ZAN
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Meatball Myth: Waaah Trestman refuses to run the ball!! Waaaah!!!
Facts: 22.4 rushes per game in 2014. 25.2 rushes per game in 2013. Matt Forte averaged 18.1 rushes per game in 2013, and 16.5 so far in 2014.
It'd be cool if people stopped exaggerating and repeating this "he refuses to establish a run game" nonsense because of one game in Detroit and act like that's been every game. Nobody was whining about this shit last season. I don't think 3 more rushes per game would have magically made the season turn out differently.
Hell I don't think rushing 40 times a game would change anything except maybe make the scores even more lopsided. People would just bitch even more that Trestman isn't utilizing the talent on offense by asking 5 pass blocking offensive linemen to be road graders all game trying to play smashmouth football with an offense built to run a pass first WCO and utlize the talent at TE and WR.
Over the course of a 3 week stretch THIS season (I can't remember which, so use that against me) we were a 70/30 pass team. We are currently a 56/44 pass team, which is acceptable.
But what pisses me off isn't the ratio. It's playcalling/situational mismanagement of this offense. We don't run the ball in scenarios that it should be run in. And please don't say that teams are loading the box on us. They haven't been.