(04-30-2023, 03:36 PM)RicoTx Wrote:

(04-30-2023, 03:19 PM)I am Yoda Wrote: The drop off in carries between ETN and the rest make the case that we still don’t have our number two back. finding that one bell-cow back to carry your team is largely a thing of the past. Today’s championship level teams need a good running back tandem. If that is what they have found with Bigsby, we may look back on this choice with a little kinder eyes.


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You might want to check the stats of the playoff teams about not having a bell-cow back.

Looked this up... not sure how you define bell-cow back.

Playoff teams / Snap% of top rushers / total carries of lead back / and then touches per game of lead back / rank in NFL of touchers per game

Chiefs 47% Jerrick McKinnon 31% Isiah Pachecho / neither over 200 carries / neither in the top 21 of touchers per game
Bills 65% Devin Singletary / under 200 carries / not in the top 21 of touches per game
Bengals 65% Joe Mixon 40% Samaji Perine / 212 carries / 19.3 touches per game / 6th in the NFL
Jaguars 59% Travis Etienne / 220 carries / 15 touches per game / 21st in NFL
Chargers 62% Austin Akeler / under 200 carries / 18.3 touches per game / 11th in NFL
Ravens 46% Kenyan Drake / under 200 carries/ not in top 21 in touches per game
Dolphins 56% Raheem Mostert / under 200 carries / not in the top 21 in touches per game

Eagles 57% Miles Sanders / 259 carries / 16.4 touches per game / 17th in the NFL
49ers 73% Christian McCaffrey (Although this also carries over from Carolina) / 244 carries / 18.4 touches per game #4 in the NFL
Vikings 72% Dalvin Cook / 264 carries / 17.8 touches per game / 13th in the NFL
Bucs 60% Leonard Fournette 39% Rachaad White / under 200 carries / 16.4 touches per game / 19th in the NFL
Cowboys 53% Ezekial Elliot, 55% Tony Pollard / 231 carries for Zeke / 16.5 touches per game Zeke / 14.5 touches per game Pollard / 16 and 23 in the NFL
Giants 80% Saquon Barkley / 295 carries / 22 touches per game / 3rd in the NFL
Seahawks 58% Kenneth Walker / 228 carries / 17 touchesr per game / 15th in NFL


Looks like our playoff teams in bell-cow touches per game are:
3rd
4th
6th
11th
13th
15th
16th and 23rd (Same Team)
17th
19th
21st
Not in top 21 (4 teams)

Superbowl teams were not in the top 21 and 17th
Top 4 seeds were: 
4th
17th
Unranked
Unranked

Not sure exactly how to interpret this data but I'm not convinced it shows lots of bell-cow usage by playoff teams.

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