Will Giants Run Game Improve? + Mailbag | 223

"What exactly is going on with the run game? Is it a run blocking issue or a running back issue, or both?" Boy, I bet this'll be a really brief answer, right, Bobby?

Well, the, you know the first question's never a brief answer.

It's the c- the q- the question about the first question is, 20 minutes or less? Is, is it a 20 minutes or less? But it might be more, because we're also gonna kind of add a, a little bit about Jameis and the passing game into this, 'cause I think that's part of a solution for the run game.

So the, the reality is the run game does have issues right now.

Last week against the Commanders in the first half, it was 11 carries for 21 yards.

It was the opening segment of the offensive line, of course, a 20-minute segment going through every single of, one of those runs.

The last three games, the Giants have handed the ball off 84 times, uh, and these are games where they were trailing to start out at, you know, s- trailing to start outside of the Titans, and handing it off almost 30 times per game.

Uh, now I'm gonna look at some under center verse shotgun splits.

Well, actually let me look at performance numbers.

You know, right now, uh, and this is including week one, yards per game, 16th.

Yards per carry, 23rd.

EPA per run, 27th.

Success rate, 26th.

Explosive rate, 28th.

Stuff rate, fifth, so they're good at that.

And then attempts per game, eighth most.

And if you even re- remove week one, basically every ranking drops by, like, two to three spots.

Uh, e- even s- uh, you know, so, like, every, every single one, just all those numbers that they drop by, you know, two, two to four spots, um, on there.

The, the issue we'll get to, it is everything.

It really is everything, but there st- that doesn't mean that there's not a solution, right? When you say, "Oh, well, everything is the reason why," then there's no solution.

There is a solution, but I think right now the main thing it's gonna boil down to when we talk about solution is under center verse shotgun.

You know, uh, week three through five, under center, uh, they ran it 59 times, and shotgun only 18.

Under center, 3.4 yards per carry.

Shotgun, 4.2 yards per carry.

Now, they have a better success rate under center, um, but still.