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Originally Posted by Hammock Parties
It doesn't matter how good your OL is if the defense knows 30 plays a game are going right up the gut.
These backs don't have the explosion to run off tackle, let alone a pitch.
And the OL is not good enough to do that either. Our RT is still learning. Our LT isn't the most mobile player in the world.
Defenses know 98% of our running plays are butt-center specials. Easiest play in football to stop.
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if you get a 1st down, it doesn't really matter how you got it.
Gore can absolutely break runs for longer than 10 yards. Didn't he have a 10+ yard negated by a penalty against the Giants?
The only real problem is that i doubt we can trust Andy to manage a game involving a running game. When we were dominating the game on offense is was easy for Andy to "play" at running the ball. Will he stick with the run in a close game? Will he keep running the ball even when we get stuffed everyone so often?
I don't trust Andy at all, so maybe someone else can judge better.