garizzalies said:
Suck St’s third string RB looked better than anyone the catz had. Or maybe the catz D just sucks. Hard to tell which which is which.
I thought good running teams were supposed to have good run D? Because they see it all the time at practice or something. Is that just a FB myth? Are the catz too busy double-repping to practice basic tackling?
What a great question! Let's look at this season's stats. Cats are giving up 125 ypg, Griz allow 84. Cats run for 325, Griz 158. I guess the Griz are a bad running team with a good running D. (SDSU, the best team in the nation, ran for 157 against that awful MSU run D.)
Rushing yards in Cat/Griz since 2016: 368/116, 322/116, 229/100, 382/46, 96/51, 439/96. The only Griz win in this stretch had them running for a whopping 51 yards. Cats averaged 306 on the ground, Griz 88 for the last 6 games head to head. So you're right, good running teams do indeed have good run D!