A couple other Bears on here as well. Jordan Howard’s 2018 season being here shocked me. Thoughts? (Formula for the rankings is on the second slide)

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  3. I mean it was pretty widely seen as a bad season for sure. Luckily had some more juice with the new OL doing really well last year!

  4. My thoughts are this. It absolutely drives me up a wall when people say “thoughts?”

  6. Flus had no idea how to use Swift under either OC.

    A lot of good running backs on that list but most of these bad years in their later years.

  7. How good were the offensive lines for those teams as well. Your RB is getting many yards of they are constantly getting hit in the backfield.

  9. This whole list is clickbait. Surely someone put time and effort into creating it but it is kind of irrelevant. Bad line, bad year for even the best RB

  11. I feel like RB is the one position where if the scheme is right you can have an average guy produce really good numbers. If the scheme is bad however, even a good back can look like doodoo. I wouldn’t put much stock into this but I do love stats so its interesting to read the list regardless.

  13. Swift still had 1200 all purpose yards, but his 3.8 ypc is probably what gets him on here.

    On a side note, I thought Swift was excellent this past season.

  14. Is that shady at the top? Bro always be on his little podcast talking THE most shit lmao

  18. Idk what they watched but I watched a guy run hard, play hurt and be a sound pressence in the run game.

  21. With not one mention of a Packers RB, this list is flawed. Packers do not produce solid RBs. They produced HOF QBs, not RBs.

  24. Looking at their metrics, I don’t understand why you are going to have all of these objective statistics and then factor in subjective ones like PFF grades and PFF elusive rating.

    I’d be pretty skeptical about this one. So many of those backs had very good years before and after the ones in question which makes it clear that it isn’t really measuring the RB, but the running game as a whole (play calling, OL run blocking, etc.).

  25. Someone post that pic of every lineman taking an actual nap while Swift is surrounded by 7 defenders 3 yards behind the LOS

  26. Dude, just say you don’t like Swift. No need to cling to some random list from sportsnation

  28. A bad OC will have a bad performance. 2024 was when we let a guy who struggled to hire decent coordinators hire new coordinators. 

    2018 was Matt Nagy not knowing how to use linemen or running backs. Nagy inherited the [Monster of Midway](https://youtu.be/C__uEIQ-XKQ?si=oF35L6CUeht4UGuj), he just refused to call plays that fit his personnel.

    2019 was Matt Nagy blaming Cody Parkey and Mitch Trubisky for him still not knowing the basics of O-line play.

  29. I would like to know how they came up with the weights for each stat compared to all the other stats? Like did they just make a massive priorization matrix and ask a bunch of coaches to rank them?

  32. Not shocking…if do the list of the worst Olines during the same time, im sure the 2024 bears would be near the top of that too..

  34. What is the actual point of this list? Am exercise in punching meaningless metrics into an AI program?

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