[Pitt Gorilla]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

Yeah, you're probably right.

Dude's teams are in the top 10 in points scored 2/3 of the seasons he's coached in this league, but you probably know more about running an offense than him. And hey, guy also has FREQUENTLY had a top 10 running game (and almost always top 10 in terms of rush efficiency), but you're right - he's just constantly getting away from it.

Guy's had 5 seasons in 21 where he had a clearly below average rushing attack. This season's shitshow being one of them, a season where we are just flat-out bad at running the football because we can't keep a RB healthy and our IOL is lousy. In '04 & '05 he lost Westbrook for large chunks of the year, in '08 & '09 he had serious OL issues, Westbrook had lost a step (after making an All-Pro team under Reid, mind you) and he turned the reigns over to the rookie McCoy in '09 who the following season ALSO became an All-Pro under Reid in a season where he had 17 rushing touchdowns. Charles gets as many carries per game under Reid in 2013 as he ever has in his career and makes an All-Pro team. Duce Staley gets 325 carries (60+ more carries than he had under Ray Rhodes the previous year) for his career season the year Andy takes over in Philly. Then of course Kareem Hunt leads the league in rushing under Andy.

I mean, we're gonna bitch about the fact that he didn't hand off the ball to the "League's leading rusher" in the Titans game where they got a whopping 3 possessions in the 2nd half, one of which was stalled precisely because of a negative rushing attempt on 1st down, and just gloss right over the fact that Andy Reid ran an offense that yielded the league's leading rusher that season.

You're right - a dude w/ a track record of getting exceptional seasons out of 2nd day picks and who managed to do stuff like get 564 yards at 5 yards/clip out of Bryce Brown as his backup RB clearly just doesn't care about the running game. Dude who's average season is above average in rushing yards and who routinely finishes in the top 10 in rushing YPC (and top 5 nearly half the time) while managing to create careers for guys like Spencer Ware and Correll Buckhalter clearly doesn't know how to utilize his backs.

Andy Reid, who's average offensive output over a 21 year career is a top 10 offense despite thoroughly average QBs, simply doesn't understand that if he'd have just handed the ball off more, everything would've been BETTER. The guy with the .600+ winning percentage who will almost certainly retire as one of the top 5 winningest coaches in football history - secret idiot all along. Doesn't know how to use runningbacks or score points, a 21 year track record of high scoring offenses and productive runningbacks be damned.

Yup. You've got it aaaaall figured out.

I'd totally refute all of this, but I'm like busy and stuff. So, you're just going to have to trust that you're in the wrong here.