(11-19-2019, 01:37 PM)Kane Wrote:

(11-19-2019, 01:18 PM)NYC4jags Wrote: He looked really flat in his few carries and made some head scratching decisions about where to run with the football. 

I can see why they shied away from calling his number initially and of course they had to pass later on because of the scoreboard. 

I'd  have been good with 6 or 7 more touches for Armstead, personally.

Our first drive, Fournette got 10, then a pass play with a penalty led to first and 20, where fournette got 4 yards, then a couple pass plays go nowhere and we're punting.
Then with really good field position after a forced punt, we run Armstead for a few then Fournette, then 3 pass plays and we're in the EZ (so far the balance is there)
then on the next drive Fournette definitely struggles on 2nd and medium, iirc this is a play he tries to be a running back he is not, instead of getting north and south and getting something he goes toward the sideline and gets barely a yard.
But on 3rd and 4 here... we should be forcing the run again imo, instead we get a short pass to Westbrook that comes up a yard short and we punt.
The next drive 3 pass plays and a punt (granted the first was a clear PI, not called, challenged and upheld)
The next drive? Start with a pass (seemingly already bailing on the run) and it's a Foles INT
Defense forces a turnover on downs and we get the ball with very little time on the clock, so I can see why we pass pass pass here...
The next drive Fournette gets 3 totes for negative yards and we pass 6 times and turnover the ball on downs.
We pretty much never run it again.

The game plan was pass heavy from go and Fournette shares blame in the run game struggles with the OL but you absolutely can not abandon it the way we did. Armstead should get more touches (and less plays where he is in for pass protection, imo)
For his career he's always been a volume runner. And with Foles coming back from injury we should have leaned heavier on the run early. We have extra OL guys coming out in heavy formations and then throw from them.

I'm not saying when we're down 24 to 7 we should be feeding LF a lot. But it only takes one play for him to burst through and level secondary guys or blow by them.
But 6 touches or whatever ain't gonna get it done.

One of my big irritations watching football is when, third down and less than 10, they send some receivers out past the first down marker, throw to a guy who is not past the first down marker. Guess what? they left him open for a reason, he will not get to the first down marker. It never works. 
Should go down in the stat books as an incompletion for the quarterback, and a dropped target for the wide receiver, in my opinion.

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