I'll easily correct you on that, HE WAS BEAT OUT FOR THE STARTING SPOT. Coming into camp the coaches stated that the starting spot was open to whoever won. Before training camp was even over Drich was named starter I know Pead was suspended week 1 but he was already beat out for the starting spot, and to be honest Cunningham outplayed him in training camp for the 3rd spot, doghouse or not he wasn't worthy of the #1 or #2 RB spot.
Uhh, no. Pead's first week back indicates otherwise. Pead was suspended from an incident that occured the season before; even fisher didn't know why it took so long for the league to act. Week 2 Pead was #2 in Snaps, ahead of Cunningham. (40 for drich,29 for pead, 7 for cunningham.)
Whether or not you believe Cunningham outplayed Pead isn't indicative of how the coaching staff clearly viewed him - clearly evidenced by Pead leading in snaps week 3 (Pead has 42 offensive snaps, Cunningham 22).
Week 4 he entered the dog house again - and it took awhile to climb out.
How did he beat out Drich towards the end of the season, when the coaches knew it would take a full off season for him to fully recover, besides there was no reason to play him because of how good Stacey and Cunningham were playing.(Not because of how good Pead was performing at RB)
If the coaches knew, why wasn't he listed on the injury report? The League requires injured players to be listed. Richardson's last start was at home against the seahawks, and never saw the field again...Richardson came off the injury report for week 12 and was subsequently inactive for the following weeks.
If the coaches knew that it would take a long time he would have gone to IR. Doesn't make sense.
Not to mention part of the biggest reason why Drich was benched was for his lack of vision - which has nothing to do with your toe. I understand it'll affect your burst - but i don't see it mattering when you keep running into the back of your own lineman. Not to mention I don't think I ever saw Drich break a tackle.
As fare as the 2point conversion, that play was designed for Pead because he was the only RB on the sideline with energy, Stacey was injuried and Cunningham ran the ball about 8 strait plays to score the game winning touchdown to put the game out of reach(NOT PEAD), there was ntg spectacular about what he on the play, he came out the backfield WIDEOPEN to make a 3 yard catch.
Actually no it wasn't "designed for Pead" - it's a play that's in schotty's playbook and has been run before w/o Pead. And again, you're missing the significance of the play - it's a must have. You don't put in a player you don't trust in that type of position.
It's actually a common play - Chip kellys used it as well, except with D.Jax running presnap like Tavon Austin with Mccoy in the same role as pead was
As fare as ST, Cunningham has more value than him. Cunningham started kick returner, on kickoff, and punt team. I'm pretty sure fisher put him on ST strictly because he was the highest paid RB with little production. We don't know what value Drich has on ST because the coaches don't put the starting RB on ST, and when Drich got his spot taken by Stacey he was suffering from the turf toe injury so there was know way for him to show his ST abilities at that point..
Actually Pead has been heralded as the ST's ace and was part of our great kick coverage. And it had nothing to do with how much he was paid or drafted - again, that doesn't make sense. So Fisher is suddenly going to start him at ST later, after benching him because he needed to get his act together?
Cunningham is a better pure runner than Pead showed - but Pead also showed he had the hands, pass pro, and the value on ST. Drich has shown he has terrible hands and vision. Cunningham hasn't shown the same 3rd down capabilities.
