I wonder why we cant the ball down field?

[Hulk75]

I wonder how the Oakland Raiders will play us?You will not do anything when your rushing game is this bad. And if you dont reply I will understand, lets bench the QB though.I thought there was only 32 teams, so your telling me there is 8 back ups that have more yards.

Rushing Leaders
RNK NAME ATT YDS AVG YPG LNG TD FUM LST
1 Larry Johnson RB, KAN 282 1202 4.3 109.3 45 13 2 2
2 Frank Gore RB, SFO 210 1177 5.6 107.0 61 5 5 5
3 L. Tomlinson RB, SDG 229 1146 5.0 104.2 58 21 2 1
4 Tiki Barber RB, NYG 226 1080 4.8 98.2 46 1 2 1
5 C. Taylor RB, MIN 248 999 4.0 90.8 95 5 4 3
6 Thomas Jones RB, CHI 235 945 4.0 85.9 29 4 1 1
7 S. Jackson RB, STL 218 932 4.3 84.7 37 6 1 1
8 Willie Parker RB, PIT 210 915 4.4 83.2 76 9 3 1
9 Rudi Johnson RB, CIN 230 890 3.9 80.9 22 8 2 0
10 Fred Taylor RB, JAC 194 876 4.5 79.6 32 4 2 1
11 Michael Vick QB, ATL 95 870 9.2 79.1 51 2 4 2
12 Warrick Dunn RB, ATL 208 865 4.2 78.6 90 4 1 0
13 Julius Jones RB, DAL 213 853 4.0 77.5 33 3 1 1
14 B. Westbrook RB, PHI 161 839 5.2 83.9 71 5 1 1
15 Joseph Addai RB, IND 155 789 5.1 71.7 21 7 1 1
16 Ronnie Brown RB, MIA 202 783 3.9 71.2 27 5 3 2
17 Travis Henry RB, TEN 172 756 4.4 84.0 70 5 2 1
18 Jamal Lewis RB, BAL 207 735 3.6 66.8 27 6 3 1
19 C. Williams RB, TAM 183 697 3.8 63.4 38 1 1 1
20 E. James RB, ARI 226 695 3.1 63.2 18 3 3 3
21 Ahman Green RB, GNB 169 688 4.1 76.4 70 4 2 2
22 D. McAllister RB, NOR 155 654 4.2 59.5 57 8 2 1
23 D. Foster RB, CAR 165 651 3.9 65.1 43 2 3 2
24 Tatum Bell RB, DEN 151 649 4.3 81.1 39 2 1 1
25 W. McGahee RB, BUF 166 642 3.9 71.3 32 3 1 0
26 Kevin Jones RB, DET 153 636 4.2 63.6 52 6 3 3
27 L. Maroney RB, NWE 151 610 4.0 55.5 41 4 1 1
28 Corey Dillon RB, NWE 132 550 4.2 50.0 50 7 2 2
29 M. Morris RB, SEA 141 529 3.8 48.1 29 0 1 1
30 C. Portis RB, WAS 127 523 4.1 65.4 38 7 0 0
31 M. Barber III RB, DAL 97 492 5.1 44.7 24 9 0 0
32 Ladell Betts RB, WAS 113 488 4.3 44.4 26 1 1 0
33 D. Rhodes RB, IND 137 482 3.5 43.8 17 3 1 1
34 R. Droughns RB, CLE 155 476 3.1 52.9 22 3 3 3
35 L. Washington RB, NYJ 113 471 4.2 42.8 23 2 1 1
36 M. Jones-Drew RB, JAC 90 454 5.0 41.3 40 6 1 1
37 LaMont Jordan RB, OAK 114 434 3.8 43.4 59 2 0 0
38 S. Alexander RB, SEA 122 425 3.5 85.0 21 2 2 1
39 Mike Bell RB, DEN 100 423 4.2 42.3 48 5 0 0
40 Wali Lundy RB, HOU 106 415 3.9 46.1 35 3 1 1
41 J. Norwood RB, ATL 68 411 6.0 41.1 78 1 0 0

 

[Texan_Bill]

You forgot one of those ahead of our 40th placed RB is a QB at #11. So technically wouldn't it only be 7 back-ups ahead of our guy?

 

[Hervoyel]

We need a running back and there's no denying it. I want Adrian Peterson but my common sense tells me we have so much more to do in building the line that we need to forget about getting anybody like that.

 

[hollywood_texan]

I wonder how the Oakland Raiders will play us?You will not do anything when your rushing game is this bad. And if you dont reply I will understand, lets bench the QB though.I thought there was only 32 teams, so your telling me there is 8 back ups that have more yards.

Wali Lundy didn't play for 3 games, so naturally he is going to have fewer yards. So your point is really meaningless.

But, maybe what you were trying to say is a poor rushing attack as a team means a team will have a harder time throwing the football. Let's not talk about individual players, and lets look at the NFL by rush rankings and then compare that to the passing rankings.

Here goes:

Rushing Rank --- Team --- Passing Rank

1 --- Atlanta --- 31
2 --- San Diego --- 13
3 --- Jacksonville --- 24
4 --- San Francisco --- 27
5 --- Dallas --- 6
6 --- Kansas City --- 21
7 --- New York (N) --- 18
8 --- Denver --- 26
9 --- Tennessee --- 28
10 --- Philadelphia --- 3
11 --- New England --- 11
12 --- Washington --- 23
13 --- Seattle --- 20
14 --- Indianapolis --- 2
15 --- Chicago --- 15
16 --- Minnesota --- 14
17 --- Pittsburgh --- 4
18 --- Carolina --- 19
19 --- New York (A) --- 22
20 --- Cincinnati --- 5
21 --- Oakland --- 32
22 --- Baltimore --- 17
23 --- Green Bay --- 9
24 --- Miami --- 12
25 --- St. Louis --- 8
26 --- Buffalo --- 30
27 --- Houston --- 16
28 --- New Orleans --- 1
29 --- Tampa Bay --- 29
30 --- Cleveland --- 25
31 --- Detroit --- 7
32 --- Arizona --- 10

Atlanta has the best rushing offense, but one of the worst passing games. Meanhwile, New Orleans has one of the worst rushing attacks, but the best passing game. The Texans have one of the worst rushing attacks, but a middle of the road passing game. That really doesn't make sense if you apply your theory!

Look, Carr had a decent stat game against Buffalo and had one hell of running game. But, the Texans offense couldn't score one point in the second half, and only could get 41 yards total offense and one 1st down in the 4th quarter.

The problem with Carr and the offense isn't the stats per say, or not having a running game or passing game per say, they are unable to finish games off period. The offense is good for about 17 points any which way you slice it.

And you can see above, there are teams in the league that have the best rushing attacks and can't pass well and vice versa. So your theory really doesn't hold water! There really isn't the correlation you are implying!

The biggest difference on offense is the QB, and in today's NFL, playing with less, not more, is going to be the successful QB. Besides the game is about SCORING POINTS, NOT STATISTICS!!!

 

[Texan_Bill]

That's so much better than I was thinking... 27th. Whew!!! I was sweating it there for a minute.

 

[nunusguy]

We need a running back and there's no denying it. I want Adrian Peterson but my common sense tells me we have so much more to do in building the line that we need to forget about getting anybody like that.

I think we'd be well advised to take another DLineman, somebody like this
Alan Branch, the Michigan tackle, if the underclassman elects to come out early. And this assumes we don't trade the pick, which probably is the best move of all. And on where we finish, which is looking more and more like a
non issure as I think we will be positioned high enough to take about whoever
we want.
But owner McNair, normally a delegator, may take charge and demand we pick Petersen because its the only way he can pump any excitement into the
2007 marketing campaign for season ticketts. Peterson, even though he played for the Sooners, is a Texas native and one of the more widely acclaimed scholastic backs to come out of this state since Earl Campbell.

 

[Honoring Earl 34]

You know Buffalo beat us without Mcgahee and the Jets won gaining 27 yds. What was the final score against the Giants .

I agree if we had a RB producing TDs like Tomlinson we'd be much better . You know they drafted # 1 in 2004 and now their a top 5 team in the NFL . They also have a rookie LT and a QB starting for the first time in his career .

The bottom line is you can win a SB without a superstar QB if you can rush the ball and play defense . Its hard to win a SB with an average QB getting paid 8 million dollars . I can think of betters ways to spend it . I know AJ has the hands of a crab ... can't run ... Kubiak's a fool .

 

[shinerbock_girl]

I wonder how the Oakland Raiders will play us?You will not do anything when your rushing game is this bad. And if you dont reply I will understand, lets bench the QB though.I thought there was only 32 teams, so your telling me there is 8 back ups that have more yards.

Kind of hard when your hitting brick walls the whole game...