Seahawks RB Corps ranked #2

[bestfightstory]

Shaun Alexander would be pretty explosive behind a ZBS. Marshawn Lynch is great, but sometimes he runs to contact instead of finding the lanes the ZBS sets up. I think this blocking style actually is more fit to Shaun Alexander than Lynch, right?

I ended that sentence in a question mark because I'm not sure if I have the conviction behind my understanding of their strengths/the strengths of the ZBS to be right about this.

I think I disagree. Shaun would run to a place where the hole was designed to be and if the hole wasn't there, then the effort wasn't there. Lynch picks his poison and goes. And goes. And battles for whatever he finds.

I dig what Shaun was able to do-but I would never trade him in his prime for Lynch going into this year. Shaun had a tendency to be tentative when the hole wasn't obvious. That would spell doom in this system.

 

[Smelly McUgly]

You could be right, BFS. As I was typing that post, I realized that while I understand the ZBS, what it allows each member of the OL to do, and what type of OL players fit that scheme the best generally speaking, I am not actually sure what type of RB the ZBS best fits.

 

[Fuzzman55]

I've always thought Shaun had the superior vision, especially with the cutback. He use to shred defenses going against the grain.

Lynch is a downhill runner but he also has the patience to let the holes in the zone blocking develop. Lynch style could probably be effective in most any system.

 

[Blitzer88]

Not bad, I'll take it.

 

[EastCoastHawksFan]

I can't believe im the only person in 3 pages to mention the name Adrian Peterson while talking about RBs..

 

[LawlessHawk]

Its great we are number 2 and all that but how on earth is Frisco 1? If Houston was 1 okay. Frisco not so much.

I don't see how they are even in the top 5 at all.

It's no mystery... It's the ongoing knob-slobbering by the media for the 9ers/Kaeperschmuck. No other analysis necessary.

 

[NFL_Football2013]

I understand that most people think of Kendall hunter as having a down year last year, but before his Achilles injury he was averaging 5.2 YPC. I would call that an improvement over his rookie year of 4.2 YPC. The Niners o-line is better than Seahawks, so that does make it easier for them.

One funny thing i did notice was that the Seahawks have 2 RB's from the Bay Area. Lynch and Turbin are from Oakland.

 

[FlyingGreg]

I can't believe im the only person in 3 pages to mention the name Adrian Peterson while talking about RBs..

Why? It's not about the best running back, it's about the best RB corps overall. Everyone knows Peterson is the best back in the NFL.

Now quick...name another Vikings running back without looking it up. See? Herein lies the problem - Peterson is all there is so the Vikings RB corps doesn't grade out as high, although Peterson alone is good enough to make the whole thing strong.