Colt McCoy is our best running back

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malcolmtodd2003

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Colt is our best running attach right now and that is not a good thing. Where was Fozzy last night? Vondrell doesn't move that fast. We need to try some other players in that position. We look the best when we spread the field out and our strenght this year has to be the passing game of Colt and the receivers.
 
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I thought Chiles was our best RB. If it's Colt, do we switch to the wishbone, and use Quan at QB
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Colt runs with a certain attitude and body motion... hard to define and describe, because he's doing it so fast.

If more running backs ran with that kind of "authority" they would have many 100-yard games.

He really is our best running back. Not just for the yards, but his attitude and body English. He runs with authority. He runs to daylight. And he runs over people. And he does it all as if he's escaping a monster, or running toward the greatest thing in life.

He's really a lot of fun to watch when he takes off. He definitely is not messing around. He never runs into a total stop; he's always aiming to find a place to keep going. A lot of RBs (historically) can't always do that. Instead they tend to plow through a mass of players.
 
I'm no mathematician or anything, but it seems that when colt is running he has 10 people blocking for him, whereas if one of our Rb's runs, he will only have 9 blockers. I'm no football genius, but I think 10 blockers is better than 9.

I liked seeing Colt take on the 2 defenders and score the TD, but I don't know how many of those he can take. We saw how a innocent play (not even a hard hit) took out Irby. Well every time Colt runs there is a chance he get hurt.. bad. He needs to learn when to slide, and when to run out of bounds. Against Rice in the first quarter is not the time to be macho.
 
i think it is more a matter of offensive philosophy/strategy at this point. colt is in a better situation most of the time we he runs, even on the option. he is heady and reminds me of cale gundy in that way. if you remember we were still running a lot of option stuff when cale came to OU. he was forced to run the straight up option at least 10 times a game, and he ran it well, despite not being that fast, strong, or agile. he was a smart runner with a little burst for a white guy.

colt is back this year, and as the season goes on he will once again be considered top 2/3 guys in the conference. what a difference a little blocking makes.
 
Mountian out of a molehill...

Last night we had 259 yards of rushing. Colt only accounted for 83 of them.

The stats are going to be skewed toward the QB when you have a committee of RBs like we do. Our RBs are running the ball just fine. Who cares whether it takes 4 of them or 1?
 
Everyone should know by now that Colt is a dual-threat QB. Colt's scrambling and running is a weapon in the offense, a featured weapon, and an effective weapon. We run a spread offense...QBs run a lot in the spread and an injury is a chance you take for an explosive offense. If the defense is giving Colt the running lanes, let him take it. If they eventually close it, it'll open the pass. If Colt had a much lower ypc, then I can see how giving him the ball so much hurts our offense. But frankly he's the best playmaker on the team, maybe in the conference. The kid is avg almost 8 ypc! Give the ball to your playmakers.
 
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