04-25-2016, 10:41 PM
(04-25-2016, 09:39 PM)BengalChris Wrote: The Bengals have rarely used Gio in a way that maximizes his talents. His talents aren't running up the middle into the teeth of a defense. He needs to be used in space. The problem with that is that when he's on the field defenses pretty much know how to defend him. He's just not a 3 down back.
If you compare him to a guy like Jamaal Charles, who is a 3 down back, you can see the difference between the two.
I, for one, believe a team is better off having a 3 down back as the starter and a different style back to come in and change things up. Only we don't really have a 3 down back on the roster. Hill is pretty good when he's not coughing up the ball, but we don't throw it him very much, so teams play him tight and his yards are tough ones.
I agree Gio isn't in Charles' league, but Gio is still underutilized. Not saying I want him to get 20 carries a game, but 20 touches a game would work, say 15 carries, 5 catches a game rather than the 12.7-ish touches a game he gets.
You are repeating a false thing that people keep treating as fact because other people keep repeating it. There's nothing wrong with Gio's ability to run it up the middle.
Running up the middle since Hill has entered the league...
Hill: 3.56 YPC
Gio: 4.28 YPC
Bell: 3.41 YPC
Peterson: 3.79 YPC
Charles: 4.85 YPC
Gio is perfectly fine running it up the middle.
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Oddly enough on that list, I just picked 3 good RBs other than Gio/Hill, and their YPC is high-to-low the exact same order as their weights are light-to-heavy. Not sure if there's something there, but interesting none the less.
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