Why did we abandon the run game?

[TN05]

CAP and Fozzy were finding open holes on game. In a close game, why on earth did we drift away from those runs?

[ncmonzta]

2 and 1? 3rd and 3? "All right Cam drop back"

[OneBadCat]

We were just calling run plays at stupid times and had to abandon it. Cam just has to be the short yardage run game. He already is but when Stewart is out we have no other choice.

[nosuchthingasapanther]

Just now, ncmonzta said:

2 and 1? 3rd and 3? "All right Cam drop back"

no stewart...and the panthers have been dropping back on short yardage all season long.

[Navy_football]

Good question. Playoff football means a confident running game.

[CarolinaSunday]

It's a good question. I don't understand throwing it when our receivers weren't catching poo down the field.

[motocross_cat]

These past few games with all the huge passing plays have gotten us away from what we do best and thats run the football.  Hopefully coaches see this and get back to basics.

[Toolbox]

Well there was early success running, but that all stopped in the second half.

[ncmonzta]

5 hours ago, nosuchthingasapanther said:

no stewart...and the panthers have been dropping back on short yardage all season long.

I understand that and it works sometimes, but you have Cam, Tolbert,and co.  There's no need to out smart anyone. Just get the damn first down. 

[uncfan888]

This game was just fugin weird in all aspects. 

[cbarrier90]

Only explanation would be that Shula was desperately trying to open up the downfield passing game, but with Ginn bottled up and Cam being harassed all day that just never materialized like it had in previous weeks.

Of all the things that went wrong today, playcalling was way down the list.

[Evodion]

7 minutes ago, uncfan888 said:

This game was just fugin weird in all aspects. 

Was gonna say the same things. The Panthers didn't even look like the panthers on offense. No throws down the field, No Home run shots ect. The ginn injury, and lack of pass protection I think was the issue. Ginn looks like he will heal up, and hopefully the oline just had an off day

[Zaximus]

This was a bad game by Shula.  He had a lot of terrible calls.   We should have kept with the run game.  I think Ginn not being able to be himself because of injury really hurt the passing game, so we should have ran a lot more, but at better places.

[Swaggasaurus]

I think Payne only ran one time in the 2nd half. It didn't make sense.