12-08-2016, 05:45 PM
(12-08-2016, 05:32 PM)Bengalholic Wrote: When you look at Jeremy, he's definitely creating many of his own problems in terms of dancing around and hesitating too much. He's a big back with some quickness. He needs to be running north and south, between the tackles, with authority. Unfortunately that's not happening and hasn't for awhile. His vision doesn't seem nearly as good as it was in his rookie season.
Having said that, the O-line isn't doing him any favors either. How many times have we seen Jeremy take the handoff with a defender already in the backfield, or trying to wait for a lane that never develops because the O-line is getting beaten at the point of attack?
Jeremy deserves his share of the blame, but the O-line has certainly left a lot to be desired in the run game. Gio has faced similar issues throughout his career as well. While Jeremy has averaged 3.7 ypc or less in 50% of his games, Gio isn't much better at 44%. It's not just one guy who has struggled to find consistency, which would suggest the O-line has been, and still is, a big part of the problem with the running game.
As for Burkhead, I think he's a good player as long as his role is limited. If he were to get 12-18 carries per game on a regular basis, I think it would become very apparent, very quickly, why he's better suited for a backup/situational type role. Just my opinion though.
Great points Holic. Hard to argue with any of this. Hill i think is trying to be something that he is not, a scat back.
Like you said, he needs to be running North and using his size to his advantage. Shit, Gio lowers his shoulder more often
than Hill does. He needs to get back that physical mentality he had in college and in his rookie year. Quit trying to make
people miss and just plow them over, he can do this, Hill has done it before.
Spot on about the O-line. We have been able to run it before when we had the mentality to do so. Whitworth has said it
himself many times, it is a mentality.
I just think that PA does not help in this aspect. Need a new O-line coach.
Marv is coming back, fine just get a new O-line coach to develop players at our weakest links. We can get this team back
on track, seems the Defense is getting there finally.
Could be right about Burkhead, don't know for sure until you give him the snaps though.
