12-16-2015, 02:00 AM
(12-16-2015, 12:43 AM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: The differential in overall production though, is huge. 1,060 yards to 666 yards.
If you look at every time Gio has gotten at least 20 touches in a game in his career (7 times) he has gotten at least 100 yards in all but one of them. If you look at the two games he's gotten at least 20 carries, he has a total of 47 carries/213 yards (4.5ypc)/1 TD and 8 catches/95 yards (11.9ypc) in them. So when he gets at least 20 carries, he's averaging 154 total yards a game. How is that wearing down?
I think his whole wearing down thing is vastly overplayed. He didn't get hurt last year because of wearing down, he got hurt because of some plays/throws that hung him out to dry in the flats. He's not tiny or anything.. he's 5'9, 205.
Matt Forte has made a career at 6'2, 215.
Jamaal Charles is 5'11, 199 and holds the NFL career YPC record last I heard.
LeSean McCoy is 5'11, 208.
DeMarco Murray led the NFL in rushing last year at 6'0, 217.
It's over the course of the season. His production dropped.
In December his numbers are terrible outside of one major outlying game.
5 of 9 games in December he averaged less than 2 YPC
If you average them out, in December he averages 3.8 YPC (4.4 is career average total)
And if you remove the one statistical outlying game it drops to 3.2 YPC.
I never made mention of his size. He's not the player Forte, Charles, McCoy or Murray are/were.
He's more Brian Westbrook who only ever had 200+ carries three times. Ages 27, 28 and 29. After that, Westbrook would only carry the ball 138 more times the next two years before retiring. There's no shame in that. But he just isn't those guys.
