Anyone else concerned/disappointed with the lack of touches for the backup RBs and CMC's sustained workload?

[kungfoodude]

6 minutes ago, DaveThePanther2008 said:

Kind of a double edged sword.  If we are driving and CMC is doing a large part of the offense.   Do you give him a spell and our offense stalls or do we gamble that the backups are going to come in and get us similar yards. 

I think Hubbard has the ability to bring a similar effectiveness to our offense.  Rhule has to give him some valuable time.   One or two plays a week isn't going to cut it.  If Rhule isn't going to give him the ball than why waste a draft pick on a player you aren't going to give a chance.

Secondly, God forbid he goes down again,  Hubbard has little or no game time experience and that will hurt us more.  

My belief is Rhule is scared to take him out and stall a drive.  In fact, I think he's terrified. 

Yeah, I think they know that offense is at least a portion based on smoke and mirrors at the moment. The weaknesses in the OL are being covered up by scheme and CMC. 

As many weapons as we have on offense, we may have some fatal flaws on that side of the ball. We will see what it looks like in a few weeks.

[pantherclaw]

There is no other player in the RB room that comes close to CMC talent. 

CMC plays. 

I don't worry. 

Is why he gets paid. 

[Al Morgan]

All the best RB in the last 20 yrs of NFL history had no problem playing at an elite level while getting close to (in some cases, more) 400 in a season. In most of these cases, the majority of their touches came on rushing plays, which is (on average) way more taxing on the body than getting hit on passing plays.

Tomlinson, Alexander, Holmes, Faulk. Faulk's workload, especially 1998-2002 closely resembles what we can expect from CMC in the next years.

Those elite RBs didn't have access to all the tools and recovery options RBs have these days. Hell, we have an entire department charged with analyzing data about player's performance and health.
You can make a counter case about NFL players getting bigger and faster, but being raised as an athlete like CMC was from a very young age, as far as recovery and prevention, plays a bigger role in that.

On another note, I wasn't really pleased with our offensive efficiency. But you gotta consider how our offensive scheme works. It's not like we force-fed the ball to CMC. It was probably more the result of our coaching staff's gameplan. 9 reception were the result of the Jets defensive calls. They were bringing pressure and covering our best receivers with their best defenders. In this scheme, the O# takes what the D# gives

[pantherclaw]

4 hours ago, GoobyPls said:

Idk why late in the game when they were clearly milking the clock they didn’t feed Hubbard. They keep using Mccaffrey like this they will learn the learn the hard way on why teams don’t give his giant contracts to RB. 

Yet another fan that doesn't understand why CMC gets paid. 

 

Sad. 

[Zod]

As soon as another RB learns to pick up a blitz properly CMC will get some time to breathe. 

[mbarbour21]

Chubba didn't even get one rush. I don't understand it. He obviously was not a receiving back in college. Why not give him a few touches to settle him in. The season is 17 games long now, and that doesn't include the post season. Hopefully, Royce gets up to speed quickly. We need some rotation. 

[Zod]

2 minutes ago, mbarbour21 said:

Chubba didn't even get one rush. I don't understand it. He obviously was not a receiving back in college. Why not give him a few touches to settle him in. The season is 17 games long now, and that doesn't include the post season. Hopefully, Royce gets up to speed quickly. We need some rotation. 

Why would you rush Chubba when the best RB in football is on the roster? 

[mbarbour21]

3 minutes ago, Zod said:

Why would you rush Chubba when the best RB in football is on the roster? 

Okay, fair point. 

[Zod]

2 minutes ago, mbarbour21 said:

Okay, fair point. 

If it is a blowout and we don't really need every single play to be a gainer, hell put anyone in at running back. But in close games like that you need your game breaker taking every running rep possible. 

[YourLastThought]

I didn't want to bitch but was wondering the same thing. It felt like we are going to run him into the ground again just like previous years. I understand using a star player you are paying TONS of money but how about also using the talent we have behind him who was drafted and who we picked up off waivers. These guys seem more than capable as well upon watching them. Is it a bad thing to have fresh legs constantly in and your star player getting good rest for the long haul?

[mbarbour21]

7 minutes ago, Zod said:

If it is a blowout and we don't really need every single play to be a gainer, hell put anyone in at running back. But in close games like that you need your game breaker taking every running rep possible. 

From the very beginning? For 17 weeks? I don't know man. If he wasn't such a receiving option then I could probably agree. But you know we are gonna get him a lot of touches that way as well. He isn't the one to be running out of bounds either. And he doesn't like going down on first contact like ever. Dude falls forward even when it's against the laws of physics. You don't think it's wise to somewhat limit his touches? Or are you saying we should limit his touches by throwing to other people and letting him take the massive bulk of rushes? If not, you really don't think we are over-using him? 

[OldhamA]

6 hours ago, GRWatcher said:

They didn't play much because they weren't good.

 

 

And ppl ask why Brown and Christensen aren't in the lineup...

[Fox007]

2 hours ago, Zod said:

As soon as another RB learns to pick up a blitz properly CMC will get some time to breathe. 

Its always been the tried and true way for younggins to not get play time.

[portcity]

From what u saw last year from Rhule, he seemed more wling to play young guys over vets as time went on. This was the first game of the season and we needed to start off with a win and CMC getting so many touches is the best chance to to that.

I'm hoping the Chuba and some of the other young guys get a chance as the year goes on like the young guys got last year. Would really like to see Brady and Deonte get a chance on the OL at guard.