Skins O-line

[FRPLG]

Originally Posted by firstdown

We also abandoned the run very quickly in the game and that makes rushing the passer that much easier. We had 34 passes to 14 rushing plays and alot of the passes came from the shot gun a dead give away that we were going to pass. I would like to see us hand off the ball some from the shot gun to keep the D guessing if we are going to pass or run. It was just a bad game from coaching to the players and that happens. What will be the most telling is how we come out and play Philly. Everyone can say how bad our lines are but before that game we were ranked pretty high on both sides of the ball. Lets just hope that was one bad game and not a trend. At half time I was thinking OK Gibbs will get things fixed and I thought that fumble on the first play realy hurt our team to get some momentum back on our side. I think if we could have come out and had a scoring drive the game would have been alot closer.

I don't remember us abandoning the run. When everything is so ineffective you don't get many plays to do much. I can't imagine we had run more than 11 or 12 offensive plays before we were down by 16. It isn't abandoning the run when nothing is working. Its called sucking and not being able effectively establish and execute a game plan. Who knows maybe the game plan called for a higher percentage of passing plays. It didn't seem at all like they just decided to screw running and throw the ball all day when it wasn't necessary.

[BDBohnzie]

It's hard to remember abandoning the run, when all the Skins did was go 3 and out all afternoon. The Skins had 5 drives (out of 14) where it went more than 3 plays. 8 punts, 2 fumbles, an interception, and 2 turnover on downs.

The receivers weren't getting open because essentially you have anywhere from 3-5 guys being covered by 6-7 players. The Giants ran a zone slanted towards Moss's side of the field, and since that's the only person Brunell seems to throw it to, we were effectively stopped. There were several times on replay, they showed someone being wide open.

I would compare it to playing someone in Madden, who all he does is throw long passes to one key receiver. Once you run nickel and dime zones towards that side of the field, the offense falls to squat.