Poll: Two Games In, What's Your Take on the Running Game?
by Stephen Expat on Sep 13, 2011 6:04 PM CDT
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PrintWhile enjoying our nightly wine-and-cheese hour on the veranda of our palatial Expats estate and listening to the soothing sounds of the house string quartet, we sometimes pause to wonder what the hoi polloi - the domestic beer drinkers, if you will - think about a given issue.
Last week, we asked you, the great unwashed, to let us know how you were feeling about the running game. This week, we've come up with the original idea to ask you ... how you're feeling about the running game.
I had a mixed reaction to the performance of the ground game in Saturday's nail-biter of a victory over New Mexico. On the one hand, it definitely looked better than it did against Missouri State. The total yards were better, and Ronnie Wingo had a few nice runs in the second half. On the other hand, a large percentage of the rushing yards were accumulated by Tyler Wilson and Joe Adams, and I would have liked to have seen the running backs really dominate the Lobos, which they didn't do.
I'll be patient though: remember that it wasn't until late October last year that Knile Davis became a beast in the backfield. In the meantime, I'll choose the "mildly worried" option in the poll below. And, oh yeah: hurry back, Dennis Johnson.
On with the poll ...
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Most Interesting Quote I've Read Today:
"I love playing running back," [said Joe Adams on Monday.] "I played there in high school. Whenever he puts me in the backfield, I’m going to do the best I can.
"I’ll play quarterback, too. If he wants to put me in at quarterback, I’ll run the Wildcat."
Staying classy in Colorado.
Dennis Johnson suffered a hamstring injury just prior to week 1. He had been injured most of last year too. He hasn’t seen any playing time since September 2010. We were all hoping that he’d make an appearance against New Mexico, but that didn’t happen. Heck, the New Mexico game program had him & Isaac Madison on the cover.
Rumors started to fly this past Saturday that he was in the dog house with Petrino, which seems to be unfounded. We’re all hoping to see him run over Troy this Saturday at 6:30pm CDT in Fayetteville. Of course, it will be interesting to see how Ronnie Wingo Jr and Kody Walker have improved from last week too.
Also, having not seen any playing time against Missouri State or New Mexico, DJ probably won’t get many touches. But we’re all hoping for a break-out back that can do some serious damage to the Troy Trojans who are coming off a bye week and hoping to upset us.
Staying classy in Colorado.
I like Adams in the backfield
Talk about something to scare the crap out of all the SEC defensive coordinators. Put the Hogs in a three WR set (Wright, Hamilton, & Childs), with a TE (Gragg) and Joe in the backfield and who will the Defense key on? You can’t key on the WR deep or Joe or the Gragg will beat you short (with Joe a threat to take it to the house anywhere he gets the ball) try to stop Joe running the ball and you leave the WR in a soft zone or beatable man to man.
ooh I like it
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