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I would have benched him if Barkley were active - my team is far from super though.
Well ETN has been the best of that bunch by far. ETN was on average a 3rd round pick or RB10. He’s been performing just slightly under that but not much. He hasn’t been winning the league for anyone but he also hasn’t been losing it either.
I mean fantasy pros had him as the RB8 this week. It’s tough to have better options but possible.
In preseason there was way too much talk of Bigsby reducing ETN’s role.
ARich’s injury didn’t help.Very happy with Etienne, not with me as I benched him. I also have Anthony Richardson and Bijan Robiinson starting. Still, leading the league in scoring this week and projected to finish 1st this week by 30 points.
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Just don’t get too comfortable because he can’t catch passes, is too small, too slow, runs weird, is competing with a UDFA, doesn’t have a cool enough name, etc. Sure he’s one of the best college RBs of all time with a perfect athletic profile but there’s this guy named Tank on his team so watch out.
I heard he smells funny and doesnt use punctuation.
That would honestly make about as much sense as when people were knocking him because they thought his gait was weird. It's like ok, his "weird"gait ran for the most yards in the history of the ACC so I don't think it's a problem guys.
Honestly I dont even recall that one.
I think it was his duck feet or something along those lines, which even then sounded strange as a criticism.
After he broke his foot there all of a sudden became some gait experts on Twitter who said that the way he runs meant it was inevitable that he would break his foot. I’ve followed him for awhile and every year it’s always been something. Now of course this isn’t necessarily the mainstream either but there is just a weird dismissing of him or disrespect that I’m not sure I’ve ever seen before for a RB that objectively was such a perfect prospect.
Yeah that was it. The guy owned an Ohio State D that probably had 8 future NFL players on it, I don’t think his feet are an issue.
Ah, I recall making a similar criticism of Chris Carson when evaluating him as a prospect.
Then maybe they should stop running him into a well so frequently
Right. I don't want to tell the coaches that though, because a has-to-bounce-it-outside guy is generally not a 3-down back.
Dynasty .. traded Jordan Love for Etienne after week 1. Best move of the year!
Also Pederson didn’t draft him so he clearly isn’t his guy they’ll just let him languish because coaches hate talented players they didn’t draft or something.
Right or wrong play calling and design will have a lot of plays that are just straight up the middle and many players including Derrick Henry will just run into a wall of defenders for minimal gains on these plays. There are a few players like Nick Chubb for example who are able to create something out of these plays by either breaking a tackle, just running hard and getting yards after contact, or actually finding an additional crease they can cut to after reaching the spot that has been bottled up. But no matter who the RB is there will be some 2 yard gains and nothing special about these plays.
The replay they showed of his TD, I swear he hit 20 mph in 3 steps. His acceleration is his super power.
That go route yesterday ... I wouldn't mind seeing a few more of those ...
Not expecting big numbers against them, just hope he gets enough volume - particularly in the passing game - with the opportunity to punch one or two in at the stripe.
I knew it’d be painful. I’d hoped to get a little more. What am I gonna do, bench him?
What do you mean? He has 12 touches. Not his day against a stout run d.
