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Originally Posted by hooskins
Great stuff as usual, good to rational analysis in a sea of crap(noob posters). I see the points about performing well in pass w/o the run, but dont you think it is really important for us to establish the run first? Especially against teams like the Bengals, where we can just wear them down by going to PA-pass, since stopping the run and over-committing to it is their weakness?
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I don't think it's as important to establish the run early as it is to run effectively throughout the game. I think we would have beaten Baltimore if 1) obviously, we didn't turn the ball over, but 2) we had been able to run the ball with a moderate amount of success in the second half.
It's tough to run down 17-0, but the turnovers generated by the defense bailed us out. You aren't going to come back from that deficit without mistakes by the opposing offense, so I can say that Zorn played it correctly in the second half.
That decision to punt at the end of the first half down 14-0 was terrible though.