Gonna have to disagree. Zeke might work his butt off on game day, and even train hard in-season, but he's always had a work hard / play hard mentality which messes with recovery, particularly in the off-season. If you put his conditioning coming into last season when he worked with Josh Hicks up against the "Cabo" hold out off-season it's pretty to clear (to my thinking) that he hasn't always come into the season in the best condition and that more could have been done in the past.
Oh I think couple seasons ago Zeke did come in out of shape. But I think that happens with players sometimes when they get over confidence and forget what made them the player they are
Aside from getting dinged up though I think last season was as good as first season as far as effort
But the miles are getting high and no amount of conditioning can overcome those miles. That’s why I think, and hope it’s his last year here. I think when they designed his contract they felt that time would have caught up with him by next year and I think it’s time to move on from his salary. It would be different if he was getting paid like a part time back since that’s how I’d be using him. But that’s the nature of the nfl, someone will pay him more than I would pay him and I wish him the best
I hope Jerry learned you don’t use a top half of first round pick on a RB in todays game. The type of player who could justify it can’t stay healthy with the pounding they take. A guy like McCafferty gives you lots of options to get value out of him but the pounding just is too much for their bodies
I think when you are passing as much as you do today, RB by committee is the way to go
