Sometimes I wonder if...
All the clamoring for shoring up our run game was an admission by some fans that we will never have a passing game that will more often than not take care of business. "We must have A because we will never have B"
An adept rushing game is only as good as the defense you put on the field because of the obvious likelihood that you will need to go get points rapidly at some point. "Our A doesn't matter that much because of C"
Getting adept in our rushing game absolutely comes at the expense of other things because of dogma "We must focus on A in lieu of B because A is how you win games"
We, the fans, have it wrong on how the game works. In common theory, having a good rushing game should open up the passing game, not only by trying to force more stacked boxes and clumping the defense together but also lending credence to the play action and provoking brain farts by the defense. What if we are wrong about the impact this has? Or what if Schotty is such a doofus he doesn't really know how to harness the advantages the run game should provide in theory? "We only get a portion of the benefits of A because Schotty is a doofus"
I wonder these things because at this point in the season it just feels like we're stuck in a comfortable 1st gear getting our yards on the ground but when we need to shift into 2nd gear the transmission drops out of the chassis and it's just hapless and carried by hope.
I could be more frustrated by it, I guess, but it is refreshing in one regard to see some of the stink of 2017 fall away. On the other hand, it is distressing to see the Hawks seemingly play how they want for a large portion of games and it obviously not be the holistic remedy we hoped for. I think it goes to show you that there are way more moving parts on a team and you simply can't 'shore up' a weak spot while maintaining all the other spinning plates as they were. I know it isn't easy to get the recipe right but if you had told me last season that we'd figure out how to effectively rush and we wouldn't be much better for it I would have been somewhat incredulous.
Just some food for thought as I try to make some sense of why this jalopy won't go.
All the clamoring for shoring up our run game was an admission by some fans that we will never have a passing game that will more often than not take care of business. "We must have A because we will never have B"
An adept rushing game is only as good as the defense you put on the field because of the obvious likelihood that you will need to go get points rapidly at some point. "Our A doesn't matter that much because of C"
Getting adept in our rushing game absolutely comes at the expense of other things because of dogma "We must focus on A in lieu of B because A is how you win games"
We, the fans, have it wrong on how the game works. In common theory, having a good rushing game should open up the passing game, not only by trying to force more stacked boxes and clumping the defense together but also lending credence to the play action and provoking brain farts by the defense. What if we are wrong about the impact this has? Or what if Schotty is such a doofus he doesn't really know how to harness the advantages the run game should provide in theory? "We only get a portion of the benefits of A because Schotty is a doofus"
I wonder these things because at this point in the season it just feels like we're stuck in a comfortable 1st gear getting our yards on the ground but when we need to shift into 2nd gear the transmission drops out of the chassis and it's just hapless and carried by hope.
I could be more frustrated by it, I guess, but it is refreshing in one regard to see some of the stink of 2017 fall away. On the other hand, it is distressing to see the Hawks seemingly play how they want for a large portion of games and it obviously not be the holistic remedy we hoped for. I think it goes to show you that there are way more moving parts on a team and you simply can't 'shore up' a weak spot while maintaining all the other spinning plates as they were. I know it isn't easy to get the recipe right but if you had told me last season that we'd figure out how to effectively rush and we wouldn't be much better for it I would have been somewhat incredulous.
Just some food for thought as I try to make some sense of why this jalopy won't go.