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What do you think the biggest problem with our running game is...The O-Line or the running backs???
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Our backs. Lack the speed and the recognition to find the holes. I've watched tape where a number of different times we had a big hole and Dayne or Gado just didn't hit it. Makes the Morency trade that much more frustrating IMO.
I think that while the pass blocking has improved, the run blocking has gotten worse. I'll vote OL.
Both of your options are part of the problem, but the lack of a potent passing attack that defenses can respect is the biggest reason the running game is suffering.
Both of your options are part of the problem, but the lack of a potent passing attack that defenses can respect is the biggest reason the running game is suffering.
Losing Davis really really really really really hurt our running game...Now I hear Salaam is out...We have some serious run game issues we are going to have to just live with.
Late in the third, and into the 4th, our passing game had the defense on their heels....... Dayne got some nice chunks....
he does look a little slow, but if get's to a hole, he's hell to bring down.
But getting hit by Linebackers & DTs in the backfield pretty much has me blaming the Ol.. There was one play we had 7 guys run blocking on 5 defensive players....... couldn't make a whole......
Dayne would have done better if he'd have followed his fullback more often, but I still voted Offensive Line.
I think both are bad, but I think our main problem is the quickness of the backs to hit the holes. If they dont hit it quick the hole becomes a hole for the defense rather than a hole for the running back, dayne has been dropped at the LOS many times because he tried to push the pile with a wide open hole righ next to him, next thing you know a LB is comming thru the hole to finish him off. all our backs seem to hit the point of contact really quick but not neccesarrily the hole The difference between being tackled at the point of impact and making it thru the hole and then being tackled is about 3 yards or more, with that we would be moving the ball down the field, at least to a 3rd and short.
I didn't vote. I think it is a combination of the two, plus we have played some really good defenses.
....good running backs would make a play every once in a while....
Kinda like that dude in Arizona??
what was his name again??
Hope we draft another good back to go with DD next year.
I made the poll like that on purpose...because it is definitely a combo of the two......but if you had to pick one what would it be ?
IMO the oline is bad but I think DD would still be close to a 1000 yd rusher with this line. Lundy I don't think has good vision and Dayne is not as allusive as DD. Hope we draft another good back to go with DD next year.
Kinda like that dude in Arizona??
what was his name again??
hey guys - Im an everyday reader of the board, but I very rarely actually type up a reply. I had a thought this morngint Id like to share tho.
I think where Kubiak (and to some extent Sherman) went wrong was not in the evaluation of our RB talent. I believe Dayne can be GOOD. Gado can be VERY GOOD. I think where Kubiak went wrong was his overconfidence in thinking he (and sherman) can coach up a poor offensive line with the magical denver/GB "system."
As much as I heard about the improvements we made along the line (new left tackle, new center, better scheme), I expected DD to have well over a thousand-yards rushing, should he have been healthy. My guess is, though, that because of the line's inabilities, DD would be having the same results Gado, Dayne, and Lundy have been having.
No way man. DD if healthy would have been racking up numbers. DD had alot of patience to go along with vision. He let things develop and when the hole appeared he was through it. I've seen huge holes opened up by our line, but our running backs just don't see them or can't get to them. Running into your own linemen can't help and that's were DD would have excelled. Dayne is making our line look worse than it is. Gado hasn't been given enough opportunity to show what he can do, but he broke off that 23 yd. run so given time I think he could do well. Lundy hasn't seen many opportunities after the Colt's game, but he looked like he was beginning to find his rhythm, that play where he fumbled was a nice gain. I just gotta disagree, DD would have had plenty of yards behind this line.
In that same game where Lundy had that big gain, then fumbled.... Dayne was doing very, very well...... Lundy never should have come in the game.
Dayne has been doing an excellent job with the exception of the Miami game.