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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
Pacheco still needs to show more savvy running the football.
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Yeah, that's a given. Just extrapolating the best potential scenario.
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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
For the same reasons I give little weight to CEH 'dominating' (while not breaking 100 yards of 5 YPC against TB), it's hard to put too much stock in Pacheco cutting up TB that game.
The OL just ****ing wrecked Tampa. And when that's happening it's easy to just run where you're pointed and be effective. That's not how most games go and so I think before we consider Pacheco a 'keeper' we need to see him do some work against lines that aren't getting blown off the LOS. That's where the rubber meets the road a bit.
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The more I think about it, I don't think they're trying to improve CEH's stock for a future trade. I don't remember Andy ever doing anything like that, for one.
I think it's more likely that Andy's just giving CEH a chance to show what he can do. This is his first year of being actually healthy, and having a decent OL at the same time.
Though statistically he's been better this season than any other. In week 1 vs. ARZ he averaged 6.0yds/att and a pair of receiving TDs, vs. LAC he went 8-for-74 yds on the ground for a 9.25yds average, and then of course against TB he went 19-for-92yds (4.84yds/carry) with both a rushing TD and one receiving. So yeah, he didn't do anything vs. IND or LVR, but he was pretty good in his other three games.