Will Gio or Hill get more touches next season?

[BengalChris]

(03-21-2016, 12:14 PM)spazz70 Wrote: Ok..check out the numbers Leonard listed then...trust your eyes all you want...the facts have spoken....These are not stats that have variances...He did or he didn't...plain and simple

I trust my eyes because they are better than other people's numbers.

Gio's yards between the tackles when the other team is playing the run basically suck. Sorry to tell you that. It's not hate on Gio or anything like that. It's just the way it all went down. When Gio started there were a ton of 0 and 1 yard runs up the middle on 1st and 2nd down, I mean a ton of them. Gio does get yards up the middle, but from what I've seen in games, those plays tend to come when we spread the defense out.

Gio has a role on this team, but it's not that of the RB who's going to bash away and wear down the other team as the game goes on. His role is going to be the guy who wears them down on the outside and in space. Different role and I believe he can excel in that role if we actually use him right.

Hill, if we block the middle properly (which just didn't happen last year), has the capability to draw 8 guys in the box and still putting up good numbers. The Achilles heal in Hill's game is his ball security. If that becomes a problem again he won't start on that factor alone.

EDIT: Also, who really cares which is the official starter? They are completely different type backs and if the team uses them both correctly they'll both get a lot of playing time and will help the team win.

And, from what I've seen, people who aren't that happy with Gio basically never liked a high 2nd round pick being used on him when Bell and Lacy were both sitting there and have done more for their teams. That doesn't mean it's ok to spew about Gio he didn't make that pick. I never have, but I also want the team to field a physical run game and don't see Gio as the guy to do that.