Even w/o Jones hurt, they should have brought in someone to compete and insure against his failure or injury all along.
There's neither pedigree nor proven production behind Jones. Rico and Davis should have been guys competing for a roster spot, or perhaps *both* betting axed if Jones and Other RB are just better.
Malik as Special Teams + Emergency Active RB is at least a viable gameday active role. And we do have his rights for another year. Rico as an emergency guy we bring off the PS in case a RB is out a full game is another viable role.
But a suspended, hurt, and unimpressive Jones is just not a viable #2. We should have brought in another RB in hopes he can be replaced.
The trouble with Deuce is he's an *extra*. He doesn't fulfill that #2. All sorts of wonders about him, but really, is he supposed to be running the short yardage plays? I don't think that's Pollard.
Malik? I guess but he's just a warm disposable body at short yardage. Are we willing to write off that role in the game, or use a roster spot in Rico to fill it? I hope not. Pretty big and important role. Short yardage runs are big plays.
Dude you can bring in a back like Ronald Jones now, later, middle of the season, right before the playoffs,
them dudes are a dime a dozen and anyone already pulling the rip cord and overreacting to our running back room needs to go look at the last two Super Bowls those four teams who were their running backs they weren't special. They were just either solid backs or running back by committee but none had a blue chip big time back and what we have now is pretty much what they have or better do you add Tony Pollard in there is the guy getting 15 to 18 carries a game and then you mix in the rest of what we have on the roster,
I'm not worried one bit , now something becomes an issue again you can add it back like Ronald Jones or similar anytime you want they are a dime a dozen.
And also remember our management a lot of times likes to wait till the week leading up to the regular season or into the second week of the season when teams are cutting and moving players that are not available right now..
they might have a list and they're waiting they've been doing this now for a few years and we rebuilt the safety position, the defensive tackle position, and the tight end position pretty quickly.
And like I said I like what's going on with the running back room but if they need to make a change it is one of the easiest positions to go find a guy off the street to produce immediately....
what we need to do is make sure the offensive line is ready to go, the blocking schemes are ready to go, and hopefully they can Integrate a fullback and I think we'll be fine.
