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Not really. We ran on the 1st 3 plays. Then we threw on 13 of 18 to get 3 TD drives. 13/5 is not a balanced offense.
Yet, what does any of that have to do with your argument?
Here is what does:
we threw 13 of the first 21 plays.
We threw 19/30 plays in the first half and 17/24 in the 2nd half to the point we make it 35-7 and it was over.
That is a 36/18 pass to run ratio, which is MUCH higher than we have ever been in any season under BB, ie and UNBALANCED game plan.
However, since we ran the clock out and ended up 37/33 pass run, you will chalk this up as a game that balance was the reason we won, when it fact we won while being unbalanced.
First, you are leaving out the number of play-actions we did which I believe the run set up. I actually think that we were pretty balanced tonight, because we kept the defense on it's toes with a number of misdirection plays, especially that misdirection stretch play which the Texans love to run.
In other words, we were not one-dimensional tonight.
Also, again did I say it must be 50/50? No.
19 passes and 11 runs is balanced to me. I think Reiss said that the sweet spot is around 60/40.