re: Kamara is a shell

Offensive line overall is hot trash with Throckmorton, Hurst and Peat. They can't open a hole. I'm giving Ruiz a pass because he is playing out of position.

Kamara does not suck.
Kamara is simply not a GREAT running back, he's "only" a very good RB. What I mean is what keeps him out of that elite/great category is that he is not a RB who could just take over a game week in and week out because he does not have the power to run in between the tackles as well as those elite guys can. No team goes into playing the Saints and says "we have to shut down Kamara's running game", because it's fairly easy to do. I understand our o-line is not helping the run game much this year, but the running between the tackles is what separates him from Saquon Barkley, Derrick Henry, McCaffrey, Johnathan Taylor and a few others.

He's almost a fair weather running back so to speak. If we are winning and offense is able to pass the ball and back the defense off, then he can have very good success running the ball. Again I know it's not all on him, o-line and playcalling are big parts of it as well

They never get Kamara involved in the passing game anymore. This is the main problem. And not just screens... we used to have downfield routes for him when SP was coach.

I heard one of these Saints talking heads make this point. They are running him like he is a bruiser. Like he is a power rounner. That has never been his game. This team needs a young creative talent at OC. Clearly.

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Its not a kamara issue, its an offnesive issue. We misuse him.

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One day we’ll remember to line him up in the slot some times like his first year and have another running back on the field

Maybe the saints are refusing to use him in a way that we will be reliant on him knowing that he's most likely going to be suspended or jailed for a nice stretch of time and we'll be without him anyway.

But he's still massively declined in his playmaking in the past few seasons.