Should he have been a feature RB instead?

[yanling]

 

[devans]

In 1998 under Dungy he had 846 yards on 215 carries. The next year he got 949 yards on 242 carries. In 2001 he got 680 yards rushing at an average of 4.1 yards per carry and ten rushing touchdowns. So he did get to be the main runner for a couple of years - but I take your point, it should have been for longer. His career started to go downhill as soon as that d1@khead Jon Gruden took over.

 

[yanling]

I think Alstott should have been the Bucs' starting RB of the 90s and 00s
but
spent several of his prime athletic years as second fiddle to Warrick Dunn.
Dunn wasn't so bad, but then again, neither were dozens of white RBs
who
never got as many carries (read: NONE) as Dunn.

I believe that if Alstott got only 3/4 of the handoffs that Dunn got, Alstott
would get more yards. But Dunn would never be able to block for Alstott
the
way Alstott blasted the way open for Dunn.

So the relative selflessness of Alstott as "blocking FB" -- as with the
general
selflessness of white FBs is their undoing as potential RBs.

I wish there were a white RB and FB combo on some NFL squad, but of
course, blacks would never allow this, not because of their prohibitive
talent, but because of their prohibitive politics and whites' willingness to
play along like parrots.Edited by: yanling

 

[jaxvid]

This subject is worth revisiting however we have discussed it at length a couple of times before so if you don't get much input on the topic it may be because we have gone over it a couple of times before. And BTW we came to the exact concencus as you did. Alstott was a quality runner that could have been a big star. Check out how many guys use his pic as their avatar!

 

[White Shogun]

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