Team stats:
League stats for rushing look like this (top 5):
Team Rushing
ATT YDS YPG AVG TD LONG FUMBLES
1 Falcons 106 609 203.0 5.7 6 66 1
2 Ravens 90 380 190.0 4.2 5 42 2
3 Raiders 107 548 182.7 5.1 3 50 5
4 Seahawks 101 499 166.3 4.9 5 32 0
5 Vikings 101 485 161.7 4.8 1 34 0
As you can see we are one of the very best, especially looking at the attempts, and (knock on wood) no fumbles
League individual leaders:
Rk Name/Team
1 Michael Turner, Atl 59 Att 366 Yds 6.20 Avg 5 TD 0 Fumbles
2 Adrian Peterson, Min 65 Att 340 Yds 5.23 Avg 1 TD 0 Fumbles
3 Julius Jones, Sea 61 Att 312 Yds 5.11 Avg 2 TD 0 Fumbles
4 Matt Forte, Chi 73 Att 304 Yds 4.16 Avg 1 TD 0 Fumbles
5 Frank Gore, SF 60 Att 287 Yds 4.78 Avg 3 TD 2 Fumbles
Jones is playing hungry and Mo going down is starting to look like a blessing, especially considering we didn't lose him for the season.
Team leaders:
Rushing Att Yds Avg TD
Julius Jones 61 312 5.11 2
T.J. Duckett 21 82 3.90 3
Leonard Weaver 9 41 4.56 0
I like two things here:
a- Jones is scoring td's and long ones at that.
b- Duckett for all my bitching has been that redzone guy we wanted
Now last year Weaver was the new best thing ever, this year he is doing his best Mack Strong impersonation. I like that he's really embraced protection while still having all the run/catch tools most fb's do not.
The guys who are forgotten when things go well: The O-line. Kudos to them for having injuries and still pounding the ball effectively.
If we can get our air attack back in check, we'll be scary with our slasher and our clock eater (jones/duckett) closing out games and providing offensive balance to allow Hass and the receiving corp(more like morgue right now) to do there thing.
Basically... the season is young and I'm still optimistic that we'll scratch our way back to the playoffs and gain character along the way.
Go Ground Hawks.
