| Tyritorious said: A rough season was the wrong wording to use, under performing season was the more accurate word to use. I haven't seen any Philly preseason football, how has Murray's performance looked in their offensive system? |
Murray has looked okay. It's impossible to gauge full team performance from PS games because of how many starters don't play, and how little effort is generally put in by veterans. It's almost purely an exercise in rookies and bubble players trying hard to earn a spot on the 53, or at least the practice squad.
Murray is a slowish, reliable 1-cut runner that tries hard to finish by running directly into the first guy that might stop him to push for an extra yard or so. He's accurately described as a Marshawn Lynch type with 7/10ths of Marshawn's speed or power.
He will split carries, but there's no chance he has more than say 1,200 yards or so, and probably a lot less than that to be honest. But even that could fit what PHI is trying to do with their schemes. They're not a ball-hog team that wants to take long slow drives down the field, they spread it around and run plays as fast as they can. Murray has a history of injury, and is coming off a season where he carried the ball roughly a billion times. Even last year Murray was a monster in the first 8 games with big holes, then as the Dallas O line and his own legs started to weaken a shade, his production dropped a bit. Take that and put him in a situation where he's running plays at a higher pace, and anywhere near the same number of carries would see him in the ER and OR pretty quickly.
