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The evolution of Christian McCaffrey

Jeremy Igo

By Jeremy Igo,
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Put some thoughts down here...

 

http://www.carolinahuddle.com/2018/08/03/carolina-panthers-christian-mccaffrey-5/

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There is a big difference in running style between Rookie CMC vs Sophomore CMC. Far less juking and dancing. Far more hitting the hole and relying on speed. I can see now that last year all that dancing was just a lack of confidence. Now his runs are much more deliberate, and it seems effective so far.

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This actually pissed me off quite a bit, and I never get emotional about our coaching decisions normally.

We’ve taken a runner who was very effective at exploiting gaps with patience, quick cuts and acceleration in zone running schemes and put him into a power scheme last year. Then we all scratched our heads as to why he didn’t look as effective as we expected when he was hit within 2 yards on every run. Now we think the answer is to ask him to bulk up and turn him into more of a downfield one cut runner.

Be ****** creative for once and scheme the o line to actually shift and block horizontally to make the most of your top 10 running back. Jesus this is backward thinking.

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13 minutes ago, London Loves Luke said:

This actually pissed me off quite a bit, and I never get emotional about our coaching decisions normally.

We’ve taken a runner who was very effective at exploiting gaps with patience, quick cuts and acceleration in zone running schemes and put him into a power scheme last year. Then we all scratched our heads as to why he didn’t look as effective as we expected when he was hit within 2 yards on every run. Now we think the answer is to ask him to bulk up and turn him into more of a downfield one cut runner.

Be ****** creative for once and scheme the o line to actually shift and block horizontally to make the most of your top 10 running back. Jesus this is backward thinking.

Dude, you do realize Stanford runs a power scheme? They ran quite a bit of power and iso. 

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6 minutes ago, coralreefer_1 said:

So glad to hear this. I was so livid last year he tying to juke 4,5,6 times and get taken down. 

Well then you probably wouldn't have been very happy watching Le'Veon Bell's rookie season with the Steelers. In fact Bell was actually criticized quite a bit for being stuffed behind the line of scrimmage as a rookie. But the Steelers saw his potential and actually worked on allowing him to have even more space in the backfield turning him into one of the best RB in history. They didn't force his skillset and try and turn him into something he wasn't. 

God i hope we don't make that mistake. 

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4 minutes ago, London Loves Luke said:

Well then you probably wouldn't have been very happy watching Le'Veon Bell's rookie season with the Steelers. In fact Bell was actually criticized quite a bit for being stuffed behind the line of scrimmage as a rookie. But the Steelers saw his potential and actually worked on allowing him to have even more space in the backfield turning him into one of the best RB in history. They didn't force his skillset and try and turn him into something he wasn't. 

God i hope we don't make that mistake. 

Maybe you can wait until the end of preseason once we see how he does before complaining about how we use him.  At the end of last year he was pretty effective just the way he was even running and catching the ball against a loaded box with the defense keying on him. 

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10 minutes ago, Jesse said:

Dude, you do realize Stanford runs a power scheme? They ran quite a bit of power and iso. 

I'm not an expert on Stanford but from everything I've seen they definitely weren't running Power-O or ISO in most of the clips I've seen of McCaffery's college career. Most of his big plays were in single back outside zone schemes and the power runs that you see show a pretty dominant Stanford line that can extend blocks which our line simply can't do. 

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11 minutes ago, London Loves Luke said:

I'm not an expert on Stanford but from everything I've seen they definitely weren't running Power-O or ISO in most of the clips I've seen of McCaffery's college career. Most of his big plays were in single back outside zone schemes and the power runs that you see show a pretty dominant Stanford line that can extend blocks which our line simply can't do. 

In his sophomore season he had an experienced o line and he was given many lanes to run both in and out. The last year he had a young line more like our weak line but he was still able to run inside with speed and a few moves. Like the last 8 games last year where he averaged 4.7 I think he can excel now he has confidence He’s very talented

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2 minutes ago, Mikey818 said:

In his sophomore season he had an experienced o line and he was given many lanes to run both in and out. The last year he had a young line more like our weak line but he was still able to run inside with speed and a few moves. Like the last 8 games last year where he averaged 4.7 I think he can excel now he has confidence He’s very talented

I absolutely hope you're right, but I'm not suggesting Cmac is talented enough to do it. I'm just annoyed that this could be another example of fitting your players into a scheme instead of scheming to your players' strengths (and weaknesses).

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9 minutes ago, London Loves Luke said:

I absolutely hope you're right, but I'm not suggesting Cmac is talented enough to do it. I'm just annoyed that this could be another example of fitting your players into a scheme instead of scheming to your players' strengths (and weaknesses).

L3 throwing some agro out early on a Friday morning. :tongue:

 

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