Maine-iac

I'm on board with Saffold. Davis has had some bright spots. MicKenzie was always a question mark for me. Knox has had off the field things going on. Oliver has had bright spots along with Espenesa (who is actually 3rd in sacks). I thought Saffold was going to be the next coming of Incognito. I real mauler who stood up well at the point of attack. Have not seen much from Saffold to be impressed with. Hoping the line plays into shape together as a unit.

Not sure how a link to a fantasy football stat site proves anything. What exactly proves your point? Mind you when you bring up a stat from the 8 games this season to say he can't do something there is most likely a career long history of him in fact being able to do it. It's well documented that he is both good at yards after contact and making tacklers miss.

By all means share some of those advanced metrics that say Singletary is the problem with the running game.

You don't run well 100 percent of the time that you don't run. More importantly you become predictable 100 percent of the time you don't run. Some teams it doesn't even matter. Teams with a good defense you get predictable and they keep it close and sometimes you get beat. This sounds like someone who has never seen him play a down. If you said he doesn't out run the secondary or he's not a home run back I'd kind of agree but Motor runs bigger than his size and is more elusive than most backs and there's plenty of numbers to back that up.

Even if we did have the best RB in the NFL what defense would care if he only got 8 carries a game?

Most people's point has nothing to do with the production of the running game and more to do with the predictability of our offense in general. Run whoever you want just try to mix it up more than two or 3 carries in the second half.

The upgrade to our running game that is needed is the amount of carries. Our OL makes mistakes in passing and running but last year and this year when we run the ball more we score more points. Our problem has never been the RB's and whatever problems our OL has they have both running and passing but from a defensive perspective if we just throw all the time we are easier to stop. We've shown in last season and this season. ps Just for the record I could care less if it's Cook or Motor just run the ball more.

I'm just messing with you now ................ still it's a big picture thing, not individual stats.

So yo are saying we have longer drives when we give him more carries ......................

You have to udnerstand that some things are a sum of their parts. The big picture. If week after week you see us scoring when they run Motor more than twice then it's recognizable that no matter what his stats are running the ball makes a difference.

We're 0 and 2 in the division. I don't like that even if we are still the to seed in the AFC.

Fist half of the GB game we had a running game. From then on we crumpled up that game plan and threw it in the trash and we've not scoring and we are turning the ball over. For the game Singletary had 8 carries and 6 of those were on our TD scoring drives. That means the rest of the game he had 2 carries and we scored 3 points.

No speed is not really true. That said I just saw Kupp run past the TB defense and he ran a slower 40 than Singletary. Singletary's speed is just fine for establishing a running game if we cared to do that.

6 of Singletary's 8 carries came on drives we scored TD's. All the other drives he gets 2 carries and we get 3 points.

No doubt. Losses are usually the result of multiple failures not just one or two. Missed field goal, bad run defense, turnovers .............. any unit steps up and makes a game winning play it was there to be had. Von Miller is still pretty clutch.

They played a run first team that has a great defense. See the Titans game from last year or the Patriots game from last year. Not that we can't win those games but the frequency in which we allow a loss/get beat in those games is frightening.

Yes. Absolutely yes. Please tell him to stop throwing picks.

Not sitting here watching the replay but it looked like Sauce kept one hand tied up and it him in the forearm of the other arm. Unless he got that hand free it would have been basically a one handed catch.

Look at Otis Anderson's average per carry from his SB season and win against us. It's horrendous but 3.2 per carry will keep the chains moving. Then in the fourth our D totally came off the rails.

Our starting rb needs to carry the ball more than 6 to 8 times a game. Not because we are running so well or because we can't pass but because it keeps defenses honest and makes us less predictable. Time and time again we've started thowing too much and we get away with it some games and against better defenses we don't. Just like not stopping the run. We get up on teams not taking the run seriously isn't a big deal but when the game stays close and they've been pounding the ball all game we fade pretty hard. The loss is less frustrating than the fact that these are repeat problems that our coaching staff should see coming from a mile away. We corrected things well last season hopefully we'll do the same this year.

The number of olé blocks happening at the right tackle position is frightening.

Did anyone anywhere think that the Jets were going to throw the ball all over the field? Look at all their wins. They run the ball and play defense. How did we not come better prepared to stop the run?

0 and 2 in the division

Wish we would get a real focus on running the ball. Our line is trash at pass blocking too often. Quesenberry had the guy square in front of him and didn't get any punch and they guy ran right by him.

Pats punched us in the face last year in a game where we knew they were going to do nothing but run. Seems like every year we need to find a way to stop other teams from running the ball down our throats. We literally are the Peyton Manning led Colts. Go up early and stop the pass or get but up in the trenches and get out muscled. We'll figure it out but it is a repeating problem that should have been dealt with by now.