Can Todd Hailey be anymore stupid???  I want to throw him in the Brett Hart Sharpshooter until he admits that Jamaal Charles deserves 75-80% of the carries AND to score touchdowns after he breaks off 30, 40, 50, 60 yard, etc. runs to get them in the redzone…UGH!!!!!....Is it just me or do you guys see Jamaal Charles saying the heck with this and becoming a free agent and getting a monsterous contract and go somewheres where he’ll get a carrying load like MJD or Darren McFadden???  If I was him I wouldn’t be in a hurry to upset my star running back of the future and after Charles saying “he was in a hurry and not talking to the media” after the game last Sunday I’d say he’s getting a little tired of Hailey’s Democracy himself….What do you guys think??

Boston Mike

I think someone has J Charles on their fantasy football team and is confusing maximizing fantasy points with trying to win football games.

I hear you on the Charles frustration, but when you’re writing an insulting post about someone (especially using the word “idiot” in the title), it’s usually a good idea to spell their name correctly.

rquetzal - 24 November 2010 06:53 PM

I think someone has J Charles on their fantasy football team and is confusing maximizing fantasy points with trying to win football games.

So you’re saying that not giving 80% of the carries to the only man in the history of the game to put up 1100+ yards on less than 200 carries is smart football?  By the way, he’s on pace to accomplish 1200yards on 200 carries this year, so it wasn’t a fluke.  The guy has 5.9ypc over 396 carries.  It’s insane.  He is faster than Chris Johnson over the full hundred yards.  He’s 120 yards behind CJ on 67 less carries.  Do you realize how ridiculous that is?  If he had those 67 carries he’d have over 280 more yards than CJ. 

Playing Jamaal second fiddle to Thomas Jones is not trying to win game, it’s stupidity.  Is Jones better in the goal line and short yardage situations?  Possibly, but we don’t really know given how few of those goal line carries Jamaal has seen.  CJ is the same size as Jamaal and he does just fine on the goal line. 

The Chiefs backfield should resemble the Giants, 80% of the work to the better guy (Jamaal) and bring in the bigger runner for the short yards.  However it’s far from that which Jones seeing roughly 17carries per game to Jamaal’s 13.  It should be 23 to 8 in Jamaal’s favor.  I mean, numbers don’t lie.  Jamaal is averaging MORE *RUSHING* yards per game than Thomas Jones is, on LESS carries and has twice as many for 20 yards plus. 

I’m saying this as a Chiefs fan, give Jamaal the ball, he’s not Darren Sproles.

I gotta go with x336mr on this one…You’re right rquetzal in that some of this forum post comes from owning Jamaal Charles in a league, but it also comes from aggrevation of Jamaal Charles not being given the oppurtunity to be the elite running back he’s capable of.  And in this case, winning MORE football games and maximizing fantasy points has the same answer of giving Jamaal Charles around 80% of the carries.  He so expolsive that he can break off a big run and score on any play!!!  You have to admit that…

Also, my bad on not doing my due diligence on Todd HALEY’s name dang1322….I have made the correction.

Boston Mike

yea JC needs to get the ball more…the dude is a freak and deserves to be the feature back in KC…TJ is a great change of pace back but JC should be getting more carries…i think a 60-40 at least

How many red zone TD opportunities were given to T Jones that he failed at, vice how many he’s been successful at?  It’s always frustrating to see the lesser guy vulturing the TD points of the better RB that you own, especially as they’re the reason KC marches down the field.  But maybe goalline D’s are setup to prevent Charles, maybe he’s exhausted from the many situations where he’s the reason they’re down in the red zone, or maybe Jones has shown that he’s a better goalline RB during practices.  Whatever the reason, it still looks lliek KC has found a pretty successful combination.

yea they have but if I was the coach, JC would be getting at least 60% of the carries and TJ would be getting goalline carries unless I wanted to do a pitch then I’d go with JC all day and tell him to run to the pylon

I think the Seattle game illustrated pretty well what happens when you give Jamaal 20+ carries.  Here’s another fun fact:  Jamaal has never ran for less than 100 yards when he’s rushed 20 or more times in his career.  Pretty impressive.  He’s the second player this year to achieve 1000 yards and he did it on 5 less carries per game than anyone else.  He actually increased his YPC to 1.1ypc higher than the next guy (Brandon Jacobs is averaging 5.2ypc).  So sure, give Thomas Jones the 3rd and shorts, but Jamaal should have the ball every other down.

I have thought it’s also crazy that Charles isn’t dominating the carries but I have a feeling that maybe Todd Haley knows Charles needs the extra rest so he can be 100% for each oppurtunity he is given. Maybe they have tried to simulate real games in practiced and noticed a significant amount of decreases in speed, agility and acceleration and this amount of carries they get more production. I and most everyone, think he wouldn’t miss a beat with more touches but maybe also all these RBBC positions all over the NFL are teams prepping for the 18 game schedule. Teams are going to need to not only 3-4 RB’s deep probably 5 even and at least 3 will probably have to get significant touches and we see that with some teams now. Barber, Jones, Choice….Matthews, Tolbert, Sproles. I feel like Peyton Hillis’s are going to be much harder to find in years to come and once Peterson, Johnson, Jackson, Turner and the full carry backs careers wind down they may have been the last we see of guys like this. I think our fantasy future holds a time where everyone is starting RB’s from even split committees making it just that much tougher every week to start guys. Even scarier is when guys like Johnson start putting up 0’s and dude with half the carries (usually) can out score them.

It’s really crazy and make me wonder if the Standard fantasy roster spots are becoming outdated now. Maybe we should make it only 1 RB, 2 WR, 2 RB/WR, TE. Receivers are becoming so crazy deep and most teams use 1 RB sets anyway so if standard rules went to this format then the waiver wire would even out and it would more mimic what we really see on the NFL field (1 RB, 4 WR sets).

But then again….Haley could just give Charles the damn ball!

LOL…great points Bruno Boy James.

Boston Mike