Blount 11th All-Time In Yards Per Carry
September 25th, 2014
The Bucs will see a familiar smile Sunday
Now here’s a trivia question: What former Buccaneers running back ranks among the all-time greats in yards per carry?
No, it’s not James Wilder (3.6 yards per carry), Errict Rhett (3.5) or Warrick Dunn (4.1).
The answer, after 596 career carries, is LeGarrette Blount. The man Greg Schiano ousted but Bill Belicheat embraced will face the Bucs on Sunday. Blount is having another strong season.
And after his 10-carry, 118-yard game last week against the mighty Panthers defense, Blount is now averaging 4.8 yards a carry in his career. That places him among the all-time greats, 11th all-time.
Pretty impressive stuff. Somehow, Blount has managed to thrive, despite not being a threat in the passing game.
September 25th, 2014 at 3:05 pm
Blount has a unique running style. Works wonders against certain teams.
He needs carries to get going, and he can then bust them
I am certain a decent OC could find work for him.
September 25th, 2014 at 3:09 pm
Here’s some trivia for Joe: Which Buccaneer running back could not gain half a yard on two tries in a crucial road divisional game in Atlanta?
September 25th, 2014 at 3:12 pm
not looking forward to him snowplowing GMC and hurdling Barron.
September 25th, 2014 at 3:13 pm
he’ll fumble
September 25th, 2014 at 3:17 pm
@ Stratobuc
Here’s some trivia…Name 1 player in sports history to have succeeded every play in their career.
Pointing out a play where Blount messed up during his rookie year as if it is an indictment that he is not a good player is idiotic. I have never agreed with the bucs getting rid of blount and nuggets like this one is just another reason why.
September 25th, 2014 at 3:23 pm
boy, that Atlanta game years ago still nags at me. Freaking stovall missing on the sidelines on the kickoff. My, how things have changed since then.
September 25th, 2014 at 3:25 pm
Ha. I picked up Blount 2 days ago for my fantasy team. He won’t get that many carries but I think they will definitely give it to him near the goaline or in the red zone. I’m sure he’s hungry to score on the Bucs. We have a decent run D though so idk.
We’ll see I never play this FF crap. I played about 12 years ago or so on NFL.com.
September 25th, 2014 at 3:25 pm
that was the frustrating thing about blount. he could give you a SportsCenter 75-yard run while hurdling a guy when you were up by 2 TDs in the 4th quarter, but he’d dance and get stuffed on short yardage with the game on the line.
September 25th, 2014 at 3:26 pm
blount can’t really find holes on his own, but if he happens to end up running through one by accident and gets to the second level, look out
September 25th, 2014 at 3:26 pm
He hurdles 4.8 yards per play.
Yeah Stratobuc, that pissed me off. It’s no indication as to how his career is going though. I blame the O line as usual.
September 25th, 2014 at 3:29 pm
Blount is a one-trick pony. Always was. Run up the middle, shoulders down, and just keep the legs moving.
Can’t block, can’t catch, can’t cut.
September 25th, 2014 at 3:31 pm
Ha… all of that is why I almost don’t want to start him on my team. Near the goal line and short yardage he got stuffed a lot. Oh well one of my RB’s is hurt and the other is on a bye. So I dropped Bobby Rainey and picked up Blount just for this game.
September 25th, 2014 at 3:34 pm
Blount needs a yard or so to get going but once he’s rolling he’s a hard man to stop. I’m still puzzled as to why Schiano couldn’t figure out how to use him to wear down defenses and mix a little bit of Doug Martin in here and there. Most of his fumbles that I saw was when he was in a crowd fighting for extra yardage. Now his pass blocking his a whole different story.
September 25th, 2014 at 3:36 pm
Fantasy football……pfft! Now I know what happened to ‘hometown’ football fans!
September 25th, 2014 at 3:38 pm
On the first game of the season my true love gave to me a brand new HD TV.
On the second game of the season my true love gave to me two cases of beer for sorrow and a brand new HD TV.
On the third game of the season my true love gave to me three bricks for hurling, two cases of beer for sorrow and a brand new HD TV.
On the fourth game of the season my true love gave to me four pills for nausea, three bricks for hurling, two cases of beer for sorrow and a brand new HD TV.
On the 5th game of the season my true love gave to me five hours of sexy time so did not have energy for the game!!!! No other gifts needed!!!
September 25th, 2014 at 3:50 pm
In 5 seasons Blount has 2,883 yds. averaging 10.1 carries per game. Martin has 1919 yds in 3 seasons while averaging 19.8 carries per game and 141 more carries in his career than Blount.
September 25th, 2014 at 3:58 pm
is he still not very smart? good riddance to him and that other stone talib…rock star loved hom some challenged players….
September 25th, 2014 at 4:06 pm
Donald Penn on Jim Rome is Burning asked Blount, “Why do you always, always, jump over people?”
September 25th, 2014 at 4:11 pm
Why does Blount always jump over people? Because he can.
September 25th, 2014 at 4:12 pm
@Oar…fantasy football is what Lovie preached to the fans during the off-season.
I have 1 FF team. Just for something football related to do outside of watching and blogging about our foolish team that, I love VERY much, more than you know. Which really makes me a fool….and you too for that matter!
September 25th, 2014 at 4:13 pm
Ok, but thats only out of 596 carries. He wouldnt even be considered on this of all time leaders without at least 750 carries. Doubt he’ll ever reach that mark. Point is, he doesn’t stack up with the greats.
http://www.pro-football-reference.com/leaders/rush_yds_per_att_career.htm
So he doesn’t stack up because he only has the small sample size of 596 carries over 4+ years? Please, that’s no tiny sample size.–Joe
September 25th, 2014 at 4:22 pm
I did’nt like it when they dumped Blount either. He and Bell spell double trouble for the Bucs run stuffing D. Keeping them both under 75 yards is what I’m expecting.
September 25th, 2014 at 4:31 pm
I always thought he had tremendous potential that just needed someone to coach him. Was excited when Schiano came but Schi couldn’t coach a pine cone as it turned out. Glad Blount got somewhere to prove me right.
I felt that way about Clayborn too. Meh, guess I’ll settle for 1 out of 2 at least.
September 25th, 2014 at 4:42 pm
Both fumble both can’t block but who would you rather be in Tampa blount or Rainey? I miss that one two punch, only in Tampa would you have weapons like blount and tim wright just to give them away to new England
September 25th, 2014 at 5:04 pm
Still annoyed that we got rid of him for a practice squad rb who can’t catch. Everybody makes a big deal about his goal line and short yardage woes while he was here, but a simple piece of coaching in new england fixed that. Put together our three running backs and fullback and you get 24 carat LeGerrette.
September 25th, 2014 at 5:08 pm
I’m a fool too?
Says the guy that roots for other team players! So, the “I love VERY much my Bucs” fan is going to be rooting for the Pittsburgh Steeler’s Blount to get more carries, yards, and TDs?! Exactly the point I was making. Fantasy Football has ruined any team’s hometown fans!!
September 25th, 2014 at 5:10 pm
I understand blount not being the smartest or a threat in the passing game. But with the lack of talent on the bucs for the past decade and a half, why not keep players like blount. Just look at all the players around the league that the bucs have let go and are playing well on other teams. The problem with this team is they think too much about the business and get rid of players that really could use on the field. Talib, Bennett, Revis, all of the offensive lineman to ramble off some the top of my head
September 25th, 2014 at 5:12 pm
OAR,
I think he was being sarcastic that we ALL are fools for being Bucs fans.
I’m with you – played fantasy football in ’95 when it wasn’t even that popular, and I got sick rooting for players and teams that I didn’t like or who were playing my team. Never played again.
September 25th, 2014 at 5:15 pm
“He and Bell spell double trouble for the Bucs run stuffing D.”
Don’t you mean…he and Bell spell The “Doobie” Brothers!
September 25th, 2014 at 5:31 pm
I don’t have any problem with the doobie bros. They just may play better after toking up. Maybe the Bucs D need to do the same to stop them.
September 25th, 2014 at 5:45 pm
Blount is front runner. When the pressure is off he is awesome. When crucial yardage is needed he dances at the line and gets real small. There are reasons he stay in one place very long.
September 25th, 2014 at 5:51 pm
Blount is not, never has been, and never will be a short yardage back. He was grossly misused for that purpose by coaches who don’t have a clue. Square peg, round hole. He’s also not a great pass protector. However, if you want to give somebody the rock 20-30 times a game and tell him to get yards and bruise people in the process he does a pretty damn good job of that.
September 25th, 2014 at 6:12 pm
“Fantasy Football has ruined any team’s hometown fans!!”
I don’t know about “any” teams hometown fans.
To tell you the truth I don’t root for any of the players on my fantasy team. On Sunday if you came up and asked me who my starters are for today, I wouldn’t have a clue. That’s how much I follow my FF team. I check the lineup around Tuesday,make changes here and there. Then I don’t even really go back and check on my team until Sunday night or so, sometimes Monday.
So no, I could care less about my fantasy team. Some of these fools have like 4-5 teams and shyte. They take it real serious too. It’s nutty.
Oh and yes I was being sarcastic. We all are fools for being Bucs fans, but it’s what we are. Tell people today that you’re a Bucs fan and people laugh at you.
That’s called being a fool.
September 25th, 2014 at 6:16 pm
i never liked the decision to let him go
September 25th, 2014 at 6:18 pm
I see your point now. Okay it’s like this.
Just because I picked up Blount, it won’t make me happy if he scores on the Bucs one bit. It just means that I think he will be hungry to score on the Bucs. I’m probably wrong and he will suck it up though. I hope I am wrong.
That’s why it’s called “fantasy”. Atleast for me anyways. I don’t honestly root for those players in reality. I get you’re point though most of the people that play it do follow it REAL close and it takes away from their team support to a degree.
I’m not one of them.
Once again signing off. Done rambling.
September 25th, 2014 at 6:49 pm
I never understood cutting a guy, who ran for 10000 in 13?games. It was pure stupidity then. Still is now!
Can he catch or Pass block real well? No.
But he is a monster running the ball.
Sadly, after Sunday’s game- Blount will spend hours cleaning the Pewter and Red( along with Bits of Barron’s A*+•ole) out of his cleats.
And he could have been here. For low dollar, running with Rainey.
Another bad move.
Meybe we should let Foster play this Sunday. Meybe, if he’s there, he can stop Blount.
September 25th, 2014 at 7:29 pm
I agree with caption Tim and his long, crazy name that goes on and on as if he really is a pirate…10,000 yards. Wow. I had no idea. New England is soooo dumb to let him go too, as is Tennessee. Wait, four teams in four years? Wonder why that is.
September 25th, 2014 at 9:51 pm
Call me crazy but… I’m slowly starting to think that Doug Martin is a bust. Hopefully I’m wrong.. And forgive me if I sound blasphemous fellow Buc Fans
September 25th, 2014 at 10:27 pm
We plucked him off a practice squad, Blount would have been one of he greatest steals in the NFL! Too bad we couldn’t use him correctly, He also still has a very cap friendly contract. We goofed letting him go…
September 26th, 2014 at 3:29 am
Said it since day one. Blount is a beast and it was a bad decision to dog house him for Martin. While Martin continues to keep the benches warm and the Ice tub full Blount just keeps adding to his highlight reel. Martin would have been an amazing compliment to Blount as Cadillac Williams did during LGB’s rookie year.
But no we take the smaller RB and run him into the ground. And for the Hamster lovers out there I haven’t seen much out of Martin in the passing game either. So now it’s just pure runner versus pure runner and Blount has continued to produce time and time again. Just needed to be fed the ball or at the very least be used properly.
September 26th, 2014 at 9:05 am
This is why, as a Bucs fan, I don’t draft anyone that is playing in the NFC South. I can’t bring myself to root for them.
Also, i’ll usually bench someone if they’re going against the Bucs, too.
Unfortunately, though, I HAVE to play Antonio Brown this week cause I have no other options. I’ll just hope that any TD that the Stillers score will go to him and the Bucs still win.
GoBucs
September 26th, 2014 at 9:26 am
Blount is nowhere mean enough, only seldomly. & why didn’t he jumped higher than Cam for those one yarders we needed so desperately??? He jumps when ball security becomes an issue
September 27th, 2014 at 12:49 pm
Buc1987 Said:
“To tell you the truth I don’t root for any of the players on my fantasy team.”
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yeahrightsure. Back stepping again.