Blame the run game

[TecmoBengals]

Zac was asked about the run game yesterday. He framed his response about the poor run game within the context of just the Steelers game:

Quote:That's life versus Pittsburgh. You know that's what's going to happen, it's going to be tough. When you run the ball, we need to get more production out of that. It takes the pressure off the pass game. That's what they rely on, taking off the run. We've got to do a better job managing the drives as we go and put ourselves in a little bit more advantageous situations. If you can put yourself in a situation where you call more runs and you're not at second and 10, second and long, third and longer, you get more runs off, and eventually some of those runs start to get you bigger gains. We didn't get an opportunity get enough runs off.

He also doesn't view it as just a Mixon problem:

Quote:This has nothing to do with Joe Mixon. This is the entirety of the unit coming together. Don't make this about one person. It's not like there was missed opportunities there from what I could see. He continues to run hard and he's given us what we needed this season.

I'd love to know the entirety of his thoughts about the run game that he'll not share with the media. I wonder how he feels about his coaches, scheme, players, on-field execution and the such.