Jones-Drew wants more carries
by Alfie Crow on Sep 13, 2011 1:01 PM EDT
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Jacksonville Jaguars runningback Maurice Jones-Drew was rather salty with the media after the game, but not because of anything the media did. Jones-Drew was thrilled the team won the football game, but he was frustrated with how he was used in the game. Jones-Drew had 24 of the teams 47 carries in the game for 97 yards and a touchdown, but there were long stretches of the game where Jones-Drew watched from the sidelines.
Come to find out, the team had him on a "pitch count", and rightfully so. Jones-Drew had played in just a single preseason game with minimal practice reps, so to go out and give him 30+ carries would be rather irresponsible. "I'm not wild about the prospect of him taking it 35 times in the opener. So that was my call. We had talked about a play count for him. He's so competitive and he's not happy about [a reduced work load]. But that's going to happen as we monitor and try to keep him to a certain number of reps as we go through the season," Jaguars head coach Jack Del Rio said after the game.
Jones-Drew was clearly frustrated, but I think that's more his natural competitiveness more than anything else. "I feel like I could have played more. Last year, I played on one leg; now I have two," Jones-Drew told the media after the game. "I feel like [I'm] being monitored, if that seems more of precaution, that's [something] we don't need to do. That was the coach's decision. They made it and I had to abide by it. We talked about it and they know I'm very unhappy about that," he added.
Jones-Drew asked the media not to make a story about it, but when your star runningback is upset after the game, it's hard not to write one about it. Undoubtedly, Jones-Drew didn't want people to think he was being selfish about his stats or anything like that. Make no doubt, the win is what matters to Jones-Drew. What bothers him is being on the sideline and not helping. That's just who Jones-Drew is as a person. It's part of why he still carries that chip on his shoulder and still wears number 32.
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Save his carries for when it matters
It makes no sense to use him up so early in the season, knee injury or not.
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24 x 16 is 384
That’s a fairly significant number of carries and historically not conducive to a long career. Keep his pitch count and his intensity and aggression high. We have backups, let’s not wear people down needlessly.
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by unhipcat on Sep 13, 2011 1:13 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
If JDR would have kept riding him, he woulda ended up with like 35 carries LOL
I think he should have given him atleast 5 more, who knows, maybe we wouldnt have put ourselves in the position to lose if MJD was in, well probably lol.
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by Ice0ne (CAJ) on Sep 13, 2011 5:24 PM EDT up reply actions
I think most agree the shared workload is a good idea
The problem I had was keeping him out during important game situations. I think his touch count was about where it should be but at times they made poor choices regarding when to utilize him
by rusty904 on Sep 13, 2011 1:35 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
i couldnt agree more! cant imagine how in the nfl you can acutally figure out a good way to limit carries. unless you are taking or giving a drubbing in the game. has to be incredibly hard for a OC to get a play down the the QB based on the HC saying um no we need to rest him for a few plays now. whats mind boggling to me is that they want to rest him, but they go 3 straight from the 2, and dont get it. i know he is all pro, but please use a little immagination down there. we werent running away with the game. they wont be able to play that close to the vest and not score this week.
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by tiquanunderwear on Sep 13, 2011 1:55 PM EDT up reply actions
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ya they post some crazy stuff they must let anyone do it. I like reading about how bad the jags are gunna do this year. or even going to the other teams open game thread and read about ignorant fans complaining about how the lousy jaguars are manhandling their team and therefore their team must be really lousy. really tho at the beginning of the game the titans fans were so confident then they were about to give up on the season 20 minutes in then after the half they were confident that they were going to come back only to be dissapointed. Great stuff!
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by Boozy McHound on Sep 14, 2011 10:14 AM EDT up reply actions
Anyone else get the feeling
That we ran MJD at the goal line bc the coaches wanted to keep him happy? He looked gassed after that run where he almost got in and seemed to be moving in slow motion in the 2 following runs where he was stuffed. The coaches know he’s a bit of a stat whore and it almost seemed like they wanted to get him the TD rather than putting in fresh legs or running a play action pass or something. It felt like we were dominant in the game at the time and could afford settling for a kick. Dunno, just a thought I had.
No not really..If they wanted to keep him happy they would have let him carry 35 times for 150 yards. i think by the reaction after the game. JDR doesnt give a crap about keeing him completely happy. imo that set of downs seemed almost like arrogance. we have been running on you at will and no watch this. with a rookie G and journeyman RT it was anything but a gimme, as the promptly showed. that crap will not get it done this week.
Gotta keep in mind
he was at that point our best option at the goal line. McCown is new. Mike Thomas isn’t a goal line type. Lewis was out with injury. Jennings is on IR Karim isn’t a goal line back. MJD has shown to be a great goal line back. They just didn’t block it up right. He had no chance.
Everyone knows MJD has MJD on MJD's fantasy team.
He wants to win!
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by SexonvilleShaguars on Sep 13, 2011 3:05 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
Excellent point.
That midget wants carries so he wins in fantasy!!!
I say give it to him!!!
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I'm with JDR and Koetter on this one
He does us no good getting 35 carries in week 1. Some of us remember what it was like to win a game in December.
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Not defending him at all, but..
that shows why he was upset with Cutler…he just has a warrior mindset.
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