11-30-2021, 02:37 PM
(11-30-2021, 02:50 AM)fredtoast Wrote: How can you say there are "plenty" when there are a lot fewer (24) than one per team.
Plus the difference between 5 yards per carry and 4 yards per carry is 25%. That seems to be a pretty large difference.
Because I added a qualifier that they had to have at least 10 carries per game played, by moving it to 9 I can get you almost to 30 and if 4 goes to 3.8 we are now at mid to upset 30’s. While the difference between 5 and 4 is large, anything running at a clip of 3 touches = a first down has always been considered solid. Now this doesn’t take into account any guys receiving ability, which if we add that we are in a pretty large group to choose from.
Most guys simply suffer from lack of touches, there are elite guys like Chubb and Taylor but Mixon isn’t all that different then a large portion of guys many of which were found on day two of the draft or later which is why I always come back to the fact paying backs is not smart. Analytics tell us lines matter, defenders in the box matter, backs for the most part don’t matter much.
