Easy answer to our short yardage probems.

[Nickslycat]

(02-27-2022, 01:58 PM)fredtoast Wrote: If "fooling the defense" makes any difference then running with Burrow under center would even be worse because we are even more likely to run from that formation.

So what exactly is your point?  Why is it better for JB to be under center when we run on short yardage

Short yardage = 3rd or 4th down, 2 yd or less to go.


Bengals conversion rate running the ball... 55.2% (30th in league)
Bengals conversion rate throwing the ball. 72.0% (3rd in league)

Joe Burrow in short yardage situations... 16-19, 84.2%, 277 yds, 4 td, 0 int, 158.3 rating, 15 first downs.


If you line up with Joey under center, and pass the ball 80% of the time, you are no longer “fooling the defense”,
I used running out of the shotgun as a example of, “fooling the defense”. I apologize if you are incapable of understanding a simple principle of football.


I don’t think you are dense, I just think you are incapable of admitting when you are wrong.