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Well, when you have Bray, Hunter, Patterson, Rogers and Rivera, and an O-line that can protect the QB until the cows come home, it makes sense to throw the ball.

However, we also are 4th in the SEC in yards/carry in the running game. It isn't that our running game isn't working, it's that it isn't being used enough. Don't get me wrong, 35 rushes and 40 passes per game isn't terrible balance or anything, it's just too many throw-every-down series can easily result in 3-and-outs. Too many 3rd down passes when you have 5-7 yards to gain and you're in 4-down territory. In that situation, run the ball (sometimes, at least) and get at least a chunk of it so you have more options on the 4th down play. For example, how many people here think pass on 1st down, incomplete pass on 2nd-and-3, incomplete pass on 3rd-and-3, timeout, incomplete pass on 4th-and-3 was smart play-calling when you've averaged 4.3 yards/carry running the ball? I don't. No problem with the 1st and 2nd down passes, but I'm running the ball on 3rd-and-3, and again on 4th down and 1 or 2 (probably out of the beast), or pulling that Pig Howard pass out of the wildcat. If you can't gain 3 yards on two carries, with this O-Line, maybe you should lose? That's just me, though.