Exactly right.
It's a far cry from the 7 year $45 mil that MB3 signed for.
Even if Murray signs for 4 years at $20 mil, that's still not close to what Barber got.
Murray's game checks are about a 100 grand this season. I bet the signing bonus as part of this offer gave him pause.
He's having an MVP caliber campaign. Frankly, he deserves better than that.
If it's the OL how has he averaged over 5 ypc for his career going INTO this season? He's always been a stud, we just never committed to feeding him. Now that we are we're off to our best start in the last 20 years, and we throw a bush league contract offer at him in the middle of the season?
If I were Murray I'd maybe catch a sore hammy before Seattle and let Randle/Dunbar humble this FO and fan base.
Was he not with us the last 3 years? Why didn't he "single-handedly bring us to the playoffs" any of those seasons then?
Not saying he's not having a great start to the season, but honestly no person single handedly has improved this team versus where it was last year. If we had the same defense as last year we probably not be 4-1, if we had the same O-line we would probably not be 4-1. The best thing about football is that it is the quintessential team game. Always was, always will be.
Seems like that's about the only way people would see how good this guy is... although against Seattle people would probably say Murray would have been shut down too.
He's having an MVP caliber campaign. Frankly, he deserves better than that.
If it's the OL how has he averaged over 5 ypc for his career going INTO this season? He's always been a stud, we just never committed to feeding him. Now that we are we're off to our best start in the last 20 years, and we throw a bush league contract offer at him in the middle of the season?
If I were Murray I'd maybe catch a sore hammy before Seattle and let Randle/Dunbar humble this FO and fan base.
The same guy who set the franchise rushing record in his first game as a pro, and set the league on fire as a rookie... Behind what was considered the worst OL we may have ever fielded.
And he's only good now because our OL!!!
But that's none of my business...
He's having an MVP caliber campaign. Frankly, he deserves better than that.
If it's the OL how has he averaged over 5 ypc for his career going INTO this season? He's always been a stud, we just never committed to feeding him. Now that we are we're off to our best start in the last 20 years, and we throw a bush league contract offer at him in the middle of the season?
If I were Murray I'd maybe catch a sore hammy before Seattle and let Randle/Dunbar humble this FO and fan base.
Sounds like a great way to get wally pipped.
yeah I'm sure both those guys would both go for 200 yards in their debuts, cause you know that always happens.
yeah I'm sure both those guys would both go for 200 yards in their debuts, cause you know that always happens.
Save your hyperbole, we don't need them to run for 200 yards.
If the OLine is the only reason for his success , how the hell does he have a 5+ yards per carry career average? This with Costa, Nagy, Kowalski, Livings blocking for him.
Look up the Oline he ran behind when he broke the Cowboys single game rushing record.
If he is so easily replaceable with likes of Randle or Dunbar, why did they give Murray 30 carries against Houston?
I don't want to break the bank for this guy but some of the comments on this thread about his ability is pure comedy.
There's a major difference when you have a guy taking handoffs that can do that,
I think people are confusing things with running backs nowadays, there's a bunch of running backs that are pedestrian players and are not worth locking into a second contract, but in this day and age there's a VERY small number of backs that are franchise players these guys are the ones you don't let go cause with how scarce these guys are, chances are you're not going to find another one any time soon and you're going to be left screwing around carries between 3 different guys just like we have been the last several years. There is a very big difference when you have a true franchise player at RB and when you have running back by committee.