Falcons: Turner is back.

[AUTiger7222]

(10-01-2012 12:27 AM)cnasty Wrote:  I'd really like to say that Turner is "back", for whatever that is worth; but the panthers have been terrible against the run this year. They gave up like 110+ for 2 TDs to some guy named Andre Brown last week, 160+ and a touch to Ingram and PThomas in week 2, and 95 to a mediocre Doug Martin in week 1. Their run D is on the wrong side of the bell curve and it took us a while to realize that today. Let's see how these next few games unfold before we get all giddy about 103 on the ground against a defense that was giving 120 per game coming into today. It sucks because I don't want to be a one dimensional team. But before today, Turner was averaging 51.3 yds per game. Either he's not doing enough with the ball when we give it to him, or we aren't committing to the run as much this year. Either way, our ground game isn't something to be pleased about up to this point.

I understand being cautious but Turner looked good against the Chargers too, especially in the 2nd half of that game and the Chargers had the #1 ranked run defense when we played them.

14 CAR, 80 YDS (5.7), 1 TD

[phocis850]

Amazing what run blocking will do.