order to eventually wear down the defense work? Dan Hawkins compared it to pounding a wall and chipping away at it.

Here is a look at ypc for our top 3 running backs, by quarter:

Rusher Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4
Brown 2.7 3.2 8.3 5.9
Hine 4.2 2.2 9.3 9.1
Bernard 1.5 7 6 7.3

All this shows is a second-half bias, no evidence of being worn down in the fourth quarter. But since Algae and Hine's huge runs have come in the 3rd, this is what happens when you take away the everybody's longest runs (Bernard's came in the fourth):

Rusher Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4
Brown 2.7 3.2 4.8 5.9
Hine 4.2 2.2 7.6 9.1
Bernard 1.5 7 6 5.9

The weighted average of all three, by quarter:

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4
3.2 2.8 6.1 7.0

So the answer is an overwhelming "Yes!"