nash72":2nd6zqnf said:
scutterhawk":2nd6zqnf said:
Everybody was Okie Dokie with Pete Carroll's two prong attack, and Tom Cable's O-line was opening holes for the 'BEAST' to run thru.
Lynch led the league in yardage after contact. He was as much a part of his success as the line.
He certainly did, but you have to acknowledge that he did NOT do it all by himself.... The O-Line was DESIGNED around Lynch's particular skillset, and on many occasions it was their blocking that helped by opening up some of the holes for him to get a head of steam up, and it was that momentum that helped him get a lot of those "Yards After Contact".
Just review the Beast-Quake play against NO, hell, even the Quarterback got involved in blocking down field for him.
He had some fantastic runs, but not every single one of them were of his own doing, or he'd have done it while playing for the Bills, and we'd have played hell wresting him away from them.
Just admitting that Lynch had success, points to what I've been saying about the deficiency of not having a run game to HELP take pressure off of Russell Wilson AND the O-Line.
Everybody says that RW is hanging onto the ball for too long, and should just get rid of it... (That certainly would help an anemic Pass Pro O-Line) Having a successful Run game (set up with some decent Run blocking scheme, would be another way to keep drives alive.
Old saying..."The Run Set's Up The Pass", "And The Pass Sets Up The Run"...It worked to perfection with having a monster run game (to which Wilson had nearly 600 yards in one Season)...Run Blocking attributed to MANY of those yards.