When you spend the entire 1st half running up the middle from shot gun and getting into 2nd and longs... That's not a good strategy.

I mean, I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong. But I'd assume that eventually, if I'm always running up the middle on 1st and 10 from shot gun, maybe the opposition may be ready for it.

We spend the entire 1st half, when the game was still ours, just running up the middle on every first down. We were predictable. We were easy to stop on 1st down. And so 2nd down was tougher than it needed to be.

It was just a boring, uninspired game plan. We are clearly not good enough to just shove it down anyone's throats. And yet, for the entire 1st half that's all we did. We accepted that 1st and 10 would be a shotgun handoff to ETN for a yard.

2nd and 8 or 2nd and 9 every time you line up is a terrible place to be. But that's what we put ourselves on for the entire 1st half. It's trash play calling.

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