Eagles to pound the ball (1 Viewer)

[Hairy Snowman]

“It feels a lot different now with the commitment to the run,” Westbrook said. “It's going to remind people of 2003, when Duce was still here.”

Hmm. Seems to me Westbrook was injured most of the time (even more so than the past 2 years) when the Eagles ran the ball most of the time? In fact, seems like Duce injured all the time too. In fact, seems anyone they put behind McNabb pre-2003 got hurt....bad....usually quickly. And come to think of it, alot of the guys they put in front of him too (thinking WRs). My point is, if everything on offense basically shortens up for the Eagles (as far as how much of the field they are attacking) and linebackers start cheating closer to the line of scrimage, well, it just makes me go hmm.

Is this a good thing for the Eagles RB corpes, generally speaking, or more to the point, how many games do you give Westbrook before his body gives out?

I don't have any Eagle players except WR R Brown on any of my teams. This is more of just a curiousity question on what the public might think

Peace -

Snowmen

 

[CrossEyed]

Other - They don't really pound the ball, they just say in preseason that they want to pound the ball.

 

[Pip's Invitation]

Just because they say they're going to "pound" the ball doesn't mean they'll actually do it. Andy Reid is addicted to the pass.

Will they run more than last year? Yes. But that doesn't mean much because it's virtually impossible to run LESS than they did last year.

 

[Welshie]

Them pounding the ball means instead of passing 75% of the time, they'll only pass 65% of the time.

I wouldn't worry about Westbrook. He'll get his touches between runs and receptions. The Eagles are a still a screen pass team which means Westbrook will get his big gains. He still probably won't last a full season. But he'll give a solid 13-14 games.

And for anyone who's wondering, Buckhalter's not really a threat to his production, because Buck will get his time inside the 10, or in run out the clock time, which Westbrook doesn't see rushes anyway.

 

[Hairy Snowman]

I should have said "relative to the past 2 years" they are going to pound the ball. Point is greater focus on the RBs - similar to 2003 or before - can they take the additional pounding from the extra touches -

Seems to me this looks like a house of cards, thats all.

 

[rascal]

As long as Westbrook is healthy for my playoff's I don't care.

 

[Skinsfansince72]

As long as Westbrook is healthy for my playoff's I don't care.

You have to first GET to the playoffs. Won't do you much good to see him getting off the last 3 weeks of the season if your team is out of it.

 

[redman]

If 2003 is the model, then the discrepancy between run and pass will be far less than expected:

Team Offense |---------- PASSING -----------||----- RUSHING -----| TOTAL CMP ATT YD YPA TD INT ATT YD YPA TD YD 278 485 3273 6.75 17 11 417 2015 4.83 23 5288NFL rank ---> 25 25 18 14 22 4 25 9 4 2 17Looks like a 54%/46% pass/run ratio. Edit to add - McNabb had 71 of those 417 rushes that year:

+----------------------+----+-------------------------------+-------------+| Name				 |  G | CMP ATT   PCT YARD  Y/A TD IN | RSH YARD TD |+----------------------+----+-------------------------------+-------------+| Donovan McNabb	   | 16 | 275 478  57.5 3216  6.7 16 11 |  71  355  3 |+----------------------+----+-------------------------------+-------------+

 

[TheLastDispatch]

As long as Westbrook is healthy for my playoff's I don't care.

i think thats pretty hopeful. i'm a westy owner too and am keeping my fingers crossed, but i might shop him mid to late season.

 

[Keys Myaths]

Other - They don't really pound the ball, they just say in preseason that they want to pound the ball.

This is exactly what I came into the thread to post.