We all know Howard is great in the run game... But he is below average in pass blocking because he lacks great feet. Maybe he's better off moving to RG if we were to draft a tackle.
These numbers don't really tell the whole story, they are incomplete. Which back ran behind the position designated? Who was playing each position on each play? What defense helped or hurt those avg yards per play? What was the formation on each play? Down and distance on each? I could go on but what's the point. Anyway Howard or smith helped us on right runs according to stats. Moore, slauson, duccasse, and mangold didnt produce much according to stats. Brick has always been a project as a run blocker, I wonder which season was his personal best? We must fix our run game and it starts and ends here, as far as I'm concerned
the system we were running this season had a lot of pulling guard play... not runing well to the left says that moore was not as good moving down the line to block as vlad/slauson were
Interesting. So our best running was through Austin Howard and Moore, rather than Slauson/Ferguson. That's really unexpected. Vlad played a role in that as well I'm sure. How is it we rank #1 at attempts up the middle but #25 at yards per carry up the middle. What happened to Mangold? Is Slauson holding him back or what? Overall the line was below average in run blocking. Average rank is about 20th. Greene should win a medal for breaking 1000 yards behind that line. Austin Howard did pan out, however, so we got lucky with him. Slauson is probably done if not retained as a backup for cheap. We really need to draft a guard badly.
Of course they don't tell the whole story, but if you're trying to figure out where your strengths and weakness are on the line itself, this is a good way to do it. You have to ignore which RB it was, but I would like to know the success rate for Vlad vs Moore or Howard vs Smith. If they broke it down by name rather than position that would be nice, but would probably take forever to compile.
Interesting that while Jets rank 25th when running Middle, it was selected 44% of times. Is that any wonder why we are so easy to stop on the ground? You don't even need to overload the line, just make sure you've got a body down the middle & Jets' run game is stopped half of the times...
Because Greene was a big bruising back who needed to run up the middle to crush people. Ground and pound baby.
If you had legitimate pass catcher/run blockers and didn't substitute, it would have been better. Dump Keller, keep Cumberland, find a guy in the middle rounds that can play three downs.
