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Originally Posted by RunKC
Hunt has never played a 16 game season and his running style is brutal. It would have been optimal to have Ware get 5-8 carries a game to spell Hunt. It would have been an elite 1-2 punch.
Ware has the same bruising style and his play fell off last year because he was beat up. Reid obviously doesn't want that to happen so he's purposely holding Hunt to 15-18 carries a game.
We need to find a RB to get 5-7 touches a game because West has been garbage.
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Agreed.
Hunt was taking so many shots yesterday. He took some glancing blows but watch some of those runs again where it looks like guys didn't really hit him because they didn't bring him down - those hits were HARD. And since he rarely goes down on first contact, he takes 2-3 extra shots per run.
And then there were 2 or 3 times where he did get chopped down and I recall at least two of them looking nasty (the play where he laid the hit on the safety looked to ding him a bit also; you could see as he got up that he felt that one).
Hunts style is bruising as hell and the staff needs to be cognizant of that. If they can keep him in that 15-18 touches/gm range and still win 12+ games, they need to try to do so. It's not about regular season success anymore - they need a fresh, productive Hunt in the post-season and the kid's going to have to deal with a rookie wall at some point (everyone does).
I love how they're using him right now. Gotta have an eye on January.