Originally posted by Niners23:
Originally posted by jreff22:
Originally posted by Niners23:
Originally posted by jreff22:
Originally posted by TX9R:
Originally posted by jreff22:
Gore being injured = loses, having depth that can carry the load is still needed.
Dude we would have beaten Minny if not for a Favre miracle.. with no Gore. We still don't know what Coffee has because like Gore, he had no holes last year. Everyone was on his nuts in the preseason when he had decent blocking, he's fine as a back up. So is it a back up you want or a change of pace, because you draft those guys in later rounds.
Coffe isn't a game changer, I don't see that in him. I want a backup/change of pace RB that is always described as "has the ability to take it to the house every time". If by some God awful chance Gore goes down for 4-6 games and all we have is Coffee and MRob we will be screwed.
You can say that about most teams with a high profile starting RB. If Peterson went down, the Vikings may be screwed, same with the Jags and MJD, Steven Jackson and the Rams, Johnson and the Titans etc etc. That doesn't mean that every one of those teams will draft an RB in the first round.
What that shows is why teams have invested in 2 good RB's. Expecting only 1 guy to handle the load all season is too risky.
That's a fairly weak reason to draft Spiller at this point. The rationale for getting Spiller initially was centered around what he would do for our special teams and the fact that he could compliment Gore was secondary. If we want another backup RB for Gore, we can get that in later rounds with Best, Gerhart, McKnight, Dwyer, Blount etc. There is no reason to spend a 1st on an RB anymore.
No it wast, it was an equal 50/50 to both. We have been a 1 back team and that philosophy is outdated at this point. Lets look at top teams and how they address the RB position:
Saints-Reggie Bush (1st round pick) & Pierre Thomas
Colts-Joesph Addai (1st round pick) & Donald Brown (1st round pick)
Jets-Shonn Greene & Thomas Jones (1st round pick) released for LaDainian Tomlinson (1st round pick)
Vikings-Adrian Peterson (1st round pick) & Chester Taylor released
Eagles-Lesean McCoy & Brian Westbrook released
Cowboys-Marion Barber & Felix Jones (1st round pick) & Tashard Choice
Now as far as the top Rushing teams in the league:
1. New York Jets-Already broken down above
2. Tennessee Titans-Chris Johnson (1st round pick) & LenDale White
3. Carolina Panthers-DeAngelo Williams (1st round pick) & Jonathan Stewart (1st round pick)
4. Miami Dolphins-Ricky Williams (1st round pick) & Ronnie Brown (1st round pick)
5. Baltimore Ravens-Ray Rice & Willis McGahee (1st round pick)
If you happen to notice a trend its that almost every major rushing team has a 1st round RB. Does that mean by taking a kid in the 1st your team is destined for greatness......nope. But it does show that it generally helps more then it hurts and that's what I would expect with the addition of Spiller. All of those RB's you listed, there is no guarantee that we could get any of them. If Spiller happens to fall into our laps, that's the only real guaranteed shot we have at acquiring a RB. And most you listed don't qualify as a change of pace back, they are bruises just like Coffee which we don't need another clone of.