RonnieT24
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We SHOULD be able to beat ANYONE with our passing game!
But we can't beat anybody just dropping back and passing every down. Certainly not any playoff teams.. Playoff defenses are too good for you to just lien up and do one thing over and over and beat them. You have to be versatile and be able to attack different ways.. The more ways you threaten them the better. I firmly believe the main reason the running game has struggled as bad as it has over the past 8 weeks is we keep running pretty much the same play over and over.. Shotgun handoff left, shotgun handoff right, shotgun handoff middle. Back when we were diverse in our running attack.. using tosses, jet sweeps, traps et al the running game was the best in the game.. As I've said many times, there has been more than one reason for the fall off.. injuries to Zeke and Tony, injuries and shuffling up front.. but IMHO the main issue has simply been calling run plays like we got Larry Allen, Nate Newton and Ray Donaldson in the middle of our line. Hint.. we don't.. so we aint plowin through people.. we gotta run around them.. My hope is that Moore has been trying not to put those edge running plays on tape too much down the stretch and the plan is to unleash them in the playoffs.