cal06 said:
Rushinbear said:
heartofthebear said:
Troll On You Bears said:
He fumbled too much and lost ground on the depth chart.
Agreed. But isn't there anyone else?
I absolutely love watching Ott but we should be giving him more breathers.
there's always the empty backfield. Seriously, what happened to Derue and Chapman?
Spavital made reference to an "unfortunate injury" to Derue in an interview a couple of weeks ago. Hopefully we can get him in the rotation next year with some production. A backfield of Ott, Cardwell, Dorue, Williams-Thomas and Javien Thomas would be a pretty good unit. The main thing we need is a productive 2nd guy. Right now there is a huge drop off after Ott.
I disagree. I like what I've seen from Williams Thomas. He's much bigger in person than I thought and runs downhill which I like. I think the bigger issue is the oline.
Ott is able to make it work with poor blocking against bad and mediocre fronts because he is shifty enough.
And ifanse did as well. But for a bigger back like Williams Thomas the run blocking really needs to get him a few blocks. Having 4 defenders unblocked at the point of attack 3 times out of 4 on designed runs inside is not cutting it