Veteran Running Backs

Submitted by Hard Gay on

Am I the only one who thinks Minor, Grady and Brown should get more looks?  

It seems that any time Minor gets a handoff, he goes for at least 10 yards if not a touchdown.  He had that fumble against Utah when he was already down, and then the backwards pass from Threet that wasn't all his fault.  It just seems anytime he can actually get the ball he is extremely productive.

Brown was being hyped up so much throughout the off-season, but has done so little.  I realize that he has been injured and with the great depth at running back, there would be no reason not to sit him out.  I just hope when he's finally at 100% he can contribute more.

And Grady, sure, he had that costly fumble against ND, but it was forgivable.  It was a monsoon and half of ND's personnel on-field were clinging to him.  The man carried a linebacker 7 yards into the endzone.  I'd like to see him in more situations than the incredibly surprise run up the gut on 4th and 1.  

I like McGuffie as much as the next guy, but it just seems he tends to go down on first contact a lot and not to mention his blocking sucks.  ND was hailing as his break-out game, but I'm sure anyone of our backs could have put up those kind of numbers against that defense.  

I really do hope the veteran backs get more looks.  

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WolvinLA

October 1st, 2008 at 1:32 PM ^

And this isn't meant to be a dickhead comment, but, like, what kind of moves do you have?  Seriously.  Like dancing moves?  Or football moves?  I'm really not joking, I'd like to know.  Maybe we can compare moves.

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Magnus

October 1st, 2008 at 2:41 PM ^

This is a horsepoop argument.  I hate the "The coaches know better than you" argument, because if we don't question coaches/players, then there's really no use to have these discussion forums.  Yes, LOTS of people know better than us.  But it's fun to second guess.

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WolvinLA

October 1st, 2008 at 2:58 PM ^

Fair enough.  But we also haven't had a chance to see what the coaches will do in response to last week's game.  The dude posing the argument is using Minor's big TD run from last game as evidence he should get more playing time.  Maybe he will!  Maybe RR saw that and will give Minor more touches.  Maybe this is why Minor got his number called for the play where he scored the TD.  Before we get pissed at the coaches for not playing him more, let's wait until we see how they respond to his high YPC.  If he continues this and still sees the bench, we have a little more reason to bitch.

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CrankThatDonovan

October 1st, 2008 at 1:22 PM ^

It definitely isn't the main reason McGuffie gets most of the playing time, but I think that he sees the field more partially because the coaching staff likes his ability on screens and short passes. McGuffie will split out wide four or five times a game and sort of play the Odoms role of "do something after the catch." We saw this turn into a long touchdown against Notre Dame and a completion or two against Wisconsin in the second half.

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