| To continue with your poker analogy, you don't "play loose" out of position. If you are going to take a stab at stealing the blinds or bluffing a pot after the flop, you do it with suited connectable cards close to the button. 7 10 of spades on the button, for example, is a great hand to raise to three times the blind because if you hit your 10 or make the flush draw you can pressure the blinds or, if an ace comes and everyone checks to you, you can portray that you have the ace, bet, and take down the pot.
However, you don't raise with 7 10 suited when first to act (under the gun) because you might get called or, worse, reraised, and have to let it go.
Similarly, you don't run reverses with an offensive line that can't pass block because you have to have time for the play to develop in the backfield and you have to have the sprinter to make it around the TE unmolested.
Right now, you've only got one or two players with that kind of juice and any defense out there is keying on them anyway.
In other words, if you want your offense to loosen up down the road, you need to get yourselves some faster guys so you can raise in good position. And you ain't in it right now. |