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Agreed. While I understand that Demarco is a prideful athlete and he wants to contribute, unfortunately for him, in this system, Mathews and Sproles (and Barner) make the offense look better.
I can't understand how Chip could have spent that much money on Murray and had no intentions of creating plays that suit his strength. He was the best back in the league last year. Running north and south. It was already clear by week two that Murray wasn't good going east and west. Just a horrific fit. Is Chip's offense so inflexible that they can't add a couple of plays that would let Murray use his strengths? I have no problem rolling with Mathews and Sproles. Although Mathews could never handle more than ten carries a game without getting injured. But to think of all that money that's going to be tied up next season..ugh. That could be a Joe Thomas.
I thought the whole reason we got rid of Shady was that Chip wanted a one-cut runner who doesn't dance around in the backfield. Then he brings in Murray and has him dancing around in the backfield trying to go east-west.
I think so, to a point. They had a deal on place with Gore. He changed his mind. Not wanting to go with Mathews alone, they ponied up $$$ for Murray lokely thinking that he was good enough to adapt and fit the scheme. He did run out of the spread at Oklahoma.
He's here like you said. So I think part of this growth process is accepting Murray's skill set. Last week was the first we saw him game plan for what the defense gave him. Maybe when he sees a team is susceptible to a power running attack, Murray will get more volume.
I guess we see who wears the pants here. The key to winning the NFC could really be centered around one man - Darren Sproles. We just beat NE minus $10M in RB payroll(Murray, Matthews) and had a breath of life with the added dimensions Sproles brings. And unlike Murray, he actually seems to gaf about what he's doing. It wouldn't be sound to go into the season subjecting Sproles to all the hits, but you have to do what you have to do now.unckeyherb said:
It might be tough for the prideful Kelly to keep Murray on the bench if McCoy is running well. If there was ever a game where Chip is praying Murray is effective, it's this one.
I remember him playing more than a half. This isn't like pitching. He had shots to put that game away.
He was also leading when he got hurt. And Sanchez proceeded to throw that awful interception in the end zone when all they needed was a field goal. That loss was 100% on Sanchez.
We had 16 points in the half he played. 3 in the half he didn't. We were winning when he left the game. I think we would have won if he played the whole game, Sanchez was awful.
We score on any of those 6 drives Bradford floundered on before getting hurt then game's over also. It's not just the end game. All I'm saying is, Bradford didnt exactly put the game away. Just like most don't give credit to Foles for the Houston win last year.
Bradford was 19 for 25 for 236 yards and a touchdown (no interceptions) when he got hurt. That's 9.44 yards per attempt. Did he 'put the game away' before getting hurt, no. So you have a point there. But it wasn't until Sanchez came in that we lost the lead and the game. That was Bradford's highest QBR of the year, I believe.
I could see McCoy getting booed, but Murray getting booed even louder if McCoy is outproducing him.
I imagine this game means more to Shady then anyone. He'll probably be working with the defense a ton this week and trying to give them all the tips and info he can. I don't trust that ####er
I'm sure players that switch teams do this all the time. Or at least I would hope they do.
I have been saying this since the beginning. Davis has no freaking clue on how to coach a Def. Any Def Coord. worth his weight knows when to adjust to its opponents offense in a resonable manner. This clown takes 3 freaking quarters at the minimum to change schemes. My opinion if Gus Bradley gets the axe in JAX, get him in here.The Noid said:
That's starting to become more of a thing these days. Not sure it would have bothered me. But as someone who was delighted that he left Philly, I can't tell you how happy I was to see him lined up for that punt return and waving his arms and drawing attention to himself, only to lost 20 yards on the return and then fumble. ROFL. Watching him hang his head in shame as he walked off was a great moment.
yeah, I don't really have a problem with it. It's quite common in soccer. I could just imagine the calls to 610 though.
If you look at numbers in a vacuum, it is misleading. He is a major health risk so that will put a damper on what he gets. If someone does pay him $18 million, like Insein has suggested, I think we can all agree they are probably overpaying for what they are getting.
Skins fans don't want to acknowledge it as they are still trying to believe they got a great #1 WR. They had a chance to drive for the go ahead score and win and he fumbled basically at the 5 after running backwards 20 yards. Brutal and cost them the game.
Was only using the "since september" vacuum because he clearly needed some time to get comfortable in the offense and get back in the groove after not playing in 2 years. The first few week panic/hate fest was a little premature.
He made up for it by catching a TD later on though. But still was awesome to see that bone head play earlier.
That was only to bring back and tie....he blew a chance to go ahead and left them on the goal line. Hardly made up for it.
I do remember Bruce Smith having his way back in the 90's. I want to say against Randall but I can't quite remember.
Randall also had an amazing play where Smith was bearing down on him and he somehow ducks and Smith goes flying by, then Cunningham pops up and throws like an 80-yard TD.
