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To: discostu

It is hard to keep straight the injuries Bettis has had for one NOT obsessed with him but I am not LYING about him merely mistaken. He hasn't had a thousand yard season in years and that was standard when he was younger. According to the NFL he has gained 173 yards this year. Wow what an asset. I didn't say he would not make ANY team just not MANY teams.

It is amusing to watch you get vitrolic and hostile trying to defend a back who almost has had a two hundred yard year.


350 posted on 11/29/2005 3:07:20 PM PST by justshutupandtakeit (Public Enemy #1, the RATmedia.)
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To: justshutupandtakeit

He spent the first half of last year (and much of this year) as a 3rd down and goalline back, you're not going to get 1000 yards rushing that way (his first game last season he netted 1 yard rushing and got 3 TDs, when you've got that little room on the field it's hard to stack up the yards). This is the 3rd year when he's been functionally not the feature back (2 years ago the Steelers went to a pass-centric offense so even though he got most of the carries his total number of carries dropped dramatically, he wasn't the feature back last year until Staley got hurt around the halfway point, and when they found out about Parker at the end of last year and in the pre-season this year Parker became the feature back). You're not going to get 1000 yards if you're not a feature back. 7 times this year Bus has been given the ball on 3rd down, 4 of those times he converted; 22 times this year he got the ball on 2nd down, 8 of those times he converted. That's an asset, whether you're willing to admit it or not.


351 posted on 11/29/2005 3:17:50 PM PST by discostu (When someone tries to kill you, you try to kill them right back)
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