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Originally Posted by BigHairedAristocrat
Zorn screwed with the running game the 2nd half of the season, which obviously hurt everything, but go to this link here and tell me you dont see Campbell with more pass attempts in the 2nd half of the season.
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What you see is against PITT, NYG & BAL the attempts are unusually high, due to the fact that no running game could be established against those defenses. So we were forced to pass. It had nothing to do with Zorn "screwing with the running game".
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In the 2nd half of of the season, IMO Zorn got cocky and tried to do more of the pass-happy WCO. We relied more on Campbell and less on Portis. The results speak for themselves.
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Incorrect. Injuries / age breakdown of the OL hurt both the run & pass games. Portis' YPC went way down in the 2nd half of the season, is that a playcalling issue? With less carries he should've had fresher legs and at least kept his YPC at the same level as earlier in the season.
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I am very critical of Campbell, but i'm even more critical of Zorn - great coaches adapt their system, schemes, play-calling, etc to suit the talent they have on their roster. In the second half of the season, Zorn tried to make the talent on the roster fit his system (square peg, round hole).
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Incorrect again. You cannot have a successful offense with a sub-par OL. What offensive play calls can you make that require no blocking? Screens, draws? I seem to remember more than a few timely screens or draws called (or Campbell scrambles out of trouble) that kept dirves going that otherwise would've stalled. Our OL performance dropped significantly in the 2nd half of the year. This isn't a "square-peg round-hole" issue.
The problem isn't Campbell and Zorn as you keep stating. It was clearly the OL (and some pretty good defenses, PITT, BAL, NYG) that caused the decreased offensive production in the 2nd half of the year.