Congrats to Christian

[OriginalPantherDan]

1 hour ago, Hammerin'Cam1 said:

Coming into today Gurley had 59 catches, Elliott had 72, Barkley had 82 and McCaffrey had 94

Not for a second would I think that because McCaffrey has more catches than them, that he's more capable in the pass game.

What has a RB with 100+ catches done for us .. we're on a 7 game slide here ... the fact of the matter is McCaffrey is over-rated. The eye test tells me DeAngelo Williams was a far superior player, a far bigger threat to defenses.

CMC is no slouch in the running game, either. I believe he’s top-7 or so, making him a legit dual threat on par with any of those players, if not better. You should consider finding a new optometrist. 

[Growl]

28 minutes ago, TN05 said:

12 of those passes went to McCaffery plus another 21 carries. 

I'm referring to the 2nd half, again, obviously. We continue to move away from him in the 2nd half.

[Growl]

12 minutes ago, GOOGLE JIM BOB COOTER said:

teams aren't loading the box against us. according to espn nextgen stats mccaffrey has faced an 8+ man front 19.53% of the time which ranks outside of the top 30 among qualifying running backs. now that's only rushing attempts and obviously there's some wiggle room there with RPOs and cam changing the play at the line but i'd bet that we haven't faced that many loaded boxes relative to the league this season. seems to me opposing defenses knew our line was trash and were content to play off, keep everything in front, and wait for a pass rusher to disrupt a play.

e: also i know you don't care but mccaffrey had 12 catches today and only one was caught farther than 3 yards beyond the line of scrimmage. it's pretty much un-guardable but at the same time pretty worthless overall. defenses simply aren't worried about an offense happy to throw the ball around the line of scrimmage so many times in a game. too much can go wrong in the passing game for such limited rewards. and mccaffrey isn't running into an 8+ man front very often. seems to me teams are more than willing to let him get his yards.

except we aren't talking about the running game, were talking about defensive behavioral tendencies post snap.  I'm sure I don't have to cite how many teams have laughed at us now that we aren't throwing the ball down the field, that we aren't even attempting to. 

Were talking about players keeping their eyes in the backfield and cheating the slant, the screen, the quick out, and despite this, he's still got a higher YPR than many of the other iconic seasons to which its being compared to.

[B.BERSIN]

4 hours ago, Hammerin'Cam1 said:

Artis-Payne, or any RB, could have as many receptions as McCaffrey, it doesn't take a great RB to catch check-downs

First, you need to CATCH it.

[tondi]

CMC has been great but I agree it's indicative of other offensive shortcomings that he's getting more targets than any two other players. Its great to have a guy that can take a check down and potentially turn it into a positive play but it usually means either nobody else can get open or Cam doesn't have time to find them which limits our offensive potential. 

[Mr. Scot]

Not interested in the stupid debate...

Will say this: Mark Schlereth saying he was going to text his old teammate Ed McCaffrey that his son was better than him made me chuckle.

(something tells me Ed won't dispute it, though)

[Shocker]

3 hours ago, Prime said:

Remember guys, Christian mccaffrey was a checkdown before half shy of being the 3rd 1,000 1,000 bad ever. Let's also keep in mind he accomplished this with a makeshift offensive line. Also, week in and week out teams know Christian is our biggest threat and still can't guard him. 

 

Really starting to think he might be the second best back in the league behind Gurley, imo. 

He is better than Gurley.

 

[Mikey818]

5 hours ago, GOOGLE JIM BOB COOTER said:

teams aren't loading the box against us. according to espn nextgen stats mccaffrey has faced an 8+ man front 19.53% of the time which ranks outside of the top 30 among qualifying running backs. now that's only rushing attempts and obviously there's some wiggle room there with RPOs and cam changing the play at the line but i'd bet that we haven't faced that many loaded boxes relative to the league this season. seems to me opposing defenses knew our line was trash and were content to play off, keep everything in front, and wait for a pass rusher to disrupt a play.

e: also i know you don't care but mccaffrey had 12 catches today and only one was caught farther than 3 yards beyond the line of scrimmage. it's pretty much un-guardable but at the same time pretty worthless overall. defenses simply aren't worried about an offense happy to throw the ball around the line of scrimmage so many times in a game. too much can go wrong in the passing game for such limited rewards. and mccaffrey isn't running into an 8+ man front very often. seems to me teams are more than willing to let him get his yards.

He’s averaged 6 yards per touch with near 0 dropped passes and 5 ypc what more do u want from a rb? Who’s better ?

[tiger7_88]

7 hours ago, Truck Stick said:

CMC broke Steve Smiths record. Time to buy a Jersey

And he didn't even have to do major damage to his teammates facial bones in sneak attacks to do it.