SanFran Weather Sunday= The Hill Show?

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(12-20-2015, 01:59 AM)BFritz21 Wrote: He hasn't had a chance to beyond the first two games because we quit giving him the ball.

Look at the two games before the Steelers' game:

16 carries, 86 yards, 5.4 average
22 carries, 98 yards, 4.5 average

Hill gets better as he gets into a rhythm.

Nice try BFritz, but his carries have nothing to do with it. Enjoy lying to yourself about it though. He had good games those days because he was going against I think the 27th and 32nd (at the time) run defenses in a blowout win.

He has had 8 games with over 10 carries so far this year. In those games he has a total of 128 carries for 481 yards (3.75 YPC). Better than his season total? Sure, by a whopping 0.18 YPC.

Jeremy Hill had 8 runs of 20+ yards on 222 carries in 2014, including two TDs of at least 60 yards. This year he has 0 in 169 carries with a long of 17. Nobody is going to give a person 20+ carries if their first 12 carries gives them 21 yards. The drives simply don't last long enough with that to get enough carries, unless winning is less important than giving Hill 20+ carries. It's not just his YPC that's down, either. He also went from 8 yards per catch to 5.6. So there's a couple answers to the question of what's wrong with Hill...

1. Maybe there's an injury he's dealing with.
2. Maybe he was just a 9 game flash in the pan. (Peyton Hillis, anyone? He had a 994 yard, 4.5 YPC, 11-game stretch in 2010, had 3.6 YPC his next season, 3.6 YPC the year after that, 3.4 YPC after that.)
3. Maybe he was just the benefit of some really good run blocking last year making him not have to work for his yards like he has to this year? (Remember that 5 game stretch in 2012 when he had 543 yards at 5.1 YPC where he basically ran through enormous holes untouched? This possibility is less likely since Gio is still tearing it up with the same blocking.)
4. He's Jay Bruce's twin brother, hot and cold streaks are a family trait, and he's in the middle of the world's largest cold streak.

None of them are "he's not getting enough carries at 3.6 YPC" though. While he should be pretty good again against a truly awful run defense, I think we need to remind ourselves not to pretend that a good performance here means Hill is "back".

This is a defense Duke Johnson Jr and Isaiah Crowell put up 223 yards at 6.78 YPC on. So if he DOESN'T have a good game it'll be saying something serious. So I have no problem figuring he'll have a good game, but I will admit I am a bit worried about the rain though causing him to put one or two on the ground though.