Establish the Run

[Essex Johnson]

(09-16-2023, 08:24 AM)Go Cards Wrote: Containing Lamar in the pocket and making him beat the Bengals with his arm is the key to this game imho.

Luckily Hubbard is great at this, but it is Flowers that has me worried. If Bengals allow them to hit Flowers over and over again  fo 8 yard gains like they did last week it will set Lamar up to get loose running the ball.

Yet I do think our CB's are good enough to slow Flowers enough to keep up the containment on Lamar.

As far as running the ball ? I always would like to establish the run just to open the passing game up even more for Burrow and Co.

Well balance offenses are best in my book.

To establish the run, you have to be effective at running which last week we were not for a majority of our runs in 1st half.. so that also forced use to throw more in 2nd half, ive preached balance also under ZT and Burrow reign but it is also hard to take it out of Burrows hands too much with how he has performed in his NFL career.. the key to balance is less penalties, less sacks/pressures and 4 yards a carry on a majority of a  teams runs.. we were 0-3 in those areas last week...