Originally posted by NCommand:
Originally posted by NinersFo6:
By not adding a change of pace back, it only makes our offense that much more predictable and easy to defend!!! I don't care who you add to the OL, 5 will not be able to guard 8 if defenses stack the box to stop the run that they know where it is going!!! I will beat this point into the ground until I'm blue in the face because I believe in the 3 back, with one of them being a change of pace, system!
I could NOT agree more. Raye had the most predictable scheme in he league last year. We may become more balanced the pass and the run but where we need to be most balanced is WITHIN the run and WITHIN the pass.
In the running game we need to be able to bounce it outside, run reverses, screen passes (essentially a run), QB sneaks, naked bootleg, FB dive, RB's catch and run, etc.
3 straight runs right up to the gut and a personnel that telegraphs the plays even more in the NFL = monster fail and lots of o-line injuries facing 8 and 9 men in the box all run blitzing!
i agree to a certain extent. i was really hoping for a change of pace back myself(spiller was my wet dream). but it is clear want sing is trying to implement. the dallas cowboys(c********rs) had a relatively predictable offense in the early 90's and yet nobody could stop them.
just try to imagine everything we did last year actually being successful. instead of 1-2 yards up the middle on 1st and 2nd down, how about 4-6 yards? i know it is alot to hope for considering our ineptitude over the last several years, but this could work regardless of the predictability. we just got to pray that solari(and brown) earn their money.
still, it's hard for me to gloss over your point( it's actuually my point as well, i guess i'm being optimistic and just choosing to drink the kool-aid
). it's pretty pathetic when the only way you can attack the edges of the OL is by running WR reverses.
my only problem with sing's vision is that it is an all or nothing gambit he is banking on. either our OL dominates or we will look as bad as we have over the last several years. it will be one or the other. his plan really hasn't left us with any other options.
christ! when i put it that way, i'm not really sure i can get behind this vision he is trying to sell us.