Are you in favor of resting Dowdle this week?!?

[LinvilleGorge]

5 minutes ago, tukafan21 said:

He looked to be in a lot of pain at times, I was actually surprised to see him in on that TD when like 2 plays before he looked like he badly strained his groin.

It's a catch 22, because you can't sit him right now as he is the offense.  But at the same time, with how much pain he looked in at times, it just feels like he's bound to end up making it worse at some point and missing some time if he keeps the same work load.

Damned if you do, damned if you don't

This. If he can go you have to play him. Without him our offense is completely stuck in the mud and I can't give us better than 50/50 odds of beating anyone and if this team is going to push for a playoff spot sweeping the Saints feels like a must.

I think we've done enough at this point to be done with getting looked past by opponents and at some point teams are gonna start just slamming 8 and 9 in the box every down whether it's a usual passing scenario or not and absolutely selling out against the run to keep Rico from beating them.

[jtm]

There are no easy games in the NFL and especially divisional opponents.  

[X-Clown]

10 minutes ago, RumHam said:

They clearly did against Buffalo. Probably why Bryce didn't play either.

Rico didn’t have any injury issue heading into that game, that was a stubborn decision by Dave to not let Chuba lose his starting job to injury. He said before the Green Bay game that was changing. Not sure if Bryce was fit to play or not.

[CRA]

4 hours ago, TheBigKat said:

He looked banged up yesterday like he gave everything he had and then some 

 

If we can’t beat the Saints with Chuba then we have no business winning that game.

 

Rest Rico and get the team right to run the brakes off Atlanta

wut? Riding Rico is literally the only way we can win football games.  And you want to not do that in a winnable game? 

we have seen w/ Hubbard that it takes more than our gameplan to win a game.....we need the opponent to have painfully horrific offense in addition to that.   

You play to win the game.  You ride Rico until he can't ride. 

[Packersfan]

1 minute ago, CRA said:

wut? Riding Rico is literally the only way we can win football games.  And you want to not do that in a winnable game? 

we have seen w/ Hubbard that it takes more than our gameplan to win a game.....we need the opponent to have painfully horrific offense in addition to that.   

You play to win the game.  You ride Rico until he can't ride. 

Young only had  like 102 yards passing. I thought he had more than that.

[kungfoodude]

4 hours ago, tukafan21 said:

He looked to be in a lot of pain at times, I was actually surprised to see him in on that TD when like 2 plays before he looked like he badly strained his groin.

It's a catch 22, because you can't sit him right now as he is the offense.  But at the same time, with how much pain he looked in at times, it just feels like he's bound to end up making it worse at some point and missing some time if he keeps the same work load.

Damned if you do, damned if you don't

Yeah, get him checked out and let him largely manage it.

[OneBadCat]

I would love to do that but I'm not sure we can afford to. It's the Saints, Taysom Hill is going to make bullshit plays against us and the refs are going to slob their knob like they always do.

[strato]

8 hours ago, TheBigKat said:

He looked banged up yesterday like he gave everything he had and then some 

 

If we can’t beat the Saints with Chuba then we have no business winning that game.

 

Rest Rico and get the team right to run the brakes off Atlanta

I would be in favor of running him hard and piling up a lead and then pulling him if he was good with it. 
I’d be in favor of getting Etienne more involved. 
 

Said from the beginning it is 17 games, we would need both backs. Before I knew what a beast Rico is. Didn’t see him being the one to need spelling. 

[PappyMay]

heck no, let that man rest up until Friday's practice then go time. We have are half a game out of the wildcard i believe. Lets go for it!