Rushing attack-How important?

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(07-20-2018, 08:37 AM)Au165 Wrote: The attempts thing was in regards to Lapham. My comment still stands using Rushing Yards Per Game, you are more likely to have more rushing yards if you rush more, you tend to rush more when you are winning. You saying they were able to run successfully is a bit misleading as well as yards per game is not indicative of success, yards per attempt is more relative to success as I can run 50 times for 2 yards a carry, but running 20 times for 5 yards a carry was much more successful.

This.  Being able to consistently run the ball effectively opens all your options up.  Then obviously how you use it becomes almost important.

I remember (don't recall the year) that we went out to San Diego and just demolished them at the end of the game running the ball.  Then they came here in the playoffs and stuffed the run and ran all over us.  I think we have a number of significant injuries (was that the year we had most of our receiver squad - including TE - on the bench and many of our offensive line were playing injured) that would have impacted that, but not being able to run the ball or stop the run sunk us.

The last couple of years we have not reliably been able to stop the run or run it effectively.  That totally set up our struggling O-line for failure in the passing game.

Single most important thing in 2018 will be whether we can run the ball effectively (yards per attempt)