Stop Committing to Run when it is not working

[bengals67]

In all the offensive stinkers we had this year, in my opinion, our offense insisted on running the ball on most first downs when it was not working at all.

They put McCarron behind the eight ball in the entire first half and third quarter because of this philosophy.

Pittsburgh has a great run defense and a horrible pass defense. Why did we keep running on first down when it simply was not working.

New England does not insist on running when it is clear they can kill the other team by passing almost all the time.

I think of the games we lost this year - except the first Pittsburgh game,  the offense was put in a hole ( and we had awful third quarters) because of this stupid commitment to running on first down even when our O line is getting pushed back three yards and backs cannot even get up field.

When Ds are stacking against the run, use the pass to eventually set up the run- i.e. take what the D is giving you as opposed to this blind commitment that " first we have to establish the run."

Very unimaginative and cost us several games including, in my view, the playoff game.