"They stood around killing grass"

[*Wyche'sWarrior*]

(11-07-2018, 05:41 PM)fredtoast Wrote: According to ProFootballOutsiders al lot of that was due to the fact that our running backs were often close to the bottom of the league in "second level yards" and long runs.

It is difficult to divide blame and credit for rushing success between RBs and O-lines, but PO uses a formula that gives more credit to O-line for losses and zero gains and more credit to RBs for yards gained more than 10 yards past the line of scrimmage.  According to them our run blocking was not that bad at all.

Which years are you looking at?  I would agree a little bit during the Hill era, for sure.  With Benson?  I'd be skeptical.  He could break some tackles and pick up tough yards, but his YPC was never very spectacular, with the exception of the 09 season....where we ran a lot of unbalanced sets.  Gio is a gamebreaker.  Look at his YPC from the beginning of last season to the last six weeks after we abandoned Piano Paul's scheme.  He went from sub 4 to over 5 per, if memory serves.  Mixon really turned it on then as well, and is above 4 per this season.