Todd Gurley OT

saw a lot of stupid football yesterday. Todd a rookie showed situational awareness, that you would expect from a Patriot veteran.

3rd and 12 over a min left on the road team clinging to a 2 pt lead. He breaks a run, and has the chance to get a TD but might have to break a tackle, if he scores it would his first NFL TD. Instead he slows down and drops down around the 8 yd line, and stays inbounds so his team can kill the clock and Cards never get the ball back.

Really love to see an unselfish head up play by a rookie. Play after 1 min mark in this video.

Now that's a sign you're ready for the NFL. Smart play.

Love it.

I thought it was totally overplayed by the announcers. It is exactly what any player should do. Was it the right play, absolutely. Does he deserve credit for it? Yes. But I guarantee the coaches and QB told him (especially because he's a rookie) to make sure to keep the ball in play and the clock running. Give the guy credit for doing so, but the announcers were acting like he was the second coming of Mother Teresa. Over the top.

I was fully in support of NE using a first rounder on Gurley had he fell in last year's draft. Pitt would be 1-3 right now had he been ready last week.

carpetbagger1 said:

I thought it was totally overplayed by the announcers. It is exactly what any player should do. Was it the right play, absolutely. Does he deserve credit for it? Yes. But I guarantee the coaches and QB told him (especially because he's a rookie) to make sure to keep the ball in play and the clock running. Give the guy credit for doing so, but the announcers were acting like he was the second coming of Mother Teresa. Over the top.

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I'd guess that only about 1 in 5 players do it, and of those 20%, about half of THEM are Patriots.

That's why we noticed.

Common sense is not really all that common!

Palm Beach Pats Fan said:

I'd guess that only about 1 in 5 players do it, and of those 20%, about half of THEM are Patriots.

That's why we noticed.

Common sense is not really all that common!

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Like New Orleans last night. They had the ball and a lead with 4:26 left, time to burn clock. Two incompletes and a guy running out of bounds gives a 3 and out that burned 15 seconds...from veterans....

carpetbagger1 said:

I thought it was totally overplayed by the announcers. It is exactly what any player should do. Was it the right play, absolutely. Does he deserve credit for it? Yes. But I guarantee the coaches and QB told him (especially because he's a rookie) to make sure to keep the ball in play and the clock running. Give the guy credit for doing so, but the announcers were acting like he was the second coming of Mother Teresa. Over the top.

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It's Jeff fisher. Can't be sure about that.

I drafted him on all of my fantasy teams. I would usually be against drafting a rb so early because they are so hard to evaluate based on college (it's hard to sometimes see football IQ when you have an easy schedule and dominant o-line). But Gurley was the exception.

That's a pretty scary mix of lateral movement, vision, power, and breakaway speed. Best RB to come out of college since AP

Oswlek said:

I was fully in support of NE using a first rounder on Gurley had he fell in last year's draft. Pitt would be 1-3 right now if he had been ready last week.

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Yeah, as much as I like the Brown pick Gurley's a really special talent. It's a shame Jeff Fisher's going to run him into the ground over the next couple years.

He's on my fantasy team, too. Score the touchdown, you bum!!

carpetbagger1 said:

I thought it was totally overplayed by the announcers. It is exactly what any player should do. Was it the right play, absolutely. Does he deserve credit for it? Yes. But I guarantee the coaches and QB told him (especially because he's a rookie) to make sure to keep the ball in play and the clock running. Give the guy credit for doing so, but the announcers were acting like he was the second coming of Mother Teresa. Over the top.

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Sure. It's exactly what a player should do. But how often don't we see player not doing what they should? It happens all the time, especially situational stuff like this. Even if the coaches said to keep it inbounds it's still very good to see the player, especially a rookie, to not go for the open touchdown.

If players more often than not did "exactly what they should do" we wouldn't have so many bad teams and players in the league.

I really, really wanted the Pats to draft him. Would have given next year's 1st round pick to move up for him. Which would've worked out nicely as it turned out.....

Hell of a prospect. It's a shame he's stuck with Nick Foles and Jeff Fisher.

For the Gators' sake, I'm glad he's not at UGA anymore...

He should apply for the Giants HC job next year.

Deus Irae said:

Hell of a prospect. It's a shame he's stuck with Nick Foles and Jeff Fisher.

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Could have been worse, could have been Bradford and Fisher...............

He made a couple of heads up plays in a row, giving himself up instead of getting extra yards and risking going out of bounds.

Not only talented, smart too. Would have been nice to have had him available at 32.