Originally Posted by petegz28 (Post 12569048)

twice but yes, you are right. Why we didn't run him more is a big ?

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut (Post 12569058)

And the bigger question is why we ran him at the teeth of the Bucs defense.

We were sitting next to a bucs fan and he was laughing about it the whole game (really cool guy, though). We'd let Ware try to smash it up the middle and he's thank us for it. He says the off-tackle runs have been gouging them all season but the one area they've been consistently strong at is defeating the power run game.

Now it could just be fan perception, I have no idea. But it sure seemed to hold true yesterday. The lanes up the middle just weren't there except for on the Wildcat play. Yet on the rare occasions that Reid ran the ball, that's where he ran it.

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut (Post 12569058)

And the bigger question is why we ran him at the teeth of the Bucs defense.

We were sitting next to a bucs fan and he was laughing about it the whole game (really cool guy, though). We'd let Ware try to smash it up the middle and he's thank us for it. He says the off-tackle runs have been gouging them all season but the one area they've been consistently strong at is defeating the power run game.

Now it could just be fan perception, I have no idea. But it sure seemed to hold true yesterday. The lanes up the middle just weren't there except for on the Wildcat play. Yet on the rare occasions that Reid ran the ball, that's where he ran it.

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut (Post 12569011)

Nope.

They scored on that drive; it was when Smith ran it in. In the scheme of things, that ball being underthrown didn't matter (and with as open as he was, you absolutely cannot risk an overthrow there so I won't bag on him too hard there).

The pick drive had Kelce's long catch in it and that was actually a pretty nice play. Kelce just couldn't quite keep himself in bounds down the sideline.

What sucks is that at the 5 yard line, Andy Reid dialed up another one of those ****ing single read plays that neuters his offenses ability to adjust to how the defense handles the play. Smith had one place to go with that ball - a completely congested middle. He should've fired it out the back and lived to fight another day but it was still an absolute garbage play call.

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut (Post 12569058)

And the bigger question is why we ran him at the teeth of the Bucs defense.

We were sitting next to a bucs fan and he was laughing about it the whole game (really cool guy, though). We'd let Ware try to smash it up the middle and he's thank us for it. He says the off-tackle runs have been gouging them all season but the one area they've been consistently strong at is defeating the power run game.

Now it could just be fan perception, I have no idea. But it sure seemed to hold true yesterday. The lanes up the middle just weren't there except for on the Wildcat play. Yet on the rare occasions that Reid ran the ball, that's where he ran it.