02-04-2023, 05:24 PM
(02-04-2023, 04:54 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: You can go longer than that. The entire Taylor era has been about the worst rushing performance you'll ever see from a team.
2022: 29th overall, 29th per carry
2021: 23rd overall, 26th per carry
2020: 24th overall, 27th per carry
2019: 25th overall, 24th per carry
It's actually why I am shocked so many people want to re-sign Perine. Maybe it's just because they're judging him against Mixon rather than the NFL? He's a 240+ pound RB who is averaging just 1.7 yards per carry after contact. It's better than Mixon's 1.5 (34th among 41 qualified RBs) but it's still bad. If he had enough carries to qualify, it would be in the 25th-31st range.
Again, Perine's 4.1 YPC is better than Mixon's 3.9 (32nd of 41 qualified RBs) but even if he qualified he would still be between 28th and 31st.
Neither of them do anything that you can't get from younger, cheaper, and likely better rookies.
Honestly, it started even before the Taylor era.
Jeremy Hill looked like he was going to terrorize the league for years when he broke out in 2014.
The 2015 came and he just wasn't the same guy despite his youth and a line that we'd all kill for today.
Ever since then, for whatever reason, the line has been meh at run blocking. I blame the odd shift to smaller more athletic tackles in the disastrous 2015 draft.
Now, when Collins and Cappa were healthy, they were crushing guys in the run game. It's no coincidence that the team was probably at it's best during that stretch in November/December. Collins has his problems, but there's no doubt that he was an absolute mauler in the run game. I think losing him hurt more than some think.
