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Did you guys do some extra studying on the run game in the bye week and make more of a commitment to it?

“What we did is we went back and looked at everything we had done both run and pass. We felt like we had some tendencies early on with our personnel. We used the bye week to try to clean up some of our assignments.”

How did you feel about the run game?

“We had some good runs last week. Then we had a few negative runs and that’s going to hurt your average. It wasn’t just one guy we can point a finger at when we went back and did the self-scout during the bye week. It’s something as coaches that we have to get cleaned up, it’s our responsibility.”

Was there any theme that you found? Any style of run or anything that has worked better in years past?

“I think our run game throughout the years has evolved but it’s pretty much the same concepts. We do vary our formations as much as possible. Again, it was just looking and saying this guy had his hand in this one, another guy had his hand in another one. Again, we have to get that cleaned up as coaches.”

They were saying on the broadcast that the plan was to get Mark Ingram more of a chance in this game to showcase himself. Was that a plan going in?

“We always go into a game saying that we want to try to have as much balance as possible. Then trying to divide up the work, we have Darren (Sproles) in that mix as well with Pierre (Thomas), so really just making sure that those guys, all of them, get enough opportunities so that they have a chance to get hot or get on a little bit of a streak.”

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Rugby Saint II

They need to open up with Ingram and let him get a hot hand. Give him a run outside for a change. Get him in some space with a couple of swing passes and for Gods sake somebody block for him. Give him somewhere to run to for a change.

AlaskaSaints

Physical? Play Ivory. Problem solved.

Alaska

dizzle88

Dumervil and Von Miller can cause havoc if they manage to get pressure on a QB, our O line needs to flat out dominate from start to finish, we don't want the D-ends taking over the game, they have the ability to do that

Look to see plenty of chip blocks from RB's and please please Ingram get your legs going and have a good game

Shoe.

I would like that post twice if I could

Marlboro Man

What I'd like to see is each RB get in for 3 consecutive plays. That would change up our tendencies and allow the RB's to get in a groove and just might help our run game tremendously.