I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again.
There is nothing more demoralizing to a team, the offense, the defense, the special teams, the coaches, than having the dang ball run down your throats.
Everyone plays worse; coaches are affected in play calling. Everyone deserves blame for their individual performances, but most of our losses every year, and almost all of our embarrassing losses, along with our lousy playoff appearances are related to not running the ball and not stopping the run.
TB ran the ball 39 times for 241 yards.
Dallas ran the ball 13 times for 50 yards.
We hired a secondary specialist as DC because of his exotic looks and coverages. We still cannot stop the run game. That is so demoralizing to every man on the team. It affects everyone and everything.