FreeBaGeL
Footballguy
Honestly, there were so many holes in the arguments that they were making that the people that bought into it have no one to blame but themselves. I tried and tried and tried to point those out to people but no one wanted to hear it. That "the myths of Sean Payton" was the epitome of it all and was full of purely speculative and blatantly incorrect info.Sean Payton has never used a feature back because he's never had anyone good enough to be one - Baloney. He was OC for the Giants when they had Tiki Barber, who magically became a feature back just after Payton left.I'm not gonna blame an Ingram owner for holding on to any small glimmer of hope - sorry but I have to blame FBG here - they are the ones who crammed Ingram down our throats up until re-draft day.
Never ever ever have I heard so much hype about a guy and his situation - huge let down.
They didn't draft Mark Ingram in the 1st round to use him in a timeshare - Baloney. Teams do this all the time, including Sean Payton...twice. You can give him a pass on Bush because that was an odd situation, but he was there when they drafted Ron Dayne 11th overall and he never got a crack at anything more than a timeshare.
Mark Ingram will obviously be the goaline horse because he's the biggest guy - Baloney. Dayne was clearly much larger than Barber, and Deuce/Pierre were clearly much larger than Bush yet Tiki/Bush got a ton of goaline carries.
Of course, the Deuce/Bush situation applies to all of these as well, but even if we gave him a free pass on that because that was such an odd situation, you didn't have to go back much further than that to find more situations that applied.
All these things were said with such certainty, as if people had sat down with Payton and he had told them "yeah I'd love to have a feature back but I just never had a guy that could do it", but the reality is that was pure guesswork and speculation with ALL of the evidence pointing the exact opposite direction. Payton doesn't use RBBC because that's what his personnel dictated, he's used it because he believes in it as a philosophy and there was *never* any indication that that was not the case.
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