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Originally Posted by Warpaint69
With all the turnover in the WR room, why not lean on a very physical OL to run the ball? I'd love to see the offense have the ability to run a play action set because the run game is established.
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Because our RBs are still mediocre and 'establishing the run' is a myth.
Again, through pretty much every study done on this, the effectiveness of the PA game gets extremely marginal returns past about 12-14 carries/gm.
You run the ball a dozen times and it's going to be enough to make the PA game effective. You run it 22 times and it may be a LITTLE more effective, but it will be more than off-set by the 8 additional pass plays at 8 yards a snap you left on the table to take 4.2 YPC in the running game.
We don't need to run more. We need to run better. We need to lean into the strengths of how this OL works and how we can run the football. It's about run game efficiency rather than volume. And CEH (or Jones) just aren't dynamic enough to move that efficiency needle all that much.