(01-03-2020, 09:40 AM)Mikey Wrote:

(01-03-2020, 07:45 AM)SeldomRite Wrote: If your point is he managed to play fifteen games with the coaching staff working as hard as they could to try to justify his existence by feeding him the ball even when it was clear he wasn't going to do much with it then okay, I guess that's worthy of note.

Still I think managing to play in most of the games is the least that should be expected of any drafted player. That he was run into waiting a defender's arms, or tossed a checkdown pass so often is not a particularly noteworthy thing in my mind. But, hey, you do you.

Wasn't that exactly what they did with MJD?  Who was taking carries or catches away from him when he was setting the previous mark? Why can't we be glad that he didn't just roll over and die when he ended up in the doghouse? He has no control over where he was picked. We picked him where we did to make him the workhorse, and guess what, that's what he did.

What is the expectation for him? 2k yards? Running the turf right out the stadium? Buying all season ticket holders a jersey? I don't get it.

The difference was MJD legitimately did things with the ball beyond what the team around him was providing. He also had 11 TDs in 2011.

It's an insult to MJD to even compared the two, really. MJD was a special player that made plays above the X's and O's. Fournette is not a special player and the best you can say about him at this point is at least he improved as a pass blocker.

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