You know what the worst part is?
I agree with you that RB is being undervalued in the NFL. You don't even have to try that hard to get a really good one. But you have to at least try. I'm hopeful on Blue and Mafah in the future. And I was pleased with the way Jevonte played last night. But ultimately RB is stupid cheap and easy to draft. And we sort of still shoot for bottom of the barrel with day three picks and bottom of the barrel free agent signings.
It's funny how a play that he basically had to do nothing except let his blockers maul everyone is the play that will somehow keep him in position to keep his job. I hope I'm wrong but it just feels like last season at RB where we will cling to Sanders in that #2 role for way too long. And we will absolutely regret it at the end of the year.
Freaking Bobby Belt is actually defending Sanders. Said Blue would never have gotten through that crease in the first place.
I mean the only way Blue doesn't take that to the house is if he outruns the blockers. Which is possible, it was a play where it took the blockers a second to really open that thing up. But you'll never know if you don't play the guy.
Perhaps I'd be willing to trade a 59 yard run for the ensuing fumble.
It is a long football season. But it should not be something we cling to as an ideology when the guy flat out cannot fucking play anymore and he fumbled.
My guess is they view Luepke as a quisi RB. So they probably only want to bring two RBs plus Hunter to the game. But if that's the case make Blue the #2. Hunter and Jevonte are great at pass pro. Blue gives you something different. Sanders doesn't give you anything different other than less running ability.
Yea, no excuse for not seeing what Blue has at this point.
I'm hoping we don't cling to it. The NFL has this thing where coaches want to give the vets their chance before the young guys. It's a trust thing, it's a reward for hard work thing or whatever. But it's going to cost you football games. It may have cost us one last night. I almost feel the same way about Damone Clark playing so much last night. It was like, you've been here this long, you've worked your ass off and even though Loofa is better than you, we will give you a chance.
That's the play that I mentioned that showed me exactly what I was hoping to see out of Ezeiruaku.
Kneeland looks so much like Demarcus Lawrence at times it's scary. Just the way he plays the run is almost identical. Hopefully he can get to the level of pass rusher Lawrence was in his prime. But ultimately if he can stay healthy I think he is going to have a really good, rock solid career here. Honestly, I saw really promising stuff out of basically everyone on the D-line. I thought Fowler started the game like shit, but he got there eventually too.
Lawrence was the guy many compared Kneeland to when we took him, I feel like Dorance Armstrong is his worst case scenario.
There were bad holds by the Eagles that went totally uncalled. But they weren't really calling any holds on us either. I'll be real honest, our guys may have been doing some of that shit and the refs just decided they weren't going to call it either way. I'm not really sure because I wasn't watching our guys for holds really at all. What was there a total of one call against Tyler Smith?
The run defense was kind of unbelievable last night, if they can keep it up throughout the year I think our defense might actually be better than it was from 2021-23 when the lights are brightest.