Brunell

[skinsguy]

Originally Posted by That Guy

why not toss it to portis on the outside then? just cause they load 9 guys up in front of the oline doesn't mean you've got to throw it deep every time... they could audible to a sweep or outside run and keep the clock ticking while avoiding the pitfalls of running straight into 200 guys that aren't going to be moving.

Isn't that what I just said?

Originally Posted by Skinsguy

I do agree that it would be nice to see more audibles with a toss sweep....something to keep the offense on the field for more minutes,

However, I'm not only thinking in terms of a deep pass....receivers can drop short passes that are rushed just as easily. Either way, there is a potiential of gaining no yards AND stopping the clock. The only thing with the toss sweep is that if the defense starts sniffing it out, because we're going to audible to it quite often, then blowing up a toss sweep can have the potiential of even more loss of yards than running it up the middle. Most of the time, at worst, a run up the middle might lose you a yard, but a toss sweep has the chance to lose big yards.

And, thinking about it more, an NFL defense loading 8 or 9 guys up in the box, do we really think they're not fast enough to stretch the defense out?

What alot of us failed to mention was that Gibbs' gameplan for that second half was to open the offense up more and take some shots, but we couldn't bury the Seahawks' offense enough to take those chances. I personally like the steady pace of our offense mixing it up and eating time off the clock...it takes alot of pressure off our defense and gives our offense more confidence.