He did this against the Panthers

[South Florida]

This performance from Ronnie Brown may simply be what he does, contrary to what the first two games suggest.

And this was against, arguably, the best run defense in the leauge.

Was that Mike Minter that he cracked to open that 58 yard rumble?!?

Didn't he go past Peppers on that run?!

This was our 2nd overall selection performing after being fed up because of "bust" claims and Cadillac success.

Imagine if this game, his coming out party, came against the Cardinals that Shaun Alexander played today.

Or just an ordinary run defense.

No, this 130 and a TD came in the face of Rucker, Buckner, Peppers, Morgan, Minter, and Davis.

Lets get ready fellas, this kid IS the real deal, and its not ONE game that says it, its what this ONE game was that says it.

 

[finswin56]

Great point.
I don't think they have the best run D, but they certainly have one of the best.
I look forward to more of these performances.
Ronnie looked much more confident today.

 

[kastofsna120]

can't say peppers did too much today at all

 

[FinNasty]

Great point.
I don't think they have the best run D, but they certainly have one of the best.
I look forward to more of these performances.
Ronnie looked much more confident today.

Not the whole game... he was still pretty hesitant and stutterstepped in the first half of the game... however, after he broke the 58 yarder... THEN he looked confident and like a completly different running back. After he broke that one... he didnt stutter at all... he just hit the wholes. He also cut back and found a whole where it wasnt supposed to be... just beautiful. The long run gave him the confidence he needed...

Nasty

 

[ckparrothead]

This was the same Ronnie Brown that rushed for 92 yards against the Jets and Broncos. The 2nd half was the same Ronnie Brown that ran in the first half.

It's just Ronnie. He showed nothing on the 58 yard run that he hadn't showed in other situations. He showed no more creative "vision" or confidence or any more ability to create after first contact. The differences lie merely in play-calling, and blocking. Our blockers did pretty well today against a tough D, they didn't do GREAT but they did ok as opposed to the terrible job they really did on bread and butter run plays against the Jets and Broncos.

And I share the same criticism that one player shared with Jeff Darlington about the Jets game and our non-committment to getting a ground game and true balance going against the Jets. I would also say that Scott Linehan underprepared his troops for that game, as the offensive players went out there and unanimously noted that they saw a different Jets game plan than they had been prepared for. The Jets were crashing the perimeters on running plays obviously in reaction to the clear preference we'd shown to perimeter/misdirection run plays throughout preseason and against the Broncos. Rather than pound Ronnie up the middle, where James Reed is a weak link, the coaches continued to stretch things out to the perimeter and got burned. They put Sammy Morris in, started running more up the middle, and surprise surprise they had success. But it wasn't that Sammy is better than Ronnie (I think we saw that pretty clearly today) it was that Sammy got the right calls, Ronnie did not.

 

[South Florida]

This was the same Ronnie Brown that rushed for 92 yards against the Jets and Broncos. The 2nd half was the same Ronnie Brown that ran in the first half.

It's just Ronnie. He showed nothing on the 58 yard run that he hadn't showed in other situations. He showed no more creative "vision" or confidence or any more ability to create after first contact. The differences lie merely in play-calling, and blocking. Our blockers did pretty well today against a tough D, they didn't do GREAT but they did ok as opposed to the terrible job they really did on bread and butter run plays against the Jets and Broncos.

And I share the same criticism that one player shared with Jeff Darlington about the Jets game and our non-committment to getting a ground game and true balance going against the Jets. I would also say that Scott Linehan underprepared his troops for that game, as the offensive players went out there and unanimously noted that they saw a different Jets game plan than they had been prepared for. The Jets were crashing the perimeters on running plays obviously in reaction to the clear preference we'd shown to perimeter/misdirection run plays throughout preseason and against the Broncos. Rather than pound Ronnie up the middle, where James Reed is a weak link, the coaches continued to stretch things out to the perimeter and got burned. They put Sammy Morris in, started running more up the middle, and surprise surprise they had success. But it wasn't that Sammy is better than Ronnie (I think we saw that pretty clearly today) it was that Sammy got the right calls, Ronnie did not.

nice