Too Soon Instant Reaction

[ChaosTheory]

Originally Posted by Racehorse

Take away the two ridiculously long runs, and they are closer to 130 yards. That would not be a bad day. I also think they wanted to make Lawrence less of a factor, and the run defense suffered.

I know what you mean, but that's why our own Taylor is such a threat. If I remember right, he was like 3ypc all night vs. NE last season until he busted that 62-yarder and iced the game. They're devastating.

Even without 109 yards on those two runs... we still gave up 4.3ypc on 31 rushes, which isn't good.

Originally Posted by HoosierinFL

I said in the game thread. Losing Kwity Paye really hurts the run defense.

This is a good point. He was playing well. But these long runs have to be cleaned up by the safeties. I blamed Thomas for the Hasty TD, but it might have been McLeod. Whoever it was, he followed the motion man and didn't even see Hasty until he was almost in the secondary.

Henry wouldn't even need the safety to fuck up, though. If we let him get to the second level like that, he can stiff arm his way right through just the same.