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NFL Week 6 -- What could possibly go wrong in 13 seconds?

Apropos of nothing, I miss running backs who used to love to punish defensive backs rather than running out of bounds. The way they lowered their shoulders and drove into the DBs not only gained them extra yards after contact, it also set up juke moves later in the game that led to bigger gains.

It seems like the part of the reason RBs are so devalued now is that they're no longer willing, able, or allowed to put in the hard yards to earn the big yards.

Derrick Henry is about the only modern RB I can think of who will punish the defense. Fournette runs pretty hard, but he's also very willing to step out early instead of gaining a couple extra yards. Is there anyone else even in this conversation?

EDIT TO EXPAND: You would think that the simultaneous decline of the middle linebacker would almost invite the return of the hard-Nosed running back. With virtually no tough guys left up the middle, one would think teams could exploit that with a Mack truck in the backfield.
 
bigpern23 said:
Apropos of nothing, I miss running backs who used to love to punish defensive backs rather than running out of bounds. The way they lowered their shoulders and drove into the DBs not only gained them extra yards after contact, it also set up juke moves later in the game that led to bigger gains.

It seems like the part of the reason RBs are so devalued now is that they're no longer willing, able, or allowed to put in the hard yards to earn the big yards.

Derrick Henry is about the only modern RB I can think of who will punish the defense. Fournette runs pretty hard, but he's also very willing to step out early instead of gaining a couple extra yards. Is there anyone else even in this conversation?

EDIT TO EXPAND: You would think that the simultaneous decline of the middle linebacker would almost invite the return of the hard-Nosed running back. With virtually no tough guys left up the middle, one would think teams could exploit that with a Mack truck in the backfield.
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The Browns have two. They still suck.
 
At least Abbott can take some solace in this: Based on what I saw yesterday, by the time Watson is eligible to play QB for the Browns, his showing up at the practice facility will be like one of those poor folks on Sanibel Island returning to the shards and wreckage of their former homes.
 
Easterby was brought in by McNair's kid to clean out all of his dad's old buddies. He gutted the once decent franchise. I kinda figured sucking was the "game plan" - he couldn't have possibly stood by and see the mass exodus and the revolving door of coaches and thought - "Oh, yeah - we're doing great." I wouldn't be surprised if the McNair family stripped the kid of operating control.
 
At the beginning of the season, I said that both Flacco and Zach Wilson were ass as qbs.
I'm here to say they have not been ass this year. They've been fine.
 
Michael_ Gee said:
At least Abbott can take some solace in this: Based on what I saw yesterday, by the time Watson is eligible to play QB for the Browns, his showing up at the practice facility will be like one of those poor folks on Sanibel Island returning to the shards and wreckage of their former homes.
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According to the NFLPA, Cleveland has the least rapable women in the NFL. So they are filing a grievance
 
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