I wouldn't call RB a dying position. My NFL team is the Rams and McVay utilizes the running back in various ways. His scheme is heavily reliant on a good run game. And with Kyren Williams (and now rookie Blake Corum), they have one of the best backfields in the league. So much of what McVay does greatly depends on having a stud running back. Think back to when Gurley was in his prime. They went to the Super Bowl.Clemson, Alabama, and LSU won their recent national championships in large part because of their hero QB/WR combinations.
This isn’t the 90s anymore, if your guy isnt good enough to be taking snaps on Sunday, you’re never gonna eclipse Pelini/Ferentz success
RB is a dying position relegated to guys who are too short/slow to play WR, and too short/stupid to play QB
r/cfb is a good aggregate for news, but anytime there is a whiff of politics it immediately become an insufferable virtue-signaling dick sizing.I f*cking love Reddit personally. Last bastion of the real internet aside from boards like this one.
Yeah. I watched the Michigan State game. Number 10 had 2 picks, 2 fumbles lost, and at least 1 pick called back.Those stats would look even worse if fumbles were included 🤮. 3 more days until a new era begins, hopefully
I wouldn't call RB a dying position. My NFL team is the Rams and McVay utilizes the running back in various ways. His scheme is heavily reliant on a good run game. And with Kyren Williams (and now rookie Blake Corum), they have one of the best backfields in the league. So much of what McVay does greatly depends on having a stud running back. Think back to when Gurley was in his prime. They went to the Super Bowl.
It also keeps the QB healthy.
If there isn't a good RB then the offense is completely one-dimensional unless you have a freak at QB, like Mahomes.
Andy Reid appreciates a good running attack. Hes got Pachecko and found a stud in Rookie Carson Steele.I wouldn't call RB a dying position. My NFL team is the Rams and McVay utilizes the running back in various ways. His scheme is heavily reliant on a good run game. And with Kyren Williams (and now rookie Blake Corum), they have one of the best backfields in the league. So much of what McVay does greatly depends on having a stud running back. Think back to when Gurley was in his prime. They went to the Super Bowl.
It also keeps the QB healthy.
If there isn't a good RB then the offense is completely one-dimensional unless you have a freak at QB, like Mahomes.
Throw the 5-Star ranking out the window already. True, he doesn't have to be the hero, but Huskers have to have 8 games of 220+ rushing yards per game.
I want the "HERO" to be a Nebraska tailback, not the QB.
Let’s look at some more cherry picked stats: Michigan’s best ranking on offense (after being #2 in not turning the ball over, great passing efficiency) was actually their pass completion percentage - #3 in the nation. They were 117th in “pass play percentage” yet were 76th in passing yards becauseeeeeee…they were 15th in yards per pass! Far more efficient than any of their running stats! Wow! Funny how when you get more yards and completions per pass than almost every other team, you actually throw less passes. Math is fun, isn’t it? Unless it destroys you.they ran the ball on 66.7% of their plays in the National Championship game
only 17 (out of 133) teams in the entire country threw the ball less than michigan did last year
Actually, NFL caliber qb's brought NDSU alot of those titles. Going from NFL qbs to average or above average qbs has brought NDSU to the point of consistently losing to SDSU, and now losing to UND and USD.Look at the teams from every level of football and track the teams that can run the ball at will, and they win many championships. It is mostly not because the quarterback throws the ball to open the running game. It is teams that run when they want and when everyone expects them to. It is the offensive line that determines the success and failure of running. What has brought NDSU 9 rings in 13 years?
The O-line this year has 4 starting Sr's and a Soph. This is the first time in years the O-line has this many Sr's starting. This is what the difference will be this year. The offensive line will determine the success of the running game, not the QB.
The run game at Michigan set up the pass (duh, obviously)Let’s look at some more cherry picked stats: Michigan’s best ranking on offense (after being #2 in not turning the ball over, great passing efficiency) was actually their pass completion percentage - #3 in the nation. They were 117th in “pass play percentage” yet were 76th in passing yards becauseeeeeee…they were 15th in yards per pass! Far more efficient than any of their running stats! Wow! Funny how when you get more yards and completions per pass than almost every other team, you actually throw less passes. Math is fun, isn’t it? Unless it destroys you.
There were 41 other teams with more yards per carry than Michigan (running the ball “at will”) and not a single one of them won the national title. Crazy, Michigan ranked much higher in yards per pass than yards per rush, so one could just as easily argue that they “passed the ball at will”.
Regardless of all this wrongness, @RedMyMind never said anything about being “pass first” like you twisted, in fact the original post re-enforces that we only need to be average at passing, not even as good as Michigan was. All he’s said is compliment the running game, make it easier, like Michigan did. Like others have said, when is the last championship winning QB that didn’t immediately go on to at least be a backup QB in the NFL? It would appear that it is in fact important.
This continues to perfectly illustrate how you completely manufacture arguments out of thin air for no reason other than being a whole crusty douche bag. Let’s see if I get a response that doesn’t include “Chubba Purdy” or “KDS” or any other total non-answer deflection from the subject.
Michigan (and UGA x2 and Bama), of course, did this. Which is why the boxes they faced were always loaded and why their most efficient play - the play action pass - worked so wellYou have to be able to run the ball when everyone knows you are going to run the ball.
Of course, idiotic. Hence my involvement and highlight of the fact Michigan’s success through the air would’ve been a fraction had it not been for their extremely heavy lean the run game - calling more runs than just 17 schools in the country.That works against the blind schools but rarely anyone else
You obviously are misrepresenting my point as usual.The run game at Michigan set up the pass (duh, obviously)
Here’s where you got lost (as usual):
Michigan (and UGA x2 and Bama), of course, did this. Which is why the boxes they faced were always loaded and why their most efficient play - the play action pass - worked so well
OP’s response:
Of course, idiotic. Hence my involvement and highlight of the fact Michigan’s success through the air would’ve been a fraction had it not been for their extremely heavy lean the run game - calling more runs than just 17 schools in the country.
I don’t disagree with anything you posted. It’s all just neither here nor there.
Try and keep up next time you spend all day workshopping a response, sweetheart. You’ll get me one day!
Xoxo
Was literally anyone arguing this?You obviously are misrepresenting my point as usual.
Name one great team that has a dominant run first offense that doesn't have a QB who is a passing threat.
You said my response to this was wrong. How is it wrong? Who says you need to be so dominant at running the ball at will to win games? The idea that you can tell the defense what play you are going to run and still dominate the game is a thing of years past, when the discrepancy between teams was much larger. That is becoming less and less, thus the reason why teams disguise plays in different formations and try to keep teams guessing. Maybe coaches should just get better players and stop worrying about coordinating an offense.Was literally anyone arguing this?
If so, I didn’t see it.
That works against the blind schools but rarely anyone elseYou have to be able to run the ball when everyone knows you are going to run the ball.
No, it’s not.The idea that you can tell the defense what play you are going to run and still dominate the game is a thing of years past
a good passing offense is better than a good running offense.No, it’s not.
We saw it last year. And the year before. And the year before.
the best teams in the country run the ball more often than they throw it.a good passing offense is better than a good running offense.