Wade Phillips wants a job

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(01-18-2021, 05:18 PM)Bengalholic Wrote: Yes, teams that trail on a regular basis tend to be rushed on more. Those teams generally also have trouble stopping the run, which plays a big part in those same teams losing a lot of games. It's one thing for a team to run on you when they're up. It's another thing to not be able to do anything about it.

Look back at the Bengals-Steelers games over the past couple of decades. How many times did the Steelers get up and then take over the game by running the ball at will. Being able to run the ball when you have to is still an important part of the game. Not being able to stop the run in those situations as a defense is going to guarantee losses much of the time.

More than that, and we've heard players talk about it, getting run on at will is demoralizing to a defense. 

I get it, I am simply telling you what the analytics say. It's the way the league is heading and they simply say not to worry about the run (there is a bunch of data behind it). It's also why running backs are devalued by analytics because the analytics say running results are more a function of defensive box count than the individual player which is why paying backs is dumb. That goes back to what I was saying about our ability to play a two-high shell versus a single high because so much of run defense is the ability to play a box heavier than your opponent can block.