[CTcard]

For CT and others, while I like power/counter a lot, the two critical positions are the fullback and the pulling guard. ... This year, our left guard position has been a mess, and Herbig's strength is not pulling (though he is better than I thought he would be given his size).  We went from an excellent fullback to a so-so one.  Thus the drop-off from 2015 when we had Garnett pulling and Marx lead blocking to today, when we have Herbig or Fanaika pulling and Williams lead blocking is stark.

Bright, Marx and Schultz at the least gave us the threat of running a credible Power. 
We don't have that threat now.

I would say both of these statement are true, nevertheless my observation has been that when we have run Power it has been on average slightly better to even with other run plays.

It's clearly not all of our good runs (Love's big run vs und was an inside zone play out of a single back formation), and it's clearly not working great (nothing in the run game is working) - but as a relative matter I haven't seen it any worse than the inside zone plays (and most of our stretch plays have been disasters).

[CTcard]

For CT and others, while I like power/counter a lot, the two critical positions are the fullback and the pulling guard. ... This year, our left guard position has been a mess, and Herbig's strength is not pulling (though he is better than I thought he would be given his size).  We went from an excellent fullback to a so-so one.  Thus the drop-off from 2015 when we had Garnett pulling and Marx lead blocking to today, when we have Herbig or Fanaika pulling and Williams lead blocking is stark.

Bright, Marx and Schultz at the least gave us the threat of running a credible Power. 
We don't have that threat now.

I would say both of these statement are true, nevertheless my observation has been that when we have run Power it has been on average slightly better to even with other run plays.

It's clearly not all of our good runs (Love's big run vs und was an inside zone play out of a single back formation), and it's clearly not working great (nothing in the run game is working) - but as a relative matter I haven't seen it any worse than the inside zone plays (and most of our stretch plays have been disasters).