[washingtonismoney]

Last line is the key.  The gameplan remains largely based on last year's team.  Problem is, Hogan is not the guy he was last year, the OL doesn't have 4 NFL draft picks on it, and there is no 220+ bell-cow to run up the middle.

I don't think this is the case. So far this year it's 174 running plays to 150 passing plays -- so running about 53.7% of the time, and that despite large parts of two games being blowouts. Last year we ran 65.2% of the time. In 2012 it was 57.9% of the time.

And, qualitatively the plays called seem quite different. We're reliant on runs out of shotgun to a greater degree than I can ever recall (though, frustratingly, never with a QB option built in.)

So the approach is really quite different, and I think it's odd to claim otherwise. Unsuccessful, to be sure. But quite different.

[washingtonismoney]

Last line is the key.  The gameplan remains largely based on last year's team.  Problem is, Hogan is not the guy he was last year, the OL doesn't have 4 NFL draft picks on it, and there is no 220+ bell-cow to run up the middle.

I don't think this is the case. So far this year it's 174 running plays to 150 passing plays -- so running about 53.7% of the time, and that despite large parts of two games being blowouts. Last year we ran 65.2% of the time. In 2012 it was 57.9% of the time.

And, qualitatively the plays called seem quite different. We're reliant on runs out of shotgun to a greater degree than I can ever recall (though, frustratingly, never with a QB option built in.)

So the approach is really quite different, and I think it's odd to claim otherwise. Unsuccessful, to be sure. But quite different.