bobandweave

If you have to ask "Are we right to be concerned" about an NFL team 99.99999% of the time the answer is Yes always. You have to always be concerned no matter what team your talking about

The Seahawks should be concerned they just kept like 16 rookies on there final 53 including Russell Wilsons primary backup.

The Patriots should be concerned Brady's suspended, Jimmy G doesn't look good, Gronks on the cover of madden and that blasted curse.

The Panthers should be concerned they are the reigning Superbowl losing team and history shows those teams the next season almost always suck

The Broncos should be concerned they just wasted 4 years grooming a QB now playing in Houston and they have to start a rookie QB week one

The Cardinals should be concerned Carson Palmer looked awful in preseason and he's 36 years old the age when QB's usually fall off the cliff

My point is you can make a case for every single team in this league having reason, justifiable reason to be concerned about the state of that team. Us included.

My biggest issue this off season has been how we've treated our RB situation. Keith Marshall when he was drafted I clearly said on this forum I believed would be a wasted pick, or a worthless pick. People here got excited about his speed, his pedigree, his high school rankings even. I said then don't believe this nonsense, teams all have the same scouting information and if they saw his 40 yard time and wouldn't draft him there are huge red flags about this kid and what happened? He's on IR now and won't help us just like I predicted. I was pissed we didn't address this in the draft or in free agency.

I complained that putting all our eggs in the Matt Jones basket this year was irresponsible. Matt Jones yards per carry last season was a terrible 3.3, horrible. He was also showing clear signs he was injury prone making a viable backup a top priority and was upset Alfred Morris walked away for such little money. And what's happened? Matt Jones didn't look good in preseason (not one but two undrafted rookies outplayed him) and got hurt again. What did Morris do? Only look the part of a capable efficient RB now on the freaking Cowboys (added insult to this situation).

Thing is even with me being right and complaining this off season none of that matters. Not one bit. What matters is what happens for us going forward. I hope like hell I am proven wrong about our RB situation but honestly in all of my years watching football and studying it I have a hell of a hard time remembering ever seeing any team let alone this team in the last 40 years ignore completely this aspect of a team like this. It's very odd what we did here.

I hope I'm dead wrong, I hope that Matt Jones shows us all why the coaches had faith in him and makes me look like an idiot for voicing my concern about this aspect of the team but I am concerned and like those other teams only time will tell for us all if we should be concerned or not. Talking is thankfully almost over. Its almost Game Time! HTTR

We aren't going to keep all 5 of these guys

Matt Jones  
Chris Thompson
Mack Brown
Rob Kelley
Keith Marshall 

So what I would do is IR Keith Marshall and keep the 4 others. So when I looked up Marshall's stats I didn't realize that this was already done two days ago. So really our RBs are

Matt Jones  
Chris Thompson
Mack Brown
Rob Kelley
Keith Marshall

And we are sure our best bet is only to keep 3 of those guys? Someone please explain to me why we would do that?

Our presumed starting RB is injury prone and wasn't effective last season, I've already posted stats showing just how ineffective Matt Jones was last year which if you don't know is eye opening. Thompson spot is safe on the roster. So you basically have three guys who haven't ever looked good when it counted so what exactly do we have here?

I think our best bet here would be to keep all four of those guys on the 53 and go into the season letting all three get carries and figuring out who is worth giving 15 chances a game with the rock. By waiting until someone looks ineffective and then releasing that player during the season will allow us to stash him on practice squad later. Right now the tape looks too good with Brown and Kelly that we couldn't do that so why not wait until one looks like a jag and then cut that guy later? If you had to pin my feet to the floor I would rather keep Brown over Kelly