What is up with our passing game?

[*Wyche'sWarrior*]

(11-23-2015, 04:19 PM)Nately120 Wrote: God help us if our step back in blocking is due to replacing Gresham with "Seals & Kroft."  The whole Hill off-season thing is a reason I should be a bit ashamed to admit I monitored a football message board so hard during the months nothing was being played.  Hill was SO good that:

- We were going to be a "run first" team like it was 1937
- We needed to maybe trade Gio or make him a WR so Hue wouldn't be tempted to do anything stupid like "give him the ball" when he could be giving it to Hill
- we gleefully extrapolated his YPC and TD stats while saying he was going to stop fumbling, for some reason
- if you don't have Gio and Hill rated as the best RB duo in the league you should go root for another team
- best blocking TE we have?  Who needs him!

Did I miss any?  Also, should we have targeted a run-blocking FA o-lineman (ala Mike Iupati) if this was our quest?  Who knows.

Ha ha ha......I hear ya.

(11-23-2015, 04:21 PM)treee Wrote: My 2 cents: Jeremy Hill is a RB you have to feed consistently the whole game. The more runs he has the better he gets. He did so well last year because Gio had significantly less snaps than he is on pace for this year. I truly think we're just bailing out on the run game too early in games. Maybe they're trying to keep Hill fresh for december. Who knows?

That's a pretty good opinion too....you may be right.

(11-23-2015, 04:24 PM)Nately120 Wrote: I can sort of get behind that, but it's hard to commit to something that isn't working.  The Rams offense is pretty bad, so maybe this is our chance to just RUN RUN RUN RUN RUN RUN RUN and even if we get 2.1 YPC we can still win and not have to keep up with another team.  The Cardinals have the #1 offense in the NFL, so it's hard to justify running Hill into the line 3 times and punting when they can put up 21 points in a quarter.

This week?  RUN RUN RUN RUN RUN against the Rams and if it fails, perhaps we FINALLY know it's not due to a lack of touches. 

Probably so!

(11-23-2015, 04:24 PM)Earendil Wrote: How many times is Hill getting hit in the backfield from someone who got penetration up the middle?  More than I can count.

There's quite a bit of this too....