(11-24-2023, 10:24 AM)NYC4jags Wrote:

(11-24-2023, 09:52 AM)Jaguarmeister Wrote: RB was a need.  I promise you the plan was not to have ETN see the level of usage he's gotten this year to date.  No one yet has asserted themselves as a clear number 2 is the problem.  You can gripe about the actual selection (though I'd keep an open mind given the small sample size thus far), but RB was and still is a need if only to spell ETN and be efficient while doing so.  Having someone who has a high probability of converting short yardage situations would be nice as well.

Last week against the tacks was the highest usage Tank and D'Ernest have seen all year I believe.  That may have been because it was a blowout in our favor as aside from D'Ernest's one long reception, neither was all that efficient.  Tank did move the pile once in a short yardage situation.  Whether it was situational due to the blow out or a concerted effort to get both more involved I don't know, but I'll take it either way for ETN's sake.

I think DJ is your current clear #2 and should have been from jump street. 
His cleveland tape should have been enough to establish that.

I totally get giving a promising rookie opportunities, but DJ needs to be the spellback and the guy going in to protect/block. 

Save Bigsby for garbage time or blowout/burn clock snaps. He'll be good next year.

This. I never understood the Bigsby selection from the beginning. You had Johnson signed and Hasty extended. RB was a slight need, not worthy of dropping a 3rd RD pick on. He's also been one of the least impressive RB's taken from this year's class so far. 

With the exception of guys like Robinson and Gibbs who were first round picks. I would say guys like Spears, Achane and Johnson in Chicago have all showed more promise moving forward. Then you get into the undrafted RB class. Baltimore's Keaton Mitchell being the biggest name.

Baalke is not good at evaluating or landing good RB's in the draft. Sans Etienne, which may or may have been his decision to begin with.

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