Betts!?!?

[sportscurmudgeon]

As I said in another thread, Betts' effort on the play that gave up the touchdown was horrid. There is no excusing his lack of effort on the "attempted" block or the lack of effort to go for the ball or the player who recovered the fumble. If teams were allowed to fine players for horrible plays during a game, this would merit the largest allowable fine...

But if you sit him down for the next game, you will probably see Rock Cartwright as the #2 running back. And let's not forget Rock's abjectly awful displays of blocking all last season. Remember his lunging at a blitzing safety and missing him completely leading to Patrick Ramsey winding up in a heap? It happened a couple of times...

Or maybe someone here thinks that Sultan is an outstanding blocker in the backfield in addition to having Hall of Fame level skills as a running back???

What you need to hope for is that the coaching staff will jam a hot poker up Betts' butt just before he hits the field next week and that he will retain that motivation for 60 minutes of football. He has physical tools to be a decent RB; he just hasn't found it worthwhile to utilize all of those skills on every play yet...