Nine Rushes

[WEST is GOD]

I think we can run against Denver if we play our cards right. Their d-line isn't very big and I think we could push them around and open up holes. They persue well though but we need to stick with it next week.

PERIOD!

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

I think we can run against Denver if we play our cards right. Their d-line isn't very big and I think we could push them around and open up holes. They persue well though but we need to stick with it next week.

PERIOD!

Being able to run and actually doing it are two very, very different things.

I predict no more than 15 called rushes next Sunday.

[phattymatty]

And out of those 10 rushes today, 1 was that retarded draw play on 3rd and long late in the fourth quarter.  Brilliant.

[General_Failure]

I love the retarded draw play. It's always good for exactly one yard plus or minus.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Consistency is the hallmark of consistently good teams... and consistently sucky ones.

[Wingspan]

not that it matters a whole lot...but there were 3 or 4 running plays (on 1st & 10 or 2nd and 5ish) negated by penalty.

[PhillyGirl]

I'm gonna make a no-duh call here: Duce Staley, if he can ever stay healthy, might just prepare for the reality of playing elsewhere in 2006. Willie Parker is both the present and the future in Pittsburgh's backfield.

This is from SI.com....lets bring back Duce. 

[rjs246]

Wait. You mean a RB who can catch AND run between the tackles?! Inconceivable!

[PhillyGirl]

Wait. You mean a RB who can catch AND run between the tackles?! Inconceivable!

I'd only want him back if he could stop whining about being hurt all of the time like he has since he got to Pittsburgh. I guess he SHOULDN'T have been the every down back like he wanted.

[rjs246]

The problem, of course, isn't who our runningbacks are. I'm more than happy with Westbrook, Gordon and Moats. The problem is our farging head coach won't call any goddamned running plays. So bring back Duce. Don't bring back Duce. It makes no farging difference.

[General_Failure]

Duce is done anyway.

[rjs246]

I would love for Reid to call 15 straight running plays to start the game next week. I don't give a shtein how good the Denver rushing D is. Fat farging chance.

[Rome]

I would love for Reid to call 15 straight running plays to start the game next week. I don't give a shtein how good the Denver rushing D is. Fat farging chance.

Buddy Ryan did that once against Denver.  Ran it right down their fricken throats to start the game and marched down the field to score an opening touchdown.  I was watching the game at Tavern on Green in the city and can still remember thinking I was watching a team other than the Eagles on the field.  That team was all-Randall/all the time just like this one is all-Donovan.

If they did come out with a gameplan like that, I guarantee the opposing defense wouldn't know what hit them.

Of course, it would never happen in a million years.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

The problem, of course, isn't who our runningbacks are. I'm more than happy with Westbrook, Gordon and Moats. The problem is our farging head coach won't call any goddamned running plays. So bring back Duce. Don't bring back Duce. It makes no farging difference.

Also, the OL is out-of-practice running the ball.

[mussa]

Even my girl mentioned yesterday, why don't they run the ball to the sides?  One thing I did like yesterday was more screen plays to Westy.  They seemed to have used this play less this year, when last year and the year before it was a huge play for our offense.  Maybe they are affraid to leave McNabb vulnerable?  I'd like to see more runs period, to the outside and a hell of alot more screens to Westy and Gordon also.