The journey of Chris Ivory: Dismissed, discarded and, finally, celebrated

kcirdor said
We have fielded more than 2 years with the greatest passing offense of all time. We won the seasons we stayed balanced. We lost when we abandoned the run.

You play to your strength. Averaging 2.5 ypc is not a strength. There is no short term remedy for a bad running game unless we have a mismatch against an opponent to were running is efficient and beneficial. We can force the run, but we aren't fooling anyone. If you're not great at rushing the ball. Why shoot yourself in the foot? Make your short passing game your running game. Create space and mismatches. We do that a lot. Hell, we been leading RB reception and reception yards for years.

It's probably why we force so many screen. Try to nail on a mismatch in space and our Running back getting some yardage. But we aren't living the days of when we can kill teams with a 40yrd Pierre Thomas screen. Team know it. We can luckily get to the LOS on screens nowadays.

When we are balance. It is basically we was able to efficiently run and pass the ball at will. When our passing attack was at our most potent and rushing attack is stable enough to stand up on its own in blocking, play design, and rusher. Would our running game be even as close to efficient in 2009 or 2011 if our passing game wasn't at its best?

We are a passing team. It elevated our running game to ridiculous efficiency that we can't replicate. If we had the same passing attack as we did then with pro-bowl talented oline of 2009. We would replicate those numbers. Our talent in our passing game diminished and our oline deteriorated. Makes handling our run game much easier to handle than in 2009 and 2011.