It is clear as had been advocated ahead of the season, and again this week--- that the best way to use Jones and help the OL and be a more modern NFL offense is to make Jones a threat and use him in the run game.
the Giants clearly got the message this week, and the results were 1) Jones gaining key yards 2) lanes opening for WRs due to the threat 3) OL aided by the DL having to respect that
the question then goes to RB... for that style of offense what type of RB do you want? the answer is a style that is Alfred Morris in his youth. North/south runner who has great vision and puts the team in 2nd and 4 quite often. It is not a jump cut person looking for homeruns. the threat of the RPO is the QB and the downhill move.
this is not a sh$t on Barkley thread---- its to say that the offense that best suits this team does not actually suit him, even the better version of him, unless they can get him to change his style.
Booker is not better than Penny.
That is complementary to what this team needs to do and damned exciting
EEEWWWW I didn't want to say it but.....that's why drafting a RB at #2 is such a gamble. No Gain Dayne is forever etched in my brain.
Find the crease, duck your head, and get what you can. You're more likely to break one off doing that than by dancing until a lane opens.
But ffs, he is and always has been an awful fit for this team. From day 1, he was not the type of north and south runner this team needs.
I actually thought that maybe his injury would make him more of a north-south runner and actually improve his game, but it hasn't.
This is whole Barkley is. He was this type of runner at Penn State, and even when people refer back to Barkleys rookie year, this was the same run style he had back then.
-1, 0, 2, -1, 2, 3, 0, -1, 30 yards.
It's not the way you sustain drives, and it's not the way you put a young and shakey QB in the position to succeed, considering how often Jones is put in 3rd and long situations.
Find the crease, duck your head, and get what you can. You're more likely to break one off doing that than by dancing until a lane opens.
Baldy - ( New Window )
His median ypc speaks for itself.
enough with the record breaker stuff. Can we just get healthy and top-8.
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Is this the dancing people are talking about? Baldy - ( New Window )
Ok.... so we need to see that on a more consistent basis, not a couple times per games.
His median ypc speaks for itself.
The point is, there should be consideration to why he may be dancing. Barkley has had an issue with dancing, but I feel it is overstated by fans when they see Barkley trying to make defenders miss that have beaten the blocks upfront. We got to ask ourselves on each run that we feel he danced too much, was it necessary?
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I remember in the off season commenting that I hoped SB would dance less and hit the hole harder after rehabbing from his injury. BBI braintrust called me an asshole for even suggesting he was a dancer. I do think he dances much less this season, but he just runs into a pile without vision (like David Wilson) since he can't rely on dancing anymore.
Agreed. Crick, I do think its partially due his vision. In the play you linked, the hole was impossible to miss (visually, not physically)
BVS, He certainly may have issues seeing creases, I am a layman when it comes to what players should be doing on the field.
As for the video, the reason I linked it was to point out that barkley had to dance to even get to the crease. So many times we have seen him have to fight off defenders before he can even get to the LOS which may explain dancing.