When it's third and ten, you can take the milk drinkers and I'll take the whiskey drinkers every time. -Max McGee
“I really thought you had to run the football to control the game,” Erhardt once said. “You had to throw the football to score but had to run the football to win.” - Ron Erhardt
The young in this country do not know enough to be prudent,
and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it generation after generation - Pearl S. Buck
I think the year under Stick’s wing learning the playbook is more of an edge. Who knows really on how this pans out. Let’s just keep winning titles please.
Run the damn ball!! PRO FBS
Do you really think we have the wide receiver core to run a west coast style? And I'm not dissing our WR's... but right up until Wilson got hurt, the talk was that we were unproven and lacked depth in our WR group. We even moved DJ Stewart from RB to WR to try and shore up some depth. I just think our guys fit better into the ground and pound style... force the defense to load the box, then pick away at the gaps that leaves in the secondary.
Well, I believe we have the receivers to run a west coast style if we use all our receivers, including our TE's and running backs. West coast is quick reads with the ball coming out fast to get the ball into your playmakers hands in open space. Part of my question comes from the recent interest in small, quick running backs we seem to be targeting. IMO, those types of backs are going to do well in an offense that gets them the ball quickly on swing passes rather than pounding them between the tackles. Just an observation of a noticeable change in some of our running back recruits makes me wonder if Roehl will bring back those portions of our offense he ran as a player and that we ran so effectively when Walker was our QB.
The young in this country do not know enough to be prudent,
and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it generation after generation - Pearl S. Buck