_sturt_
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I don't know how many of his advocates in this thread are the same people who spent a chunk of the off-season mocking me and a handful of others for asserting that a healthy Deuce would practically be a lock to make the 53-man. I don't keep those receipts.It’s incredibly obvious.
Anyone else on this roster should just be a player who spells him or brings a little more power during certain situations but he’s far and away our most talented runner and it’s not even close.
They can play all these stupid games with old Zeke and Dowdle but Vaughn is better than all of them and it’s obvious.
Drop the country club BS and play Vaughn.
But yeah. It's not like I'm some genius. The circumstances of last season, with a bell-cow RB who wasn't especially well-regarded for pass protection, made it necessary that Deuce almost never got any real-game carries... ie, "real game" meaning, not at the end of a game when both teams are trying to run out the clock. His stats weren't real game stats. It wasn't hard to figure out he should come into this season as a legitimate threat ready to be deployed.
That said.
This has to be a RB by committee. There should not be an RB1. Size does matter. In real games, you have to be selective because there are down and distance situations where all the wisdom dictates that a larger human being needs to be in the backfield.