I've been one of the hardest on the run game listing many reasons for why I believe it is inconsistent. I saw enough in cal to now know we can if we want. My of the belief it's simply the playcalls that are making it inconsistent. Dawson ran more pin/pull, outside zone, etc
I even been one of the more vocal on this and attributed struggles to 1. Scheme 2. Push 3. Missed holes.
@Memnon is holding out for more NIL money, which is understandable. You guys think that @Memnon is ordinary? mid? as yutes nowadays say?
I’m not the slightest bit concerned about the run game. It’s done exactly what we need to to do. Runs time off the clock in the second halves when we have leads and picks up first downs and touchdowns in short yardage. Just like LSU we are a pass first team and our running game is more than adequate. Statistically we’re probably it elite but we’re good enough to where defenses aren’t deploying 3-1-7 defenses to try to stop our passing game. The big talking point is that the run game needs to “keep defenses honest”. Defenses are still respecting the run against us. When they start dropping 7 or 8 because they don’t worry about our run game, I’ll get concerned
No. My point is there isn’t an issue. You might want to make it one but the truth is that our offense hasn’t been hindered in the slightest by this perceived running game problem. At what point in what game were you like “****, if only we were running the ball better, we’d have a bigger lead”? I mean if you want to say something isn’t perfect so we need to make a big deal about it, by all means make a big deal about it. But there are so many bigger issues . Namely defensive ones. If we had run the ball better would Virginia Tech and Cal not scored 34 and 38 points respectively? If I’m making a list of things this team needs to improve. The rush offense isn’t in the top 5. Maybe. It even top 10.
Agreed. Ironically Cal was our worst rushing performance of the season but I think it was more that we had to abandon the run. Dawson did change a few things and there were some runs we hadn’t seen before. Fletcher was on his way to a huge day before the score got out of hand.
I walked into the swamp blindly excited, not expecting the results we got. Were 6-0 bowl eligible I'm gonna stick with the blind excited faith
This!
All we are really doing here is trying to position ourselves to be like “see I told you so”
I'm no expert. I don't pretend to be one. I'm just a fan and as a fan this is as much fun as I've had in the last 20 years. We are not a complete team (not many of those around)
Couldn’t agree more
I’ve got data. You can see the numbers and compare them to other teams’. We are 44th in rushing yards and 12th in yards per carry. Maybe we’d have more rushing yards if we didn’t throw the ball as much but we’re second in the nation in scoring offense and first in total offense so I’m ok if they just keep doing what they’re doing.
