2. How much longer can we afford to suit Matt Jones up to run the football here in Washington?
Chris Thompson was our most effective outside rusher today and Robert Kelley has shown he can run between the tackles. That looks like a pretty good 1-2 punch to me.
You can't win championships (not that this team is that close yet) with regular starters that are turnover prone. And that is what Jones shows he still is and very well may continue to be going forward.
That early fumble today cost us the game on the scoreboard. Forget the missed field goal. That fumble cost us 7 points in a game that was otherwise 10-3 late in the third quarter.
He did the same thing last year.
Here we are in Year 2 and we have fellow 2015 draftees Jamison Crowder and Brandon Scherff starting on the offense and being productive.
Jones, meanwhile, by general consensus plays a position where the transition from college to the NFL is thought to be easier.
But he seems to be still fighting himself in terms of the fundamentals, running with his pads lower, going North-South and not jumping plays to the outside too prematurely, holding onto the football.......................
Seems like the undrafted free agent, Kelley, already has a better handle on these details.
I understand that Jones was a #3 draft pick, but at some point you have to get guys off the field who continue to make the same mistakes and show the same limitations.
Let him sit and watch for a couple of weeks. Let's see what we have in Kelley, so that at the end of the year we can make a fully informed decision about what we have to do at RB, if anything in the draft and free agency in 2017.
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