OBR Film Room: Analyzing The Browns Recent Rushing Attack Failures – 247 Sports

(Photo: Getty) The Browns’ offense continues to boast some of the better metrics in the league overall, but over the course of the last two weeks, they have been missing a key element of what makes them among the best. They have failed to run the football in the same successful fashion they did over the first eight weeks, and the byproduct of that failure is a one-dimensional approach that has hindered their success rate. Through the first 8 weeks of the season, the Browns were rushing the ball extremely well. They had the league’s second-highest overall rush EPA (0.11) behind only the Ravens and the second-highest design running back run EPA (0.08) behind only the Raiders. Over the last two weeks in games against the Dolphins and Bills, the Browns have amassed the 27th-ranked rush EPA (-0.30) and only put up 123 yards on 36 carries – one of which was a 33-yard run. The run game efficiency is broken and fixing it has to be the primary focus in Berea this week. The group had 19 rushes of two yards or less over these last few weeks and 8 rushes of negative yards as opposed to just 18
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