Alfred Morris Thread.

I don't understand the "no longer new, won't be as good" statement. I'm not picking on REDSKINS4ever as much as I am picking on everyone (media) who makes this kind of statement. I mean Alfred Morris played in all 16 games last year. By Week 10 or so, didn't everyone have enough film on the guy to "know his moves" or "read his tendencies"? He still got 200 yards rushing, his best effort of the season, in Week 17?

He was "no longer new" after Week 1, 2012. If you can't stop him after that, you can't stop him.

This.

It's not like familiarity with Adrian Peterson stops him, either.

I don't understand the "no longer new, won't be as good" statement. I'm not picking on REDSKINS4ever as much as I am picking on everyone (media) who makes this kind of statement. I mean Alfred Morris played in all 16 games last year. By Week 10 or so, didn't everyone have enough film on the guy to "know his moves" or "read his tendencies"? He still got 200 yards rushing, his best effort of the season, in Week 17?

He was "no longer new" after Week 1, 2012. If you can't stop him after that, you can't stop him.

It's a weak argument the media goes to all too often.

And it's not like our coaches won't be cooking up new wrinkles for the offense this year. Offensive schemes are constantly evolving year to year.

I don't understand the "no longer new, won't be as good" statement. I'm not picking on REDSKINS4ever as much as I am picking on everyone (media) who makes this kind of statement. I mean Alfred Morris played in all 16 games last year. By Week 10 or so, didn't everyone have enough film on the guy to "know his moves" or "read his tendencies"? He still got 200 yards rushing, his best effort of the season, in Week 17?

He was "no longer new" after Week 1, 2012. If you can't stop him after that, you can't stop him.


Think deeply, scowan. Alfred Morris crept up on defenses last year. After 17 games teams have a pile of film on him now as oppose to last season....and I never said Morris won't be as good as he was in 2012. What I said was he looked good as a rookie.

The Cowboys played him twice late in the season, and in the second game didn't he rush for 200 yds? or 2 times against the Giants for 120 yds?

Yes teams will have film on him, but unlike Griffin, Morris' film isn't going to show you much. He finds a hole, cuts, and goes. If enough guys hold onto him, he goes down. Now, if you say they are going to game plan to stop him, then our game plan changes too. If they are putting eight in the box to stop Morris' threat, than that means someone else is going to be exposed.

The 2 Cowboy's games really showed the danger of the Skins current attack. If you go in thinking you aren't going to let the run beat you(like the 1st Cowboy's game), we do have weapons that can get behind you, and score. If you go in focusing on stopping the medium to long passing game, Morris can put a 130-200 yd game on tape.

The Cowboys played him twice late in the season, and in the second game didn't he rush for 200 yds? or 2 times against the Giants for 120 yds?

Yes teams will have film on him, but unlike Griffin, Morris' film isn't going to show you much. He finds a hole, cuts, and goes. If enough guys hold onto him, he goes down. Now, if you say they are going to game plan to stop him, then our game plan changes too. If they are putting eight in the box to stop Morris' threat, than that means someone else is going to be exposed.

The 2 Cowboy's games really showed the danger of the Skins current attack. If you go in thinking you aren't going to let the run beat you(like the 1st Cowboy's game), we do have weapons that can get behind you, and score. If you go in focusing on stopping the medium to long passing game, Morris can put a 130-200 yd game on tape.

Yes, use the 2 Cowboy games as an example. In the first game Morris had a great game by any RB's standards (24-113-1TD). But it was Griffin that killed them with 4TD passes. The next time around I guess the Cowboys were so focused on stopping Griffin that Morris touches them for 200 yards. The bottom line for me is that the Read/Option and then Play Action stuff really was killing a lot of teams. You can watch film on Morris and I guess "game plan" for him, but the best game plan to me is to just tackle that sucka! Everytime I watch him run he is breaking tackles. There is no game plan for that, you just have to be a good tackling team.
If you are a running team you are a physical team. Everyone wants to finesse their way down the field these days, but the Skins sort of pound you into submission, then throw it over your head, when you least expect it. That's another reason why I think the Read/Option is not going away, because it is a supped-up Play Action play that can result in 11 guys remaining active through the whole play.