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Originally Posted by bobbything
I agree with most of this. That said, I've felt that our perimeter rushing has been decent for most of the season. Specific to this game, we did well on the edges when the guards would pull left/right. Kind of reminded me of the early 00 running attacks. But, yes, this OL's strength is not blowing someone up right in front of them. I was pretty shocked when it didn't work on 3rd and goal from the 1 foot line, that Reid tried it again. I was thinking a sweep to the left would have been better because the Titans had everyone lined up in the middle.
I also would like to see our QB line up under center and run a nice, hard play action pass at some point. But, that's an argument for another time.
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I agree the stretch plays seemed to be working fairly often yesterday. But again, athletic lineman should be able to do that. They can draw their matchup into space and beat them on positioning that way.
It's just not a team built to play power football and that seemed like their biggest problem yesterday. Detox made a good point - Andy gave his OL every opportunity to line up and prove they can do that.
Time and time again they failed. I guess you just look at that game and hope that's the lesson to be taken from it - hopefully Reid learned that this team is going to have to win on the edges because they aren't going to win in the trenches. They tried and failed miserably in that regard yesterday.