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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
Yes, they absolutely were.
Fred Warner isn't Ray Neitchske. He's an excellent coverage backer and an extremely smart player, but he's a 230 lb MLB - he's not a thumper.
He's not standing up a quality RB who gets downfield and hits that hole with any authority. They don't make easier short yardage conversions than that one.
It's essentially two guys equidistant from the 1st down marker at the mesh with one of them being pro-active and the other reactive. And the pro-active guy just gave away the initiative by unnecessarily cutting into the pile, killing his momentum and finding MORE traffic than the 1v1 matchup he had that should've been at the sticks at worst.
It was a lousy run.
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it was a lousy run. Thought I covered that already. But Warner makes RBs go backwards. And you forgot to mention that Warner is really fast and agile.
And you're assuming we have a quality RB. I'm not sure that we do. Jerrick has been performing well lately, but we're all just waiting for him to break down physically. Hope we're all wrong on that score. CEH hasn't been special in any way so far, and it's looking like that's not going to happen. Patches is a 7th rd RB that has shown some flashes, but I wouldn't say he's a "quality NFL RB' just yet.