Comments on: Michael Bush To Team With Blount?

By: mbaby

mbaby — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 00:45:01 +0000

The Giants turn us down for a QB coach (Gilbride Jr). I swear we get turned down more than Big Ben

By: BigMacAttack

BigMacAttack — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 23:47:20 +0000

Every position you can fill with a top quality free agent is one less Draft Pick you have to spend. The Bucs have many holes they need to fill before the Draft. If Bush happens to be one of them, go for it.

By: TheProsUseAdvoCare

TheProsUseAdvoCare — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 23:28:53 +0000

@Bobby How many times did you see Blount miss a blocking assignment?

By: Apple Roof Cleaning

Apple Roof Cleaning — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 22:42:48 +0000

We need to work hard on the O Line, perhaps add a better player or two, and a tight end who can Block.
Blount and Madu can be Thunder and Lightning for us, if we have a line that can actually open some holes for them.

By: Bobby

Bobby — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 20:43:05 +0000

I’m more concerned with Blount’s inability to grasp the playbook and execute blocks in third down situation than I am his fumbling. Fumbling can be corrected….stupid can’t.

By: OAR

OAR — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 19:16:25 +0000

Pros
Doesnt fumble as much as Tiki????? Really? Blount has fumbled 9 times in his first two years(27 games at that)! In Tiki’s first 28 games he fumbled 5 times. Tiki fumbled 9 times his first three years! Granted Tiki got worse before he got better. I just dont want Blounts signs of fumbling to turn into a Tiki situation!

By: raphael

raphael — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 18:55:47 +0000

miller is running low 4.3′s now so it should be interesting.

By: TheProsUseAdvoCare

TheProsUseAdvoCare — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 18:45:17 +0000

Oar, Blount hit the holes when they were there. Over the season they came less and less. Every hole he went to there was a LB waiting for him because our guys couldn’t handle their blocks. It was the same last year except this year it was clear that 80% of the time Blount was out there we were running. So I put that on play calling, but that still doesn’t create holes. There were very few times where Blount missed the hole but there were many times there was no hole at all.

Blount doesn’t fumble nearly as bad as Tiki or Peterson did. He’ll get it under control.

By: OAR

OAR — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 18:39:13 +0000

Dave
Not off the Blount wagon and agree with better coaching he may get better and fine tune some points of his running game(see above). I just don’t think he’s perfect, and that its ALL the O-lines fault, or hell, even Olsen’s!

By: OAR

OAR — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 18:35:28 +0000

ProsUse…,
Not that we dont need blocking TEs, but come on, Blount has a very hard time finding any holes the O-line creates! And no, Im not saying our O-line is great(certainly our strength) but Graham and even Madu were hitting the holes from same O-line. Plus, Blount fumbles like a Tiki!

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 18:27:46 +0000

Meh

I forgot about Demps going the Olympic route.

I still say they need a speedster, not a big bruiser, to complement Blount.

It still amazes me how 1 year and Blount was the rage, now everyone wants to abandon him.

I thought the consensus was the coaches sucked, Olsen as OC sucked, adn teh defense got them way behind way too early.

If that is the case, then why are so many jumping off the Blount wagon? He is very young and I think can be a good RB out of the backfield. With the better coaching, hopefully, he becomes a better pass protector as well.

MANY other holes to focus on besides RB

By: Macabee

Macabee — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 18:24:47 +0000

I am not disparaging anybody’s choice for Trent Richardson as the Bucs pick at #5 in the 1st round. It is understandable. He is an excellent RB and some JBF posters are not alone in this opinion, many draft experts have the same opinion.

I have a different opinion and it’s not because of his recent surgery, although that is a legitimate concern. It’s his risk/reward quotient. It is his running style and the transition of that power running style to the NFL, that makes him high risk. He has made a living in college gaining yards after contact – which means he runs over people more often than he runs around people. He is a likely candidate to join the top 4 RBs selected in last year’s draft (Ingram, Williams, LeShoure, and Murray), on IR sooner than later.

This is a deep draft for RBs and I have no doubt that we will get a good one in the draft. Pead, Martin, or James would be very good choices, even Cyrus Gray or Ronnie Hillman are possible choices. While not an every down back, Chris Rainey has the speed, quickness, and pass-catching ability to potentially be another Percy Harvin.

There are even a couple of late round picks worthy of notice. Our own Darrell Scott, USF, has excellent late round value. There is one kid, Bryce Brown out of Kansas State, by way of Tennessee that may even be a UFA, with loads of talent (kind of a nut case, but may be helped to grow up in the NFL). He was the #1 ranked RB recruit out of high school, ranked ahead of Trent Richardson in 2009.

The least of my worries is getting a good RB in the draft. I’m more worried about our ability to attract and sign A-List players in FA!