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[QUOTE="upperdeck, post: 2399407, member: 474"]
so call the plays for a game and see how often it works, then see how often it worked when it wasnt what you called.. 2 schools of thought.. call what the D doesnt expect, or call what the D cant stop..

2nd and long runs are not a bad thing.. always throwing and 2nd and long doesnt always work.

Go back and watch the last 3 games.   you will see plays with 5 in the box and we were running  1TE sets.   thats 6 blockers a RB and a QB, thats almost a gimmee 5 yd run and we couldnt do it.. There are plays in there we lost yds in that formation. Even when its 6 in the box you should be good most of the time for positive yds.  Our oline has to be able to win those battles..  That forces the D to have 6-7 in the box more often and allows the play calling to be the most flexible.

there is a reason our WR sweep plays struggled to gain 3-5 yds and other teams like LSU and BC gained 20-40.   They didnt need to allocate men to the box just to stop the simple runs.

If we really going to run just what might work we would throw 90% of the time.  Coach even said that even if you think that , you cant do it or teams will just nickel/Dime D you to death..  You have to have the threat if the run.

losing Dungey was the really think that ended up killing the offense.  No threat of running game except for a few draws. teams just pressed up with no deep threat and spread out and took away all the short passes.

As for throws to the middle .  Every pass play we have had a middle throw available to it..  the slot guys like Phillips read the play and go where they have the opening.  as to why it seldom lead to a middle throw who knows, but we dont run traditional play design where guys go from A to B..  Almost all the plays are multi routed especially ISH and Phillips who saw 75% of the throws anyway.  Its not like there werent open most of the time.
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