Yeah, one of the reasons I mentioned play action specifically is I'm curious if Norv just didn't want to run it that much or if there is a reason behind it such as the extra time needed and the poor blocking not "allowing it".Mothman wrote: You mentioned play action on first down and I'll have an eye on that too but play action or not, I suspect we can agree that what they do on first down will matter a great deal. Unless they can truly impose their will with the running game on a pretty consistent basis, mixing up the play calling more on first down is going to be crucial to improving their overall effectiveness on offense. They were just too predictable last year.
The stats show we were -extremely- effective off of play action on first down but (going off memory here) we only did it like 2.2 times a game.