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Originally Posted by DaFace
In his article about the LeSean McCoy acquisition, Seth Keysor suggested that the main issue with RBs in today's NFL isn't that they're truly "not valuable" but instead that the running game has become a fine-tuned dance that requires a ton of guys to do their jobs, and the RB just happens to be the dude carrying the ball. In other words, a mediocre RB can look like a superstar when he has the right blocking, and a superstar RB can look like shit when the guys in front of him don't block worth a damn.
That's not to say that there's no difference between a Charcandrick West and a Jamaal Charles, but there are far more important positions when it comes to making an offense perform than the RB position.
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Valid point, I think.
The league has come a long way. Half the teams do stuff more complicated than anything Mike Martz (or Al Saunders) ever tried with the The Greatest Show on Turf, and that's barely a generation ago, in career terms. Hell, in the 90s, the Norv Turner/Ernie Zampese offenses were advanced, for their day. But the Cowboys have been stuck there ever sense.