Wil Hill Bust Out This Week?!

[jfkbengals]

(09-25-2016, 11:34 AM)Nately120 Wrote: As much as I want to nail Zampese to a cross I wager we'd be sitting at 0-2 at the moment if he forced more 2.5 yard carries into the game plan.  Our running game hain't working.  Or maybe we should run Hill like we're playing Tecmo Bowl.  Keep calling RUN 1 and getting stuffed until the computer picks PASS 2 and we can finally cash in with a 45 yarder.

I'll throw Zampese's lack of run plays under the bus when we crack 3.5 YPC as a team and he still refuses to run the ball.  Until then it just seems like the guy is making the less than damnable decision to not stick with a lame-o plan that has 0 chance o' success.  Let's be honest, if the Steelers were averaging 2.0 YPC against us and they kept calling run plays and keeping the ball out of Ben and Brown's hands we would have been laughing our asses off and winning, not bracing ourselves for how much damage they are going to do once the run game "wakes up" or whatever we think is going to happen around here.

What's funny is Marvin told Sirius during their Training Camp Tour that he is still adamant about the need to stick with the run game regardless of the outcome.  This is not verbatim, but he said, "you can't predict how many blows it will take to split a rock in two, but you have to keep hammering at it for it to happen.  Even if you can't see an impact, the repeated stress will take its toll and is necessary to achieve the goal of breaking it apart."

I suspect the scoreboard and game clock have had an impact in our lack of calling the run.