07-19-2018, 12:32 PM
(07-19-2018, 10:13 AM)bengalfan74 Wrote: There's a whole lot of truth to what you're saying and I mostly agree, but......
I feel for Andy Dalton and the Bengals O to operate on all 8 cylinders we need a "productive" running game. Dalton, as good as he is, isn't going to take over every game and throw us to victory.
We need to be able to convert those 3rd and two, 3rd and three's that we haven't been able to for several seasons now. Opposing D's have known we can't run and it's hurt us badly.
We don't have to have 200 yards rushing a game to be successful. But we do need productive gains, at least more so than in the recent past than we've been getting.
IMHO, it's very important
Exactly, it is very important to be unpredictable and be able to do a variety of things to be successful.
If you can run it for a first down consistently on 3rd down it opens up down field throws and deflates Defenses.
The more a Defense has to prepare for the harder it is for them to stop you.
A QB's best friend is a good running game and honestly Dalton has not had very good running games in his time in stripes.
