If you told me after the Tampa game that Rush would start the next 5 games I would've put the odds at something like this:
They weren't completely shut out, Graham in particular beat Smith pretty badly a few times, particularly on that deep shot to Lamb that was picked.
This had more to do with the fact that their passing game is about 70% RPO's, there just aren't that many traditional drop backs and that's even more the case when they build a big lead like they did last night.
I wouldn't say we'd go 4-1 with "any other backup", maybe a league average backup, but Rush made a few plays when he had to here and there to win games even though he had a narrow role to play.
No doubt. Context is everything.
The no turnovers was key.
Yes. Hurts had very few dropback passes last night-he didn’t need to with a 20 point lead that Cooper basically gifted them.
They aren't frauds, they remind me a lot of the 2017 team that had a strong running game, defense that was getting TO's in bunches and a smoke and mirrors passing game that simplified things for the QB.
I like the hurry up when he is on the field. We did that in the second half and it paid off.
That was a nice wrinkle and is something that I think can be taken advantage of going forward once we have a QB that can actually make defenses pay for stacking the box.
It was also a blown coverage by Wilson, probably due to some sort of communication/discipline error, perfect example of how we mostly killed ourselves last night from the turnovers to the penalties and plays like this.
