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Originally Posted by GTripp0012
Passing game and rush defense did us in tonight. The rush defense was by systematic design: we need to tackle better, but we were willing to give up 5.0 YPC in order to keep the ball out of Peyton's hands. Too many long runs due to shoddy tackling.
We just don't have much of a passing game. We did much better in pass protection than last week, but the pocket was just never clean all night. McNabb made a bunch of errors with his arm. We ran the ball 22 times. In hindsight, it just wasn't frequent enough.
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I felt the same way. I don't think we were egregiously ignoring the run but more than once I thought we should have run the ball when we didn't. On that 3&3 at the end of the first half I was pretty ticked we didn't run for it and instead went for the big play. It didn't make a lot of sense to me. At worst we get run stuffed and still try a long field goal but take some time off the clock. Instead we pass incomplete, miss a long field goal and give Manning the ball back with too much time. I felt all game we didn't try to keep the ball out of his hands quite enough.