(05-01-2023 08:54 AM)jaymay2525 Wrote:  Unpopular take - McBrides draft slide is due to HCBV's offense and hardheadness. Yes, he proved that McBride can be a bell cow and tote the rock. What he also did was pigeon hole him in that role. At no point that I saw did he ever work to showcase McBride in any other way. There are two things that could be. 1) McBride just can't catch or pass block and no amount of coaching him up by the staff could fix it. 2) HCBV offense is so vanilla that he couldn't find a way to make McBride showcase skills to make him a more viable NFL back. Every thing i have seen is pointing to both issues...either our staff couldn't coach him up, which is still a coaching issue but one they also can put on McBride, or they didn't really care about McBride's future while making sure if he was in all he was doing was one thing. To me, in order to really confuse an opponent, you want to have a back do multiple things so that it is harder to know what is coming. To me, this is BV's fault here

(05-01-2023 08:59 AM)DuelingDragon Wrote:  It is more that the NFL doesn’t value running backs these days. There aren’t many feature backs, certainly none like in the old days where the teams was built around a superstar RB. The fact that even the best players often only have 3-4 year window of peak productivity means but want to be paid elite salaries into their 30s means the teams know they can find big value late or UDFA and moneyball the position by committee with 3-4 players to equal the productivity of the one big salary. They would rather sink the big contracts on QBs, OT, edge rushers and corners.

(05-01-2023 09:37 AM)BlazerMatt Wrote:  His being injured and unable to test in the pre-draft process hurt him. In an alternate universe where he runs a 4.5 40 at the combine he probably goes in the 3rd round.