Absolutely not if we are talking about Sean Payton here (and we are) since a RB by committee approach has always jived with his philosophy and worked well for him.

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htran90

I think you're worrying too much about tired RBs.

I'm not worrying at all. I'm just pointing out how it makes more sense to have a more rested top RB for a playoff run than a less rested one. Bye weeks matter. It's a huge reason (along with home field) why teams want one of the top 2 seeds for the conference playoffs so badly. That week's rest at that time is extremely important.

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Fox Mulder

we're a little over 24 hours away from finding out if Ingram is THE man.

Let's pump the brakes on that one. It would be tremendously awesome if he did well being that he will be the only real RB again and the team's success depends heavily on him, but the Carolina run defense isn't exactly a "you proved it" type challenge for a RB.

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Posted by DelU249

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Member since Dec 2010

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Posted on 10/29/14 at 12:11 pm to The Pain Train

i just watched ingram's highlights on the saints site, there's no argument

there's a run where he shakes and sheds a defender off the left guard, then cuts all the way to the right, does the same thing to another defender and then gets 10 more yards

watch it again, bad defense, but GB's secondary have been there surest tacklers and only strength on defense and ingram earned every yard

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Posted by TigerBait1127

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Posted on 10/29/14 at 12:24 pm to The Pain Train

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Sean Payton here (and we are) since a RB by committee approach has always jived with his philosophy and worked well for him.

He's used a RBBC approach due to the different skill sets offered and a lack of a true feature back outside of Deuce for 1 season.

And it has not worked well for him IMO. Look how injured we are every single year at RB despite using RBBC. It may have cost us the 2010 championship. It works when you have a Reggie, Sproles, and a PT type back that offer receiving threats out of the backfield, not when you have the same exact style.

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I'm just pointing out how it makes more sense to have a more rested top RB for a playoff run than a less rested one. Bye weeks matter. It's a huge reason (along with home field) why teams want one of the top 2 seeds for the conference playoffs so badly. That week's rest at that time is extremely important.

Teams don't get that homefield advantage by saving their running backs for the playoffs.

Look at Lynch last year. Look at Lacy carrying the Packers to the playoffs.

I'd prefer to use the approach of letting him run, run, and run. If he needs to take a game off due to wear and tear, then let Robinson carry the load for that game.

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