Round 4, Pick 134: Jamaal Williams

[jazzfanWA]

BYU guy says BYU guy will be awesome.

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[jazzfanWA]

Brady Poppinga said on a BYU sports show today that he expects Jamaal to be a 1000-1500 yd rusher this year.

He said seriously or in jest? I wonder if he's watched games lately. Montgomery is the starter and the Packers typically abandon the run after the first half. I would bet against that.

He was completely serious. Poppinga said that TT didn't draft Williams in the 4th round to not to be fully involved in the offense. Who knows what he will rush for but from the interview it was obvious that Poppinga is still very involved in BYU and Packer football which I am guessing gives him more credibility than any of us.

[HKPackFan]

Brady Poppinga said on a BYU sports show today that he expects Jamaal to be a 1000-1500 yd rusher this year.

He said seriously or in jest? I wonder if he's watched games lately. Montgomery is the starter and the Packers typically abandon the run after the first half. I would bet against that.

He was completely serious. Poppinga said that TT didn't draft Williams in the 4th round to not to be fully involved in the offense. Who knows what he will rush for but from the interview it was obvious that Poppinga is still very involved in BYU and Packer football which I am guessing gives him more credibility than any of us.

I got my sign ready, "GIVE THE BALL TO JAMAAL!"

[Rockmaninoff]

Brady Poppinga said on a BYU sports show today that he expects Jamaal to be a 1000-1500 yd rusher this year.

This is the worst news I've heard if it somehow became true unless Williams is just pounding teams for 90-100 yards/game when we have a big lead. I'm going to throw **** if McCarthy is lining up in the I and handing it off to Williams. Even out of the gun against 5 or 6 in the box and handing it to Williams, I think we have better options in the passing game to have lined up back there most of the time.

Last season Blount rushed for 1100+ yds and 18 TDs in New England's system. Granted, they had a really good defense, but they still passed quite a bit. 550 pass attempts to our 620.

Blount's season was probably the result of game plan and flow, more than anything else. I don't see why Williams couldn't have that type of season, if the defense is improved. I just wouldn't count on it to be a regularity.

TLDR - I don't think the Packers are going to turn into a power rushing team and give him 300+ carries on the regular.

[Kerb Hohl]

Brady Poppinga said on a BYU sports show today that he expects Jamaal to be a 1000-1500 yd rusher this year.

This is the worst news I've heard if it somehow became true unless Williams is just pounding teams for 90-100 yards/game when we have a big lead. I'm going to throw **** if McCarthy is lining up in the I and handing it off to Williams. Even out of the gun against 5 or 6 in the box and handing it to Williams, I think we have better options in the passing game to have lined up back there most of the time.

Last season Blount rushed for 1100+ yds and 18 TDs in New England's system. Granted, they had a really good defense, but they still passed quite a bit. 550 pass attempts to our 620.

Blount's season was probably the result of game plan and flow, more than anything else. I don't see why Williams couldn't have that type of season, if the defense is improved. I just wouldn't count on it to be a regularity.

TLDR - I don't think the Packers are going to turn into a power rushing team and give him 300+ carries on the regular.

Sure, but my problem is that McCarthy is not Belichick. Give Belichick an undervalued Blount and he will pummel some teams that can't stop the run or just use Blount mostly when they're already up 21-3 in the 3rd quarter to destroy teams.

We probably don't have the defense that the Pats do to have as many big leads early in the game and more importantly, there have just been way too many times in the past few seasons where McCarthy specifically told the media on Wednesday that he needs to restablish Eddie Lacy and somehow our offense is only mediocre for the first half of each of those games.

Then, magically, when we botch some games that we shouldn't lose, we are sitting at 2-4 or something and McCarthy finds the offense that works - threatening to pass or passing every single play of the game until we have an insurmountable lead. Lacy getting hurt last year was the best thing that could have happened to the offense.

I have no idea if Williams will really live up to this billing - but my point is that McCarthy is too stupid to understand how to use somebody like him. He tries to establish the run with the most efficient/dangerous passer in NFL history on our team. The Patriots' passing play total is a bit misleading since they ran it a bunch in their Brissett games. I am somewhat optimistic that we have some passing-game plans for some of these other RBs we drafted. Woodhead, White, Kevin Faulk of days gone by, Lewis, Bolden to an extent, and now Burkhead...Belichick gets it. This is how you "run" the ball.

[M-C-G]

After having more time to think about it, the video of this guy doesn't really seem to match the scouting reports. Granted, I read the scouting reports first, but there is way more to him than I expected. I think Starks and Ryan Grant seem like pretty decent comps.