How is Trent Richardson such an awful NFL running back?

More sports board dude.

Many factora go into why RB or even QB do well or not does well at the next level

* What organization matter a bunch(Coach too)

* OL the RB has in the NFL

* If NFL can't throw on that NFL team that any given RB is on these days. That puts added pressure against the elite NFL schemes/players fro taht RB. Good luck with those odds, and not many RB's succeed with those odds.

* Shoot, I have a theory about just this subject
Sometimes having a great OL in CFB can hurt a RB's development for the next level. A CFB RB who doesn't have that luxury of a great OL all the time. Has to create space and holes at the next level(CFB) weekly. Thus passing those he might of been behind coming out of HS and making his transition not so bad for the next level(NFL). TR might be victim to this situation. It's much easier to run someone over when your running through 5 yards holes. All the while popping out from behind a 300 OL at the last second. The DB is having a bad day then. TR having such a solid OL while at Bama might have hurt his development for the next level. Holes are much tighter in the NFL.

Why is JFF holding a clipboard?

He runs hard but not smart.

In college play he was usually much stronger than the opposing defenders, so running through them largely worked.

In the NFL that does not work.

Lacy is a good example of a hard runner that looks to cut.

You should try to avoid contact whenever possible, and only run through it when that's he only option.

TRich's first instinct is to bulldoze and that isn't good in the NFL.

While we are on the topic of Bama Busts, ProFootballFocus has CJ Mosley graded higher than any ILB against the run by a considerable margin and Josh Chapman had a nice TFL tonight.

Ha Ha is also playing great for the Packers:

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Clinton-Dix has not disappointed since his arrival in Green Bay, either. While he isn't technically a starter yet in the base defense the Packers run, he is getting plenty of playing time, as Bob McGinn of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel pointed out in his rating of the Vikings-Packers game.

Clinton-Dix played 68 snaps in that contest as opposed to just 42 by starter Micah Hyde.

For the season so far, No. 21 has 19 combined tackles, one sack, two passes defended, one interception and one fumble recovery.

When I talked to Landry on Friday, he gave me his assessment of Clinton-Dix in the five games he has played so far this season:

"Ha Ha is a guy who understands passing concepts pretty well," Landry said. "And they do a lot, as you know. It's a very complicated defense to be in and understand and Dom does a really good job. I think he (Clinton-Dix) is progressing nicely."

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Touchdown tonight

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Since the NFL absorbed the AFL in 1970, 344 running backs have had at least 500 career rushing attempts, with Richardson becoming the latest to reach that milestone. Richardson's career average of 3.34 yards per carry is better than only two of those 344 players -- Michael Haddix, a former Mississippi State star who played mainly as a fullback in eight seasons with the Philadelphia Eagles and Green Bay Packers, and Zack Crockett, another fullback who carried the ball 510 times in 13 seasons in the NFL. Haddix's career average was 3.01 yards per carry. Crockett's was 3.335, only slightly worse than Richardson's 3.339.

Richardson has 525 carries for 1,753 yards in 36 NFL games. For Indianapolis, he's rushed 227 times for 698 yards, an average of 3.07 yards per carry.

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He is averaging a cool 0.8 YPC tonight and is one of only six players EVER to have 5 or more games with 15+ carries at fewer than 2 YPC. He is, very literally, one of the worst running backs in NFL history from a statistical standpoint

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Do you follow NFL or just college?

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I follow both more closely than you apparently.

Another Bama Bust!

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Marcell Dareus

He turned in one of the best games of his career yesterday, just as the Bills desperately needed it. Linemate Kyle Williams was off to maybe the best start of his career, and with him inactive yesterday, the brunt of Buffalo’s interior pass rush fell to Dareus. He responded with a career-high three sacks, two more tackles for loss, and two extra hits on Matthew Stafford, all while holding down the middle of a Bills defense that allowed about 3.6 yards per carry to Detroit’s running backs.

It’s hard to be better than that stat line, but Dareus really was yesterday — eating up double-teams, freeing up teammates on stunts, clogging the pocket. He and Williams have emerged as the best interior duo in the league, and they are wreaking havoc on opposing offensive lines.

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I called it before the draft. I think his problem is acceleration and lack of burst prior to the line of scrimmage. If he gets hit quickly or there is no hole the play is over. He needs two three steps to get rolling. Once he gets a full head of steam, he's great. Lacy by contrast, to compare him to another Bama back, has it from the first step.

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He literally doesn't do one single thing well.

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Good in pass pro and solid as a receiver out of the backfield. But as a runner? Yeah, he isn't good. Has straight line speed and power, but vision, agility, and burst are all lacking.