Too many wasted plays..

Like I said in another thread. I don't think it would be a loss if we cut CJ at the end of the season (hell, cut him tomorrow for all I care). Use that money in free agency and pick up someone that can actually run the ball.

Give Harper a chance in the next 6 games and let's find out if we need to look at drafting a RB in the 2nd-3rd round next year. Harper starting, Ringer or vice versa at the moment sounds a lot better than the CJ/Ringer duo of small backs that aren't even explosive.

We also waste a lot of plays on little dump passes. I counted 4 in a row by Hasselbeck in the 3rd quarter. It was like... dump, dump dump, dump, wild long ball, CJ for 1yd, dump, punt. Sweet.

 

Yep Yep

Agree

 

I'm CJ's biggest supporter and am also leaning towards cutting him at the end of the year to save all that money. I'm starting realize RB's are indeed a dime a dozen and feel like we could spend the money better elsewhere

 

Everyone who thinks CJ doesn't suck blames it on the oline. What sense does it make that the Oline has went from average to the worst in the NFL in one offseason. Doesn't it make more sense that a guy that just got paid just doesn't care anymore? He was laughing after the game with the other teams coach, after he had a 1ypc avg. He's done, put in Ringer/Harper for the rest of the year and see if they have anything to offer, at least they'll play hungry.

 

Invest the money from Johnson into signing and guy like Mike Tolbert or BenJarvus Green-Ellis and bring in a REAL interior offensive lineman (Cark Nicks or Ben Grubbs).

Then draft a Center in round 2 (Konz, Brewster, or Jones)

 

Yeah, while I do agree the O-line is playing sub-par, 1ypc is beyond pathetic.

If anything, it shows how reliant CJ is on a good O-line to succeed. A bigger bruiser back (like Turner or Forte, even Blount) can break the first tackle or two and still get 2-3 yards even on a busted run play.

The fact that we know we can't block and keep pushing small backs into the pile sounds like a fail on Munchak's part. Why haven't we seen Harper in at all?

 

Watch the darn game. If having guys in your face or an OL guys back in your face when you get the hand off doesn't count as the OL being the problem then what does? We can theorize all we want about what the OL should be or what they were but it is obvious by watching them play they are horrible. Scott was manhandled that whole game. He looked like he might as well have been a cone out there. He was equally horrible in pass protection. On a couple of draw plays to CJ he might as well have pulled and let his guy in. At least then he might influence the DT to follow him. The guy was simply horrid and if you can't see that I'm not sure you watched the game.

Now we can put almost any Rb in there and get about the same results when guys in the middle of the OL are being knocked back into the back field every play. It also makes it real hard on the offensive coordinator to establish his game plan.

 

This is exactly right but most people just go the easy way and bash CJ. Yes we can get the same exact results for 500k a year instead of 9 million so sure let's drop CJ and save money, but that won't make us any better. I knew, and most people knew that CJ being successful depends on waiting for an opening in the backfield and accelerating. It's no surprise that when he has nowhere to go 90% of the time his stats look awful. Then in games where he gets a little bit of room (Bengals, Panthers), he looks great. So what's the main issue here? The line. So sure let's drop CJ and save money I'm all for that but we better spend that money on replacing 60% of our o-line.