WW85 has been comparing him to Eddie George. I've read interviews with Gerhart where he compares himself to Corey Dillon and Eddie George.
Eric Smith is equivalent to the black n' white cookie in the Cinnamon Babka episode from Seinfeld. :smile: Look to the cookie, Elaine.....look to the cookie
That's what I meant. You've seen my thoughts on running backs that can pass block - I've been babbling about it for days in the LT thread.
+1 RB's break down so awful often, especially in the playoffs, but with two young power backs we could punish the crap out of teams without worries.
If he is there in the mid rounds I would be for picking him. He'd have to be in there as a backup FB this season to spell T-Rich and also get a few carries. When Richardson retires make him an H-back type. Not sure if he can catch though, but we could use him as a multipurpose fullback as well as a TE-type in some interesting double-TE sets with Keller. Or even throw Keller, Hartsock and Gerhart on the field together with 1 WR and 1 RB and see how defenses approach it.
I'd love to see me some TG in Green and White next season, but unless we lose/trade Leon, we're looking at an overloaded backfield. If Leon stays, I just don't see it happening. I also took the LT signing to mean the FO is looking to free us up in rounds 1/2, so we don't have to take a RB early. And anyone trying dispel the TG/Alstott comparisons is out of their f***in' minds. These two are mirror images of each other; no, not in terms of skin color, in terms of running styles. Alstott was never a traditional FB; really, he was more of a hybrid. And that's exactly how I would describe TG - he's got that bruising mentality of a FB, but the running skills of a true HB. If you think it's idiotic to compare one RB to another simply because of skin color, what does that say about avoiding the comparison for the same reasons? [YOUTUBE]dFWtdfM332I[/YOUTUBE] [YOUTUBE]RjLh_yO41jw[/YOUTUBE]
I don't object to the comparisons because their running styles are dissimilar (they're both power runners) or because there is some kind of implied racism there. In fact, I used Alstott in an earlier thread to demonstrate that white power runners COULD have success when someone argued there were no good white running backs. The reason I don't like the comparison is that it inevitably leads to these silly ideas that Gerhart could play the same kind of position. Unlike Alstott, it would be foolish to use Gerhart in that same hybrid position. He's faster than Alstott, more evasive than Alstott, and it would be a complete waste of his talents to focus on building him into a lead blocker (even as a hybrid FB) rather than building him into a power back at the NFL level.
Gerhart and Alstott both break tackles? Say what?! They must be the same player! They don't have that much in common. Power, skin color, and position...yes. Mike Alstott is a fucking tank with legs. The guy's one of the best pure power runners that I've ever seen. Alstott was out there to hit somebody and to create contact. I know there's a few runs in that video of him bouncing it outside, but that was rare for him. Like I said earlier in this thread, Alstott was 20 to 25 pounds heavier than Gerhart is. Alstott was a fullback that got a lot of carries, sort of like LeRon McClain in Baltimore. Toby Gerhart is much more of an all-around running back. I don't understand why so many people think Gerhart is strictly a short-yardage type plow back. With the exception of catching the football, Gerhart proved at Stanford that he's a complete back. He run inside and outside...because he has somethings that Alstott didn't: speed and cutback ability.
