Allgeier: 10 carries, 64 yards, 6.4 average
Bijan: 16 carries, 91 yards, 5.7 average
Cpat: 8 carries, 43 yards, 5.4 average
Coming into the season, this is the type of football I thought we would play. Run the ball 30+ times a game. It’s what we’re best at and built to do, but for some reason have strayed away from. Hopefully this trend continues, we need to play to our strengths of having 3 above average RBs who can all do different things
We did it most of last year without bijan.
It’ll be easier if we keep running Ridder too. Make teams have to account for him on running plays instead of selling out to stop the RB.
Yes I’ve been waiting for it all season. Des has some serious speed. Seems like they emphasized that over the bye week.
That’s true, although I did see that we switching our run blocking scheme from what was mostly zone blocking last season. Where this season I believe we’re down like 20% in zone blocking and an increase in gap blocking. Which I think likely contributes to some of our woes with the run at times.
I think our guys are best fit for zone blocking, but for whatever reason we seem to have added more gap blocking into the mix. Perhaps that best suits Bijan’s talents, who knows what the reasoning is, but I feel it’s part of the problem.