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Originally Posted by penguinz
This could not be more wrong. This team needs a strong running game that the opposing D has to account for.
Without the threat of the run yesterday we do not win.
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This team has gone to 2 Super Bowls and won one of them with, at best, a pedestrian running attack.
It averaged nearly 40 points/gm in the first 3 weeks with a running game that just wasn't working terribly well and lost a game precisely because of its insistence on running the football.
"A running game the team has to account for" can absolutely be had just as it was yesterday - by doing nothing more than picking on soft boxes and getting the yards that are blocked. You don't need a star RB for that. CEH can be that guy and WAS that guy yesterday. He's good enough for that.
People still overestimate how good your running game has to be to force teams into decision points. A running game that is nothing more than an average half-back picking up yards against soft boxes when they're provided is enough to force teams out of those soft boxes. You don't need a guy that can outrun the edge and house one to get teams out of deep safety sets. You just need exactly what CEH can do when he's running the ball with the purpose he ran it with last week.
This team has more than enough talent both on the OL and in the offensive backfield to keep teams honest. And that's all they need to have.