me.

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In further defense of Shula, we are heavily limited by our offensive line full of my-size barbies and Steve Smith's absence for 3 quarters.

 

meh dwill still got 12 carries, and we had a couple short yardage plays where tolbert seemed to be the one who should get the ball

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