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Originally Posted by CRedskinsRule
As always, your use of numbers and your ability to describe a fast flowing professional game in terms and ways I can understand is very appreciated. Can I ask, did the Giants do something schematically to limit runs or were they winning the one on one matchups
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They were running a very schematically similar defense to ours. Not a whole lot of 8-in-the-box fronts (unlike us), but certainly using a run-first gap scheme with their front seven.
What happened on the 37 yard run was that 1) Samuels got two guys, and 2) Kenny Phillips ran up to Cooley, effectively taking himself out of the play as Portis ran right by him.
In general, we lost the one on ones in run blocking. There were also plays where we won our blocks, and Portis/D. Thomas took it where the hole was not. But for the most part, holes were just not there.