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Jack Vegas 02-27-2014 03:40 PM

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Originally Posted by TheOak (Post 579845)
The love for Collins is another item I cant wrap my head around.

He is a FB, and had 1 good game last season blocking. That was against Dallas, even Scott Shanley had a good game that day.

Other than that, he is flatline on blocking or less than average.

He ave 3 yards per carry, and 3.6 yards per catch, he was thrown at 19 times and dropped 2 of them.

Teams are starting to do away with FBs, and I am not sure I could name 5 that played last year off the top of my head. Stats show other wise, I just cant recall many other than Tolbert, Kun, Sherman.

Also, all that success we had running the ball late last season? A large majority of it was in single-back sets. Ingram in particular seems to run much better without a lead blocker. I don't hate Collins at all, but that's a position where you can save some money and not lose anything much in terms of performance.

halloween 65 03-01-2014 02:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Danno (Post 579858)
And do you remember how good Austin looked running and catching last pre-season? He looks like a natural runner with soft hands. He could be our Mike Tolbert.

Nothing against Collins but I could go for a big, soft handed back lined up in the backfield, talk about another weapon, I'm all ears!!

Danno 03-01-2014 03:19 PM

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Originally Posted by halloween 65 (Post 580183)
Nothing against Collins but I could go for a big, soft handed back lined up in the backfield, talk about another weapon, I'm all ears!!

It was only a few plays, and they weren't exactly big gainers, but you could see the soft hands and the quick feet and RB balance. He broke quite a few tackles on one play just to get back to the LOS.

I wanna see more.

Rugby Saint II 03-03-2014 07:08 PM

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Austin excites me and makes Collins expendable.imho

jnormand 03-04-2014 10:45 AM

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I like Jed. Hope he comes back. His name is Jed. He resembles Wolverine.

TheOak 03-04-2014 10:50 AM

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Originally Posted by jnormand (Post 580578)
I like Jed. Hope he comes back. His name is Jed. He resembles Wolverine.

He resembles a Million Dollar punter.

Except Morstead is bigger
http://nflsaints.files.wordpress.com...uare_group.jpg

He is actually bigger than everyone but Tennant. DLP is a runt.

fischware 03-05-2014 10:52 AM

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What about that guy from LSU? The FB, J.C. Copeland was opening holes all over the place and could catch the ball.


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