Should A Foster blame D Clawson

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alldayVOL

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Unless I missed something Arian Foster went from a 2nd round pick last year to going undrafted this year. Is this a direct byproduct of the "clawfense"? I know everyone is going to spout off about fumbles and what not, but this guy went from guaranteed money to jack s**t by coming back to play for us. Very sad in my opinion.
 
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alldayVOL said:
Unless I missed something Arian Foster went from a 2nd round pick last year to going undrafted this year. Is this a direct byproduct of the "clawfense"? I know everyone is going to spout off about fumbles and what not, but this guy went from guaranteed money to jack s**t by coming back to play for us. Very sad in my opinion.
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Yeah, I'm just on the verge of tears. I'm waiting for the mental giants who disagreed with me when I said Foster was worthless to try and spin this one.
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alldayVOL said:
Unless I missed something Arian Foster went from a 2nd round pick last year to going undrafted this year. Is this a direct byproduct of the "clawfense"? I know everyone is going to spout off about fumbles and what not, but this guy went from guaranteed money to jack s**t by coming back to play for us. Very sad in my opinion.
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He should only blame him if Clawson told him to be immature, slow, and to never run anyone over.
 
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alldayVOL said:
Unless I missed something Arian Foster went from a 2nd round pick last year to going undrafted this year. Is this a direct byproduct of the "clawfense"? I know everyone is going to spout off about fumbles and what not, but this guy went from guaranteed money to jack s**t by coming back to play for us. Very sad in my opinion.
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or another way to look at it, TT's to blame because he bolted to OSU

I like that it's Clawful's fault better though
 
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allvol123 said:
Why would anyone blame Clawson for Foster not having the talent to get drafted?
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1 legit reason: the strong/quick blocking scheme last year, and it's apparent predictability to any opposing defense. Our O-line looked absolutely nothing like it did the year before... and that was Clawson's fault.

But don't take that as a defense to Foster, the fumbling dinosaur. I definitely think that he earned that drop in his draft stock.
 
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Our line's performance was as much or more on Adkins than Clawson. Foster took a bad gamble and lost badly given a new staff and a realistic assessment of his skills and left with a 2nd round grade.

I was hoping he'd leave because returning guaranteed that he'd start and get most of the carries and I was hoping to see more of Hardesty and Creer.
 
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AllOrange'07 said:
1 legit reason: the strong/quick blocking scheme last year, and it's apparent predictability to any opposing defense. Our O-line looked absolutely nothing like it did the year before... and that was Clawson's fault.

But don't take that as a defense to Foster, the fumbling dinosaur. I definitely think that he earned that drop in his draft stock.
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If he had NFL talent, someone would have taken him. Yea our offense was crap last year but there are people that get paid a lot of money to evaluate players.
 
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I have nothing against A Foster at all and I appreciate him coming back for 2008, as ill-fate as it was. But the facts are the facts, he's not very fast, not especially ellusive, and doesn't use his mass in the most productive fashion (i.e. a bruiser). However, he does catch well out of the backfield, block fairly well, and work hard. Hopefully he'll still get the chance to make a squad.
 
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VolinDawgland said:
Our line's performance was as much or more on Adkins than Clawson. Foster took a bad gamble and lost badly given a new staff and a realistic assessment of his skills and left with a 2nd round grade.

I was hoping he'd leave because returning guaranteed that he'd start and get most of the carries and I was hoping to see more of Hardesty and Creer.
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wrong, Clawson changed the scheme
 
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alldayVOL said:
Unless I missed something Arian Foster went from a 2nd round pick last year to going undrafted this year. Is this a direct byproduct of the "clawfense"? I know everyone is going to spout off about fumbles and what not, but this guy went from guaranteed money to jack s**t by coming back to play for us. Very sad in my opinion.
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Foster was told he might go in the second round. Look at where some of the running backs that had higher grades than Arian got drafted. There was not a chance in Hades he would get picked up in the 2nd.
 
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kptvol said:
Foster was told he might go in the second round. Look at where some of the running backs that had higher grades than Arian got drafted. There was not a chance in Hades he would get picked up in the 2nd.
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My first thought as well.
 
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kptvol said:
Foster was told he might go in the second round. Look at where some of the running backs that had higher grades than Arian got drafted. There was not a chance in Hades he would get picked up in the 2nd.
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There were some with much lower grades going in the 5th as well.

The collective NFL brass just didn't like him.
 
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Two words. "Senior Bowl".

When playing with/against your peers you either show out or get blown out. Ayers showed out and you know the rest.
 
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True, the Clawfense was horrid, but there is a high correlation between Foster's draft status and his performance at the NFL combine.
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If the scouts thought he had the talent they would have looked past last year. AF doesn't have the speed to be a finesse back but isn't particularly physical either.

If he wants to blame something he should probably look at his camp performances.
 
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hatvol96 said:
Yeah, I'm just on the verge of tears. I'm waiting for the mental giants who disagreed with me when I said Foster was worthless to try and spin this one.
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I wanted to post this but I'm glad you already did, you'll get almost no rebuttals on this statement whereas if I had made it originally I would've had a much different reaction.
 
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f1ip said:
True, the Clawfense was horrid, but there is a high correlation between Foster's draft status and his performance at the NFL combine.
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.........and the Senior Bowl

.........and this season
 
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Foster has no one but himself to blame. He should have cashed in when his stock was high.
 
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