Is CJ no longer our lead back ???

Our whole offense has been under-performing, but outside of Locker he has been our most productive player. I don't see what is so fluky about what he does in the passing game, he has been a home run threat his entire career. Why should we be so surprised when he hits one? Because the game was lost anyway? That's irrational thinking.

Well he was averaging over 4 YPC against the 49ers. And counting his receptions as production isn't skewing the stats, its considering other ways he can contribute to the offense. Do you ignore Locker's ability to run when evaluating what he brings to the offense? Ignoring those stats do more to skew his evaluation.

 

We're not disqualifying his receptions. Sheesh you people are dense.

The running game is the primary goal of the running back. It's wonderful that he was getting 4 YPC against the 9ers... But they weren't pitted to stop him. They knew once we were down we would be forced to throw the ball. They let us have the running yards because the target was now Locker. If you go back and watch some 22 film you will see this.

Back to the point, we just want consistent yards. CJ is not consistent unless it's 1-2.

2 screen passes don't fix the big picture.

 

CJ vs Pittsburgh
5, 1, 3, 7, -2, 4, -1, 0, 3, 6, 5, 4, 0, 1, 4, 0, 1, 1, -1, 11, 3, 8, -2, 2, 1, 5,

CJ vs Houston
16, 3, 6, -1, 1, 2, 12, 8, -2, 9, 3, 2, 1, 9, 6, -2, 4, 1, 5, 0, 1, -1, 9, -1, 0, 15, 1,

CJ vs San Diego
0, 6, 5, 23, 7, 3, 4, 0, 3, 15, 8, 5, 9, 0, 2, 1, -5, 7, 1,

CJ vs NYJ
6, 8, 2, 0, 3, 0, 2, 0, 2, 4, 0, -1, -3, -3, 2, -1,

CJ vs KC
1, 6, 3, 4, 2, 4, 2, -2, 2, 1,

CJ vs Seattle
0, -4, 1, 2, 5, 2, 1, 7, 2, 8, 4, 5,

CJ vs 9ers

4, 5, 1, 5, 1, 9, 3, 7, 0, 0, 7, 3,

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63 out of 122 runs were for 2 yards or less. He's the king of 50/50.

16 of those 63 were negative yards.

12 were for 0 yards

21 attempts went for 3-4 yards.

38 attempt went for 5 or greater.

6 of those 38 went for double digits.

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51% of the time he puts the offense behind schedule. Every other play on average is a bad play.

22% of the time he loses us yards or wastes a down. (negatives and zeros) about 1 out of every 5 runs.

17% of the time he hits the sweet spot (3-4 yards) about 1 out of ever 5 runs

31% of the time he gains more than 4 yards. 1 out of every 3 runs. And less than 1% (.04 to be exact) he gains more than 9 yards.