Alexander;1253490 said:
I honestly don't think Coach Parcells is sitting around consulting charts, graphs and so forth.
Like Jim said, if you think that, then you obviously don't know much about Bill Parcells.
And please note your 15 of first 24 starts statement as it completely ignores my assertion concerning the validity of a "slump".
No, it does not. It indicates a level of previous production that dropped off after those 24 games. You can't qualify a slump without the prior level of play.
I stand firm by my assertion that a football slump certainly shouldn't last half a season.
And yet, they often do, for various reasons.
So what's the significance of the statistical flashcards here? Are you trying to sell that somehow Jones is even close to the level of Tomlinson in any way shape or form?
If you had been following along, you wouldn't have to ask that question.
His production is consistently average. It's not exceptional.
Until the middle of this season, his production was consistently above-average, and occasionally exceptional.
By virtue of one run. One.
Again, you're wrong. It's no wonder your opinions are so misguided when you don't even have a clear understanding of the facts.
Take away Julius' 77-yard run, and his average still would have been 4.33 yards in that game, which also would have ended his streak.
And if you're so fond of removing outliers, why not remove Julius' 3-yard loss against Carolina? Then would have averaged 4.13 yards in that game, ending his streak after one game. And if we remove his 3-yard loss against Tampa Bay, and he would have averaged 4.3 yards in that game, ending his streak at three games.
Again, you see the impact of "one run ... one" and why I've been saying it's misleading to look at simple YPC as a measure of effectiveness.
At any rate, why drop Tomlinson into the discussion at all? To me, that's a pretty transparent attempt to name-drop in order to impress.
Other people brought Tomlinson into the discussion long before I mentioned him. But my point was that almost every running back -- no matter how good, and Tomlinson is the best right now -- goes through such streaks for four or five games or more when they don't break 4.0 in any game. The fact that Julius finally had one shouldn't be a big shock.
If you'd feel better if I had said Corey Dillon, Ahman Green, Kevin Jones, Travis Henry, Steven Jackson, Edgerrin James, Curtis Martin, Willis McGahee, Shaun Alexander, Brian Westbrook, Michael Pittman, Thomas Jones, Marshall Faulk, Warrick Dunn -- pick a level of player, any level -- then pretend I used them as an example, because they've all had those kind of streaks.
Where Smith carried us to victory time and time again.