Redman: Running back by committee no good.

Every starting RB in the NFL will tell you this but I kinda think the "get in rhythm" stuff is a bunch of BS, personally. For a QB it can make sense, but your job is get the ball and run forward... It's not exactly rocket science.

If Redman goes in there Sunday and is picking up yards, then by all means keep feeding it to him... but if he's not producing, I see no reason not to give Jones or LASH a chance just because you don't want a RBBC.

 

Place your starter keep your horse running not breaking stride and yes rhythm is important for a Back. (last yr.ridiculous) If he fails to produce then he's benched next man up! until then every series is off to the races!! By committee

 

I think the change of pace rb by committee is to keep the defense guessing and chasing. this tire's them out. i'm OK with it. we have 4 capable backs, use them. each has a little different skillset. fresh legs helps, no tap out needed.

 

i totally agreee with the get in the rhythm thing... did you ever play a round a golf... and if things are moving at a 3 1/2 or 4 hour pace you shoot pretty well.. but if you get stuck behind a slowww 4some and you are looking at a 5 hour round where you are waiting on every shot you willl guaranteed shoot 5-10 strokes more... its liek getting in a grove shooting foul shots or anything... i agree with red...

HINES

 

but that was the plan last year and that worked for S*&T... why do it again.. i guess here is my Q... and i dont know the answer.. is there any or who was the last NFL team that used 4 RBs consistantly in a game (or even 3) and were successful.... by successful lets say in the top 25% of the league total yards? id love to see that .. the name of the team and who were the 4 RBs

HINES

 

right.. its like a guy that normally doesnt shoot 3 pointers has 9 in a game and cant miss.. they are as #58 said IN THE ZONE... hard to be in a zone and impossible to stay in it when you play for a series then sit out the next 3 or more... to me if you keep going you dont get as tired as if you stop for 20 minutes and go back to doing whatever you were doing... and thats tells me we got 4 guys that arnt really worth a damn... no one stands out and how many years have we been like this without a feature back (that was healthy and not pouting on the bench)

HINES

 

AGREED! And all you have to do is look at how well that RBBC thing worked last year. Yeah, that's what I thought.

 

Bell was drafted to be the workhorse, to end the running back by commitee crap. Unfortunatly the horse has a bad shoe. Once he gets on the field he will carry the load.

 

HA HA! Yeah this....

Redman totally benefits from multiple carries. The Bus did too. That is why I am surprised they actually kept Redman. Unless he is insurance if Bell goes down for the year, and they deactivate Redman for games unless something like that happens??? Otherwise I do feel he is useless coming in to spell people for a series. Dwyer might have been better for that.

On Tunch and Wolf today they were mentioning there was a rumor that Dwyer would show up late to meetings and stuff. If that is the case Dwyer was D.O.A.

 

Redman won't be in the game on 3rd down plays I expect Jones and Howlings to be in the game. As long as Redman is gaining yards they won't need a runningback by committee.

 

I completely agree with Blast on this one.
It seemed like a great idea, to me, to use all the available backs, to keep them "fresh", and not let the defense get used to one certain style of RB...
Then I saw how badly it worked.
I concluded there must be something to this "rhythm" thing...
Of course, our line deserves a good portion of the blame, too, but that`s beside the point.
I am now, and always will be in favor of having a "feature" back, NO MORE COMMITTEES!!!
GO STEELERS!

 

I don't mind RB by committee in principle. But I mind it when two of the guys are Isaac Redman and Jonathan Dwyer, and the other is an injured Rashard Mendenhall, and another is Chris Rainey, whose skill set is absolutely not taken into account.

I think if you've got an especially talented back like Mendenhall, you feed him the ball. Let him get into rhythm. It's what he's there for. Don't play him every third series and then complain that he's not producing. If you've got different skill sets (Rainey, LSH, Redman), then you use them, but only when appropriate. You don't substitute them and call plays without connecting those dots - which is exactly what Tomlin has always done, and it drives me nuts.

I think if the guys in your committee are like Dwyer, it doesn't make much difference, because they're just not good enough. That was our problem last year more than rhythm. Lack of talent. Bell is (hopefully) an especially talented back, and we should feed him the ball, mix in Redman for short yardage, and put in LSH for a change of pace.

 

I agree that we need to dance with the one that brings us. I wish we could just settle on a true number one back that can just bulldoze all day long. Hopefully Bell can be that.

 

I would like to have a really good Darren Sproles type player coming out of the backfield for a change of pace guy.

 

That would be awesome, but I think LSH is pretty good. I feel as excited about this signing as I did about Mewelde Moore when we first got him. He helped win us some games right away.

 

Yeah and I really think that LSH might take a couple of kicks to the house this year too and we need that DESPERATELY. He's VERY capable of doing that.

 

I feel exactly the same.

 

big difference in the rb's we had last year to this year. not to mention the line in front of them. why we keep going back to last year being the same as this year is not a good comparison.

the guys we have at RB this year are a much more RBBC friendly bunch then dwyer. he was a get in the zone type runner. I don't think redman was ever healthy last year to the extent he is this year and mendy surely wasn't.

that's why I think it works much better this year. just the things these guys bring to the offense as opposed to what we had to work with last year. scheme and line included. we will not pound the ball up between the center and guard all year like last year making it less of a need for a guy to get in " the zone".

this offense todd wants to run is predicated on making the defense guess and chase. if they play it right we may see more of the pound the ball late with a lead. that's where bell and redman could earn their keep. after we tire out the defense.

 

then they made a huge error in judgement of hiring todd haley as the OC. that's what his offense is built around. he's not a pound the ball up the gut type co-o. they can talk about bell all they want, but until he shows them he's capable of doing it, this is what we will do.

IF this method works, why wouldn't you like it? if bell can be ray rice like then so be it, but we don't know that yet. we also don't have another guy on the team like him right now and he's sitting unknown.