CMC getting much love

[Jeremy Igo]

RB rankings from NFL.com

 

[PhillyB]

fuging receivers better start cutting into those touches

[Adb6368]

Your only an mvp if you’re on a winning team and you’re only a winning team if you have multiple weapons. We should have multiple weapons 

[t96]

29 touches per game isn’t sustainable (well maybe it is for a season or a couple but not for the future) so hopefully that comes down but his productivity remains the same or is better.

[07579394]

Hey,look at Arizona's David Johnson or David Jackson or someone else,don't let the RB touching too much,RBs will get more depletion and become mediocre.

[BrianS]

10 hours ago, t96 said:

29 touches per game isn’t sustainable (well maybe it is for a season or a couple but not for the future) so hopefully that comes down but his productivity remains the same or is better.

LaDainian Tomlinson averaged over 25 touches per game for the first seven years of his career.

Emmitt Smith averaged 25 touches per game for the first seven years of his career.

Let's not get too excited by the fact that a rock star RB got four touches more than other rock star RB's averaged at the same point in their career for one game.

[Asurfaholic]

Individual stats are cool and all, but I prefer the W

[MHS831]

I am sure some of you will frown upon the statement I am about to make, but if I were a small dog, I would hump CMC's leg.  Full stop.

[DeAngelo Beason]

11 hours ago, t96 said:

29 touches per game isn’t sustainable (well maybe it is for a season or a couple but not for the future) so hopefully that comes down but his productivity remains the same or is better.

It's quite sustainable.  Strength and conditioning is miles above what it was in the days of Emmitt Smith, Barry Sanders, Jim Brown, etc, etc.  He can handle it.

[DeAngelo Beason]

Dude can play.  I'm most impressed with how he's been able to really get the pads down and start punishing would-be tacklers and making people miss.  

[TheRed]

It's not an issue of sustainability, it's an issue of versatility. Being dynamic. Do you see the two recent Super Bowl teams forcing their entire offense (rushing/passing) through their first string RB? If anything so far this season I've seen two of the best teams in the NFC getting on the board with their backup running back.

[Mage]

I'm sure if McCaffrey only got 15 touches and we still lost, people would be complaining about that too.

Feeding McCaffrey isn't why we lost.  It is because (and I hate to say it because I love him) Cam overthrew multiple passes, Moore fumbled in the redzone on the opening drive, the miscommunication on the attempted field goal drive, and the lateral in our own territory.

[hepcat]

McCaffrey is the best player in the NFL. Without him the Panthers offense is trash. He plays behind a garbage offensive line with a noodle arm QB and is the only player doing anything meaningful on the Panthers offense.

[hepcat]

11 hours ago, t96 said:

29 touches per game isn’t sustainable (well maybe it is for a season or a couple but not for the future) so hopefully that comes down but his productivity remains the same or is better.

I say we just give him the ball every play. The Panthers are used to one guy driving the offense. From Steve Smith to Cam and now McCaffrey.