05-09-2018, 12:04 PM
(05-08-2018, 10:55 AM)fredtoast Wrote: A good offense is about balance. The yin and the yang.
You want to open up your run game? Hit enough shots down the field so that the safety can't just sit on the line of scrimmage.
You want to help your pass game? Have a good enough run game so that the safeties can't just play deep cover.
You don't have to be great at both, but if you are too weak at one then it will hurt the other.
Establishing the run opens up the pass and play action. Hitting them over the top opens up the run even more. Pretty soon, the defense doesn't know WHAT to do.
See our defense in either Texans playoff game.
(05-09-2018, 01:48 AM)cinci4life Wrote: He had an offensive line that year that could actually block and give him time to throw.
That's definitely part of it.
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