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Haven't heard anyone even mention him or his performance, which I thought was pretty good, especially under the circumstances. Of course Chubb's injury is devastating and heartbreaking, and didn't have to happen except for the stoolers typical dirty play. We'll definitely miss his leadership and reliability but let's give Ford his due, root for him, and dedicate this season to Nick Chubb.

I have no idea who you think would not "root for him" to do well. But no matter how you slice it, he isn't and never will be a Nick Chubb. And I actually feel the Browns will add a better RB to the team. Or they may realize that without Chubb getting someone well a step below him would be futile. It's hard to know at this point.

He's going to get better (he already has), but he's not an every down back. Not great between the tackles. Our ability to churn out long drives is over

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He seems to have all the physical tools. Correct me if I'm wrong, but where he seems to be lacking compared to Chubb (I know it's an unfair comparison, but he IS now the starting back) is vision. Chubb is smoother/faster from when he gets to the ball to hitting the LoS, and Ford seems to hesitate.

I know a lot of you said that Hunt lost a step… I hope he got a call from Berry this morning.

Me too, OCD.

I would like to call the Jets about Carter

John Kelly SZN

Indeed.

I'd like James Robinson

There is a reason Hunt isn't signed, if he's so good- other teams would have jumped on him. Ford did OK- our so called top 3 line sure got exposed- we're bad at pass block and running lanes where not very good. Will be interesting to watch what Browns do.......sample size of ONE last week, now, it is TWO- we looked less than a playoff team.

what about Jonathan Taylor, he wants out of Indy, Chubb is going to miss atleast 2 seasons if he comes back at all, don't look for a stop gap, just go get an actual proven back

j/c...

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He'll be posting videos of him him squating 700lbs instead of 675 mid April 2024

I don't love the idea of Hunt but I don't hate it either

If anyone can it’s him, but I rather see a video of him cutting. Pretty sure no nfl back has come back from this

Not sure if any player has

Horrible thing

Obviously I wish Chubb was out there today, however the season keeps moving forward. I’m looking forward to seeing Ford breakout this season. He will take his lumps, but I expect him to play well.

You can see how he's taking small steps each game. Awesome to watch.

I'll also say that I'm really excited to have Hunt back. Dude has his history but seems to have turned it around. He was an important voice in the RB room before so I'm sure he will be again. He looked like he recovered a little bit of his previous pop.

I agree and think that little screen pass Hunt executes so well would have really helped vs the Steelers to slow down that pass rush some.

yeah, our screen game vs Pitt was zip

as I am saying in the Hunt thread... the Ford experiment should be pretty much over. Maybe, they will give him the Ravens and game. But, if he doesn't do better... Berry will be forced to get another back right after the Ravens game so we can get them up to speed before we play the 49ers.



Ford has 160 yards with a 3.8 YPC and 50% of his yards to date have come on one play. Remove that one play... he's basically averaging what he did last year 2.25 YPC.

Meanwhile, Chubb was averaging 6.1 YPC with the same OL and a long of 20.

Bro the titans sold out top stop the run, and yet Ford still had 2 total TDs, and it’s clear on the field he’s adjusting better to the speed of the game. Why you down on him

I personally think Ford has been OK. He's not going to get more yards than are there. As long as he doesn't fumble and gets what he can, Im good

He also has 3 Touchdown's in 3 games.

I thought he did very well

First time starting, he didn't have Chubb and Hunt in front of him

He was out front on his own for the first time

Had to be a lot of pressure on him

And he handled it well !!

He didn’t pile up big yards but he came up with some big plays. Two scores: a great run and finish, and then he caught their DB looking into the backfield and gave him a beauty “see ya later” move. We’ll have a running game by committee approach. Pretty damn hard to replace Chubb. Let’s be Ford tough!

Edit: by the way, he ran for a TD yesterday and the celebration was low-key.
Chubb influence. Follow the true leader, I say.

Ford doesn't have the vision or physical skills that Nick has but he's more than capable and has room to improve with more touches. Having Kareem back will help too.

I definitely have seen Ford improve since the preseason. He needs to continue to work on getting those hard yards IMO. Chubb was a master at turning 2 into 4

I can see Ford has no chance with some posters because he isn't Chubb.

And just a note, the Titans run D is as good as ours.

good point peen. Titans, niners, Washington ... some really really good run Ds

Exactly.

I love low key but how come no one's jumping into the dawg pound? That should be every players dream when scoring at home on that end, especially for the first time. Both Ford and Coop seemed oblivious.

I don't know why people put a ceiling on guys based on in the moment evidence. It was obvious Ford was nervous as hell when Chubb went down but settled into playing as the game went on. You could see his confidence just continue to build. And I thought he had a nice game this past week as well. I think it's only going to continue to get better from here.

I assume you mean since game 1. He didn’t play in the preseason. So far he’s done well with getting hard yards. He usually gets a yard plus after contact or falls forward on most carries to this point. He’s turned a couple of of negative plays into big runs. Like a few others, comparing him to one of the best RBs in the game will make anyone look below average to average.

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The Haslam's installed field seats in front of the dawg pound this year blocking access for players to jump into the dawg pound (see the color coded blue 'field end zone seating).

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Are you serious?

Wow.

Sounds like a JDubbs idea.