Quote:Seriously. How often do we see/hear/read "an effective running game is a young QBs best friend?" I was certain when Kuechly went down (which sucks because I like how this kid plays) we'd be even more effective on the ground. But no...in typical Jaguars fashion, the powers-that-be decide to having Blake throwing the rock 40 times under the misguided impression that he's suddenly Drew Brees. It would have made a wee bit more sense if the run wasn't effective...but it was.

 

I'm honestly surprised this facet isn't being talked about more.

This is a huge disappointment to me. All this offseason I heard about carrying 4 or 5 running backs, loading up on the line, using a power run game and using multiple TE sets. Then I see we ran the ball 21 times and the qb had 4 of those runs. Not saying Blake played well (that's another conversation), but my goodness why did we give up on the run and our average per attempt was 4.6. Meanwhile the panthers had a whooping 3.0 average on 35 carries. We were never so far behind in the game where we needed to abandon that faucet of the game. 

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