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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Magooch" data-source="post: 1091841" data-attributes="member: 17987">The Wilson thing is interesting because yeah... many would suspect Jacobs was "down" this past season due to injury, but Wilson compared pretty favorably to "healthy" Jacobs the season prior, too. Yes the volume isn't quite there but Wilson has at least a respectable enough sample to draw from that it's not something you can just immediately discard.With Brooks it's harder for me to say. Brooks is pretty clearly the better "blocking back" of the group IMO, and - I haven't looked at the specifics, just going off my memory of it - I feel like he is getting a big percentage of his touches on 3rd down. So he's coming into these situations where he is presumably first going to be a blocking back, and on top of that teams are keyed in on the pass in general, so when the ball is coming his way in those situations its probably a fairly favorable matchup for him on those snaps. Combined with the relatively low count to begin with and I could imagine those numbers get a bit inflated due to the situational usage and low volume The whole situation is kinda weird though because it feels like we really tried to make a move towards having more "power" blockers on the OL, the "road grader" type of guys. And in the same way with Lloyd not really a serious option (yet?) we have leaned towards these kind of power-backs rather than speed backs. We don't really have a ton of shiftiness or "wiggle" in the RB room right now so it's just kind of a mismatch IMO. I don't really think the line has often performed in the way you want them to for that kind of power run scheme and then the backs don't really have the speed or shiftiness to compensate for the small (or nonexistent) holes they are facing at times. I know I'm kind of jumping around here but at times I guess it's felt like with this current line we'd be better off with a quicker or more shifty back who can find windows when the OL isn't doing a great job at making them. Right now we just see a lot of reps where our OL isn't opening much up but we're calling relatively "straight" runs where the back's basically going straight into the scrum and there's not a ton of opportunity to come away with much. And at times LaFleur still seems to want to lean towards "run to open up the pass" but when we have a (relatively) healthy WR room it really feels like the whole operation would benefit from going more "pass to open up the run" IMO</blockquote>

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