11-01-2016, 03:00 PM
(11-01-2016, 02:37 PM)THE Bigzoman Wrote: People need to chill on Zamp.
Offense has improved every week. People aren't talking about how Bodine is pulling his weight.
Eifert is back. Offensively, we're fine. We just need Guenther to get the D right to be a contender again really.
Next year, our offense will make strides if Tyler Boyd improves in the slot and we retain Lafell.
And we got Cody Core waiting in the wings too. We're going to be lethal next year.
I broadly agree but I'm still a bit wary of the consistency of our running game.
For a lot of the first half of the season it was really not very good and the yard/per was not good enough.
If you look at it in summary now our running yard and average looks fine, but you have to allow for the Browns game where J Hill went off on only 9 carries.
If we can avoid getting behind and keep it simple running behind Boling , Zeitler when they are pulling then we'll really be rolling.
I do have an unfounded worry that maybe Zamp will have a tendency to get away from the run given his background. Thus far we have been behind a lot so its hard to second guess but I'll be interested to see in the second half in potentially closer games what the pass/run balance goes at under him.
The good thing on offense was that even when it was not looking so hot earlier in the year , from a personnel perspective there was a very clear weakness with Og at RT. We made an adjustment for the last couple of games and whilst no-one is mistaking Winston/Og for Big Willie it's a least stemmed the tide - for now.
Compare that to the D personnel where we seem to be springing leaks at all levels with multiple players playing below what was expected and that appears a lot tougher fix
