Hello, I'm Matt Williamson. This is the Locked-on NFL podcast. As usual, as we've been doing every Wednesday, we have Mike Renner-on for Pro Football Focus. We're brought to you by draft today. I'll tell you more about them. Mike, what's going on? Not much. excited for the playoffs to start here.

Yeah, me too. I got to say I'm not super excited about the

AFC side of things, but I am super excited about the NFC side of things. This brings us to

an article that was just published yesterday on Pro Football Focus that you wrote, and I saw

the headline, but I have not read it yet. I certainly will today. Mostly about Todd

Gurley, right? Yeah, it was pretty much entirely about Todd Gurley because he had just in terms

of back-to-back seasons, maybe the biggest, you know, year-on-year improvement in NFL history,

probably, because he went from averaging under 3.2 yards per carry a season ago to, you know, in the MVP conversation this year, there's only been, I looked it up, there's only been six back since the AFL NFL merger to average less than 3.2 yards per carry on at least 275 attempts ever. And he was one of them. And then had been done in 15 years last year so he was as bad as it

gets and now he's as good as it gets and i just examined sort of why that was yeah let's talk

about that but before we do he's played three years in the nfl and people probably remember

what a drop off it was after his rookie year and i remember his rookie year thinking wow this

guy's really talented but a lot of his production that rookie year. And I remember his rookie year thinking, wow, this guy's really talented.

But a lot of his production, that rookie year came on really long runs. You know, that maybe

that's not sustainable. Of course, nobody, including myself, expected the 2016 version of him, though.

And I know that you can say, Jeff Fisher didn't know how to use them and his lines

terrible and he's facing stacked boxes.

But I don't think he had a highlight run once last year.

I mean, like, he was bad in his own right.

No, and it was, he doesn't have, in my opinion, good vision between the tackles.

I don't think he is great at setting up blocks in that regard.

And I don't think he's not a sort of, you know, in the Frank Gore mold of a guy who's just going to pound it, get what's blocked, and continually get that.

He's just not a between the tackles runner.

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