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Message: <blockquote data-quote="UncleMeat" data-source="post: 240356" data-attributes="member: 1450">Grant is a good enough RB.  I'd give him 70% of the carries no problem, maybe more.  I agree with most of what gpac said, it's not all Grant's fault.  Grant hit most of the right holes when there were any.  I saw at least 3-4 plays each game where Grant would have one of his own linemen driven into him behind the line of scrimmage.  You can't be a good running back when on 20% of your carries you're getting hit almost instantly after getting the ball.  Barry Sanders is the ONLY back in the last 20 years who could recover from that.  Also, you could tell for at least the first 8 weeks that Grant hadn't recovered from the hamstring injury.  Those things usually hurt backs all year because they get rushed back on the field before they are 100% and they keep re-injuring it.A healthy Grant next year will be better than this year.  However, they still need to do something about the blocking.  We could get any running back in the NFL right now (Turner, Tomlinson, Chris Johnson, Brandon Jacobs) and they wouldn't do well on our team because there is no place to run on the majority of plays.</blockquote>

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