Zac's use of shotgun.

[KillerGoose]

(04-21-2022, 02:15 PM)Soonerpeace Wrote: You know we weren’t bad running the ball. Our protection was poor but it might be tied to a degree knowing we’d pass. The predictability part is somewhat tied to the down and distance. We had to many 3rd and longs. We had too many no gains running. Some have mentioned if we were less predictable. I’d expect Joe can dump it off to Joe more whereas too often Joe was the target all along. He’d immediately pop out. Now if it looks like he’s not needed he can drift out. But we ran the ball to often on first down with poor results. We were always behind the chains. Now I expect more 2nd and 6’s. Joe basically gets 2 plays. He gets the preferred play call and a substitute. I think it’s going to be a whole new world. And I think they look at using Chase like SF uses Debo.

I think you see Hawk late releasing down the middle with Chase getting double covered and Higgins getting at least 1 guy. Hawk is faster than Uzomah. I think that’s going to be huge. But I’ve said on here many times since FA that Cincy not ever seen the real Joe Mixon. He had 13 TD’s last year. He will get 18 this year. He’s dangerous in the open field.

I agree with most of your post except the bolded. Cincinnati was undoubtedly bad at running the ball. They were bottom 10 in most rushing categories (excluding volume statistics) and bottom three in short yardage categories.