Do not agree. I think this is a fallacy that teams are loading the box against us. When I watch the games I see 6 or 7 guys in the box and teams have no problem killing our run game.
Our offensive linemen don't hit anybody. It's a wimp running game designed around angles and flow. Always doomed to physical avalanche against an opponent like this. Late in the season I posted on Finheaven that if we played Alabama we might get beat by a similar score as the 2015 Clemson game. Obviously we're far superior to 2015 but games like that take on a shell shocked mode when the upstart team is in disbelief that they aren't what they thought they were, and everything tends to snowball. That comment was prior to the Alabama injuries, BTW. But it always looked logical that once the Canes lost it would be with a thud.
Georgia has been averaging 45 rushes per game while the Canes have tried to pretend that 32 was sufficient. That is pure stupidity and frailty. All season that rushing attempt per game category has hinted at Miami as a fraud. We finally made a nice uptick in passing defense last season and especially this season but we nullify it via refusal to run the **** football. And when we do run it the play is some type of weakling influence play instead of straight ahead smack. Georgia was eligible to rebound in a huge game because they have the correct blueprint of physical frequent power running combined with an aggressive effective pass defense.. The Canes are still partial pretenders.
And if we line up in the shotgun RPO again and run the ball seldom, we'll continue to be less than legit, no matter who the quarterback is. Right now I don't think Richt would run the ball sufficiently even if we had a stable of backs like Georgia. Richt was already moving away from the run in his final years there, with only one recent season (2014) above 40 rushes per game. Under Kirby Smart they averaged 41 last season and now the 45 this year.
