Originally posted by PopeyeJonesing:
Originally posted by NYniner85:
Huge reach on saying Chip's running game was figured out...I'll take 150 yards 3 TDs rushing, especially when they are playing against a top three DL that only let teams avg 113 yards a game and 7 TDs all year!
Oh, I'll definitely take that too. But take out 95% of Gabbert's yards from unplanned scrambles and probably about 60 of Hyde's 88 yards from saving blown up plays by sneaking back outside in the first half and what you're left with is about 30 carries that maybe produced 40 yards or so. The Rams deserve some credit for sure, but even including those broken plays and scrambles the 9ers ended up at 3.6 YPC.
At the end of the day without those things you're left with the great draw from the 8 yard line, three or four 4-6 yard carries up the gut from Hyde and Draughn, and then you're left with 20+ carries that went for somewhere between -3 and 3 yards.
It's against a good defense and it could get better, but this is something a ton of people have been saying about Kelly's run game for awhile now, and it's what I saw in this game too. I of course hope I'm wrong.
I just don't agree that they've figured out Chip's run game at all though. It's not like it some crazy scheme that no one has ever seen before. When he had a good OL and a RB made for the read option/inside zone they were a top 10 running team.
We got to understand that this OL is all pretty new as far as working together gonna take some time to mesh...none of that is gonna matter if our QB can't keep Ds honest. They need to spread the field out when you got every crowding the line for dump offs and the safeties playing in it's gonna be hard to run on anyone.
I can't take one game against a monster DL as a idea that his run game won't be productive.