Thanks dwid...I will keep my eyes peeled.
The Redskins run the same offense that Tebow ran with the Broncos last year but somehow it is going to be spun in a positive light...call it a hunch.
I think he was just upset about the situation he was in, at least hoping. Charles barely finished that run, Hillis could have gotten that with the blocking and how the Saints played it. I mean Roman Harper almost caught up and he is close to being a 4.7 guy, probably at this point in his career.
Charles got his big play, now do like you did in 2010 and let the big man grind it out. Something that you said repeatedly you would do, over and over. If you were going to screw him over they should have just done it from the start instead of giving us false hope of a 50/50 split.
btw, Redskins aren't running the same offense Tebow got to run, with Tebow they just ran the basic zone read over and over, which has already been figured out by defenses, no passing until third down, no wrinkles to confuse the defense. Griffin is running a variety of packages, zone-read, fake the zone read and chuck it down the field on 1st and 2nd down, opening up the entire playbook unlike with Tebow, had Tebow gotten these playcalls he would have completed much more than he did and people probably wouldn't be questioning his passing skills.
why can't the blocking be like that with Hillis in? oh yeah because they run the same play over and over, inside zone. The Saints should have realized that Charles basically runs one play, the stretch play, they switch from right to left. It should be an obvious tip off by who is in at tailback. Maybe if they would let Hillis run the stretch play every now and then he would get a big run, plus with the amount of times he has gone straight up the gut, it would catch them off guard. Its hard to tell if he isn't on the field because of injury or because they are just screwing him over, I mean he got like what, 3 carries in the first half?
Charles should enjoy this while he can, because the Saints are terrible, he won't be getting holes like that for a while. With the line being crappy at blocking (except against the Saints today) it would make more sense for a powerback to run it, Charles got stuffed every time he tried to bounce it outside in the last few games. Lots of 1 and 2 yard runs and then the 46 yarder where he was caught from behind and now the 91 against a terrible Saints d to inflate his stats. Its like Nebraska playing Norfolk St.
I think Hillis will get his chance to shine against the Ravens and the Steelers while Charles reverts back to 0.5 ypc, unfortunately they play in the AFC West with weak defenses so Charles will pad his stats for those games.
Do the Chiefs see now the benefit of each back running a variety of plays? the first inside zone that Charles ran was a gaping hole in the middle because they were expecting the stretch. The same would happen if Hillis ran the stretch.