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HE WITH HORNS

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I'm curious if this will be a permanent thing or not? Cunningham was starting ahead of Stacy. I think he's the best RB on the team, I hope he gets the chance to start in the regular season too.
 
Yeah I like the two headed monster as well and lets not forget Watts/Mason who also have looked pretty solid tonight against tougher competition then they previously faced.
 
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Was going to start a thread, but I'll just put it in here instead.

I'm not a "lets read a hell of a lot into preseason stats" type of guy. But reading a lot into preseason stats
Stacy's stats: 15 carries, 39 yards, 2.6 ypc
Cunningham's stats: 15 carries, 80 yards, 5.3 ypc

Cunningham looked very good in his role last night, Stacy not so much.

Is there any chance that Cunningham could have worked his way into the number 1 back role?
 
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Rams and Gators said:
Was going to start a thread, but I'll just put it in here instead.

I'm not a "lets read a hell of a lot into preseason stats" type of guy. But reading a lot into preseason stats
Stacy's stats: 15 carries, 39 yards, 2.6 ypc
Cunningham's stats: 15 carries, 80 yards, 5.3 ypc

Cunningham looked very good in his role last night, Stacy not so much.

Is there any chance that Cunningham could have worked his way into the number 1 back role?
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That's the thing with stats this early, and in preseason. Be careful what you see in them.

Benny had two large runs; 19 and 21

The 21 yarder last night was wide open.

Take those away and his stats look strikingly similar to Stacy, 13 carries for 40yds, 3.0 ypc

Edit; the running game hasn't been very impressive this whole preseason, IMO
 
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I'm not a "lets read a hell of a lot into preseason stats" type of guy. But reading a lot into preseason stats
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Nice.

This extends into last year a bit too. Cunningham averaged 5.6 ypc vs Stacy at 3.9. One would argue that most of Cunningham's success was against the terrible Bears run D where he got 109 of his 256 yards or his 56 yard carry against Indy where he got another 56 yards on a single carry.

I'm starting to think that Cunningham has at least worked himself into a bunch more carries this year, and kept himsef above Tre Mason on the depth chart. That said, I think we'll still see plenty of Mason this year too.

Watts... I haven't noticed him on special teams. WIth the Pead injury, Watts can probably make the team on special teams and as RB #4.
 
CGI_Ram said:
That's the thing with stats this early, and in preseason. Be careful what you see in them.

Benny had two large runs; 19 and 21

The 21 yarder last night was wide open.

Take those away and his stats look strikingly similar to Stacy, 13 carries for 40yds, 3.0 ypc

Edit; the running game hasn't been very impressive this whole preseason, IMO
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I'm starting to buy into the fact that Cunningham may be our home run for the long runs this year, by looking at the numbers he tends to break atleast 1 nice run per game. I can actually live with that... Of course I think Stacy is the starter week 1, I just wish he could make a couple more of those Cunningham runs this preseason to leave everyone without a doubt that he's the day 1 starter...
 
I saw a rotoworld blurb that quoted Fisher as saying something like "We know what Stacy can do and wanted to give Benny a chance with the ones". I can dig it.
 
CGI_Ram said:
That's the thing with stats this early, and in preseason. Be careful what you see in them.

Benny had two large runs; 19 and 21

The 21 yarder last night was wide open.

Take those away and his stats look strikingly similar to Stacy, 13 carries for 40yds, 3.0 ypc

Edit; the running game hasn't been very impressive this whole preseason, IMO
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So what you're saying is that if you take away Cunningham's good plays he looks mediocre? :whistle:
 
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With the way they were throwing with Bradford in, I think they were testing out Cunningham as the 3rd down back. With pass protection. Might be the penalties sticking them back and forcing them to throw, but it was nice to see them going for the first down marker rather than checking down to Cunningham.
 
CGI_Ram said:
Benny had two large runs
Take those away and his stats look strikingly similar to Stacy
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Take away those two big plays and. . . . Wait, that's what we used to say about our defense when they were bad!

But that aside, Benny has way more burst than Stacy, and he seems to be getting big plays more consistently.
 
Considering what we have seen what watts can do, does anyone feel like the pick for Mason was unneccesary? I've always thought it was and was hoping to be proved wrong.
 
HE WITH HORNS said:
Hamm esn't done it recently.
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HE WITH HORNS said:
I'm curious if this will be a permanent thing or not? Cunningham was starting ahead of Stacy. I think he's the best RB on the team, I hope he gets the chance to start in the regular season too.
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HE WITH HORNS said:
I'm curious if this will be a permanent thing or not? Cunningham was starting ahead of Stacy. I think he's the best RB on the team, I hope he gets the chance to start in the regular season too.
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He had one ripped out of his hands the green bay game but bounced out of bounce.
 
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