Jacksonville Camp Battles: Running Backs
This video doesn't have anything groundbreaking, but any excuse for talkin' Denard is a good one.
TJ Yeldon seems likely to start and take a majority of carries, but with Gerhart looking like a better receiving option, Denard could definitely carve out a big role with Jacksonville this season. Last season he put up some of the biggest rushing totals in the league between Gerhart going down and his own injury.
There is a snippet in there confirming plans to get Shoelace involved on kickoffs.
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Saying he was looking like one of the best in the league for part of a season =/= saying he's the best in the league.
Come on. I love me some denard but saying he looked like one of the best in the league is a stretch.
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Edited to a factual statement.
Denard was the only person on the team who was able to run the ball for most of his career here. This includes at the RB position in 2012. I don't think that is a "gimmick."
I don't know how much good comparing special players does at the end of the day (a guy who likes khakis recently said, "You don't compare, you especially don't compare great to great.") but I'm pretty confident Woodson would never say what the poster above said.
You cant compare great to great especially when they play different positions on the field. Who knows what Denards career would look like if he played DB or even full time RB in college. The most important thing is that they are both outstanding human beings and excellent representatives from The University of Michigan.
I love me some Denard, but the comparison between Woodson and Robinson ins't close.
Woodson is a Heisman trophy winner and is one of, if not the, best cornerback/defensive player of all time in college football. He won a National Championship. He beat MSU and OSU consistently.
Denard was a dynamic playmaker, but rarely won the big game. He completed 57% of his passes. He did, however carry a depleted team and was a truly special playmaker.
However, when you compare what the two meant to this school, then I agree that both were truly elite representatives of this great University.
Before you come back with a bu bu but Devin was great in 2012. Devin looked great because defenses had tape on and prepared for Denard. Denard kept us in the game against Ohio in 2012 in spite of devin. For all the mistakes Denard made, and he made some, he was something that defensive coordinators had to seriously prepare for even when he had one arm.
Outside of Woodson, Denard was the single most important Michigan player in my lifetime. He kept the program afloat at its lowest point.
I seriously would hate to see where we'd be without him.
Don't worry, I'll wait...
Three? Sheridan? Tater tots, Bellamy? Gardner?
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Denard kept us in the game VS. OSU in 2012 despite BORGES. The second half of that game was the worst called game I have ever seen in my life and the point I mentally fired Al Borges and put Hoke on the hot seat.
by a nose. Not sure it can get worse than the 2013 PSU game. THAT game was the absolute zero of coaching incompetence.
Stick to lurking more and posting less. Not sure why, but your post really pisses me off.
As a quarterback, I agree, Denard was not one of the best or even better players on the field. But as a pure athlete, Denard is comparable or just under Woodson. He meant just as much to the team as Woodson did to his respective team. Imagine what our record would have been if Denard wasn't there to bail us out time after time.
despite having had only 2.5 seasons to throw passes (hardly played as a frosh, injured fairly early in his Sr. season).
Not to mention #2 on all-time rushing list.
BigRed--I downvoted your remark about Shoelace. I just wanted you to know that.
I also want big red to know i downvoted him
So Einstein, how many games would we have won without said "overrated" player during his 4 years.
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Are you high?
I'm not sure that I've ever seen a player carry a team as much as Denard did for three straight years. Without him the dumpster fire would have been a dumpster inferno. I thought you people would shut up after the disaster that our offense became as soon as Denard left.
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Congrats...you are a special kind of idiot.
I'm going to go ahead and assume that's the "BigRed" part and not the "Wolverine" part.
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Name the last Michigan player responsible for more wins than Denard over the course of their career.
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Played in a pick-your-poison type offense in which there was no other poison to pick. Never had a true home run threat at RB with him in the backfield, no game breakers at WR (except for Gallon)...still put up huge numbers
He did turn it over too much. I assume you think Cindy Crawford's mole makes her look hideous??
Your opinion is bad and you should feel bad because you are a bad person.
Denard sez "it's okay, buddy, I still love ya!"
Whatta guy...
might be the dumbest thing I've ever read.
I had to go through your old posts and neg them too for the shear stupidity of this post, jackass. 
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tom brady? you know, one of the best qbs to ever play?
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Denard gave me some solid fantasy league points during his run - I was excited about it.