It’s really simple, and if you don’t understand…

[Kray007]

Originally Posted by Oldcolt

Puck I agree with you that if you qb is having a hot game you need to ride him more. I just think that we need to run the ball way more than we did if we want to be effective long term. Throwing like 26 times in a row isn't riding the hot hand. It is a whole new game plan. Lawrence Owen has a link to a podcast with D'Qwell Jackson on this site. He and Edge make the same point I am trying to make but do it much clearer and with more nuance than I do. We need to be more balanced. And it is not just about this game, it is about how the whole season has gone. When things get difficult we just do not have an identity to fall back on.

You’ve got to keep in mind that 8 or 9 of those passes came in the two minute drill that ended the 1st half. If you have problems, it should be with the first 16 plays of the 2nd half.

And, it’s not as though Reich called 16 straight passes. A number of them were called RPO’s, which would have been runs if Tampa hadn’t been stacking the box.