I guess LaDainian Tomlinson and Michael Turner must be #11?
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Top Ten RB Tandems for 2007 (1 Viewer)
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The Jacket
Footballguy
List's a joke, plain and simple. When you have an LT or an LJ, it doesn't matter if your backup is Ki-Jana Carter; you're one of the top ten tandems, easily better than bum duos like Jacobs and Droughns, Jordan and Rhodes, etc.
TheGreatest
Footballguy
Turner still RFA....so maybe that is why they do not inlcude them. Otherwise, they are #1.
squistion
Footballguy
If carries are not split up in some way, I don't think you can call it a tandem.
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The Jacket
Footballguy
They would be. The No. 2 back is going to get some carries, and thus a tandem is formed.Like Bennett in KC, for example. His mere 200 yards at 5.6 per clip makes he and LJ easily one of the top 10 tandems in football, head and shoulders above garbage like Rhodes and Jordan, et al.
-OZ-
Footballguy
You're defining "tandem" differently than SI is. The list looks like something they forced. "let's make a top 10... oh wait, there's not really 10 true tandems... well, we can't include LT, as he's the undisputed king, what else you got?"
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nygiants56
Footballguy
Jacobs/ DROUGHNS, and not LT/Turner? LT will rush for more yards by HIMSELF, than Jacobs and Droughns will, COMBINED!!!that magazine sucks. Dr Z is the WORST. what a joke!Peter 'I was there' King stinks... the guy is always name-dropping, telling us that he 'just got off the phone with Coach X or Player X' etc.
SI is the Nat'l Enquirer of the sporting world..
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Chase Stuart
Footballguy
I guess top RB tandem is now shorthand for "the best RB2s on teams not named San Diego; listed below are the RB1 and the RB2 from that team."
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weisguy0831
Footballguy
why would anyone expect leon washington to play more of a role than michael turner?
-OZ-
Footballguy
that is a good point, but nobody is going to dispute whether Turner is #1 or #2 in San Diego.Nobody should dispute TJ / Leon either, perhaps they listed the Jets because there isn't another true tandem to list? I probably would have listed the Lions instead of the Jets for the same reason you're arguing here. The split in Detroit should be more even than NYJ. Other than the Jets, I maintain that this list isn't as bad as you're all saying.
Chunky Soup
Footballguy
Turner and Tomlinson will not split anywhere near these guys, at least from what previous years would say or what people may predict for this upcoming year. Turner had 80 carries which is less than any RB in these situations. LT/Turner shouldn't be a "tandem", except in a fantasy sense because Turner puts up good numbers/touch. In a game (or REAL FOOTBALL) sense his carries are inconsequential as opposed to the other RBs on this list.
There are some problems. Maybe teams like the Lions should be put on here, and other teams more we can make arguments for, but really we can make arguments against them, because in the lions case, we know martz will not use a tandem attack. Dr Z made points for certain teams and he ranked them, no biggie.
Only problem I really have is move JJ/MB down a few and Henry/Bell up 1 or 2.
Otherwise I think you guys are on Z's back for no good reason other than the fact than hes from CNNSI and talking about real football.
There are some problems. Maybe teams like the Lions should be put on here, and other teams more we can make arguments for, but really we can make arguments against them, because in the lions case, we know martz will not use a tandem attack. Dr Z made points for certain teams and he ranked them, no biggie.
Only problem I really have is move JJ/MB down a few and Henry/Bell up 1 or 2.
Otherwise I think you guys are on Z's back for no good reason other than the fact than hes from CNNSI and talking about real football.
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The Jacket
Footballguy
Other than the fact his list blows.Any two backs that share carries, no matter how proportionately, classifies as a tandem.Like has been said, tandems such as LT and Turner and LJ and Bennett trump most pairs on this garbage list. The fact that some of them will split the rock closer to 50-50 than LT/MT or LJ/MB means nothing.
Chunky Soup
Footballguy
ridiculous. LT/MT share carries!? What about westbrook/buckhalter, chester taylor/MM, Parker/Davenport, and every other team in the NFL! He's simply picking teams that use a (or close to) RBBC approach. He could have said, "rushing teams". He didn't. He said rushing tandems. And to him it means something different than what it means to you.I <3 how people hate everything the guy does.The Jacket
Footballguy
I'm glad for you. I didn't even look at the author, just the list.And the list is horrible.Parker/Davenport.
The Contrarian
Footballguy
This looks like a list of tier3 RB3's to me.
Chunky Soup
Footballguy
I'm glad for you. I didn't even look at the author, just the list.And the list is horrible.Parker/Davenport.
Of course he meant RBBCs...did anybody bother to read the article?
"In doing some number crunching, it's not all that hard to figure out why "2'' is the new "1'' in the NFL. Simply put, teams are winning with two-back attacks. In '06, 20 of the league's 32 clubs featured more than one running back with a significant amount of rushing yardage."
"In doing some number crunching, it's not all that hard to figure out why "2'' is the new "1'' in the NFL. Simply put, teams are winning with two-back attacks. In '06, 20 of the league's 32 clubs featured more than one running back with a significant amount of rushing yardage."
this article links nicely with the RBBC thread that has been on page 1 recently. seems topical enough to me.
enfuego
Footballguy
Just continues to solidify that 90% of NFL coverage in SI is
By that arguement every RB on every team in the history of the NFL has been a tandem, well not really a tandem because more than two guys on every team rush the ball.
Rovers
Footballguy
Fer cryin out loud, it's as plain as day that this is a list of the "Best RB tandems in a RBBC". That's why there are no feature back w/ backup dous listed. Hey, if Turner was going to get 10 carries a game, then LT and Turner would be at the top of the list. Soooo hard to understand.
Yes. The question is which is the best.
Chunky Soup
Footballguy
read the descriptions on the right side to go along with the pictures. Its very clear they're talking about RBBC or near-RBBC, not total rushing stats accumulated by an entire team.
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Chunky Soup
Footballguy
In fact, here are a few key words used in each description:
It is clear as day he is talking about RBBC. His rankings aren't too bad. Get off the dude's back.
It is clear as day he is talking about RBBC. His rankings aren't too bad. Get off the dude's back.Similar threads
