Anybody notice that neither team ran the ball all that well?

Brax said:

Did you watch the Bengals playoff games and the SB if so, you would know the answer.

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What answer? That our O line screwed the pooch in the playoffs?

RonnieT24 said:

I hear ya man.. I have come to enjoy the game on a whole different level after the years I spent coaching. When I was a player I learned my assignment inside and out but only glanced at the other guys. Once I started coaching I began to look at every position on the field every snap. It gave me a different perspective on the game. It's hard to say I enjoy it more.. because how the hell can you enjoy watching more than playing.. but it definitely is fun to understand as much of what is going on as possible. Dak did not play well in the playoff game.. But he didn't commit any penalties, drop any balls or miss any blocks/tackles.. The only thing I fault him for is taking too long to take matters into his own hands. He really needs to tell Kellen Moore to shove it with the 75/25 pass/run split and the deep passes on 3rd and 2 more often. And he needs to call his own number 4-5 times a game. 4-5 QB draws for 8-10 yards a pop would have made a HUGE difference in that game. I get that he was compromised coming off the injury.. but that part of his game absolutely needs to come back this season. It just places SO much stress on the defense when they have to worry about that. It opens up so many more things.. particularly the middle of the field passing game because the linebackers have to hold a tick longer before getting into their drops.

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I'm not blaming the one guy who scored all the TDs, rushed for half the yards, got sacked 5 times, hit 14 and had a bazillion drives killed from penalties. He wasn't perfect, but to blame him is beyond insane.

RonnieT24 said:

Well be sure to let us know who your new team is for the next 5 years.. Cause Dak aint goin nowhere. And since it's a quarterback driven league why did it take Stafford 13 years to learn how to drive?

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We know Dak is not going anywhere, and neither is this team. We are the Mississippi State of the NFL.

RonnieT24 said:

What was fascinating to me is that Mixon was the best RB on the field and really the only one who was consistently getting anything more than a 2 yard run.. Yet for some reason Cincy refused to lean on him. Especially on the two drives when he was absolutely ROLLIN'. They got into the red zone and went pass happy.. Reminded me of some games I've seen around here.

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yup.

Too many A gap runs too.

Russia ain't gonna attack ****

RonnieT24 said:

Before that drive they had thrown it 28 times and run it 21. That's about as close as you get to being "balanced" in the modern NFL. I really hope our resident offensive "genius" watched that game

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It's cute of you to try to toss out a long drive full of passing plays to prop up a flimsy point, but at the end of the day, the Rams threw 40 passes and ran the ball 23 times. Stafford took two sacks and had a 7-yard scramble on a called passing play. So that's actually 43 called passing plays versus only 22 called running plays. So if the Rams' Super Bowl performance is what you're passing off as the ideal level of balance, you're talking about a 2-to-1 Pass-to-run ratio in a game the Rams won by abandoning the run in the end.

But let's roll with your cheap attempt to rig the conversation by arbitrarily discarding a bunch of passes.

You wanted to magically stop time in order to freeze the stats at a point when the Rams had thrown 28 passes and run the ball 21 times. "That's as close as you can get to being balanced in the modern NFL," you said. That's a run percentage of 42%. So that's the ideal now. Cool, cool, cool, cool.

But here's the thing.

In 2021, Dallas ran 473 times while throwing 647 passes. You wanna pull out your calculator and do the math on that, bud? I'll save you the trouble. 42% runs.

Hmm. How about that? I guess you also think Dallas was "as close as you can get to being balanced in the modern NFL," right?

The same exact run percentage that you just swore was the ideal number in the modern NFL. And you had to cook the books to arrive at that percentage in the first place, because the truth is that the Rams called runs on only 33% of their plays.

The truth is the Rams did the thing you were railing against--abandoning the run--and they won precisely because they abandoned the run (all those pesky passes you threw away by pausing the game when the pass-run ratio was 28-21 -- ignoring that the Rams were also losing the game at the point when you wanted to freeze time). This game doesn't prove your point. In fact it comes closer to proving the opposite of your agenda.

Brax said:

So the team that ran the ball more had worse protection, go figure, maybe the OL just isn't very good.

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Your answer doesn't make sense.

Cincy's OL would've played even worse had they not run the ball. Think, man, you're not thinking through this.

kskboys said:

Your answer doesn't make sense.

Cincy's OL would've played even worse had they not run the ball. Think, man, you're not thinking through this.

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I get your point but I don’t think you understand my reply to the op that Cincy ran the ball better and still lost their OL was just bad and running more wasn’t changing the outcome of 7 sacks