Quote:Toby is a cheap player that we can cut after the year. I don't see how it was such a big whiff. They just got a fill in RB until they got one in the draft this year.

Agreed.  People act like he's getting paid top tier money, and this team is hurting for cap space, so we should cut him.  He's affordable, and he is someone who fills a role.  It's tough to fault him for the fact that he's been limited in his touches when healthy, just as it's not his fault that he's had to deal with some injury issues. 

 

There was some hope that he'd come in and exceed expectations based on his pedigree, but realistically, he was just as much a band aid free agent signing as someone like Marks was when they brought him in.  While Marks has panned out and got a new deal, Gerhart is just plodding along.  The fact that someone wants him cut because he whiffed on a block is funny enough.  If we cut everyone who blew an assignment on this team, we'd have to forfeit the season.  He made a mistake.  Big deal.  He provides solid depth on a team that has better options ahead of him on the depth chart.  That's his reality.

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