Reading Sy'56's brutally honest review of Sunday's disaster, I came across this nugget:
"Barkley allowed two more sacks and a pressure. We can now rightfully say he is a liability in pass protection. Just terrible."
Then I read some BBI commentary about the wisdom of Bill Parcells as a coach, which was pretty accurate for the most part, and that got me thinking about one of his primary rules when it came to playing time: Running Backs Play Only When They Learn How to Pass Protect. This kept some pretty good backs (a-hem; Rodney Hampton) off the field when they first came into the league, but forced them to be better all around players for years thereafter.
Given the fact that he's injured, is playing behind an atrocious offensive line, and can do nothing to salvage anything of value during yet another uncompetitive season for the Giants, Saquon Barkley doesn't have much to offer the team in 2019. 1 yard on 13 carries doesn't seem like a very good return on a guy who's supposed to be the building block of our offense long term. Those are good reasons for shutting him down.
But given his regression as a pass blocker - allowing sacks and pressures at alarming rates - maybe it might be time to (gasp) bench him, a la Parcells, in favor of Wayne Gallman until Barkley learns how to block for his Franchise Quarterback. I think this is probably what Tuna would've done back in 1988. It would be wildly unpopular and piss off a team captain, but maybe that isn't such a bad thing in the long run.
I know; crazy.
Fire away.
They should just sit him down because he’s not healthy and we aren’t going anywhere this season besides the top of the draft.
Barkley isn't contributing much now. Sit him, let him get healthy, and work on his run blocking.
Oh, and fire Shurmur and all his staff except maybe McGaughey.
He'd have cut Hilliman to prove a point to the RB's. Maybe a player like Haley.
He let the stars get away with whatever they wanted to. But it was also a time when the locker room could police itself and keep things under wraps.
1 yard on 13 carries is not on the RB. Sorry. I was at the game with endzone seats. We have a rookie QB staying with a run play with 8 in the box. An audible needs to be called.
It’s like some of you didn’t watch last season. The kid is a stud and has an injury.
There is no way Shurmur would do this because he needs to win games.
The guy is hurt. But Shurmur, as demonstrated by Smith s performance Sunday often calls the plays he wants making no allowances for deficiencies in his players.
Papa said it best: Maybe it s time to stop calling the plays you want to call and begin calling something that works.
The guy is hurt. But Shurmur, as demonstrated by Smith s performance Sunday often calls the plays he wants making no allowances for deficiencies in his players.
Papa said it best: Maybe it s time to stop calling the plays you want to call and begin calling something that works.
Amen. Think back to the first drive of our first 2 games this year when Eli was playing. 2 decisive TD drives that featured the running game. And Eli was doing too much RPO.
...because of his pass-blocking!
Yeah I didn't get that either. You don't draw up the blocking like that, I figured DJ probably forgot to put Barkley on the right side.
-that nobody on this teams staff has come up through 'run to pass'.
That they came from programs where others had laid the groundwork in the run game, and that our O fronts schematically are not doable in pass protection for the linesmen,the rbs, the TEs or anyone .
Well. They do . But If you saw a Roman legion at the end of the Roman empire . You might say, "shit, we can do that".
No you cannot. They can, you cannot .
Just accept that the barbarian way is more replicable (falcons, 9ers, Ravens) and try for that.