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I'm rolling Chubb/Kerryon at RB this week, but considering benching Juju for Gurley at Flex.
It’s been three weeks, all closely contested games for the Rams, and Gurley is averaging 15 carries per game. I don’t think there’s a whole lot being misread. I think the Rams are consciously limiting his touches. If you feel that he’s going to jump up to 20-25 carries, then that’s your right. But there’s now 8 consecutive games spanning two seasons where they haven’t given him more than 16 carries. If owners aren’t concerned, they’re being willfully obtuse IMO.
I am passed concerned at this point, now just accepting that I have a mid range RB2.
"Huge" is kind of relative. Big contracts relative to other RBs, not really relative to other NFL players.
Position is relevant because that's what people have been conditioned to believe without actually looking at how much value players with similar contracts provide relative to them.
I'm sure there are more details to the contracts than the top line #s but Brate is getting 40m for 6 years or 6.67/year. Enunwa is 36M for 4 years or 9M/year. Gurley's is 57M for 4 years or 19M/year.
Yeah the game plan was absolute ####. I’ll take the 25pts I got from him but I hated the way it came. McVay is getting full of himself with this play calling.68 passes to 11 rushes today for the Rams. Gurley had a fine fantasy game, so he must be fine. Nothing to see here.
My point is that if Gurley was Gurley, he gets more than five carries in that game. I think there are blaring red alarms relating to his health that can no longer be explained away.
He got the same amount as Gurley, and he plays about 20% of the snaps. This is becoming a pattern, where the Rams want to play Gurley 70% of the snaps, but want to pass on 80% of Gurley’s snaps.
It’s the 6/1 defense that’s stopping McVay from running. The outside zone has been the basis for the run game the past few years. You’ll also notice almost all the jet sweeps are gone to and we ran a ton of those the last 2 years.
Nine consecutive games without exceeding 16 carries. Believe that it’s a moronic play caller all you want. With the success he’s had calling plays, I’m going to give him more credit than that. Gurley is damaged, and the person closest to him knows that and is clearly protecting him. That’s not a hot take at this stage.
If he was protecting him because Gurley was “damaged” he would be getting Malcolm Brown much more involved who had been averaging basically 5 yards a carry going into the game. He’s just flat out not calling running plays it has absolutely nothing to do with Gurley’s health, it’s how defenses are playing the Rams right now and how McVay thinks they should attack them. This 6/1 D has McVay shook and that coupled with the new interior O line pieces has him trying to scheme against it.
Yeah I think this sums it up pretty well. I am less concerned about his health over the last two weeks and more concerned with the OL and McVay. The word is out on how to slow this offense down. dkp993 is right, if health was a concern, I think Brown would get more carries. To me, seems like Gurley was getting brought along slowly like some people suggested. But now that he is getting the snaps, he has no chance on running plays and he wasn't being used in the passing game prior to yesterday.dkp993 said:
Note: The 2nd TD shouldn't have happened; Gerald Everett had a big gainer and was ruled down at the 1, replays showed he was in for the TD. Rams didn't challenge.
Yep, as I’ve said all season. It’s playcalling and bad interior line play that’s the issue right now.
Heavily invested in Dynasty and hate to say it, but I agree. The cuts arent crisp, the acceleration is not impressive. He still runs hard and strong and he is still a good player, but he is not special anymore from what I can see. At least not right now.
How many games do you give him? Five more? Ten more? Next season?
100% agree on this... after the first reception... he limped afterwards... and from there on he basically did zero cutting.. to me it was earily similar to what happened last year during the rams/chiefs game... TBH i was shocked he basically played every snap last night because he didnt look right... but he was only able to just run straight ahead.... when he was in pass pro and wasnt blocking he would just gingerly jog to the flats...
Your notion of low/high value touches certainly applies to fantasy football. Not sure it translates well to how an actual NFL coach views things though.
It should. Use him when you need him to make a play, not when you need 3 - 5 yards between the tackles.
