Smoot Lays the Smack Down: WAS @ SF

[30gut]

Originally Posted by The Goat

RB may be something we draft this year, especially if we can trade Betts somehow and grab another draft pick. Anyway, if the FO is smart it will look for a Brandon Jacobs type, not a Sproles type... unless of course we make massive changes to the o-line (like replace Kendell, Rabach and obviously Jansen/Heyer at RT). As i said in another thread i just don't see o-line getting the focus it needs this year so... i'm hoping for a new bruiser in the backfield that "replaces" Ladell.

One of my biggest gripes with the Skins is that we don't use the players
we have on our roster.

Betts, Cartwright and Sellars have all proved that they can run and catch.
Instead of drafting another RB why don't we use the backs we have more?

We should give them enough opportunities to show their skills and help the team win.

Meanwhile it seems like every other team in the league is spreading the carries to more then one back.

Cowboys-Barber,Jones, Choice
Giants-Jacobs, Ward, Bradshaw
Eagles- a team that runs the ball as an afterthought gave their #2 runningback more work then ours- Westbrook, Buckhalter
Vikings- Peterson, Taylor
Falcons- Turner, Norwood
Seahawks- Jones, Morris
Panthers- Williams, Stewart
etc...etc...etc...

i don't think we need to draft running back
unless we somehow trade back from the 13th pick and still manage to get Knowshon Moreno