Ice wrote: ↑Thu Jun 13, 2019 8:24 am
Vcize wrote: ↑Wed Jun 12, 2019 8:42 pm
Ice wrote: ↑Wed Jun 12, 2019 11:55 am
Sanders has loads of talent. The draft position of others in different drafts means NOTHING.
What the Eagles did in the past means nothing.
If Sanders is the best back, can run, catch, and deal with pass protection then he will be a stud for the Eagles.
Just because teams used RBBC in the past is not close to an indicator of what they will do in the future.
Teams win putting their best players on the field as much as feasibly possible. Thinking otherwise is straight up foolish.
Obviously Philly thinks he has a shot to be a star or they never would have drafted him there.
This sounds exactly like what people were trying to convince themselves about Sean Payton years ago.
Read that sentence.....
Payton as a coach isn't a fool. Coaches highlight the best players. Kamara was a top 5 back in a so called committee approach with 194 carries. CMC was a top 2 fantasy back with only 219 carries.
The bottom line is Sanders can not only run the ball he can also catch. In today's NFL coaches are looking for do it all RB's that can impact the game in more spread offense at a fast pace between the 20's.
The whole concept of RBBC is pretty passe in ppr fantasy football. If a fantasy owners want to draft a runner only limited receiving skills then IMO they will be disappointed most likely. Jordan Howard as an example was 5th in carries last year in the NFL but ranked 38th in fantasy scoring points per game. Cohen ranked 50th in carries but 12th in fantasy scoring.
Sanders was drafted high because he has a diversified skill set. While he isn't Barkley as I have stated, he does possess the same type of skill sets. Go back and look at the combine if you want to see athletic comparisons. The tape will show running styles.
His last year at State, Sanders had 244 touches which included 24 receptions.
My take is people may be discounting him because of his college stats but then again he played behind Barkley and pretty much every back in today's NFL would have too. Barkley is a 4.4 guy, Sanders is 4.45 guy. Both are fluid players and both have wiggle, burst, and vision.
Sanders is way better than many around here think IMO. Time will tell but he was drafted to be an impact player and he does have the skill set to be just that.
I pretty much share your opinions. I think teams, while they are using satellite backs, are circling back to an understanding of how crucial it is to have do it all backs to camouflage play calling. If Tarik Cohen rolls in as a single back, defenses are right to assume it's a pass play. If Jordan Howard rolls in as a single back, the opposite is true. Only the real dunderheaded teams are failing to take that into account at this point. Either you can have a RB corps made up of multidimensional backs (which is mostly what Philly has had) or you can have a do it all back, if you don't have either of those things, you have problems, because your play calling is significantly easier to defend against.
I can't imagine Philly would have utilized top 50 or so draft capital on a player like Sanders for any reason other than trying to better camouflage their play calling. I think they traded for Howard for depth, and then Sanders fell into their laps and they couldn't say now. I think if they'd known ahead of time Sanders would be there at slot, they wouldn't have traded for Howard because while he's improved at pass catching, he's still a give away of a run play call that defenses are willing to risk keying on.
Sanders was the top RB in his high school recruiting class, his metrics are all good, his solitary issues are production, late breakout age, both of which are largely washed away by the presence of the top rated RB prospect probably since Ricky Williams twenty years ago, and fumbling. He's my RB1 this year, pretty easily, and I'll gladly take the risk and have. Frustrated to not land him in a couple of leagues, but so far I've landed him in 4 of my 9 rookie drafts, my failures to land him have all been premised on him going substantially before I could reach him (frustrating in two leagues, where I have a distinct RB need and couldn't get him in either league).
