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Originally Posted by Hammock Parties
It has it's place. 20 carries a game is good enough.
Any more and you are doing two things:
1. Vastly reducing the effectiveness of those runs, because the players executing them aren't good enough. You can only hand the ball up the middle so many times before the defense sees it coming and pounces on it. That is the easiest play in football to stop.
2. Taking the ball away from your best players. The ones making the most money. If Andy drew up a gameplan where Derrick and Darrel got 3x as many touches as Kelce, Hill and Hardman, he should be fired. Period.
This is extremely logical but some of you refuse to use your brains.
This is the equivalent of the 2003 Chiefs taking the ball out of Priest's hands to feed Kennison and Morton.
The Chiefs WILL get this figured out. They just have to keep chopping at it.
Throwing their hands up and going back to the stone age on offense is admitting defeat. That doesn't do this team any good now or in the future.
If cdcox and I agree on a subject, it should be inked in blood and stamped in gold. It is football gospel. Because we disagree on almost everything else in life.
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Except that:
If a defense is going to sit in two deep all day, they CAN'T pounce on the run; that's the whole point. And if this OL has a strength, it's in run blocking. they're road graders. The whole point of the two deep is to take away the explosive, downfield passing attack-and it's working, that's why there are all these DC's running it.
The counter to this defense is boring, methodical offensive football. Run the ball, pass the ball short, dump-offs, screens, slants.
Not nearly as exciting as Tyreek on a 50 yard bomb; but the fact is that IF you can execute the boring, methodical balanced run and short passing game you kill the opponent on two levels. You score, and you hold the ball so long that they cannot.