(12-27-2019, 11:37 PM)Caldrac Wrote: Make him prove it again. With hopefully more results in the redzone and less one-on-one losses with defenders.

Need to see him actually put some weight back on and play with that physical nature he displayed as a rookie.

Not a fan of tying up cap space at a position where you're getting a whole lot of production for really a whole lot of nothing in the grand scheme of things.

We saw this with Maurice Jones-Drew on a lot of bad teams. We saw this with Fred Taylor on a lot of bad teams. It's just classic Jaguars football acting as it always has.

Run, run, run your backs heavily down the stream.

Merrily, merrily, merrily the Jaguars are never a winning team.

That's been Jacksonville since the year 2000 and they've had only three whopping play off runs to show for all that, well, running. . .

Literally. Quite LITERALLY. . . Hard pass.

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We definitely follow the run the football mantra more than most. The RB position is becoming really important again but its changing like everything else. It's not just running the ball through your blocks, its screens, catching and speed is so important now. You can get RB's lined up on LB's and DE's and good OC's take advantage of mismatches like that all day.

I get Fournette fits that older style more, look at players like Kamara and McCaffrey. Very different. Players like Fournette are what you want late December and in January but you've got to get there first. I think hes stuck between bulking up and trying to gain speed. Move too far either way and it hurts the other.

I think it will come down to what hes asking. If he wants Bell/Gurley money then hes most likely gone but i dont know who would pay him that. I'd like us to try and add someone who can compliment him, maybe a speed RB to oine up with both in shotgun and maybe bringing back a FB for him.

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(12-27-2019, 11:43 PM)Upper Wrote: I'll start with the good, he appears to have taken a step forward as a human being and he has become a legitimately good blocker and at least a serviceable pass catcher.

That said, there are 27 RBs with 150 touches. Fournette is 18th in yards per carry and 20th in yards per reception. He is still an inefficient compiler at RB who is a square peg in the round hole that is the modern NFL.

We aren't winning anything of significance again while he is the centerpiece of the offense, thus we should not pay him as such. Let some other stupid team do that.

And this is my problem. I've been complaining about the lack of rushing TD's all year. Hes had 3 which is what some get in a game. To have over 1100yds rushing but 3 TD's? How do you do that?

Now how much is that on the Oline and the O in general? Theyve all stunk this year. I'm not saying I'm 100% locked on Fournette but I do think he deserves some credit for how hes been this season.

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