Mike Smith told the media yesterday that he wants to get Smith more snaps moving forward because of his playmaking ability. Low center of gravity, blazing speed, the guy can make people miss and he's tough to knock down. At this point I've been trying to figure out why we signed him and haven't really used him outside of returns tackler. We aren't Doug anything this season, may as we'll see what e has!

Teams run on 1st and 2nd all the time and succeed. There are two moves in football: run or pass. All offenses are predictable. Its all about execution. We haven't executed very well. When Ryan lines up in the shotgun and we send 4 receivers downfield they are all covered. Why? Because we are trying to throw deep patterns and everyone drops back to stop it.  We are predictable because we do the same thing all the time (heh). Putting Smith in there worked because no one saw it coming. 

I get the sense that the staff is too stubborn for its own good sometimes. Antone Smith should've been getting some carries long before now. Even now I wonder if we will see him.

juraitwaluzka said:

I get the sense that the staff is too stubborn for its own good sometimes. Antone Smith should've been getting some carries long before now. Even now I wonder if we will see him.

if I could have given TWO likes for this, I would have.

so now Coach wants to give him more snaps. where the hell have those snaps been the last couple of years? how many times have we seen a team opposing us have a whole corral full of horses and use them ALL against us. Only to see all but one or two of ours get used..........it's about damn time

"Do you think scoring 4 touchdowns in 7 minutes of football is realistic?"

I thought scoring 2 was unrealistic, but we did.  The game was over in the 2nd qtr.  But coming back like that was thrilling to see.

RnB said:

Holy fucking shit....

First it's Quizz doesn't get enough snaps, then it's Snelling doesn't get enough snaps, now it's Smith doesn't get enough snaps...

Face it, it doesn't matter who is running the ball. If we run block consistently, we do well. If we don't, we suck. Just because Antoine Smith ran the ball a couple times does not mean he is the next coming of Adrian Peterson. Just because Snelling is good at making something out of nothing, doesn't mean he is a starting quality RB (he actually might be?). Just because Vaughn had a nice preseason and was the last RB to touch the ball last week does not mean he should be our starter this week.

Have you ever considered that by the time Antoine Smith (not to mention all the other depth players we used) were in the game, we really had no chance and both coaching staffs knew it? Do you think scoring 4 touchdowns in 7 minutes of football is realistic?

Do you honestly think our coaching staff put in depth players with hopes of winning that game? Can you seriously sit here and say that if we had started our third,fourth, or fifth string OL, RBs, WRS, QBs, DL, or S we would have won more games this season?

The reason these guys don't get more snaps is because the coaching staff knows that the majority of our issues running the ball have NEVER been about the running back.  Not even when Turner started trashing it up last season, or the season before. Being pissed about us losing games is one thing, burying your head in the sand and ranting because we don't bench our starters in favor of backups is something else entirely.

I am pissed that Dom Davis didn't get more snaps this season. He looked so good last week. Lets let him start next week. How fucking retarded does that sound?

my only response to this, if your post was in any way aimed at me, is that smith is the fastest of our RB's, and we haven't had a fast/change of pace back since Norwood. THAT is the way I would like to see him used more.

Yes I realize that by the last half of the 4th quarter, anyone and everyone was going to get to play. I even commented to my daughters boyfriend who was here watching with me that it looked like a preseason game, and I won't be surprised to see this in most of the rest of our games as well.

4 td's in 7 minutes has been done a LOT through the years in the NFL though. No, I didn't expect us to be able to do it, but it has been done and can be done again

My biggest question is why is 4.67 40 15-yard-line-Quizz still our KR'er when Smith is the fastest guy on the team?

Beef said:

My biggest question is why is 4.67 40 15-yard-line-Quizz still our KR'er when Smith is the fastest guy on the team?

It's as maddening as it is perplexing.

I'd bet that the way some of our returns have gone the last few years it has a lot more to do with him being sure handed than speed. which is moot anyway since most kickoffs against us are always out of the endzone