I was noticing that too. Hopefully just an aberration. I hope he breaks loose next week. He almost seems disgusted or discouraged.
Well, considering last week he had more yards after contact that actual yards (or close to it...now that i think about it, I can't recall his final tally, but I know he had 52 YAC. Too lazy to look up his total from the 9er game and don't want to chance a gif highlight) ... um... I dunno that he's so much running timid as he's being hit or at least "contacted" behind the line of scrimmage on average on every run. Or at least was. I haven't see the breakdown from this game. It can't have been that much better for the Seattle game.
Point is that Gurley is running hard, but the OL is settling down in pass pro, but they're not blowing holes open for him. That, in combo with the fact that teams are loading up the box for him and simply losing the battle of numbers up front mean that unless they simply blitz the wrong gap, there's very little Gurley can do to break a run.
I mean there have been more than a few examples of guys on the OL being moved back...on RUNS. That just can't happen. We didn't draft hogmolleys like Jamon Brown for them to be moved backwards.
Gurley hasn't been running through holes hard with the kind of pace we got used to last year because he's been conditioned in games to have to adjust to defenders meeting him prior to the hole. That's bad. We don't want him to doubt the hole, we want him to hit it...hard.
I actually think this gets worked out quickly. Of all the issues on offense, this is one I think gets turned around sooner than later.
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