Ouch NFL.COM (Regarding Salvon Ahmed)
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He was a forgettable UW running back. Pretty pedestrian most of the time. Brought down way too many time by half-assed arm tackles and left us with way too many 2nd and 11s.
The regression of our O line this year didnt do him any favors but if he had returned, I could see him getting less carries with the rise of Mighty Dick and possibly Cam Davis. Throw him on the pile of DDY/Coker overhypes -
Oregon has a receiver built like a RB, I think his last name is Redd (FREE PUB for @Swaye). They used that guy a play went in motion to the left of the formation, faked the run to the right and threw back to Redd where he had open field in front of him.Doogles said:I’m convinced if all he did was the jet sweep he'd have been lethal and the entire offense would have opened up.
Give him one read one angle and put pressure on the D to contain his ass. Sometimes football is as simple as having the faster guy beat the slower guy to a spot.
It was a good way to get the defense moving away from the play and creating an opportunity for a guy to make someone miss.
We? could’ve done the same with Ahmed but instead we ran Pete’s offense and kept putting Bacciella on the field. -
Our wood be OC Andy Reid would get Ahmed in "space" and let it rip downfield. Speed speed speed is wasted by the old staff here
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i wouldn’t call him overhyped. he was what we hope for - a rare human with that speed. he did not have the vision or intangibles required to be elite at the RB role though.bananasnblondes said:He was a forgettable UW running back. Pretty pedestrian most of the time. Brought down way too many time by half-assed arm tackles and left us with way too many 2nd and 11s.
The regression of our O line this year didnt do him any favors but if he had returned, I could see him getting less carries with the rise of Mighty Dick and possibly Cam Davis. Throw him on the pile of DDY/Coker overhypes -
Yep. In the Boise game we finally threw a swing pass to him and he broke off a big gain. He needs to get up to speed because when he does he can cut full speed where he was actually great. He wasn’t terrible in between the tackles but it wasn’t his strength. He could have been a lot better and had more big plays but our coaching sucked.Doogles said:I’m convinced if all he did was the jet sweep he'd have been lethal and the entire offense would have opened up.
Give him one read one angle and put pressure on the D to contain his ass. Sometimes football is as simple as having the faster guy beat the slower guy to a spot. -
I remember that play and that is exactly the type of stuff we should have done with Ahmed. We rarely did. I don’t think we had many, maybe not any, designated passes to him where he wasn’t just a check down option.CFetters_Nacho_Lover said:
Oregon has a receiver built like a RB, I think his last name is Redd (FREE PUB for @Swaye). They used that guy a play went in motion to the left of the formation, faked the run to the right and threw back to Redd where he had open field in front of him.Doogles said:I’m convinced if all he did was the jet sweep he'd have been lethal and the entire offense would have opened up.
Give him one read one angle and put pressure on the D to contain his ass. Sometimes football is as simple as having the faster guy beat the slower guy to a spot.
It was a good way to get the defense moving away from the play and creating an opportunity for a guy to make someone miss.
We? could’ve done the same with Ahmed but instead we ran Pete’s offense and kept putting Bacciella on the field. -
He was chronically misused by the coaches. The Stanford game comes to mind. His total lack of involvement in the passing game. I’d LEAVE! too.
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Meant how he was used. I agree with you. Feel for the game can marginally improve, but you either have it or you don’t.creepycoug said:
Running backs aren't really "coached", other than to pass block. You don't teach vision and feel. You got it or you don't.RoadDawg55 said:
He was better this year. I don’t think we gave him the best coaching or used him in the best way. Sometimes he would run into his blockers and other times he would be too patient and miss the holes.NorwegianHusky said:Everyone here could see he never got any better from year to year. Maybe a little more physical, but not that much, and he never got any better at reading blocks. Another year probably wouldn't do much, but he really had no reason to leave early.
He didn’t appear to have great feel at UW but maybe part of that was coaching. I thought he would be a better player for us, but he was still pretty good. At the same time, I don’t know if we will miss him very much. -
Newton was tearing it up against Stanford until he got hurt, mainly because he has at least average vision and can actually break a tackle. Ahmed sucked in that game because of his limitations.ThomasFremont said:He was chronically misused by the coaches. The Stanford game comes to mind. His total lack of involvement in the passing game. I’d LEAVE! too.
Ahmed is like Eason, one elite characteristic combined with three below average characteristics. -
I'm not even going to read all the comments because the first few were just sucking each other off for "knowing this already".
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Scene 1: This ENTIRE board loved him coming into this season. He was going to be an athlete at another level and no one else had the chops.
Scene 2: A FRESHMAN rb comes in and takes his carries.
Scene 3: He is mediocre with elite flashes and leaves early because he knows the younger runners in the room will beat him out again this year and drop him in the draft next year.
I have said Mcgrew > achmed at this level and I stand by that.
Achmed couldn't block or catch a ball.
