No, in 2014 they finally had an all-pro line at every position instead of journeymen OL masquerading as quality and Bill Callahan’s RB schemes, unlike what was thrown out there with Houck and guys like Julius Jones running into the back of OL. In 2014, they were a downfield, big chunk passing attack, built off the run with little play-action, play action used for, once again, not as a staple of the offense, but a feature to attack downfield. Once again, that offense was predicated on big play ability and both Dez and TWill were 2 of the top 3 WRs in go routes caught. That’s a myth, 2014 was conservative.. it just ran the ball effectively well and they had no need to protect the QB, what they needed was to take the pressure off him to make these happens.
And we don’t need to “protect the defense”, as this defense was the 5th ranked scoring defense and had multiple scores. The defense has clearly been our best asset.
