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Comparing Chris Carson to LD brown is literally apples to oranges. Chris Carson had an identity problem in which he was trying to be a scat back and Rennie Childs got in his ear and basically told him to be more physical. Carson had the tools to begin with in terms of vision, pass blocking, and pass catching. One was A SEC talent and committed to Georgia out of HS before academics became a factor. The other was recruited based on running 4.3 and change at a camp. I’m going to need a much bigger sample size. Give me 5-6 games of consistency b/c all I’ve seen is 4 years of inconsistency. Don’t get me wrong I’m rooting for him, but I need to see more. Saturday was a good start.
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The comparison was related to your valid critique of LD "dancing around too much". In Carson's first year, he continually tried to bounce runs to the outside and let smaller DB's run him down. Once he decided to change that, he lived up to that potential. If you think about it, it is way more natural for a scat back like LD to have this habit, and should be tougher to break. If Carson with his size and strength took that long to break out, so can LD. But hey, we don't have to argue about it, we just have to watch the games this year. 
The comparison was related to your valid critique of LD "dancing around too much". In Carson's first year, he continually tried to bounce runs to the outside and let smaller DB's run him down. Once he decided to change that, he lived up to that potential. If you think about it, it is way more natural for a scat back like LD to have this habit, and should be tougher to break. If Carson with his size and strength took that long to break out, so can LD. But hey, we don't have to argue about it, we just have to watch the games this year.
Chubba just had two bad games two weeks in a roll. In fact. this week performance is a lot worse compared to last week. LD deserves more carries, at least as many carries as Chubba, if not more but knowing our coaches, that is unlikely to happen. I give Chubba a pass last week, but he has to be held accountable for his performance this week.
Well yes, I was fretful. On the other point, I think all college players on either the D or O would be slowing down at that point. I was, at the time just fall on it big guy, He didn't', he did scoop and score. These guys these days have athleticism beyond belief. I'm sure he was gassed at the end on that, near the goal line. Thank goodness is was not another arm hack.