Originally Posted by -King- (Post 17980101)

Link to this supposed freakout? Thanks

Originally Posted by pugsnotdrugs19 (Post 17980098)

Watched Andy’s interview with Simms and Florio: https://youtu.be/oK-jiYi1n6o?si=x3Lztf35j0OMhgm7

Pretty evident he thinks their inability to run the football or trust it led the whole thing to unravel. It allows a defense like that to play to their strengths and they just pinned their ears back.

This also tracks with the logic of trying to keep Smith. If you want to be sure you can run the football deep into January next year, letting the best run blocker go doesn’t help the cause.

Could you retain Smith, Thuney back to LG, and sign the LT while also drafting a lead back to pair with healthier Pacheco and see where that takes you?

I think so. There is no LT available out there who can prevent what happened in the Super Bowl while passing almost exclusively. The run game has to be viable.

Just trying to think this through from Reid/Veach’s POV.

Originally Posted by RunKC (Post 17980159)

Andy is too prideful and needs to take a look in the mirror. Insane that he didn’t call a single running play until the 12 offensive play.

It’s like this part of Andy’s brain doesn’t compute. He needs to fix this badly.

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Originally Posted by pugsnotdrugs19 (Post 17980098)

Watched Andy’s interview with Simms and Florio: https://youtu.be/oK-jiYi1n6o?si=x3Lztf35j0OMhgm7

Pretty evident he thinks their inability to run the football or trust it led the whole thing to unravel. It allows a defense like that to play to their strengths and they just pinned their ears back.

This also tracks with the logic of trying to keep Smith. If you want to be sure you can run the football deep into January next year, letting the best run blocker go doesn’t help the cause.

Could you retain Smith, Thuney back to LG, and sign the LT while also drafting a lead back to pair with healthier Pacheco and see where that takes you?

I think so. There is no LT available out there who can prevent what happened in the Super Bowl while passing almost exclusively. The run game has to be viable.

Just trying to think this through from Reid/Veach’s POV.

Originally Posted by pugsnotdrugs19 (Post 17980188)

Sure, but I'll cut him a little slack. He's been much better in previous seasons than he once was, they did a really nice job running the football for spurts of the LVII postseason and throughout the LVIII postseason.

Think they were just in a real bad spot at RB last year with no ability to bang off explosive runs. He and Veach's interviews yesterday give me confidence they sense the strong need to fix that problem with more RB options, and strengthening the trenches.

You've got the requisite receiving weapons to thrive especially if you bring back Hollywood. At that point, a nice ground game could be all they need to ensure Patrick is comfortable, protected, and thriving in MVP level form.

Originally Posted by pugsnotdrugs19 (Post 17980098)

Watched Andy’s interview with Simms and Florio: https://youtu.be/oK-jiYi1n6o?si=x3Lztf35j0OMhgm7

Pretty evident he thinks their inability to run the football or trust it led the whole thing to unravel. It allows a defense like that to play to their strengths and they just pinned their ears back.

This also tracks with the logic of trying to keep Smith. If you want to be sure you can run the football deep into January next year, letting the best run blocker go doesn’t help the cause.

Could you retain Smith, Thuney back to LG, and sign the LT while also drafting a lead back to pair with healthier Pacheco and see where that takes you?

I think so. There is no LT available out there who can prevent what happened in the Super Bowl while passing almost exclusively. The run game has to be viable.

Just trying to think this through from Reid/Veach’s POV.

Originally Posted by SHOWTIME (Post 17980189)

If they are trying to re-sign Smith, then they are going to get their LT in the draft. That's what Veach seemed to be suggesting a few days ago.

Originally Posted by htismaqe (Post 17980195)

This. I have a hard time faulting Andy for not running the ball when everyone could see the ground game was ass this year.

Originally Posted by Sassy Squatch (Post 17980207)

That was a problem of their own design. They went into the season with Pacheco, Steele, and Perine as their RB depth chart.

Originally Posted by Sassy Squatch (Post 17980221)

Uhh, no. Feel free to go back and look at the discussion in the prior offseason threads. Plenty of folks had concerns that our RB room kind of sucked.

Originally Posted by RunKC (Post 17980222)

Interesting

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