A novel notion of "balance"

[Joel S. Berson]

At 1/12/2014 11:46 AM, Victor Steinbok wrote:
>A headline in the Boston Globe: Patriots relying heavily on balanced
>running attack
>
>I suppose, there is a way to untangle this so that heavy reliance does
>not upset the balance. But not at first read...

I read the "balanced" as contextualized by "running" -- balanced
among several types of runs (inside, outside, straight, slant,
end-around, whatever) rather than monotonic.  I haven't read the
article nor do I have knowledge of what the Patriots actually ran.

Joel

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