Quote:I think we have some untalented RB's after Gerhart in addition to some crap run blocking. Is it scheme? A bit too early to tell but its not out of the question like some people think. I really am interested to see how well gerhart will do this season.

 

I totally disagree that we have "untalented RB after Gerhart". On the contrary, I think both Cobb and Storm are very talented, and even Todman is capable of 4.0+ YPC. Cobb's issue is he's coming off of a foot injury last year, IIRC....which is a shame, because if you watch his footage pre-injury he was a special player. I bring that up only because his injury may/ may not be still some sort of factor. Denard Robinson is not a prototypical RB and is still learning the position, so we don't know what he is, there, yet or if he'll ever become anything. I don't blame the OL on any struggles from Denard. 

 

Quote:It's not the scheme.   A successful running play has so many moving parts, it takes a while to make it work.   We have a lot of new players.   You have to have good players, and then it takes time to get all the moving parts in sync.   You can't scheme your way into a successful running game. 

 

You don't know that "its not the scheme". It may very well eventually prove not to be, but at this point its too early to dismiss that as a possibility. I already mentioned the run blocking issues Yarno's OL's have had over his past 4-5 years as a NFL OL coach, and Knapp from Oakland (just as another example) is another ZBS guy who's overseen HIDEOUS run blocking OL's. I remember Darren McFadden was coming off of a very promising season when they added Knapp in the following offseason and then their entire run blocking went to crap - same personnel, too.  

 

However, there are some good run blocking ZBS's too....so I'm willing to give it some more time. 

 

I'm just starting to lean in the direction that the OL coach/ scheme might indeed be a contributing factor to the lack of success there. Fisch might also be part of the issue, but since feature back Lamar Miller did pretty well under Fisch, I'm less inclined to believe he's the issue. 

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