Allgeier: 10 carries, 64 yards, 6.4 average
Bijan: 16 carries, 91 yards, 5.7 average
Cpat: 8 carries, 43 yards, 5.4 average
Coming into the season, this is the type of football I thought we would play. Run the ball 30+ times a game. It’s what we’re best at and built to do, but for some reason have strayed away from. Hopefully this trend continues, we need to play to our strengths of having 3 above average RBs who can all do different things
Desperately this sub needs to realise you don’t play the saints every week and there are teams you can’t just run the ball endlessly against
That’s true, although I did see that we switching our run blocking scheme from what was mostly zone blocking last season. Where this season I believe we’re down like 20% in zone blocking and an increase in gap blocking. Which I think likely contributes to some of our woes with the run at times.
I think our guys are best fit for zone blocking, but for whatever reason we seem to have added more gap blocking into the mix. Perhaps that best suits Bijan’s talents, who knows what the reasoning is, but I feel it’s part of the problem.
It’ll be easier if we keep running Ridder too. Make teams have to account for him on running plays instead of selling out to stop the RB.
CP84 had the juice this game. The man wanted to embarrass people this weekend and I was all for it
He really hates the Saints. Gotta respect the effort, he plays like he’s been a Falcon his whole career.
He has to hate them. He runs like he wants to vaporize those dudes. Also he was talking mad shit yesterday (rightly so after the body slam too), which he rarely does. CP will always be a legend in my book just for how he runs dirty swamp rats over.
Running until they stop us is what we should do. It’s what this team is built to do. Yeah, the Saints run blocking wasn’t great, but once we got late in the game just wearing them down worked. I’d love us to be more balanced but we just aren’t there, so let’s do what we know…feed those RBs!
Yeah man! They were all eating! I hope we find a way to continue this success.
Lowkey, kind of a genius plan to wait to use Allgeier until the 4th quarter to just bulldoze and solidify the W. I hate how this team just toys with me every week.
Allgeier should be our closer and nothing more. Use Bijan and CP for the first 2.5-3 quarters of the game, and then let Allgeier come in and put it away if we have a lead. He’s safe with the ball, carries defenders, and fights for yards. Exactly what you want in a closer.
We did the same thing vs the Cardinals on the drive to take the lead late in the game. Just a shame the defense couldn’t hold on.