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Saguaro
is that Gurley helps Jared Goff, tremendously.
But also, Goff's performance has now reached a level that helps Todd Gurley.
Gurley is getting some great opportunities to run through big holes because defenses now realize they just cannot ignore the threat of Goff + his receivers.
Team.
According to that stat, Gurley has run 129 times and 123 are with Goff under center.
Turn that around and there's also this:
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Over the last three weeks, the Los Angeles Rams have thrown 39 passes from under center, all of which came off play action. In six games this year, they have only thrown seven straight dropback passes from under center, with six of them coming in Week 3 against the Los Angeles Chargers
They run Gurley with Goff under center a huge majority of the time, then most of the passes with Goff under center are play action.
Yep the 2 things reinforce each other.
Part of Denver's defensive strategy in fact was not only to load up for the pass not the run, but also to just ignore play action---they looked for the pass first.
Meanwhile everyone knows Gurley will run most of the time with Goff under center and his YPC (4.8) is
still 6th among backs with 70 or more carries for the season.
They got to cut TG back though. He has more carries than any NFL back, and that has to be cut down some.
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