12-28-2022, 11:45 PM
(12-28-2022, 11:15 PM)BIGDADDYFROMCINCINNATI Wrote: Come on now. Even running at the interior of our line we're averaging 3.775 * 2= 7.55. That's 3rd and a long 2, and I'll take that all day long. We are night and day better once we went to gap down, man on, 2-level backer blocking, and dismissed the zone blocking scheme. Our runs in the RPO have been decent.
I have never understood the logic behind this argument. This simply isn't the way it works. Look at it this way - let's say the Bengals draft a RB who averages three yards per carry. No more, no less. He will always get three yards.
He would be the greatest player in football history. The Bengals would go undefeated almost every season and would become a dynasty. By the end of his career, they would have the most Super Bowl victories of any franchise in the NFL. Unfortunately, reality isn't like 3.775 * 2 = 7.55 WOOOOOO! It is more like...
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The run game stinks. What decides whether or not something is "good" is the relative ranking of that something. We can't have "good" without "bad". Everything, other than PFF grades, will tell you that Cincinnati is a bad rushing team.
