Stewart

[csx]

If the line isn't stellar then Stewart isn't stellar. He needs room to gain momentum. Otherwise he gets stood up quite a lot. I also don't understand why we run sweeps and tosses with him AT ALL. Why would we EVER want Stewart moving laterally?

Because he is fast. That has been what he has been quite good at.

[Cpt slay a ho]

One game we're gonna need him down the road soon

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[Port City Cat Fan]

I thought tolbert was the weak one of the bunch. Stew had some good powerful runs. No long gainers just hard fought yards.

[French Navy]

Send one of them to Baltimore

 

Lol no

 

We have a number of good tailbacks, we we are lucky. Keep the rotation, we'll need guys staying healthy for more games than your average NFL team. 

[DaveThePanther2008]

Barber pointed it out.  Stewart and Tolbert were running right into the best part of their line. 

 

As long as one of them was getting it done.  I am sure there will be games where Stewart was the best and D'Will won't

[Happy Panther]

I wouldn't put much stock in 9 carries just as I didn't put much in the handful of carries that our RBs had in the preseason. 

[Happy Panther]

CRA has been noticeably quiet

[Happy Panther]

He had 3 catches for 17 too. Wouldn't be too worried.

[poorboysrev]

Is it crazy to just say the line blocked better for Deangelo? I saw Stew getting hit in the backfield and grind out a 3 yard gain. There is value in that. I don't like to get caught up in yards per carry because every play comes under unique circumstances.

 

Deangelo ran harder than we've become accustomed to. Credit to him for that. But he had a ton of ineffective runs too.

 

Tolbert didn't have a great game running but some of his carries were clock killing in a stacked box. And any type of misdirection or read option was less effective with DA in there.

     No he didn't man. Maybe like twice. He ran 14 times for 70+ yards and its not like he broke off a 40 yarder. Most of his runs were in the 4 to 8 yard gain range. Deangelo gets up to speed faster than Tolbert or Stew and like you said he was running hard and breaking tackles better than we've seen in awhile. Maybe his mom's passing and everyone crushing has him refocused a bit. I know he hasn't been doing interviews this year so to me that says he just wants to play. Hopefully so. We need his speed on offense even more this year. 

     Like Squirrel said I don't think there was anything wrong with Stew or Tolbert. Deangelo is just not as washed up as everyone wants to declare(not saying in any way that he's 08 DW). The oline gave him some push and creases that did not happen alot last year. People are funny making excuses for why he ran well. He just played better on Sunday simple as that. That can and probably will change week to week.

[pstall]

The same people who went crazy about Stew being back in a preseason game dont know football.

Sorry.

[AdamL]

I'd like to see the 1000 yards each again BUT with Cam raining in big PASSING numbers too!

#KeepPounding

[poorboysrev]

The funny part will be IF he does it again vs the Lions, heads will pop on here.  If he had gotten 6 more carries  he would've been over a 100 yards and who knows if he would have broken one.  I hope our new oline can build on Sunday. That will be awesome. The playaction off the running game to Benji an the rest will get even better. I don't care which running back runs well each week, we just need our running game to be good

[The cat]

One of the many reasons teams go to the mufti back attack is because defenses are better at defending some type of runners over others

Teams with high end DTs will be more able to stop the likes of Stewart and Tolbert . Teams with their strength on the outside will be better able to stop Deangelo .

[CRA]

One game doesn't define anyone. Someone isn't suddenly great or awful.

Williams looked above average week 1 last year....average most of the year.

Stewart will shine soon enough if he stays healthy