Originally Posted by
lloydroid
I can see your point on passing plays, but how could Ben impact the rush blocking and screen play blocking by "being sloppy?" I am not sure I understand. For a team that highly values rushing the ball, and spent much of the offseason trying to rectify and improve it, we are 30th in the F-ing league at rushing the ball. And the simple eye test tells you that this team just sucks at rushing the ball and using screens. What did we bring Haley here for? Why did we use the 1st two drafts, and on later, on getting better O-linemen in here? And to further understand how confusing our lack of rushing is, we even have big downfield threats in Wallace and Brown and Sanders and we _STILL_ can't find ways to find any success with our rush.
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The Bills and Fins are destroying our rushing numbers and each have little threats in their WR to make the defense have to back off their safeties (Bills have Stevie Johnson but who else?). Teams like Cleveland, the Colts, AZ and GB are out-rushing us. Dear God. There is just something very wrong with that. I will give Cowher that much: At least he had this team with a very strong running game almost every single season. Why can't this team run the ball since Tomlin has been here? We shipped out Arians, but little has changed.
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