03-13-2017, 05:15 PM
(03-13-2017, 02:51 PM)Wyche Wrote: We ran a SHIT TON of unbalanced sets that season, remember Roland at "TE"? My memory may be fuzzy, but I think we ran more sets with a FB too. That made for easier sledding.
Even in 2009, we ranked 24th in yards per carry. We ran a ton, but we weren't exactly efficient.
(03-13-2017, 02:59 PM)bengalhoel Wrote: 2014: Cincinnati 132.8 yards a game 6th in the NFL
2015: Cincinnati 111.5 yards a game 13th in the NFL
2016: Cincinnati 110.6 yards a game 13th in the NFL
So we were excellent in 2014 and above average in 2015 and 2016 according to how much stock you put into rush yards a game.
These stats seem misleading because of the eye test last year , I figured we would be worse.
Like I mentioned, we're a run first team. We were top 8 in attempts in all of these years, so naturally we had the bulk yards. The only year we were efficient though was 2014 (12th in YPC). Even 2014 wasn't exactly "excellent", and that was easily our best year.
(03-13-2017, 03:47 PM)XenoMorph Wrote: Blocking at the second level.... We hardly ever have the big runs.
& at the first level to some point..
This is some of it, I'd say. We've had a couple small good stretches with run blocking, namely the 9 game stretch with Hill in '14 and a 5 game stretch with BJGE in (I think) '13. We were breaking off chunk gains in those stretches.
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