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Originally Posted by WMH
Stepping off the gas is one thing, but lack of execution is another. Playcalling aside, the O-Line was manhandled vs. MN. Abused may be a better word. Its one thing to go vanilla, its another to flat out get beaten. That's what concerns me the most. Kubiak's playcalling has nothing to do with Schaub being erratic, missed tackles by the secondary, or the O-Line getting demolished.
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Actually the two are directly related. We have never had an offense that just mauled teams with the running game when they knew it was coming. We were an NFL rarity, a team who passed and ran. And each of the two made the other better. I remember the Raiders game last year when we lost Andre and couldn't run it at all and got beat. And that was with the best run game this franchise has ever had.
Without running the bootlegs and creating run/pass confusion for the defense, we cannot run the ball. Without running the ball we cannot pass the ball. We are not a power run team or a straight drop back team. If we don't play the way the team is designed to play, we are not very good and most of the pieces don't work when you try to use them in other ways (like Eric Winston in KC... or most of our guys the last 3 weeks).
Kubs is going into a shell and it hard to say whether it is by design or just by his nature. Either way it is killing us and we won't win as long as we play this way.