(10-11-2023, 08:56 PM)ChrisJagBoy Wrote:

(10-11-2023, 12:40 PM)RicoTx Wrote: His long run to seal it was between LT and LG.  Some of his other longer runs were designed inside runs that he bounced.  People (not specifically you) need to look at the highlights before they complain about running Etienne inside.  Typically, most of your longer runs in the NFL are inside or are inside calls bounced to the outside.  Defensive players are far too quick nowadays to be running plays wide on any sort of consistent basis.

I dont think running him inside is a bad thing, but I do think getting him in space plays to his strengths

Running him inside is fine when it works as does running outside.  We can set those outside runs up creatively with tosses and pitches, but I really like what they did with the misdirection stuff to Ridley last week. I still wish we had incorporated some lead blocker sets in our game plan, some of these inside runs just need the bus driver to open the hole. What we can't do is just give up the inside stuff because our IOL is weak, if we just surrender that space the defense can just focus on the wings and make our run game one dimensional.

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