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Tough to find fault with this first place, 6 and 2 New England Patriots team. But Rob, you were telling me the other night that you do have a concern headed into the

second half of the NFL season just running the ball consistently rushing when you have to run

the ball four minute offense if it's a if it's a nasty game so you have a rainy cold fall

new england which we're going to have one of those. This past

weekend was beautiful, sunny, awesome. But at some point, you're going to have to run the ball

with your running backs. And right now, Drake May has 250 yards rushing, and Stevenson has

279 yards rushing. So that is not great. You don't want your quarterback to have as much as your number one running back.

That just goes to show you that the quarterback, yes, he's getting out of situations and using his legs,

but you're also relying on him to scramble for first downs instead of running the ball.

Do you put that more on the running backs,

on the offensive coordinator, on the line? Like, where do you fight? Well, running the ball is a, it's a

group effort. So you have your offensive line. Obviously, they're executing what the play is,

but your running back has to see it. We talked about this before. The running back and everybody

have to work together and they have to see it and also you have to take care of the football. So do you have less confidence now that you've seen some of the fumbles like we did versus the Steelers? I know Vrable has talked about, you know, still needing Stevenson and still having to rely on him and he's got to stay here. And like we just, you're going to so at some point in the future say you're in a you know field goal game or you you have to control the time

of possession you just can't march down the field and throw throw throw and give the other team

a chance to tie the game or win the game you have to run the ball win the time of possession

and how you do that is through the ground, the running game. So then where do you put running backs on needs for trade deadline? No, I wouldn't think it's a need that they need to go and get more running backs. I think they just need to continue to work on the running game as a whole. Keep doing all your, you know, in practice, you can't do it now. But before we used to be able to do running game, nine on seven. Right, right? Just team run, right? You remember that. Oh, yeah. It's illegal now. You can't do team run anymore. So just work on Ramon Drey and Trembuds. You work on the team running it, but you don't have a defense in front of you. Even Vrable said it, too. You could do team run. You could run all your run plays during team,

but you just can't do the specific nine and seven, half lines. You can't do that now.

Even Vrable said it, because I had asked them about that on Monday. I was like, the running

game looked better. And then he was like, well, minus the 50 yards of Drake May.

But kind of to go to, and I know Shyam loves this world because he's an all 22 guy.

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