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Our number one is Martinez, he has 54 carries for 250 yards for 4.6 average. Former Cane, Brashard Smith has 70 carries for 509 yards for 7.3 average and 7 TD's. I cannot remember one carry by Martinez that was noteworthy. Now Lyle and Ajay have several remarkable carries. What if Lyle got the carries Martinez has? Lyle has 31 with 7.6 ave and 3 TD's. Johnson with just 6 carries is ave 7.8.

Also, what if Lyle got the carries Brashard has at SMU? I like everything about Lyle and would love to see him get enough carries to get into the flow. Most RB's get better with more carries. I also not mind if Johnson got more series since whenever he comes in it is either going to be a receiver or a sweep let’s see him work. Speed kills, get some speed out there.
Fletcher is more dangerous than Martinez and last year he had some great runs. Ajay and Lyle have break away runs whereas Martinez best was 33 yards. We need a running game to take some pressure off Cam. We have the tools, please use them!
 
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Martinez got it going in second half man. He may have not busted off a long one, but he did a good job establishing the run. Look for him to have a breakout game against Cal. I feel Dawson learned from that first half that he has to keep the run game going and be multi-faceted. Looking forward to seeing it unfold.
 
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fraggle said:
Our number one is Martinez, he has 54 carries for 250 yards for 4.6 average. Former Cane, Brashard Smith has 70 carries for 509 yards for 7.3 average and 7 TD's. I cannot remember one carry by Martinez that was noteworthy. Now Lyle and Ajay have several remarkable carries. What if Lyle got the carries Martinez has? Lyle has 31 with 7.6 ave and 3 TD's. Johnson with just 6 carries is ave 7.8.

Also, what if Lyle got the carries Brashard has at SMU? I like everything about Lyle and would love to see him get enough carries to get into the flow. Most RB's get better with more carries. I also not mind if Johnson got more series since whenever he comes in it is either going to be a receiver or a sweep let’s see him work. Speed kills, get some speed out there.
Fletcher is more dangerous than Martinez and last year he had some great runs. Ajay and Lyle have break away runs whereas Martinez best was 33 yards. We need a running game to take some pressure off Cam. We have the tools, please use them!
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I actually agree with Ajay needing more touches. I think his running style would really fit this offense. Not just 3-5 random carries. Give him 8-12 touches to get a rhythm going. Still think Martinez is the goods just has struggled to dominate in this particular offense.
 
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This is how so many of our run formations are set up. You're just running into a sea of people of 1st and 10.
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And Fletcher and Martinez don't have great vision. Martinez eventually takes this to the left, instead of the right. Fletcher would do this a bunch as well. I said last week, a lot of these plays look like they should be counters because of how the holes open and the blocking scheme, especially with the receivers. It's weird.
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The next play here is a TD but you can see, if you wanted to run, this would be successful. They need to take advantage of the spacing they have and the down field threat.
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Immediately post snap if this was a handoff then Martinez gets a big chunk of yards.
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fraggle said:
Our number one is Martinez, he has 54 carries for 250 yards for 4.6 average. Former Cane, Brashard Smith has 70 carries for 509 yards for 7.3 average and 7 TD's. I cannot remember one carry by Martinez that was noteworthy. Now Lyle and Ajay have several remarkable carries. What if Lyle got the carries Martinez has? Lyle has 31 with 7.6 ave and 3 TD's. Johnson with just 6 carries is ave 7.8.

Also, what if Lyle got the carries Brashard has at SMU? I like everything about Lyle and would love to see him get enough carries to get into the flow. Most RB's get better with more carries. I also not mind if Johnson got more series since whenever he comes in it is either going to be a receiver or a sweep let’s see him work. Speed kills, get some speed out there.
Fletcher is more dangerous than Martinez and last year he had some great runs. Ajay and Lyle have break away runs whereas Martinez best was 33 yards. We need a running game to take some pressure off Cam. We have the tools, please use them!
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Novacane32000 said:
I am starting to feel like we have a large enough sample size on Martinez to say he is not the clear number-one RB on this team.

Short yardage --Give me Fletcher all-day. Break away threat- Give me Lyle. Best hard nose runner - Maybe Allen.

Martinez is good but not what I expected.
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its not his fault we dont run block well and have terrible run schemes. we dont run anything to the outside of even utilize any misdirection or counters. we just run straight into the back of our OL between the guards. its an awful scheme not a player issue
 
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