Keys to the Game

[SunsetBengal]

(11-29-2017, 08:02 PM)bengalfan74 Wrote: Don't get me wrong I'm not saying we have to shove the ball down Pittsburgh's throat, ain't gonna happen. I don't buy into the whole the O-line is now fixed thing.

What I am saying is this team has to figure out some way to run the ball with success. Run some delayed draws, bring Hewitt in to lead block, run on passing downs from spread sets.

Last game Hill had 4 carries for seven yards. Gio had 3 carries for eight yards. Mixon had 7 carries for 48 yards including a 25 yard run. Take away that break away and it's 6 carries for 23 yards.

That's 13 carries for 38 yards. That's 2.9 yards per carry and we only had 14 carries by the RB's, we can't win like that, can't sustain drives, play action doesn't work and on and on.

They need to be executing the extended handoff, a.k.a. passes to the RBs in the flats.  It worked well in the Green Bay game.  Not sure why they don't do it more often.