This was such a ridiculous narrative then, just as it is now. Not a soul who knows football would ever say useless **** like this. Can you get the job done or not? Eddie George ran straight up and down all the way to radio city music hall to pick up a **** Heisman trophy. Such a regurgitated, nonsense take.
It could be just being used improperly. Gus was supposed to be the "bigger" short yardage back for us. The knock on him I remember was look like tarzan, run like jane. When it was 3rd and 1 or on the goaline and we had our jumbo package in and he would get stopped, that was the issue. I am not saying he was a scatback but maybe instead of asking him to lower his head and run into and move a pile like jerome bettis, we should have been giving him so more zone concepts and let him get jiggy. Kinda like asking chickillo to gain 80 lbs and be a SDE....
It also helps on occasion that Gus was on the Ravens and they were blowing teams out for a good portion of his carries and the stats given are little misleading...
Barry Sanders had 280 carries his rookie season and 255 his soph season (535 total), **** near 3k yards,
Chubb: 192 rookie season and 298 soph season (490 total) **** near 2,500 yards
Portis: 273 rookie season, 290 sop season (563 total), over 3k yards
Gus: 137 rookies season, 133 soph season (270 total) just under 1500 yards... he only went double digit carries 4 times last year (including his season high of 21 carries for 130 yrds in week 17 when Steelers and ravens sat **** near the entire team)
Gus is a better back than what he portrayed here and that is basically it. He is a decent player, on a good, with a high explosive offensive but he is not in the same category as those other 3.