Someone help me understand..

[57stratdawg]

I keep seeing people talking about how we couldn't run the ball. We averaged 7YPC and finished with 240 yards on the ground. Seems like there were a lot of people that expected the OL to struggle and now we're forcing that narrative onto the game results.

 

[Lettucexxxx]

We played South Alabama. I'm sure the people you keep seeing talking about our running inabilities are probable other SEC fans, in which, they would be right. We wont run on anyone in the west this year..including Kentucky out of the East. We should have our best rushing numbers of the year next week, as far as SEC opponents go.

 

[ckDOG]

Should have been 400

It was a second string sun belt line. Our running game was not impressive in any form or fashion. Holloway does what he can with what he has and sometimes looks solid. But I'm not running him when we need 3 and the defense puts an extra man in the box. Aeries looked decent in the limited touches he received. I'll concede that. Outside of that...we didn't control much of anything.

 

[The Riddler]

I think our o line did a way better job than they are getting credit for. Are they the best unit in the sec of course not. It's hard to set that loss at their feet when our secondary played the way they did. Will they struggle against bama, lsu, and some of our other sec opponents? Of course they will but nobody runs on a lot of those teams. It's like saying hey I bet ya the sun will come up in the morning of course it will. Lsu and bama especially have d lines and recruit d lines that no oline is going to dominate.

 

[dannyripms]

Well that's because we really didn't. Except for a few big runs we really didn't do as well as we should have.

 

[tatedog]

Impressive numbers if you don't take into account they were earned against a middle of the road Sunbelt Conference backup defensive line. For the most part when they needed to get a stop, they got a stop.

 

[patdog]

It should have been 400. But it's hard to run for 400 yards on anybody when you only run the ball 30 times. Dan got too cute with the playcalling and called 50% passes with 2 QBs who have started 1 game each in their career. Establish the run first.

 

[57stratdawg]

Yeah, I see the complaint in the play calling. That's different though, because we had some running lanes on Saturday especially on the edges.

 

[thatsbaseball]

USA is a 13pt home underdog to Ga. Southern.....we weren`t exactly running against the "Steel Curtain".

 

[rugbdawg]

Georgia Southern is gonna win by at least 3 scores.

 

[thatsbaseball]

Correct. It took an exceptionally futile effort for us to lose that game......

 

[8dog]

Because our primary backs- holloway shump and williams- were 16 for 74. Take away one run from holloway and its 15 for 54. Thats terrible against that team.

 

[57stratdawg]

Fair enough, but it's hard to discount the QB in our offense when talking about our run game. Include DWilliams and youre over 6 YPC.

Did seem like had more success on the edges.

 

[KeyserSoze1999]

It's more about not being able to Run & get 1st downs when we need to. When we have a 3 score lead (17 points) on a Sunbelt team who started playing Football in 2009 and we are playing at DWS we need to be able to turn on our Power Run game and bleed the clock in the 2nd half.

However last Saturday we couldn't impose our will on South Alabama by Running the Football in the 2nd half. But the statistics look better than the real game looked---Fitzgerald had a 5 or 6 yard run on one carry which statistically looks good, a 5 YPC play however it was 3rd Down & 8 yards to go when he made the 5 yard run.

 

[KeyserSoze1999]

Also Ross had a long run as well.

 

[muddawgs]

Williams could have had 400 by himself if he would have made the right reads.

It was a second string sun belt line. Our running game was not impressive in any form or fashion. Holloway does what he can with what he has and sometimes looks solid. But I'm not running him when we need 3 and the defense puts an extra man in the box. Aeries looked decent in the limited touches he received. I'll concede that. Outside of that...we didn't control much of anything.

He did a piss poor job. Their end crashed just about every play and Williams would hand it off instead of keeping it. He's just not an SEC quarterback.