Bojang0301
Omar4Heisman
I believe I am very clearly looking at it objectively. I’m not searching for reasons to legitimize Carson. He’s an athlete and decent between the tackles. Not special. If Seattle gets a positive game script (likely against Arizona) he could indeed see 20 carries again but to consider this overly impressive is not correct. I never once suggested what Penny did or has done is legit and only spoke on Carson specifically. His performance was not special and I would hope any back in the NFL could do what he did with over 30 carries. The hopes for Carson lie solely in Schottenheimers hands and game script. Should they be in a losing game his value is nill. Considering his schedule was bad (but now better due to injuries and ability to actually evaluate defenses) I still don’t hold out hope for a great deal of positive scripts. He’s an ugly RB2 but so are a lot of guys right now.I expect him to be what he is. A yeti who brings his own blocker and has a running style that fits what the Seahawks want to do. They do not block well, so they want a RB who is good at gaining yards after contact. Its been this way ever since they got Lynch. They just keep breaking their RB.
I don't think you are looking at this objectively. Carson had 50 offensive snaps (72%) 32 rushing attempts for 102 yards (3.2 ypc) and a TD. Penny had 14 offensive snaps (14%) 3 carries 5 yards (1.7 ypc) neither is a big enough sample size for ypc to be meaningful, but even though your argument seems to be that Carson is inefficient, he is still more efficient than Penny has been, so in a relative sense, the Seahawks are not making a mistake or missing out on anything by playing Carson almost exclusively over Penny right now.
The only thing that really matters for fantasy is the opportunity and Carson is getting that right now.
I think it is too early to turn the page here as Penny may improve and get his shot to be the man later on in the season. If Carson keeps getting the ball this much, he might break down, then Penny will get his chance. At least Penny is still playing more than Mike Davis or Prosise.
For now though it is all day Yeti romping which is a beautiful thing.
I still hold out hope for Penny. CMC had a YPC <3.0 the first part of last year. Something is a miss right now though. He did not see the field after that fumble and it did look to me that they didn’t want to have Carson carry it 30 times but took the B.B. route. Penny has been wholly disappointing and there isn’t much else to say about it and I think I was previously adamant this is Carson’s job and that Penny can not be comfortably rostered in redraft. Maybe I’m crazy, but I’m pretty sure I typed that out.
	
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