Elephant in the room - run game

[The Caped Crusader]

(08-28-2018, 10:44 AM)I_C_DeadPeople Wrote: You guys have way too much confidence in a pass first offense run by Dalton. He needs a solid run game to be successful and if we do not have one they will simply take away the pass. Teams have always looked to get pressure on Dalton as he is less accurate so with no run game it will be all out pass rush and press coverage. They will dare him to throw with accuracy.

Our OL will be our undoing this season again. Remember when Zeitler signed for $10M with the Browns everyone said that was crazy money, now that is the standard for a very good guard. He should have been resigned at that time.

And another item of note, we only pay Dalton I think $14M per year but a lot of other teams are paying their QB's $20M or more now - so how is it they can do that, be under the capo and win? For all the cap talk around here, what would our situation be if we had to pay our QB over $20M per year?

I think you're also forgetting a huge, HUGE nugget here...and that's pass protection. Dalton has clearly flourished this pre-season in passing thanks to a competent pass protection. Something he was completely without. We have yet to see anything managing a run game, and he's still managed to look competent and accurate. This is probably Dalton's sharpest pre-season.