re: I think the nega-Yeldon talk is going to really fuel his offseason

Most of his fumbles have been just perfect hits on the ball. He has done so much more good for our team than bad. The guy is an animal.

Has he himself acknowledged the issue? I know we had a back awhile ago with fumbleittis, He carried a ball with him everywhere, even slept with it.

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So Yeldon's sophomore slump is 6 ypc

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Wrong. Yeldon's sophomore slump is not being able to hold on to the fricking football.

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thefloydian
I think the nega-Yeldon talk is going to really fuel his offseason
You guys can complain about the haters all you want, but the fact is he fumbles too much.

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This times 1,000.

If you have to start a defense of Yeldon with the words "Most of his fumbles...", you've already lost the argument.

As far as people smoking crack, that would be someone who automatically assumes that he will get the problem corrected just because Eddie Lacy did. That line of thinking makes zero snse. Zero.

The next time a TV analyst comments about Yeldon's yards after contact will be the first time. But why should we expect yards after contact when we just hope he's still holding the damn ball after contact?

And we're not Georgia. Georgia fans might be content with perpetual 2 and 3 loss seasons. So they might be content with a 6 YPC who puts the ball on the ground in big spots in big games. That's one way a 14-0 or 13-1 team devolves into 10-2 or 9-3.

Here's hoping Yeldon gets the problem fixed. But if he doesn't, I don't care if he never gets another carry outside of mop-up duty.

I love TJ. Big fan. His fumbles this past year were so un-clutch and damaging, you can't overlook them. He'll get it corrected, or he won't be the man. That simple.

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Funky Tide 8
I think the nega-Yeldon talk is going to really fuel his offseason
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The next time a TV analyst comments about Yeldon's yards after contact will be the first time. But why should we expect yards after contact when we just hope he's still holding the damn ball after contact?


This is retarded.

You seem like a miserable fan.

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Ah, yes, the author of the "most of his fumbles..." excuse. And you say my comments are retarded.

Sorry, you're right.

Sorry BamaGradInTn

all of this, just because i didnt put on my crimson colored glasses and proclaim tj the greatest back in the history of backs.

well guess what, all of this still dont change my mind. i dont care who proclaims what about tj.

i dont think i even mentioned the fumbleitis he has. anybody thats honest enough to look at it with ay sense of reality. will see, tj goes down at the line of scrimmage quite easily. his very best run against ga in the seccg was that lil short 3-4 yard gain he had running thru a couple tacklers. unfortunately, those runs are the exception, not the rule for tj. if tj gets hit at the los he goes down the majority of the time.

look tj is a good back, never said he wasnt. but henry and drake are both better. they both run harder are faster and i expect that to be shown next season.

so blast me all you want. we'll revisit this thread next season.

Yeah, there is no argument about that. TJ isn't a violent runner like Lacy or Trent. He does break tackles, but what people are saying is he doesn't have the same killer mentality. He's a great back, you can't deny that, but Henry is the only back we have that we've seen run violently consistently.