That's been the difference this year with CMC. He has been running well, but hasn't broken any long runs.
His longest run of the game is 11 yards, and his longest of the season is only 16 yards.
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His longest run of the game is 11 yards, and his longest of the season is only 16 yards.
yeah and we have apples to apples comparison in this game. They rotate them quite a lot, no real excuse for CMC. He is scoring a lot, but it's incredible that at this stage potential HoF RB on a good team has not broken 100 yards yet in week 9.
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I guess I don't see it quite the same as some here on CMC.. I didn't get to watch the game as I am on the East Coast and rarely get to see SF.
However, I did follow the game on gamecast and CMC broke the first run for 10-11 yards and was averaging 6-7 YPC at the beginning. Then he ran a 1 yard TD which brought his average down and the had -2 carry. Other than that, he ran really well. Circumstances during the game also had an effect as the Niners INT/Pick 6 of a pass early in the 3rd quarter and then Purdy throwing his own INT negated some of CMC's carries in the third quarter and towards the end SF was up 35-17 and there was no need to use CMC in the game. If you take away those 2 carries, he would've had 66 yards on 16 carries for an average of 4.12. A pretty solid average. He couldn't get into the same rhythm in the 3rd quarter as he did in the first half. IMO, he had a very productive game all things considered.
SF black RB picked up his yardage during garbage time, I believe.
BTW, he went over 8,000 career yards to become just the 4th white RB to eclipse 8,000 yards rushing Behind John Riggins, Jim Taylor and Larry Czonka!
However, I did follow the game on gamecast and CMC broke the first run for 10-11 yards and was averaging 6-7 YPC at the beginning. Then he ran a 1 yard TD which brought his average down and the had -2 carry. Other than that, he ran really well. Circumstances during the game also had an effect as the Niners INT/Pick 6 of a pass early in the 3rd quarter and then Purdy throwing his own INT negated some of CMC's carries in the third quarter and towards the end SF was up 35-17 and there was no need to use CMC in the game. If you take away those 2 carries, he would've had 66 yards on 16 carries for an average of 4.12. A pretty solid average. He couldn't get into the same rhythm in the 3rd quarter as he did in the first half. IMO, he had a very productive game all things considered.
SF black RB picked up his yardage during garbage time, I believe.
BTW, he went over 8,000 career yards to become just the 4th white RB to eclipse 8,000 yards rushing Behind John Riggins, Jim Taylor and Larry Czonka!
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