skinsfan69
10-31-2011, 12:20 PM
Problem is we can't run the ball effectively right now either. The injuries on the OL have really hurt.
It's hard to run the ball with only one running play. The defense already knows what we're going to run. If that one play isn't working then time to put in some more run plays. Time to put Banks in the wildcat. Buffalo did it so why can't we? Kyle has no idea how to diversify his offense.
Ruhskins
10-31-2011, 12:21 PM
It's hard to run the ball with only one running play. The defense already knows what we're going to run. If that one play isn't working then time to put in some more run plays. Time to put Banks in the wildcat. Buffalo did it so why can't we? Kyle has no idea how to diversify his offense.
With the state of our o-line right now, Banks would get killed running the wildcat. I don't fault anyone for not running the ball now, but we didn't run the ball when the o-line was healthy.
skinsfan69
10-31-2011, 12:29 PM
With the state of our o-line right now, Banks would get killed running the wildcat. I don't fault anyone for not running the ball now, but we didn't run the ball when the o-line was healthy.
Not buying it. So tired of the injury excuse. One run play isn't what I call a good game plan. How about forcing a below average defense have to prepare for more run plays?
NC_Skins
10-31-2011, 12:35 PM
Well, they did choose to pass over some viable free agents. I have a hard time believing someone like Matt Hasselbeck couldn't have come in and done a better job than what we've seen from Rex & Beck.
Beck hasn't played bad in games up until yesterday. That said, do you think Hasselbeck (or even Tom Brady) would have fared any better yesterday from the play of our OL/WR?
No run block or pass blocking at all from that group yesterday.
mooby
10-31-2011, 12:38 PM
Sorry, but if we let Mike Shanahan go we're just setting ourselves up for more years of mediocrity. Kyle Shanahan on the other hand...
I don't think we have to get rid of Kyle S., but he does need to diversify up his offense and learn to attack opponents' weaknesses better. He just wants to pass all day, and even the best passing offenses know how valuable running the ball is. I hope we have the players next year that fit what Kyle S. wants to do, because right now it looks like injuries are really going to limit our effectiveness on offense for the rest of the year.
firstdown
10-31-2011, 12:44 PM
We are getting better. Last yr the Eagles scored 28 points in the first qtr and this year only 20 points the entire game.
Lotus
10-31-2011, 12:45 PM
Problem is we can't run the ball effectively right now either. The injuries on the OL have really hurt.
We don't even try. Good ground attacks keep going back to the well. What doesn't work in the first quarter may produce a long touchdown in the 4th quarter when the defense is winded.
And it is not just the number of runs which lead me to say that we don't try. It is also the variety of plays. We have stretch left and stretch right. That seems to be about it, excluding a brilliant reverse on the second play of the game.
Kyle didn't have a real ground game in Houston, either, but they developed one after he left with much of the same personnel.
In the end, the run may or may not work. But trying to milk a passing game out of Wrecks and Beck has no chance.
SmootSmack
10-31-2011, 01:00 PM
Well the Texans added Arian Foster, that was the major change. Otherwise, I'm pretty sure the Texans didn't attempt to run the ball last year any more than when KS was the OC in 2009
Alvin Walton
10-31-2011, 01:04 PM
Playing Cooley at FB twice in the same set of downs tells me Kyle is innovative and a risk taker.
However sometimes its a fine line between being innovative and being an idiot.