(12-24-2018, 01:10 PM)Steelers Beaches Wrote:

(12-23-2018, 11:24 AM)Mdjagsfan1989 Wrote: The difference between a great running back and a good or solid running back is that even when the offensive line is no good, they seem to make their own holes and pick up yards. Fred Taylor and mojo did not always have good offensive lines but they never got stuffed as much as LF.

Fred had some very solid O lines (Boselli, Coleman, Wade, Wiegert, Searcy), Mojo had at least decent ones. It's damn hard to ever do much as RB if you get hit by waves of defenders in the backfield. No RB is that good with OLs that bad. Not Emmitt, not Sanders, not Bettis, not Bell, not LT.

Maurice Jones Drew ran for the rushing title behind a pretty craptastic O-Line. A line way worse than what Fournette had last season and than what your guy Henry has right now. 

Go ahead and search the internet for some superlatives on Will Rackley and Guy Whimper.
(you won't find any because they sucked)
They were the 2011 version of Josh Walker and Patrick Omameh. They were accompanied by two decent vets at the end of their careers and showing it in Meester and Nwaneri.  The perennially average-at-best Monroe was at LT. 
Not good. 
But MJD ran for 1600 and 4.7 per tote. 

I'm not even gonna try to talk Freddy T with you. You ought to know how special he was if you were alive and conscious in 2007.  Neither Fournette nor Henry deserve mentions in the same breath.

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