Black was clearly favoring his heavily wrapped left hand. I think that is why he was not in the depth chart.
I get that. But #5 knows the plays inside and out. Knows how to pick up a blitz. Knows where to be. #21 definitely knows how to run fast, but I’d like to see the other guys.
First rule of RB…need to know how to block. He’s behind the other guys in that area from what I hear.
This right here. Those calling for Nayquan to get eliminated from carries don’t understand RB these days. Even in the pros you hardly ever see a single workhorse anymore. You’re putting yourself at a disadvantage if you wear your lone RB out.
Some of this goes to who can block for AR. Wright is the best at this and he’ll keep his pt because of it.
I do not doubt that Lingard is 4th for a reason. Blocking (ie, buying in) seems to be THE most logical explanation. Black? Methinks it is he is still playing Bullyball (no, not Billyball) and thinks his athleticism can work at this level. If I may use an odd analogy, I am reminded about learning how to snow ski. The goal of a resort is to get you to have as much fun as you can in the shortest period of time so that you want to continue to spend more money. How they do that is to teach you how to plow instead of glide and turn. Unfortunately, knowing how to survive (and enjoy) the kiddie slopes plowing gives you some bad habits that hopefully you get out of once you are prepared to tackle the harder stuff. Napier doesn't want guys to "plow" to allow an athlete to have some fun, he wants them to "glide and turn" correctly from the get go. And since we are already on the more advanced slopes, he does not want them to think "surviving it" is the same as "conquering it". He is in the foundation building business, whether we fans like it or not. Just realize that he is NOT Dumbo. Thank goodness for that.
I get what you're saying. We see only a few of a very large set of factors our players are graded on.
J. Gibbs is quickly becoming the "work horse" of bamas RB stable and it paid off this weekend when he ran for 206 yards and 2 tds. He had 18 carries which is almost as much as the 20 combined carries the next 4 RBs had. (6,5,3,6)
As a lifelong skier and ski fan (note my avatar) I feel compelled to comment on this. The plowing turns are helpful to a beginner but should lead into a type of stem christie which involves bringing the uphill ski parallel after a turn has been completed. I would never teach continuous plowing, you always want to be developing a higher skill such as the parallel turn. But having learned the plow, you can always fall back on it when you are in trouble and need to slow down for safety reasons. Also plowing is easier on smaller bodies (children) with the much lower center of gravity and short skis versus much larger adults and longer skis. Kids will plow and quite naturally progress into the more advanced turning methods over a period of time. Adults should be taught out of it and this can happen more rapidly. Since I don't know how to teach defense in football, I don't know how my insight translates to the gridiron. Since the effectiveness of defense is only a small percentage a factor of what an individual executes and depends heavily on what the other 10 players are doing, I am challenged to find analogies.
He was good against Bama last year... do you remember the one drive where he accounted for 90%+ of the yards on one of our TD against them? I remember how much he meant on at least one long TD drive in that close 2 point loss game. I think he needs to play in a slot type position. He's being misused as a running back, IMHO.
As a tv watching fan of the game, it was great to see Lingard and Pearsall make all of the right cuts on their ways to the endzone. It's like we see all the time as a guy is running and gets tackled, and we say, "man, if he would have just cut back...., or cut to the outside, he would have scored...." Well both guys made the right cut reads and got the reward of scoring a TD. Was great to see. GO GATORS!!!!
