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Originally Posted by IowaHawkeyeChief
Its hard to run when we constantly had 7+ in the box, daring Lamar to beat us with his arm.
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If you're the best running team in football, and your QB isn't the best pocket passer, you should be running the ball. Certainly passing with Lamar 80% of the time is a huge mistake. And you can't let a defense just dictate when you're going to run based on just how many guys are near/in the box. JC, there was a time when good running teams (1990s DAL for one) just ran, regardless of how many players were in the box. '9 guys in the box? F U, we're running anyway!'
Hell, from a metrics standpoint, passing 80% of the time is a near certain probability to lose. Hell, the few times the Chiefs passed over 75% of the time, we lost. And the vast majority of teams that get that far out of whack between running/passing lose those games.
It was a stupid, stupid thing to do by BAL, regardless of how many guys we had in the box.