Learning from New England

[fredtoast]

(01-30-2017, 05:29 PM)bengals67 Wrote: Why does Marvin always run on first and often times second down, gain little if any yards with our awful run blocking against 3-4 defenses, and put Dalton in a third and long against the Steelers.

He doesn't.

in '16 Marvin called a pass on 35 of 58 first downs against the Steelers.  That was over 60% of the time.

Same pattern as over the last 5 years where a pass was called on 167 of 281 (59.4%), and the number may actually be higher if some of Dalton's runs on first down were actually scrambles from when a pass was called.