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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.Is 07 Maroney-Morris as good as 06 Dillon-Maroney?
Is the answer clear to you guys? I think Faulk and Evans are set in their roles.
In any case, I don't see the change as an improvement for the pats.
No.
Maroney 07 should be a little better than Maroney 06.
But Morris is a lot worse than Dillon 06. Dillon was a touchdown machine, and wore down defenses. He was a great complement to Maroney. Morris is JAG.
That's my opinion as well. 06 Dillon sure wasn't 97-02 Dillon; he sure wasn't 04 Dillon; but he was still an above average NFL back averaging 4.1 ypc and scoring 13 TDs. He was almost always good for positive yardage.No.
Maroney 07 should be a little better than Maroney 06.
But Morris is a lot worse than Dillon 06. Dillon was a touchdown machine, and wore down defenses. He was a great complement to Maroney. Morris is JAG.
That's my opinion as well. 06 Dillon sure wasn't 97-02 Dillon; he sure wasn't 04 Dillon; but he was still an above average NFL back averaging 4.1 ypc and scoring 13 TDs. He was almost always good for positive yardage.
However, 07 Dillon didn't figure to be as good as 06 Dillon, and was due to cost something like 4.4M against the cap, which 97-02 and 04 Dillon were certainly worth but 07 Dillon certainly was not.
So the real question is not whether 07 Maroney and 07 Morris are better or worse than 06 Maroney and 06 Dillon but whether 07 Maroney and 07 Morris are better than 07 Maroney and 07 Dillon would have been. It's hard to say - my guess is that 07 Dillon is still a little better than 07 Morris - but it's close and as far as value for the dollar 07 Morris is far better.
Hopefully true, but we were going to have 07 Maroney either way. So the real question the team had to evaluate was whether to replace 07 Dillon and his cap hit with someone else, who turned out to be 07 Morris, and his cap hit.Even if 07 Dillon would have been better than 07 Morris, it's likely that 07 Maroney will be FAR better than 06 Maroney.
No.
Maroney 07 should be a little better than Maroney 06.
But Morris is a lot worse than Dillon 06. Dillon was a touchdown machine, and wore down defenses. He was a great complement to Maroney. Morris is JAG.