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I knew CMC had a lot of touches, but yikes....

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This may sound callous but I'm entirely fine with running CMC into the ground while he's young. His skill set is only going to decline as he gets older, especially considering how much his game relies on speed and shiftiness. 

As he ages his effectiveness is only going to reduce regardless of if we limit his touches or not. We might hasten that by a year or two but that's all hypothetical. The window for his prime effectiveness is pretty limited so you might as well use it while you can. 

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I hear the folks saying play your best yadda yadda but here's the thing. We got shut out of the end zone for an entire half. If you're going to run your Ferrari like that you better be getting more returns than 19 points. Against the worst team in the league at home to boot.

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Carolina has too much talent in their backfield for Christian to be getting over 90% of the RB touches (carries and receptions) week in and week out. Years ago when he was with the Cowboys, Tony Dorsett (a small back like Christian) said Tom Landry rarely let him carry the ball more than 20 times a game. People who remember that era will recall that he shared carries with Robert Newhouse , Preston Pearson, and Ron Springs. In fact he was often on the bench early in his career for 3rd down and Pearson came in as a 3rd down specialty back. Dorsett said he resented it earlier in his career, but he realized later that it prolonged his career.

I'm not saying Christian should be used exactly the same way, but Howard should be able to get 8-10 carries a game (approximately 2 per quarter) to lighten the load without really limiting the effectiveness of MacCaffrey. The latter is so talented, you could play them both at the same time by putting him in the slot and lining Howard up at TB (or vice versa to mix things up). 30 touches a game over a 17 game season could end up being a disaster in the making.

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Thirty per game is probably too many like you all are saying.  Twenty seems like the long term sweet spot.  That said if a game or two or three happen where he gets thirty touches so be it.  Lets see if this trend continues against the Saints before we start complaining so much.

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Zod as always with the easy layup post to get the hand-wringers and paste-eaters all riled up. 

It was the first game of the season, with a new QB trying to get settled in. You have a second year OC with a new QB and shitty offensive line that is trying to get settled in. Darnold/Brady are lucky to have CMC, and will probably lean heavily on him while they gets things ironed out. If he's still not spreading the ball around by game 4, then perhaps there's a problem, but we should be fine in a few weeks. 

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