Breakdown: Why the Offense is Struggling

[Joelist]

Our problem with running is partly that our preferred passing formations (empty set, shotgun) don't marry up well with a consistent ground game. Also we STILL seem to have schizophrenia about the run scheme as we still have wide zone concepts we use (but at least more of the runs are power now and those tend to succeed). And as long a Burrow is allowed to operate almost exclusively out of shotgun this will persist - also running out of shotgun lets the defense see it is a run before the back hits the line and react to it.