I didn't even read the article but it is not odd... gurley has been the difference in our running game. If Cunningham or mason would have had 30 carries do you honestly think they come remotely close to the same production... or even the week before have 9 carries with the same production as gurley? If you do believe that just revert back to the 1st 3 ga m es and how the runners performed. Also go back to the last 3 years and how the runners performed... I think gurley has at least 6 runs of 20yrds or more in 3 games. Im not a stats guy but I bet in the last 5years we proably just totaled his 20+yards in 2 games than we have had per season in 5 or so years. Now that's production and Gurley is the common denominator.
I blame our bad run blocking on the run blocking scheme. You draft guys that are big, strong, and slow and have them attempt to zone block instead if just beating the man in front of them. That's the coaches fault but I have no idea on the pass blocking, they are just bad individually it seems