04-21-2022, 10:09 PM
(04-19-2022, 09:08 AM)SHRacerX Wrote: I understand your point, and I appreciate the screen shot (cool stuff), but I also know human nature. When I played safety, and were facing a team that threw the ball 80% of the time, I ALWAYS keyed in on the TE running a misdirection pattern away from the run. Why? Well, we had some hella fast LBs that could chase down almost any RB, but I hardly ever got burned on a handoff where the RB might break a tackle and need me to finish the tackle, but I got burned once flying in for run support and I never wanted to give up a big play again.
I know that is nothing like an NFL team, but I can't help but think that the speed of these LBs and safeties can close so quickly on a handoff that they aren't buying the play-action as much as they are watching for receivers to come firing off the line.
Maybe I am making it overly simplistic, but I think we are arguing the same point: The Bengals should run more PA and now that they have better personnel, perhaps they will. It doesn't really matter now that they didn't run as much as we would have liked last year.
(04-21-2022, 03:23 PM)KillerGoose Wrote: I agree with most of your post except the bolded. Cincinnati was undoubtedly bad at running the ball. They were bottom 10 in most rushing categories (excluding volume statistics) and bottom three in short yardage categories.
I should have said not awful lol. They ran the ball late to win several games. I should have said they had some success at times. Because they did. A lot of second halves. But overall they weren’t good
