can r.brown handle and carry the ball 300 times?

[TRUDOLFAN54]

well i belive he can last year he came in late to play and still had a good rookie year and his old college coach thinks he can carry it no problem.this year he has all the ota's and this will be as many predict his breakout season and he will prove to be a elite rb in the nfl..:dolphins:

 

[miaD5499]

ofcourse i think ronnie can handle the load, the reason he hasnt since high school is because he has always been in a good backfield not because his coaches doubted his ability to carry the ball. in auburn he had caddy and last year he had ricky, no shame in splitting carries with one of those two running backs.....back in highschool when he was carrying the load he was named all state and was nearly averaging 10 yards a carry.....ronnies the real deal he'll explode this season with more carries

 

[Funkymonks]

How many did he have last year? i think 250 is the number but i may be wrong. a whole 50 carries isn't much considering thats only 3 more carries per game to get him up to the 300 mark. I don't think were gonna have to worry about ronnie browns ability. Just pray he doesn't get hurt

 

[donart]

The Load

I'm not to worried about him carrying the load, it's when he get's hurt there will be a huge drop off in talent. Sammy is a quality back but he's no Ricky.:dolphins:

 

[indifin]

You always have to worry about him getting hurt.But look at most teams in the nfl if the number one back gets hurt the number two goes in.It was nice having ricky here just in case but we are like most teams there is a big drop off in talent if your number one back gets hurt.

 

[enigmatics]

well i belive he can last year he came in late to play and still had a good rookie year and his old college coach thinks he can carry it no problem.this year he has all the ota's and this will be as many predict his breakout season and he will prove to be a elite rb in the nfl..:dolphins:

Anybody predicting 300+ carries this year, not to mention without some semblence of an injury, is STRICTLY optimistic at best.

Let's consider the facts. When was the last time Ronnie Brown carried such a load against talent like he's facing in the NFL? Nobody can definitively say that the only reason he didn't get the full load was because of Caddy being his teammate at Auburn.

His physique is built for it, at least I think so. But this is only season 2. Ronnie's going to need to be spelled quite a bit so we don't burn the guy out. You don't just jump from a 2 back committee at Auburn and a 2 back committee in his rookie season with the Dolphins to be THE GUY. There's an adjustment period. Year 2 for Ronnie is that period.

IMO, you cannot deny that he ran 20 times better with Ricky sharing the load last season.. Now, you also have to factor in the rookie learning curve in the year, but fact is teams were being bulldozed by the two of those beasts. Ronnie got to take advantage of being fresher and capitalizing on worn out defenses because of the two of them.

 

[finsfanintampa]

Good points...

Anybody predicting 300+ carries this year, not to mention without some semblence of an injury, is STRICTLY optimistic at best.

Let's consider the facts. When was the last time Ronnie Brown carried such a load against talent like he's facing in the NFL? Nobody can definitively say that the only reason he didn't get the full load was because of Caddy being his teammate at Auburn.

His physique is built for it, at least I think so. But this is only season 2. Ronnie's going to need to be spelled quite a bit so we don't burn the guy out. You don't just jump from a 2 back committee at Auburn and a 2 back committee in his rookie season with the Dolphins to be THE GUY. There's an adjustment period. Year 2 for Ronnie is that period.

IMO, you cannot deny that he ran 20 times better with Ricky sharing the load last season.. Now, you also have to factor in the rookie learning curve in the year, but fact is teams were being bulldozed by the two of those beasts. Ronnie got to take advantage of being fresher and capitalizing on worn out defenses because of the two of them.

Great points. I trust in Saban. The guy hasn't made a bad call yet on personnel. (knock on wood) He drafted Ronnie #2 overall for a reason. He believes he can carry the load and that's good enough for me. Let's see the new look O-line open up some holes for him this season so he can hit the linebackers and secondary with that frame...I expect a big season.

 

[Superself]

Anybody predicting 300+ carries this year, not to mention without some semblence of an injury, is STRICTLY optimistic at best.

Let's consider the facts. When was the last time Ronnie Brown carried such a load against talent like he's facing in the NFL? Nobody can definitively say that the only reason he didn't get the full load was because of Caddy being his teammate at Auburn.

His physique is built for it, at least I think so. But this is only season 2. Ronnie's going to need to be spelled quite a bit so we don't burn the guy out. You don't just jump from a 2 back committee at Auburn and a 2 back committee in his rookie season with the Dolphins to be THE GUY. There's an adjustment period. Year 2 for Ronnie is that period.

IMO, you cannot deny that he ran 20 times better with Ricky sharing the load last season.. Now, you also have to factor in the rookie learning curve in the year, but fact is teams were being bulldozed by the two of those beasts. Ronnie got to take advantage of being fresher and capitalizing on worn out defenses because of the two of them.

I disagree with the idea that this will be an adjustment period for Ronnie. His adjustment period was last year. He knows that. That is why he is preparing his body for the rigors of being THE MAN.'
If Ronnie cannot handle 300 carries (injuries aside)...THIS YEAR...he was not worth a #2 pick in the draft.

I think he can and will do it barring injury.

 

[Disgustipate]

Anybody predicting 300+ carries this year, not to mention without some semblence of an injury, is STRICTLY optimistic at best.

Or not. There isnt really any reason to believe Ronnie Brown is injury prone. Most runningbacks that arent below say, 210 pounds can handle a 300+ carry workload without any problems in a physical sense. The trick is finding someone talented enough it's worthwhile. There are exceptions, but odds are he can.

IMO, you cannot deny that he ran 20 times better with Ricky sharing the load last season.. Now, you also have to factor in the rookie learning curve in the year, but fact is teams were being bulldozed by the two of those beasts. Ronnie got to take advantage of being fresher and capitalizing on worn out defenses because of the two of them.

No he didnt. His best two games of the season were vs. Carolina and vs. Buffalo, after he got over his initial adjustment, and before Ricky Williams was reinstated. The only game he ended up with higher then the 5.7 YPC he had in both of those games was vs. KC, and that's misleading because he had 65 of his 95 total yards on one carry.

 

[G-Force]

For 35 mill he damn well better.

 

[MarinoForPres]

he will light it up!

 

[enigmatics]

Or not. There isnt really any reason to believe Ronnie Brown is injury prone. Most runningbacks that arent below say, 210 pounds can handle a 300+ carry workload without any problems in a physical sense. The trick is finding someone talented enough it's worthwhile. There are exceptions, but odds are he can.

I don't recall using the words "injury prone"............ I'm talking about Ronnie making it thru a full season, with 300+ carries and dodging the injury bug. Keep in mind, I'm just going off last season, a season in which he carried the ball 207 times and missed a game due to injury. Logically I'm just going to assume that if he does indeed hit the 300+ plateau, he's not going to go unscathed. I did give him credit for his physique ........... it would lend somebody to believe he's capable of taking a pounding.

No he didnt. His best two games of the season were vs. Carolina and vs. Buffalo, after he got over his initial adjustment, and before Ricky Williams was reinstated. The only game he ended up with higher then the 5.7 YPC he had in both of those games was vs. KC, and that's misleading because he had 65 of his 95 total yards on one carry.

@ATL he had a YPC of 5.6 ..........I'm not going to knit pick here, but the month of November was an awefully good month for him and that 5.6 was only a tenth of a yard less than that Carolina game. Actually, now that I look at the stats closer, it's intriguing to see that in December his performance dipped drastically and then finished the season injured. I'm sure the rigors of his first 16 game season attributed to that, but I'm highly surprised given the fact that he was sharing carries.

One could see how November was a good month for him. That would be right around the end of a college season in terms of games played.

 

[Aqua4Ever04]

Someone earlier mentioned he had 250 carries, well it was actully 207 so just a bit off. There is no reason to believe Ronnie can't carry the rock 300+ times this year. When people say he hasn't carried the load since high school, I don't understand that. That's exactly what he did the first 4 games of 2005. He had 20+ carries against Denver, New York, Carolina and Buffalo. He did fine in those games.

 

[donart]

Runnin Ronnie

Ronnie is a stud running back. He did some things on the field that I haven't seen in a fins running back in a long time. Don't forget, he may not need to have that many carries with Daunte and Chris and co. running patterns. This is going to be a balanced offence and IMO Ronnie will probably be playing in Hawaii in 07'.

 

[jlfin]

Anybody predicting 300+ carries this year, not to mention without some semblence of an injury, is STRICTLY optimistic at best.

Let's consider the facts. When was the last time Ronnie Brown carried such a load against talent like he's facing in the NFL? Nobody can definitively say that the only reason he didn't get the full load was because of Caddy being his teammate at Auburn.

His physique is built for it, at least I think so. But this is only season 2. Ronnie's going to need to be spelled quite a bit so we don't burn the guy out. You don't just jump from a 2 back committee at Auburn and a 2 back committee in his rookie season with the Dolphins to be THE GUY. There's an adjustment period. Year 2 for Ronnie is that period.

IMO, you cannot deny that he ran 20 times better with Ricky sharing the load last season.. Now, you also have to factor in the rookie learning curve in the year, but fact is teams were being bulldozed by the two of those beasts. Ronnie got to take advantage of being fresher and capitalizing on worn out defenses because of the two of them.

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