10-03-2020, 08:11 PM
(10-03-2020, 07:50 PM)jfkbengals Wrote: Prior to 2019 you can certainly go by those numbers, as Marvin always spelled the lead back every third series. So Joe would get 2 series, then Gio would get a series. Then repeat. How quickly we forget the fan's complaints that Joe was starting to get in a groove, only to end up on the sideline.
Gio Bernard only had 56 carries in 2018 under Marvin Lewis. (Fwiw, he had 53 last season under Zac Taylor.) And 27 of those came in two games where he started.
The rest of the games look like this: 1, 6, 2, 2, 1, 5, 3, 6, 3
In 2017, he had 105, but 71 of those came in the last 4 games, where he was getting the lion's share.
I could be wrong, but I believe you may thinking back further. Either that, or they just decided not to run the ball on every 3rd possession. I don't how you can explain an average of around 2 carries a game, if he was getting every 3rd series in '17, and '18.
