Bad starts for RBs

[biju]

Seems like there's quite a few RBs that are starting out slow:

Travis Henry: 5 for 5 yds.
Thomas Jones: 10 for 21 yds. (but 1 TD)
Rudi Johnson: 4 for 2 yds. (and 1 TD)
William Green: 5 for 5 yds (expected)
Charlie Garner: 4 for 9yds. (expected)
Tyrone Wheatley: 3 for 5 yds.
Deuce McAllister: 5 for 11 yds.

Shaun Alexander just finally pulled of a good TD run, and up until a couple long runs Fred Taylor was looking bad.

Anyone else find this odd?

-M

[IRON CHEF]

Faulk has 7 for 62

[Slingblade]

i need to hire a hitman to take out bettis...

[myst7]

Bettis is going to get the goal line carries all year long...

[RiverRat_ffc]

Dont forget Jamal Lewis, 36 yds on 10 carries...and against the Browns of all teams!!

[biju]

Ok, so I generally hate it when someone tries to discount the "one long run" and say an RB is having a bad day, but I'm going to do it right now.



Clinton Portis has 108 yards on 19 carries to give you 5.7 ypc. However, without his first run of 64 yards you have 44 yards on 18 carries.

That's only a 2.4 average.

[Hugh M. Griz]

Jamal: 20/58
Deuce: 16/57, lost fumble

TJones did manage two TDs ... for my bench. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going paper-bag shopping.

Brutal weekend.

[kanezfan11]

Bettis is UNSTOPPABLE ... LOL ... He may finish the season with 50 rushing yards and 50 TDs.