(12-07-2022, 12:42 PM)Mikey Wrote: (12-06-2022, 11:44 AM)carp8dm Wrote: Can you provide the link? I provided a link for you. I'd love to see the number of rush attempts Robinson had versus the attempts ETN had during their rookie years. The yards per rush versus fumbles will also be important. And then the Yards per Game.
I'm so happy you are interested in actually determining whether or not Robinson's trade was a smart move!
I look forward to the link you used.
dude, go to google, type "james robinson stats", not hard to find sites with data. I tend to use pro football reference for a lot of research, they got all kinds of stuff.
I'm not stuck in the past. You could tell that JRob was not a fit for the present mold. Once Etienne was on his feet, the priority shifted. The team moved on.
Here's where I stand. Jrob was good for a us for a while. He's currently putting up quite replaceable numbers. We got a conditional 5th/6th for him. Neither side of the argument is worth fighting over. They're both insignificant.
I'm not here to argue against the trade, other than, it looks like a bad one now...
I'm just here pointing out facts.
The fact is that ETN was clearly the best RB in the entire group. ETN has been gifted by God with his physical ability. There is no doubt. But with that said, he's coming off an injury and hasn't been proven in the NFL yet. With the first few games he played, he dropped balls and fumbled as well.
Even with all that liability Caldwell decided to move on from Robinson. Caldwell moved off Robinson all while the Coaching staff had no confidence in Hasty or Snoop. And it's clear that the coaches still have no confidence in Hasty or Snoop. So what does that tell you? Probably nothing, cuz you aren't really thinking this through... But it tells me that the coaching staff had the rug pulled out from under them.
The fact that they immediately make ETN the work horse and only put in Hasty when ETN got hurt proves my point. Conversely, when Robinson was on the squad the coaches shared rushes between the 2 Running Backs.
I'm just saying that hindsight is 20/20. And if you are honest with yourself, you realize that trade of Robinson was a bad move. A normal person would look at the dynamic between ETN and Robinson and see that this could be sustainable for at least a year and let both players work off eachother. ETN could have learned a TON from Robinson. Robinson would have gained trade value after proving his Achille's was no longer an issue.
Instead, we got the worst of all of it. We got a young RB that is coming off Lisfranc with no real subsitute and we traded the one mentor and sub he had for a 5th rounder.
Baalke made a terrible move with that one, and it's not even really a debate.
I'm not sure you know this, but there is something similar that happened in Jacksonville with 2 RBs...
