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volinexile17 said:
Obviously disagree. You guys can talk about blocking all you want but Gray was a homerun hitter who made guys miss. He will be missed.
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Najee Harris is a homerun hitter. Gray is a base hit.

Last season Gray accounted for 115 yards per game combined rushing/receiving and his longest run was 33 yards. Gray will be forgotten early on, especially when we see a RB pick up a blitz and protect the QB for a change. Smalls will probably give them every bit as much of that style as Gray.
 
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Vols4us said:
Najee Harris is a homerun hitter. Gray is a base hit.

Last season Gray accounted for 115 yards per game combined rushing/receiving and his longest run was 33 yards. Gray will be forgotten early on, especially when we see a RB pick up a blitz and protect the QB for a change. Smalls will probably give them every bit as much of that style as Gray.
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I loved what I saw from Smalls last year. If he can pass protect at all it will be an improvement from oley Grey.
 
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Vols4us said:
Najee Harris is a homerun hitter. Gray is a base hit.

Last season Gray accounted for 115 yards per game combined rushing/receiving and his longest run was 33 yards. Gray will be forgotten early on, especially when we see a RB pick up a blitz and protect the QB for a change. Smalls will probably give them every bit as much of that style as Gray.
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I do believe that our RB situation will be fine but I wonder what Harris and grays production would have been if they switched teams last year.
 
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drvenner said:
I think if Gray had stayed we would be very excited to see what he could do in this offense. He has shown flashes of the game-breaking ability we all wanted him to. I think since he left, everyone is doing the usual, we didn't want him anyway stuff. His pass-blocking was bad, but so was our OL. I think he would feast in this offense. We still have talent in the RB room and I think Heupel will maximize it.
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Itโ€™s not โ€œdidnโ€™t want him anywayโ€. More โ€œthe loss doesnโ€™t match the lamenting.โ€ Some of the same cast of characters referencing him as irreplaceable, were some of his biggest critics when he was on the roster.
 
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butchna said:
Itโ€™s not โ€œdidnโ€™t want him anywayโ€. More โ€œthe loss doesnโ€™t match the lamenting.โ€ Some of the same cast of characters referencing him as irreplaceable, were some of his biggest critics when he was on the roster.
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Good point. I do wish he had stayed because I think he would have been great, but it is not lamentable. We will be fine there.
 
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volbeast33 said:
I do believe that our RB situation will be fine but I wonder what Harris and grays production would have been if they switched teams last year.
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Yards after contact - Harris shines. He would not have been as dynamic because the passing game stunk and opponents would have targeted him with their schemes. However, he would have made our O-line appear to better than it actually was.

Gray would be a speciality back at Bama when he saw the field. Saban would never put up with his matador blocking.
 
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Vols4us said:
Najee Harris is a homerun hitter. Gray is a base hit.

Last season Gray accounted for 115 yards per game combined rushing/receiving and his longest run was 33 yards. Gray will be forgotten early on, especially when we see a RB pick up a blitz and protect the QB for a change. Smalls will probably give them every bit as much of that style as Gray.
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Gray is a stranded double.
 
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MarcoVol said:
For sure I think weโ€™ll be fine. I just think Gray is a damn good player (definitely had weaknesses he wasnโ€™t perfect). We still have major weapons that have been underutilized in Hyatt and Velus. And maybe Beckwith shows us something. Plus we have the #1 juco RB. Thatโ€™s about as close as you can get to plug and play besides having a big time transfer.
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Gray is a pretty good runner, but his deficiencies drop him way out of the "damn good player" category. A "damn good player" does everything well imo...plus..I didn't even think he was great as a runner..he got fingertip and grass tackled way too many times for me to label him that way.

He was a good playmaker...I will give him that much. I just wonder how much he cost the team by getting his QBs killed doing his matador routine...that is a really big minus.

I think we have guys coming in that will overall be way more valuable...but that is admittedly just a supposition at this point...you never know till they actually get on the field.
 
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jackcrevol said:
Baseball is fun if it's College. It was also fun to play.

I saw someone inked a $330 million per year deal? That's $2,037,037 per game. Dude could literally, play one game this year, flip twinsies and roll off interest for rest of his life.!

That is, without a doubt, the stupidest thing i've ever heard of? Not for him, from Baseball to allow that...To swing a bat. And for that reason, I'm out.
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I agree with you, plus the inequitable money system in MLB ruined it for me. It should be like the NFL.
 
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Glitch said:
I loved what I saw from Smalls last year. If he can pass protect at all it will be an improvement from oley Grey.
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Small runs hard, but he doesn't have half the talent as Gray. If he is our primary back it will be like going from Kamara to John Kelly
 
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jackcrevol said:
Baseball is fun if it's College. It was also fun to play.

I saw someone inked a $330 million per year deal? That's $2,037,037 per game. Dude could literally, play one game this year, flip twinsies and roll off interest for rest of his life.!

That is, without a doubt, the stupidest thing i've ever heard of? Not for him, from Baseball to allow that...To swing a bat. And for that reason, I'm out.
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I think you may have read that wrong. Baseball has a salary cap and $330 Million a year would kinda blow the cap up :cool::cool:
 
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