re: Congrats to Leonard Fournette

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He essentially plays for the LSU of the NFL. It’s pretty amazing really.

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What's amazing is that people continue to defend him as a good player when all the evidence says otherwise. Watch a game sometime.

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Todd Gurley had to play in an archaic offense where he was the only threat and teams stacked the box against him.

Look at the stats from 2016 vs. 2017 after McVay revamped that offense, with nearly an identical # of attempts:

2016 - 278 rushes, 3.2 YPC, 6 TDs

2017 - 279 rushes, 4.7 YPC, 13 TDs

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But Gurley was coming off of a rookie season where he averaged 4.8 YPC.

But even if we just compare Fournette’s 2017 season and Gurley’s 2016 season to their fellow RBs, Gurley’s 3.18 YPC was 88.6% pdf the 3.59 YPC of the other RBs. On the other hand, Fournette’s 3.88 YPC was 83.9% of the 4.62 YPC of the other RBs. And 2018 is even worse (78.7%; albeit limited sample size) for Fournette whole 2016 was by far the worse season by all comparisons for Gurley.

In other words, Fournette’s 3.73 YPC on 312 carries is not particularly good in and of itself, but the fact that his fellow RBs have 2 fewer carries and 145 more yards over the last 2 seasons seems far more problematic than his YPC alone would indicate.

People can laugh at the Richardson comparison all they want, but it’s spot on. Neither guy ever learned how to play the position because they were so much faster and stronger than everyone else by the time they were sophomores in high school. This was still the case when they were both in college, and it’s not the case in the NFL. It’s why Leonard sucked against Alabama, he couldn’t rely on his speed and power and doesn’t have any vision. Leonard isn’t even an average NFL running back at this point. To say otherwise is just refuting hard evidence. Anybody that calls Richardson a bust and makes excuse for a Fournette doesn’t even deserve a response. Trent Richardson played for the fricking Cleveland Browns

Kill it? No. He isn’t Todd Gurley. He’d be better than he is in Jacksonville, but every back in the league sans Kamara and Ingram would be better in the Rams offense. His YPC is alarming. Barkley plays in an equally inept offense and puts up 100 yards from scrimmage every week as a rookie. His line is arguably worse than Jacksonville’s. Fournette has been hyped up as a generational talent on this website since he was 16. He’s a generational athlete, but not a generational running back. Those guys stand out even in bad offenses.

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People can laugh at the Richardson comparison all they want, but it’s spot on. Neither guy ever learned how to play the position because they were so much faster and stronger than everyone else by the time they were sophomores in high school. This was still the case when they were both in college, and it’s not the case in the NFL. It’s why Leonard sucked against Alabama, he couldn’t rely on his speed and power and doesn’t have any vision. Leonard isn’t even an average NFL running back at this point. To say otherwise is just refuting hard evidence. Anybody that calls Richardson a bust and makes excuse for a Fournette doesn’t even deserve a response. Trent Richardson played for the fricking Cleveland Browns

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Eh...I wouldn't go as far as to say that.

Trent had no vision. This is the same guy that completely misses blocks and lanes.

Fournette depends on his athleticism, but he has the vision to stay in this league a long time.

Unfortunately, he needs to get healthy from all of these soft tissue/muscle injuries for one...they have lingered his entire career.

2nd is, you need a better fricking QB than Bortles and the lack of weapons that Jacksonville has.

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Thanks for proving my point

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Is your point that out of 127 yards and 17 carries, a 90 yard TD accounted for 71% of those yards?

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You really think Fournette wouldn't kill it in a Rams-style offense?

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The right question would be could Fournette kill it in ANY offense.

I can tell you haven't come to terms that he isn't a good RB.

I did the same thing with Trent. I'm not hating on you my man.

You could've at least framed it as "What RB wouldn't kill it in the Rams offense"

Doing all the work for you

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Probably at least 15 or 20.

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K. Still working on some frickIN STATS for the second part of my post?