Carlos Hyde has been traded to the JagWIRES for a 5th round pick (and some pasketti and meatballs.
I concur. While Carlos has done a good job, Nick Chubb can do what Hyde does, and more.
While Nick still needs work on pass protection, Duke (despite his smaller size) excels in that area (as well as every other area).
Speaking of which, the Dukester deserves a break today as well, and now he'll get it.
Todd Haley isn't perfect, and I wonder if Dorsey even consulted him on this move. Us unwarshed mass fans may not be the only ones who wonder why Duke and Chubb don't get more reps.
Waittilnextyear just texted that it's about rookie skill players seasoning at the same rate.
Mayfield, Callaway, Ratley and Chubb are all rookies, and all ideally integral to this offense for at least the next four seasons...and Dorsey forcing Haley to use one of them.
It's not about the Browns giving up on the 2018 season. Dorsey signed Carlos Hyde before the draft. He was covering his bases. He didn't know, at that time, that Nick Chubb would be available to him in the second round.
Nick Chubb might well have been the second-best running back in this draft class behind Barkley. A few legit experts even declared him better than Barkley (Bucky Brooks, for one).
That's all debatable, as this was an incredibly deep and diverse crop of running backs; However, Nick Chubb is definitely the best "workhorse" back next to Barkley in this class.
Running back aint rocket science. Things like pass-catching and pass-protection take longer to master for the college backs who haven't done it much, and Nick Chubb has definitely blown some blocks in pass-pro so far.
That doesn't justify keeping him (and his big play ability) off the field, as John Dorsey has.
Running backs coach Freddie Kitchens said during preseason that the Browns would probably go with the "hot hand", but he's not calling those shots, and it's been all-Hyde, all the time.
Hue and Todd keep repeating that Hyde is a guy that "gets better the more reps he gets" (ergo you have to start him and stick with him).
Kitchens (a former running back himself) is no doubt frustrated, and may even have gone to Dorsey himself over this self-fulfilling tail-chasing blockheaded lack of flexibility.
Dorsey, a former pro linebacker himself, gets this even without input from Kitchens.
NOW, Chubb is thunder, and Johnson is lightening, and Todd Haley HAS TO use both of them.
And I'm weary of this "he gets stronger as the game goes along/he needs to "find his rythm"" crap. Defenses wear down faster than offenses. Running backs rely on instincts, and don't think much. As defenses become a little slower to react due to fatigue, they look better. This "getting stronger" crap is garbage.
This just in: Lesmerisis gets it, and is less diplomatic than I've been about it.
Doug lays it all on Hue Jackson (none on Haley). I'm not sure Dorsey wasn't a co-conspiritor in the anti-Chubb (and Johnson) agenda, but he could be right:
Todd Haley made Ebineezer Bell Ebineezer Bell after all, plus Antonio Brown Antonio Brown. I could see him stifling Chubb, but not Duke.
I don't know, but Lesmerisis sure nailed the John Dorsey "override" part right!
"You WILL use Nick Chubb (and Duke Johnson) more!"
Doug nailed it, without even having read this post!
And DUH! Sorry, Eman, but this aint "giving up on the season". This is forcing a "bellcow" PLAYMAKER onto the field over a "depedable vedderrunn" and making Mayfield's 2018 offense more explosive and dangerous.
Everybody except (at least) Hue Fisher knew that Nick Chubb was better than Carlos Hyde before they drafted the guy!!!
Ohmmm...ohmm...anyway thanks Doug Lesmerisis I thought I was alone.
Time to rework my weekly fantasy lineups okbye
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