Appyhawk":1ifx4zt2 said:
I agree Dome, falling so far behind early is a big problem. But I also notice that just as soon as we get some run game established our pass game begins to take off. Until then we pretty much suck pond water. Last night was a perfect example of that. Took us a quarter and a half to get it started. Our opponents know that and stack up on us to stop the run early.
If you look at the historic stats of our results when not being first to score or leading at the half, it's a VERY gloomy picture. But the opposite is true when we do.
One thing evolving with Russ is that he is gradually taking on more responsibility in the way of checking down and making his own calls at line of scrimmage. I see that working well, along while increasing pace of game. We tend to do well in those cases.
I agree with some of what you say. However, the run game part I see the change of pace and tempo as a far bigger reason. IN our first scoring drive we came out and got to the line quick, ran our plays, changed when we hiked it, changed the tempo.
We are at our best when we change tempo, however we don't do that much because PC does not like it.
In fact if we look at our scoring drives the totals are
So in our 3 scoring drives we:
run play 13
Pass 16
Scrambles 5 I put these separately becasue they are not a run but a broken pass play.
So as you can see the "run" was not the catalyst, the changing of tempo was as in all 3 drives the tempo kept being changed.