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Is what Jake is doing a surprise?

the butch

By the butch,
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Football is a team sport no one player can or should have to carry a team. A offense should have balance which flew out the window the second we drafted Stewart. We had the same gameplan for almost 16 games then when we get to the playoffs the Cards don't have to be genius to figure out how to stop us. And you are ignoring the Steve Slaytons and Hightowers of last years drafts. RB's who helped there teams out that were drafted in the second day. If you are going to run a 2 back system both guys don't need to be superstars to make it work they just need to mesh well together.
I'm sure if they knew that Williams would explode like he did they would have gone in a different direction. I think they expected Stewart to take the starting job and make it his when they took him.
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I'm sure if they knew that Williams would explode like he did they would have gone in a different direction. I think they expected Stewart to take the starting job and make it his when they took him.

The same could be said about Stewart when we drafted him. He was coming off of surgery and was going from college to the pros. Where Dwill had proven he good make plays at this level (see his YPC average the year before) and was healthy. Lets face it they were running scared. They knew it gave them the best chance at winning in the reg season. They were more concerned about saving there jobs then the Future.

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Well, look at a player like Jerious Norwood. He has a gaudy yards-per-carry average and always has. No one's seriously thought of him as an every down back since he's been in the league. Williams was likely in the same situation with the coaching staff--he couldn't block well and he didn't run with the power he does now. And they had their own doctors examine Stewart, and felt they were getting a steal (he still looks great too).

At the time they also thought that Moore was the future, it was that year's preseason that he showed he wasn't. They went out and got McCown because of that, right?

You can toss out accusations all you want, but everyone wants to win. The coaches, players, front office, fans, we all want the team to win and win big. The people who make the decisions generally make pretty good ones, as evidenced by their record since they've been here. Just because some people on message boards disagree with what they're doing doesn't make it bad. It's probably a lot better than what most could do.

They're concerned with winning. Winning now, in the future, in the regular season, and in the postseason. If they do that, then everything else takes care of itself. To think for a minute that they're not is just nuts.

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Well, look at a player like Jerious Norwood. He has a gaudy yards-per-carry average and always has. No one's seriously thought of him as an every down back since he's been in the league. Williams was likely in the same situation with the coaching staff--he couldn't block well and he didn't run with the power he does now. And they had their own doctors examine Stewart, and felt they were getting a steal (he still looks great too).

At the time they also thought that Moore was the future, it was that year's preseason that he showed he wasn't. They went out and got McCown because of that, right?

You can toss out accusations all you want, but everyone wants to win. The coaches, players, front office, fans, we all want the team to win and win big. The people who make the decisions generally make pretty good ones, as evidenced by their record since they've been here. Just because some people on message boards disagree with what they're doing doesn't make it bad. It's probably a lot better than what most could do.

They're concerned with winning. Winning now, in the future, in the regular season, and in the postseason. If they do that, then everything else takes care of itself. To think for a minute that they're not is just nuts.

You are contradicting yourself now. Your saying a coach is nervous about entering the next season with a RB who was averaging 5.5 YPC but he was comfortable in entering the season with a QB who was undrafted and had a grand total of 3 starts under his belt in the single most important position on the team. Fox and Hurney bottoms were on fire last off-season they drafted the two guys that could help them most in the short run to win them games last year. They knew that Flaco wouldn't contribute to the team immediately so they passed on him. They ignored how well he fits what we need in a QB (skillset wise).

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