Medical reasons why Saints may have passed on RB Tyjae Spears (1 Viewer)

You're making up stuff to fit a narrative. You're trying to address the elephant in the room by squeezing it into a shoe box. Deuce was the best player on the board pure and simple. That spells better long term success than all the weird excuses you're making. Speaking of which...

Aaron Stecker was brought in to be the complement? That's the argument we're going with? LOL, talk about playing for the other team. Way to drive home my point for me. When we look back at the annals of Saints choices, drafting Deuce despite Ricky being on the roster definitely won't stand up against getting Aaron freaking Stecker as RB2! /sarcasm
I didn’t make up a thing in my reply, but if you’re going to claim I did, point it out and source a refutation.
 
The rationale is made up, not the events.
Mm.

Perhaps you have a better explanation for why the Saints have almost never stacked the roster with RBs on either the “power back” edge or the “scatback/receiving back” edge of the spectrum of talents running backs tend to primarily possess.
 
Mm.

Perhaps you have a better explanation for why the Saints have almost never stacked the roster with RBs on either the “power back” edge or the “scatback/receiving back” edge of the spectrum of talents running backs tend to primarily possess.

I don't know what you're trying to ask. Payton definitely favored having his RBs be involved in both the running and passing game. The question becomes were the Saints more effective because sometimes they had a RB that was more of a powerback and one that was more of a receiving back OR were they more effective when they had 2 really good RBs. Ingram/Ivory or Ingram/Kamara...good backs no matter how you frame it. A far cry from Steckler/whomever or Khiry Robinson/Travaris Cadet.

See you're cherry picking memories to fit a narrative. Having a power back and scatback dual didn't make the Saints running game effective, having really good RBs despite their strengths made the Saints running game effective. Saints shouldn't have been trying to fit a mold at RB this past draft. They should've been trying to stack talent at the position.

So when I see that it's pretty widely accepted that the Saints drafted a guy to fit some mythical mold, when real games repeatedly proves this tactic is a fallacy, instead of taking the better player, it really annoys me. Because even though we fans don't know for sure...there's probably some truth to it.
 
Well Mora & Co did select Edgerine James over Ricky... :), ha

If you say so, but 97 yards on 18 carries doesn't sound unstoppable. His teammate had a higher ypc on less carries. It also reported that Parcells actually got on Payton and told him he should be running Khiry more often, because his style resembled Curtis Martin.

I'm not an Ingram hater, but I agree with Mora as in he was not a special back. As you mentioned, he can catch, pass block, but I don't know if any DC game planned against the Saints saying "man we really have to stop Ingram and not let him beat us".

Khiry was talented but couldn't stay healthy.....

MI split carries with other backs during both 1,000 seasons with us, he also averaged 5 yards a carry which is pretty impressive for a "power" back.....maybe you think 5 yards a carry (18 for 97 is 5+ BTW) isn't impressive?

I think MI was in the minds of opposing DCs for a spell....
 
Well, to be accurate, Spears is getting a lot of touches because Henry has slowed down a lot this season. Good for Spears taking advantage of it though.
Somewhat, sure. Henry is approaching 30 and has an unreal amount of usage on him. He is also a freak of nature. The main issue is that their line resembles ours and offer zero amount of room for the RBs. The QB play has been even worse for them (despite some encouraging flashes from the rookie) and they don't have any other offensive weapons besides Hopkins. It's pretty amazing that Spears has been able to gain 4.7 YPC and chip in some solid receiving work. From what I've seen his frame and running style can easily handle feature back work.
Miller could still be a very good back in the league, he has some pretty good overall traits and he's really young. But there looks to be little doubt that teams passing on Spears because of his 'medical condition' will likely regret it.
 
Somewhat, sure. Henry is approaching 30 and has an unreal amount of usage on him. He is also a freak of nature. The main issue is that their line resembles ours and offer zero amount of room for the RBs. The QB play has been even worse for them (despite some encouraging flashes from the rookie) and they don't have any other offensive weapons besides Hopkins. It's pretty amazing that Spears has been able to gain 4.7 YPC and chip in some solid receiving work. From what I've seen his frame and running style can easily handle feature back work.
Miller could still be a very good back in the league, he has some pretty good overall traits and he's really young. But there looks to be little doubt that teams passing on Spears because of his 'medical condition' will likely regret it.
You may be right. Time will tell, but so far Spears has proven his worth. Hopefully that continues.
 

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