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Having a decent running game and a good RB is important despite what bozo Grier and this FO thinks. Look at SF with McCaffrey. Look at Ekeler last night.
You can win with a superstar QB like Mahomes without a top RB. But when your QB is not at a top 10 level like Tua you need to help him with a running game.

Zeke, Pollard, Gibson, Robinson,B., Sanders, Montgomery, Swift, Cook, Jones, Dillon, Fournette, White, Foreman, Patterson, Kamara, McCaffrey, Walker, Connor.
18 NFC RBs better than any Dolphin RB.
Singletary, Stevenson, Hall, Chubb, Hunt, Harris, Mixon, Etienne, Henry, Taylor, Pierce, Dobbins, Ekeler, Williams, Jacobs.
15 AFC RBs better than any Dolphin RB.

How does anyone expect Tua to be really good with 3 RBs that a cheerleader can tackle. Gaskin, Ahmed, Mostert cant ever break a tackle. Wilson has decent inside power but little else.
Get a running game that can help the passing game open up.

This narrative of not drafting a RB is stupid when you need one. Lets pick a player like Iggy instead.
 
I don't think the point has ever been that running backs don't matter, more that their importance has been reduced so it's no longer worth investing high draft picks in the position-- especially since there have been so many high-profile busts taken at the top of round 1 and so many productive guys taken much later in the draft. Maybe it's just that you need a good running game, if not a great running back.
 
the thing is we actually invested quite a bit into the RB room this off season. Edmonds and Michel both did not work out. and then we traded for Wilson. for whatever reason, McDaniel refuses to try and establish a running game. I feel like no matter who our opponent is we prepare and game plan the same way every week instead of trying to attack our opponents weaknesses. but yes we should have used an early round pick on a good RB prospect by now.
 
Mostert, our leading rusher, is on pace to barely outproduce peak-Mark Higgs. That's a damn low bar.
 
RMLogic said:
Having a decent running game and a good RB is important despite what bozo Grier and this FO thinks. Look at SF with McCaffrey. Look at Ekeler last night.
You can win with a superstar QB like Mahomes without a top RB. But when your QB is not at a top 10 level like Tua you need to help him with a running game.

Zeke, Pollard, Gibson, Robinson,B., Sanders, Montgomery, Swift, Cook, Jones, Dillon, Fournette, White, Foreman, Patterson, Kamara, McCaffrey, Walker, Connor.
18 NFC RBs better than any Dolphin RB.
Singletary, Stevenson, Hall, Chubb, Hunt, Harris, Mixon, Etienne, Henry, Taylor, Pierce, Dobbins, Ekeler, Williams, Jacobs.
15 AFC RBs better than any Dolphin RB.

How does anyone expect Tua to be really good with 3 RBs that a cheerleader can tackle. Gaskin, Ahmed, Mostert cant ever break a tackle. Wilson has decent inside power but little else.
Get a running game that can help the passing game open up.

This narrative of not drafting a RB is stupid when you need one. Lets pick a player like Iggy instead.
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RBs matter, but the debate is over price. RB shelf life is short and, with rare exceptions, 'elite' isn't needed.
 
I know many will be wanting the top their backs this offseason like the
barkleys
Jacobs

They are going to be over 10M a year.

My personal TgT to replace Singletary would be Tony Pollard (probably a 6-7M) a year RB. Singeltary is in that range too.
 
I think it's more about making the commitment to run. Mostert and Wilson aren't superstars, but that's a good combo.

Miami ran eight times against San Francisco despite the game being within one score most of the way. That's making yourself one dimensional and putting a ton of pressure on the passing game.

I guess what I'm saying is that this is on the coaching staff.
 
The fact is that we're just not even trying to run much. This offense has pretty much become Tua to Hill and Waddle and not much more. We don’t even throw it to the TE's so our HC need to try something different because what we're trying to do has been figured out and it's not working.
 
Danny said:
The fact is that we're just not even trying to run much. This offense has pretty much become Tua to Hill and Waddle and not much more. We don’t even throw it to the TE's so our HC need to try something different because what we're trying to do has been figured out and it's not working.
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Craycraft and sherfield have a couple tds. I don't understand why we don't get them more involved as well. Hell, we have another receiver named Wilson, what's he doing these days?
 
We're gonna throw until you force us to run, by then you'll be up a couple scores, then we will throw until the end of the game to catch up.

That will result in a lot of 3 and outs, our D will be on the field most of the game, and you will shred us in the end.
 
Kalen Ballage could be the starting rb for this team, doesn't even matter we don't use our backs.
 
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