
Also, while McCarren may be right about the RB doing more for the run game than the OL, I think there is a minimum standard of blocking/holes opening before ANY RB can do much of anything. Other than the TB and CHI games (who both came in with very poor and/or injured defensive fronts), I simply haven't seen it. The last game against Dallas, the RBs were either met in the backfield, or the 'trenches' were a completely solid wall of humanity with little to no gap for a RB to even think about exploiting. Unless you have a once-in-a-generation type back like a prime Barry Sanders (and Jacobs, good as he is, isn't that), it's just not gonna work.
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