Out of a possible 64games, he missed 19. Thats 30%. Thats JD Drew. Granted 13 were from 1 year but it still needs to be factored in to the assessment of his durabilty.
stop grasping.
He sucked eggs vs JAX and was benched. Brady played. Welker played. Ws Maroney rested b/c he was overworked or hurt. Can't have it both ways, emoney.
Sucked eggs vs JAX? 5 carries 22 yards. He fumbled on the last play of the drive and didn't play again. That coincided with Fred Taylor's first game back after 3 months. While I think they benched him PARTLY for the fumble that game, I think it was also partly because they absolutely needed to get Fred Taylor some game time.
He was neither overworked nor hurt, unless you think the same of Faulk? Punishing him for the last 2 games and then starting him in the playoffs makes absolutely no sense if they thought he was sucking.
You have no idea if he tried or not.
huh? We have 4 years of evidence on exactly how BB has used Maroney. None of that points to a desire to feed him the ball 15-20 times a game consistently. He has produced reasonably well when he's played so it's not like they've 'limited' his carries because he has sucked.
Although i'll practice what I preach and say he hasn't b/c we don't have a Dillon on the roster but rumor is that he wanted the kid SD drafted if he was in the right spot. fact is that he got a Dillon and ran him and Smithand were productive We know he drafted LoMo in the middle of the 1st round. You are making the assertion that he drafted him to be a RB by comitte guy. No?
I'm not making any assertions of why he was drafted. YOU are making the assertion that he was drafted to be the feature workhorse. I don't think BB really drafts anyone with the expectations of them being something like a feature workhorse. He drafts the best player on the board for their team and goes from there. Let's not make this into arguing about BB's mind, it's pointless.
Hes a #1 pick!!! You are telling me BB NEVER wanted him to evolve and mature into a feature back. C'mon.
Maybe, maybe not. For 5 years he has not tried to make him the feature back, so I lean towards the maybe not.
Positional production is not the issue (for the most part but i'm not totally comfortable with their running game anyway in 2009). The evolution of LoMo as a feature back is.
That's because you have some odd notion that LoMo was drafted to be a stud feature RB. That's what YOU wanted, I don't think that's necessarily the reason they drafted him. I'm also very confident that he could carry 200+ times a season if that's what they wanted.
He's not elite, and they probably hoped he'd be better (as I assume they would hope that every body on their team would be as good as possible). Hoping and expecting are two different things.