the interior of our o-line was getting whupped on running plays, so it's not like no risk. Plus Gay missed a 47 short, A miss there give the Bucs good field position. Also, as we found out later in the game -runs can turn into fumbles.
A quick slant to Cupp or a bubble screen is about as safer as a run and one thing our o-line was doing well was pass blocking.
Coaches can only call plays - the success or failure depends in large part to the players executing. When the game's on the line, you put the ball in the hands of your best players. In that game is was Kupp, Higbee and Stafford, maybe OBJ too. Akers did not play a very good game. In fact it was bad.
You play to win the game. That's it. Love him or hate him, that's McVay's philosophy.
