O-Line Yesterday

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(11-02-2015, 10:09 AM)BritishBengal Wrote: The team didn't run the ball, that was the problem. Hill looked good, breaking nice runs early. So of course Hue decided to stop running, because you know, that's logical.

Did the O-line have their best game? No. However things were exacerbated by the fact the Steelers didn't have to honour the run. I really hope we see a few more games where we pound it. We have a good running game and I don't see why we should put too much on Dalton. Any other team, even the Patriots with Brady, lean on the running game in hostile matchups. Hue has done a good job this year, but I want to see more balance going forward.

That was certainly my feeling yesterday.   Hill was averaging 9 yards a carry in the first half and had very few carries.  Then when they decided to run it later in the game they telegraphed it with the "heavy" package.   I don't know what Hue was thinking.  I had expected them to solve that problem at half time.

I think running it more would have opened up the middle for the Bengals to utilize our TE and slot receivers more, giving Dalton more effective hot reads.

Pittsburgh had a really good game plan.  Hopefully we make the adjustments.  Otherwise we're going to have some serious troubles with St. Louis, Arizona and Denver.