(09-16-2019, 06:57 AM)The Real Marty Wrote:

(09-15-2019, 10:07 PM)JagFan81 Wrote: Oh I agree that a 4th overall should be able to do whatever you want. Maybe it's trying to find what exactly can Fournette do.

The big thing for me is how he is hitting the holes. He used to be hammer into that line but take the 4th and 1 on the last drive or the 2pt, he almost stutter steps into the line. He would push guys 4 yards back just with his momentum.

"The holes"?  What holes?  I haven't seen any.

I'm not putting it all on Fournette, run blocking has been non existent, take the 4th and 1. We need 1. Get behind Norwell and Linder and push them forward. But hes trying to read the line and look for holes and isn't running fast and it's all working against him. Hes not a Bell, stuttering and cutting, Fournette is a bruiser so I just dont know why when we need 1 yard and then 2 yard hes not just power running like he did in 2017.

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(09-16-2019, 08:53 AM)SeldomRite Wrote:

(09-15-2019, 09:11 PM)JagFan81 Wrote: I'm wondering if we know what kind of RB we want Fournette to be. Too slow when he was bigger and too many hits and he is slimmer this year and has some speed back but is by no means a burner. Hes hitting holes nowhere near as hard as that rookie year.

We seem to want him to be everything. 3 down back, power, speed, agility, catching. I'd rather see us, like last season with Grant and Yeldon, guys with other skills to compliment Fournettes game. Fournette was in for 97% of O snaps today.

They're still in the trying to hammer the star shaped peg into the crescent shaped hole stage with Fournette. The problem is the same one they had with Bortles, which is when you make that stupid a draft pick you have to throw good money after bad to try to prove you were never wrong to start with.

My guess is Fournette is gone next year when house gets cleaned.

I would love Fournette to be that guy, after the playoff win in Pittsburgh, he was fantastic that game, I thought he was it.

The game is changing so quickly and especially RB's and how teams use them. It's now very fast guys who can be a receiving threat (Gurley, Kamara, McCaffrey) and that isn't really Fournettes style.

I think maybe Lynch when he was at Seattle would be more Fournettes style but he doesn't have the light feet and burst that Lynch somehow had.

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