Season by Season breakdown of ML vs. Playoff Teams

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(12-21-2018, 03:20 PM)sandwedge Wrote: Let me say this first, Dalton did stink in the 2nd half. That out of the way, a Gio fumble down inside the 10 yd line and AJ's drop of a TD didn't help. SD's defense was suppose to be horrific against the run and we couldn't run the ball and our D which could stop the run couldn't that day. What I am getting at is this, we lost out on 2 TDs and we could have just played smash mouth the 2nd half. It didn't workout that way, so we ended up playing catch up in the 2nd half and Dalton wasn't good. 

We didn't run the ball.  BJGE was up around 5 YPC in the 1st half if memory serves.  I've posted these numbers here and on the old board, but for some odd reason, Bennie always had success against SD after his first year in NE where he wasn't a featured back.  If you take out the first year or two, when he was a benchwarmer, his CAREER YPC against SD was around 5 YPC, he had just abused them two weeks earlier in their own house, was running well against them in the 1st half of that game, and after the 2nd turnover, they panicked and forgot he was on the team.

This was the moment, for me, that really solidified the issues as a coaching problem.