Running in yesterdays game

my highschool coach use to have this philosophy of run it till they stop it then try something diffrent. miami never stopped it so why fix something that s not broken.

i like to see the team iron out at least one area of the offense in the preseason.
think back to regular season last year and carolina, they started out pounding the ball while the passing game took its time to find its footing. if gibbs feels he needs to get comfortable with the running game than thats what we need to work on.

winning a game by running the whole game is far from ugly

Anybody who watched the Gibbs 1 era with the Skins know that he doesn't call an extensive game plan during preseason games. He's trying to get the guys working together as a unit and getting them in sync first by running basic vanilla plays. He is going to get the running game established first and get the OL to be a unit working together. You can already see a huge difference in the minimum of dumb plays and dumb penalties in comparison to the past couple of years.

I wouldnt complain about running the ball too much for the simple reason that if we are running alot that means we are protecting a lead.also o-lineman love to run the ball, it gives them confidence and sets up play action passes down the field.

Vanilla is my favorite flavor and it's the flavor of our 'Skins O right now. Remember, this coach doesn't care HOW you win, JUST win. Got to be happy with the way this team is coming around right now, and it's only going to get better.

read the Boswell article today, good stuff.

we did have a lot of trouble running in prevoius weeks, so this did give bugel a chance to work things out and practice run blocking. Portis will be greatful for all the practice once the regular season starts.

I am guessing here the the QB and WR are practicing to get them on the same page through out the week not everything comes soley from preseason games which given most teams run vanillia offences and defences are not as important or telling as people give them credit for.

I think there is three things you want to take from preseason games and that is to build confidence in fundementals, assess the basic skills of fringe players and come out of each one with as few injuries as possible.

that sounds about right bedlam.