January 8th, 2017 at 12:33 AM ^
January 8th, 2017 at 12:41 AM ^
The Russians Hacked Thomas Rawl's legs... just like they Hacked Tom Brady's footballs.
January 8th, 2017 at 12:47 AM ^
Revisionist history be damned... Thomas Rawls wasn't Tom Brady standing on the sideline holding a clipboard. He was a player that had some untapped potential that rarely, if ever showed any of it in the opportunities he was given for the Wolverines. Would've been sweet if he was really that guy we all saw tonight... But alas, he was never anywhere close. So need to wonder "What if?" or add another failure onto the Hoke regime's shoulders.
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January 8th, 2017 at 12:50 AM ^
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January 8th, 2017 at 9:11 PM ^
He had that one garbage-time 68-yard TD against Illinois that made the score 45-0, and he'd had a few decent runs against UMass and in garbage time against Purdue.
Then he got some run with the starters down the stretch, and in those last four games he managed 68 yards on 32 carries. Toussaint had 34 carries in those games and gained 193.
Why people now think Rawls was poised for a move up the depth chart, I have no idea. They weren't saying that at the time; Brian's exit post for Rawls was a snark at Fred Jackson for hyping a generic three-star talent. There was no dissent; even the O.P. called it "good attrition."
January 8th, 2017 at 12:52 AM ^
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January 8th, 2017 at 1:32 AM ^
January 8th, 2017 at 2:58 AM ^
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January 8th, 2017 at 6:42 AM ^
where were the rawls posts last week when he went for an awesome 8 rushes for 14 yards? or the week before when he went for 8 rushes for 8 yards? or the week before that when he had 21 rushes for 34 yards?
that is a total of 37 rushes for 56 yards. stop acting like he goes over 100 every week. fact is last night was only his 2nd game over 100 all year. he is an average nfl back.
January 8th, 2017 at 7:47 AM ^
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January 8th, 2017 at 12:05 PM ^
The problem is simplistic reasoning.
College Production =/= NFL Production.
&
Personnel matters, but scheme matters more.
Hoke & Co. wanted to do what Hoke & Co. wanted to do, to horrific results.
It's anyone's guess if/how they were bad practice coaches, bad in-game coaches, bad play-schemers, bad talent & placement coaches, bad character developers, and/or bad playcallers. Bottom line, they stunk, badly.
Rawls' being talented and also being 4th on the depth chart are not mutually exclusive. For the scheme they ran, he very well could have been the 4th best performing back.
Scheme makes that much of a difference.
January 8th, 2017 at 11:23 AM ^
January 8th, 2017 at 7:46 AM ^
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January 8th, 2017 at 8:36 AM ^
January 8th, 2017 at 9:40 AM ^
During the crappy Hoke days
I remember yelling at the T.V saying, "put
in Rawls"... but Greene was an overweight
5 star who couldn't pick up a linebacker
blitz to save his life, so he was clearly the
better choice.
/s
January 8th, 2017 at 10:07 AM ^