re: Arian Foster likely to be released....Dallas? Should they?

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Arian Foster was way better than those guys, look at the stats of his replacement. Foster was not a system back.

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Is Foster better than those guys? I would say yes. But how much of his success is a product of the system? Let's look at yards/attempt and yards/game for Foster and the 3, Broncos scrubs in years when they had over 100 carries (only counting the Broncos years... if you really want to see how powerful the system is, look at the non-Bronco years for those guys)

Foster
2010 - 4.9 YPC, 101 YPG
2011 - 4.4 YPC, 94.2 YPG
2012 - 4.1 YPC, 89.0 YPG
2013 - 4.5 YPC, 67.8 YPG
2014 - 4.8 YPC, 95.8 YPG

Anderson
2000 - 5.0 YPC, 92.3 YPG
2001 - 3.9 YPC, 42.4 YPG
2005 - 4.2 YPC, 57.6 YPG (was a FB the year before)

Gary
1999 - 4.2 YPC, 92.5 YPG

Droughns
2004 - 4.5 YPC, 77.5 YPG

I'm not including Portis and Davis for obvious reasons, but here are 3 guys who would have never so much have been a blip on the radar who all had at least one 1,000+ yard season in the system that created Arian Foster. * Droughns amazingly had a good year with the Browns after he left Denver.