Running Backs Suck
McGrew does a couple nice things and has some edge speed but he's probably the 8th-10th best back in the league.
Pleasant does a couple nice things every game, but see above.
Newton, who the fuck knows anymore.
Davis: the only guy that flashes above average burst and power at the same time.
Why you think you need to handoff to these guys 40 times between the tackles in order to set up 3-5 good play action plays is just stupid.
And Stanford gave up 269 yards rushing to Cal last week, who sucks on offense.
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Davis also has shown ++ hands. He's potentially a real stud. The depth chart is almost inverse to what my eyes are seeing.
I definitely have not been of the mind that Pleasant is "Zeke-esque," which I think was someone's assessment on here. -
Give davis 15 carries. Everyone else gets 0. Throw every play that’s not a Cam Davis carry. Profit.
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O line got used and abused 2 weeks in a row in the run game. Big problem right there
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I think JonDon has gradually fixed some things with this offense, like commiting more to outside running. But too little too late, too slowly.BeerThirty said:O line got used and abused 2 weeks in a row in the run game. Big problem right there
Also, who wears a "Runn the Damn Ball Hat" and then gets stuffed on the ground by Utah and Stanford? I feel like we're going to insist on running the ball because of that fucking hat. -
I think people dont want to admit this because they dont wanna rip Kamari and Sean cuz theyre good kids. But this is Baccelia Fuller all over again, Pleasant is improved, but he is not a #1 back by any means. We have had stud RBs for over a decade until Gaskin left, Rankin, Polk, Sankey, Washington, Coleman, Gaskin.... then we had the Salvon year, never preformed close to the others before. Now its Pleasant and McGrew... Let me ask you, how confident in any game are you Pleasant can/will get 100 yards? that should be the standard for UW RBs. "We have 4 starters" really means "we have 4 backups". And we continue to make excuses and stunt Cam Davis growth, young RBs do great a lot of the time, Cam Davis is the one dude who can give us a complete/explosive run game and they give him >4 carries a game, he is the future of that RB room, dont waste him on the bench and have him be learning to play next season. No idea whats going on with Newton, if its really performance, he misses plays but he brings energy and he makes plays the others dont, we need his shit talking crazy ass out there... Davis is the one complete back, play any of the other 3 and you are limiting yourself offensively because well, Mcgrew is the only one with big play potential and he is 5'6 so with him your short game is impaired. I do like Adams, Sunday and Berry, but you really need elite play at RB if youre going to win big boy games, feed Davis and invest in the future. RB and MLB play are so important and both those rooms and coaches have shat the bed so many times they could have been fired years ago... can Jimmy fire his friends? KB is plus sized Jimmy Lake JR, feel like KB and Jimmy are very very close friends, does he have the balls? and get gregory a Lubbick job
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Holy shit that’s a lot words for a paragraph.BowDownDeathRow said:I think people dont want to admit this because they dont wanna rip Kamari and Sean cuz theyre good kids. But this is Baccelia Fuller all over again, Pleasant is improved, but he is not a #1 back by any means. We have had stud RBs for over a decade until Gaskin left, Rankin, Polk, Sankey, Washington, Coleman, Gaskin.... then we had the Salvon year, never preformed close to the others before. Now its Pleasant and McGrew... Let me ask you, how confident in any game are you Pleasant can/will get 100 yards? that should be the standard for UW RBs. "We have 4 starters" really means "we have 4 backups". And we continue to make excuses and stunt Cam Davis growth, young RBs do great a lot of the time, Cam Davis is the one dude who can give us a complete/explosive run game and they give him >4 carries a game, he is the future of that RB room, dont waste him on the bench and have him be learning to play next season. No idea whats going on with Newton, if its really performance, he misses plays but he brings energy and he makes plays the others dont, we need his shit talking crazy ass out there... Davis is the one complete back, play any of the other 3 and you are limiting yourself offensively because well, Mcgrew is the only one with big play potential and he is 5'6 so with him your short game is impaired. I do like Adams, Sunday and Berry, but you really need elite play at RB if youre going to win big boy games, feed Davis and invest in the future. RB and MLB play are so important and both those rooms and coaches have shat the bed so many times they could have been fired years ago... can Jimmy fire his friends? KB is plus sized Jimmy Lake JR, feel like KB and Jimmy are very very close friends, does he have the balls? and get gregory a Lubbick job
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*ramblelawsandl said:
Holy shit that’s a lot words for a paragraph.BowDownDeathRow said:I think people dont want to admit this because they dont wanna rip Kamari and Sean cuz theyre good kids. But this is Baccelia Fuller all over again, Pleasant is improved, but he is not a #1 back by any means. We have had stud RBs for over a decade until Gaskin left, Rankin, Polk, Sankey, Washington, Coleman, Gaskin.... then we had the Salvon year, never preformed close to the others before. Now its Pleasant and McGrew... Let me ask you, how confident in any game are you Pleasant can/will get 100 yards? that should be the standard for UW RBs. "We have 4 starters" really means "we have 4 backups". And we continue to make excuses and stunt Cam Davis growth, young RBs do great a lot of the time, Cam Davis is the one dude who can give us a complete/explosive run game and they give him >4 carries a game, he is the future of that RB room, dont waste him on the bench and have him be learning to play next season. No idea whats going on with Newton, if its really performance, he misses plays but he brings energy and he makes plays the others dont, we need his shit talking crazy ass out there... Davis is the one complete back, play any of the other 3 and you are limiting yourself offensively because well, Mcgrew is the only one with big play potential and he is 5'6 so with him your short game is impaired. I do like Adams, Sunday and Berry, but you really need elite play at RB if youre going to win big boy games, feed Davis and invest in the future. RB and MLB play are so important and both those rooms and coaches have shat the bed so many times they could have been fired years ago... can Jimmy fire his friends? KB is plus sized Jimmy Lake JR, feel like KB and Jimmy are very very close friends, does he have the balls? and get gregory a Lubbick job
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The RB rotation is strange but when guys run into the back oline because there are no holes it’s hard to run forward.
It’s been mentioned before jimmy has arrogance problem.
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I blame scheme and personnel choices way more than the RBs themselves. Why Jon Don insists on slamming our 175 pound RB into the A gaps run after run is mystifying. And yeah, Cam and Dick need to see the ball a lot more.
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Jimmy Lake has a well documented arrogance problem.Kingdome_Urinals said:
I think JonDon has gradually fixed some things with this offense, like commiting more to outside running. But too little too late, too slowly.BeerThirty said:O line got used and abused 2 weeks in a row in the run game. Big problem right there
Also, who wears a "Runn the Damn Ball Hat" and then gets stuffed on the ground by Utah and Stanford? I feel like we're going to insist on running the ball because of that fucking hat.
