02-26-2022, 05:30 PM
(02-26-2022, 04:51 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Actual facts and production prove that you are wrong.
The conversion rate on short yardage runs is higher from the shotgun than it is from under center.
Facts.
When the Bengals line up with Burrow under center, they run 80% of the time, this is is why play action, or a pass is more effective, the line blocks like it a run, the defense reads their OL keys and usually plays it as a run, which gives more favorable matchups to the receivers.
Running out of the shotgun is just the opposite, the OL pass blocks, to fool the defense. If you run out of the shotgun 80% of the time, nobody is fooling the defense.
Go back and watch the rams first td to Cupp. The entire line was run blocking, including Cupp. Apple was playing the run because he was fooled by the play action, it also explains why there wasn’t a double team on Cupp.
It has absolutely nothing to do with where the running back gets the ball.
Brad is 100% right.
YouTube is a good place to learn the fundamentals of football.
Fixing this sorry ass line would work wonders to fix their short yardage woes.
