Should The Bucs Change Their Run Game?

It took nine weeks, but the Bucs finally had a good rushing game!  Week 10 marked the first-time all-season Tampa Bay’s run game was able to generate a positive epa/play (0.0186). This means that this was the first game all season where each time the Bucs ran the ball, on average, they improved their chances of scoring. And while many will point to the volume of carries as the reason for the success I will point to a much different reason. I don’t think it was the number of runs, so much as the Bucs variation of runs that aided in their newfound success.

In football, run plays can be classified into eight different groups: man, inside zone, outside zone, power, counter, pull-lead, gap and draw. Many Bucs fans have heard of the Bucs traditional “Duo” scheme which would be classified under the “Man” umbrella.

Bucs Changed Their Mixture Of Runs

For the season here is how the Bucs have varied their run game through Week 9.