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Originally Posted by skinsguy
We're running the ball on first and second down almost exclusively. I don't call that aggressive playcalling, just hard nosed football...that is exactly what alot of you people complained about. The only reason why we are holding leads or adding onto them in the fourth is because of our running game being so hard to stop now. I'll also say it again....it takes more than arm strength to be a good quarterback and a good leader.
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I'll say it for the last time, if you have all those intangables which you should have to be a legitamate NFL QB, I will take the guy with the arm strength, go ask Santana Moss about Pennington, he would still be a Jet if Pennington could reach him. It takes more than being an all around nice guy to play QB as well. Your assesment on Brunells behalf is predicated on the fact that you believe Ramsey is incapable of all those things you mentioned to make a legitamate QB in the NFL, I say he has all that, and the arm to go with it, but because Gibbs won't play him you asume he can't play, but it's only a matter of time before he proves other wise, and you can mark my words it's only a matter of time before Ramsey proves he's a top QB! That second half of the Giant game was a small taste of what Ramsey is capable of, hopefully he does it for us next season.
And explain why our run game has blossomed over the last month, it's blossomed because Gibbs opened up the pass game.
Listen to what Portis and some of the other team leaders have said, they told Gibbs that we can't start trying to run the clock out in the 2nd quarter, we cannot sit back on offense, become 1 dimensional and lay the burden on the defense to win the game by holding on to the lead. Are you saying you haven't seen any difference with the play calling over the last month? We are throwing the ball in third and 4th quarter, we haven't went into a shell with 3 dives into a stacked line every series late in the game, we are mixing up the pass and run game, that is why it has worked, the ability to keep a defense off balance is all we needed and most of us were saying that for the last 2 years, yes we do pass on first down, and we also run on second down, that has been the biggest difference, the ability to keep a defense guessing that hasen't been there for us until recently. And take a look we probably throw 90% of the time on 3rd down, that is not a sign of a smash mouth football team, that didn't happen back in the 80's under Gibbs. Yes we have run the ball far better recently then we have over the last 2 years, but we are not blowing people off of the line of scrimmage, we throw the ball in goal line situations a lot, we didn't have to do that in the 80's, so to say we are playing old school smash mouth hard nose football is just not true. Show me a drive that has been relativly exclusive runs? I can show you plenty from the 80's teams.
This team can probably win passing exclusivly, it's not going to win running exclusivly, but it's the balance and uncertainty of what's coming that has made us an effective offense the last month.