| ProMallNinja |
08-30-2013 02:11 PM |
Re: Khiry Robinson has to make the team, he's just gotta
I love Khiry Robinson, & I hope he makes the team. I view having to cut him as being equal to openly aiding another team. The kid has earned his spot.
I think that the perception of Ingram is a bit tainted, but I understand the malcontent, to a degree. All you have to do is watch his Alabama game tape to know that most of his yardage came in the latter half of most games after the opposing D had been worn down quite a bit. To think that our coaching staff didn't know that when we drafted him is laughable. Almost just as laughable as their decision to not use him the same way. I also think that something gets lost in the "Ingram needs more carries" argument. For me, it's not as much about him needing more volume as it is about the quality of his opportunities that tarnishes his stat line. He has never gotten the number of opportunities to get into the open field that PT or even Ivory got, & to attempt to compare Ingram to Ivory is just silly, at best. They are totally players with totally different running styles. All of Ivory's big shoulder-lowering collisions aside, he was MUCH more of a shifty, one cut and go back than what the untrained eye may realize. Ingram is more of a straight line runner that bruises the defense and makes them pay for being in his way. This is most obvious when you take notice of the most common game situations that the Saints coaching staff give Ingram the ball; short yardage. In order for Ingram to "come to fruition" he must be fed the ball and allowed to beat the hell out of the defense until they submit to him. No one argued with that when teams did just that with Emmitt Smith, Jerome Bettis, Earl Campbell, & etc. We just decided to draft the guy with no real plan for him apparently. 3rd and inches tanks are a dime a dozen in the middle rounds. I would tend to agree that, to this point, we flopped on the Ingram pick, but a good portion of the responsibility for that has to lie on our coaching staff. We are clearly a team that is more successful with shiftier one-cut style backs, and we dropped the ball when picking Ingram without a solid plan to utilize his abilities effectively. PT or Ivory he ain't. Give it a rest.
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