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the O-line is a mess, and the WR's aren't very good, Chambers notwithstanding. I realize Cameron's body of work with LT out in San Diego, so there is hope that he can get Ronnie Brown on track this season. He runs hard, and catches the ball better than all but a small handful of RB's.But something of him reminds me of Keith Byars, a RB with great hands, but a tad on the slow side, or in Ronnie's case, lacking the moves to make the first defender(s) miss him..Brown has been said to have good speed ( 4.4 in the 40 yard dash), but he doesn't have good lateral speed, doesn't move left-and-right well, can't find the cutback lanes as easily as a guy like LT does. Most of Browns' runs are the straight-line type, he tends to like to run people over rather than elude them like LT. it takes Brown a long time to get up to full speed. I'd be a believer, if the Fish draft someone like Levi Brown! that guy could be an anchor of that line for years to come. I worry about the effectiveness of Culpepper, and/or Trent Green. Not sure Green has much left in the tank, while Culpepper looks like he's the beneficiary of playing alongside of, and throwing to, Moss and HOF'er Chris Carter. Sans Moss and Carter, Culpepper looked almost as bad as Joey Harrington, if not worse. Unless the get the QB position locked in place, this offense will struggle at times. Playing in the much improved AFC East doesn't help either. Jets are much better, Pats are reloaded defensively, and the Bills are up-n-coming. If anyone can overcome these problems,its Cameron. but , he has his work cut out for him..I'd put him at RB #15, if not closer to #20, at least right now..but I doubt he climbs into the top 10. I just don't think he has anything special going for him.
I don't know, it's probably just me but I don't see Cameron being a genius or some type of guru creating terrific schemes. He had the best TE, best RB, very good QB, very good FB, one of the best left tackles in the game and probably the best overall talent on offense in the NFL. They were a tremendously successful offense but how tough is it to run left and hand the ball the LT. Everyone in the world knew it was coming yet they still couldn't stop it. Is that Cameron or just better talent?My point being, I don't think that Cameron will impact Brown significantly one way or the other. What will impact him much more is the state of their line and the QB situation.
agreed.
He's shared the carries in college and the pros. I don't expect that to change. Even LT was spelled by Turner while under Cameron and obviously Brown is not LT.Not sure if Miami has as good of a line as SD.Sammy Morris (4.3 avg) did just as well as Brown did when Brown (4.2 avg) was out injured.Seems Miami was plug and play with the RBs, not Brown being overly special.
The answer is...NO.
I think you should look at last year's game logs before saying he shared time. Brown was by far the primary running back in Miami last year.
Yes, primary. No argument.241 carries for Brown, 92 for Morris (mostly due to Brown injuries).2005, Brown had 207. Williams had 178.I do believe Miami will run the ball more if Ricky is back.Not sure I see Brown as a 300 carry RB with or without Ricky around.Brown has yet to play in all 16 games of a season.
.... and Ricky too.
is that on a per-game basis, or overall?
Overall. He only missed a couple games though and those directly behind him missed time as well (SA, Maroney, McGahee last year) so I doubt things would change much.
In my non-PPR league, he was 18th on a PPG basis, and 28th overall. He did seem to drop quite a bit comparing overall to PPG, says to me that he did miss more games than an average top-30 back.I remember him being a borderline top-10 back pretty much until his horrendous game vs Vikings, when everything fell apart.
