Comments on: Jamaal Charles gaining ground at a rate unseen in NFL history

By: normswifevera

normswifevera — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 16:06:05 +0000

I like the people who are discussing a cumulative career record like it’s based only on what’s happened this one season.

By: arrowhead816

arrowhead816 — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 13:59:52 +0000

You’re witnessing greatest here, I love my Chiefs & our history of running backs. Just the past 10 seasons I’ve been able to watch Charles, L. Johnson, Priest Holmes.

By: kcflake

kcflake — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 10:29:06 +0000

Something about these players from Texas. Both Jamall Charles and Derrick Johnson have played Hard all year, even when we only have two wins.

By: kcflake

kcflake — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 10:28:10 +0000

Jamall Charles is a BEAST! All of us Chiefs Fans are thankful to have him on our team. Hopefully we can find a Real Head Coach, General manager and QB this offseason and turn his outstanding play into Wins.

By: joetoronto

joetoronto — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 10:27:52 +0000

britishraven says:
Dec 27, 2012 6:25 PM
^There is no reason for anyone to play Nickel against the Chiefs.
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This just isn’t true at all.

The fact is that the Chiefs have been down big in games this year at a crazy off the hook rate.

When you’re up on a team large, you go Nickel and Dime.

Anyway, once his contract is up, he’s gone.

By: joeb34

joeb34 — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 06:39:26 +0000

Jim Brown played in a completely different era too. I find it hard to compare then with now. How many 250 lbs linebackers ran a 4.5 40 back then. Athletes are different and it is impossible to say they are facing equal opponents. A team with an elite running back cannot destroy the league as shown by the Vikings as one could back then but QBs were regularly abused making passing less popular or effective depends on how you want to view that lol. Different game. Jim was a beast though.

By: wtfchiefs

wtfchiefs — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 03:50:03 +0000

He is the only thing that keeps me from a nice Sunday nap when I watch the Chiefs play. He’s awesome.

By: gbatap

gbatap — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 03:25:20 +0000

For all the people saying “Well Jim Brown was a primary back and an every down back yadda yadda yadda”. I don’t know if you’ve watched football from 40-50 years ago but you could make a pretty convinving argument that the guys Brown was playing against were nearly the athletes that play in the game today. Even the coaching and gameplanning back then wasn’t nearly what it is now. Charles plays on a team with no passing game and has for his entire career and going into every game opposing DCs know that the guy they need to shut down is Charles because he’s the only threat. What Charles is doing now is an amazing feat and he deserves at this point to be mentioned with the best RBs that ever played.

By: shootscuz

shootscuz — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 02:48:05 +0000

Just think KC is just a QB, offensive line, defensive line, CB, head coach, and GM away from being a complete powerhouse! Keep up the good work Charles, I am sure help is coming.

By: mgavin78

mgavin78 — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 02:44:31 +0000

Most underrated back ever Fred Taylor finished a long career with about a 4.97 yards per carry. Pretty damn good.
Go jags!!!

By: garyandersonsleftfoot

garyandersonsleftfoot — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 02:16:34 +0000

@ justintuckrule

Says:

“…and given the fact that most defenses don’t stack the box anymore and run nickels…”

Ever watch a Vikings game?

By: nobodycirclesthewagon

nobodycirclesthewagon — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 01:37:09 +0000

Don’t worry CJ Spiller will be the record holder soon enough

By: jeremyb91

jeremyb91 — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 01:33:06 +0000

It took Jim Brown 37 games played to reach 750 carries. It took Jamaal Charles 64 games to reach 750 carries. That’s a huge difference. Jim Brown was the primary back, Charles has had other backs there to help him stay fresh.

Jim Brown’s record is still more significant than Charles’ having a “higher yards per carry” with a *.

By: briang123

briang123 — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 01:32:07 +0000

My Pop, may he rest in peace, said the best RBs he ever saw play were, in this order, Brown, Mötley, Sanders, Campbell, and Sayers. Who am I to argue?

By: vikesfansteve

vikesfansteve — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 01:29:24 +0000

Another candidate for comeback player of the year. Now the guys with injuries come back stronger than before because they work so hard in rehab and are running just as hard because they believe the doctor when he tells them you are not only healthy but stronger than ever.

By: zbigern

zbigern — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 01:25:04 +0000

How many teams with great RBs have SB rings?…just sayin. If your teams main offensive weapon is your stud RB, you can about guarantee you are picking high in next years draft…I love AD, Jamaal Charles, CJ, Barry Sandera &Earl Cambell & Sweetness are my all time favorite dootball players.

By: green41563

green41563 — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 01:16:57 +0000

One thing no one’s mentioning: it’s much easier to run the football now than in years past, when teams actually gameplanned to stop the run instead of the pass.

Twenty years ago, averaging 4.5 YPC was big stuff. Now it’s a yawner.

By: bspurloc

bspurloc — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 01:08:07 +0000

SO…. by AP’s logic Charles should get the MVP…
or will AP argue Charles is on a losing team and doesn’t deserve it?

By: ripster65

ripster65 — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 01:06:36 +0000

Why are people making excuses for why he’s accomplished what he’s accomplished? Regardless of how/why he did it, just like CJ’s recvg record, no one’s ever done it until now so props to them.

By: klutch14u

klutch14u — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 01:02:56 +0000

Charles along with the first pick of every round in the ’13 draft, how could Cowher say no??

By: usher716

usher716 — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 00:30:49 +0000

CJ Spiller is having an even more impressive year (about to take all time yards per carry in a season), too bad he had Gailey as his coach this year.

By: kingshockeyclub

kingshockeyclub — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 00:26:08 +0000

Trade bait ?

By: Cereal

Cereal — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 00:19:58 +0000

One of the few good draft picks the Chefs have made the last couple of seasons

By: riverhorsey

riverhorsey — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 00:14:59 +0000

KC will be back in the SB next year and a little child shall lead them.

By: johnnyjagfan

johnnyjagfan — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 00:12:06 +0000

I was in Oakland during Charles’ rookie season when the Chiefs came to town. Didn’t really have anything to do, went to the game. Walked up to the box office, bought cheapest seat, sat on the 30 in the lowers…what a joke.

However, there were 2 highlights: 1) it was the game where Oakland finally gave up on Jamarcus and benched him for Gradkowski. Grad almost brought them back, but hit DHB in the head at the goal line and it was picked.

2) watching Charles run down the sideline, SO FAST, and scoring from about 40-50 yards. I was like “he’s on my fantasy team next year”.

I love this guy and am happy for him.

By: tigertaz27

tigertaz27 — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 00:08:21 +0000

rg3andthensome

Why would he ever wanna be a redskin?

By: crubenst

crubenst — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 23:52:11 +0000

Charles has the advantage of not being the short yardage back. Lots of carries on 3rd or 4th and 1 will weigh down the average but the greatbacks like Brown, Payton and Peterson always seem to get 1.5 yards per carry in those situations.

By: djaehne

djaehne — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 23:46:45 +0000

If he could stay healthy he’d have the total yards gained too. If they had a passing game, he wouldn’t be sitting while the qb was throwing interceptions and giving away the chance to run the ball more.

By: malekmj

malekmj — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 23:37:00 +0000

Detroit needs to trade for Jamall Charles….or they should have just drafted him instead of Kevin Smith. Wow. Megatron and Charles. That would be cool.

By: seahawks4alltime

seahawks4alltime — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 23:26:21 +0000

Charles is doing really well. Yards per carry is a nice stat, but it doesn’t say as much about a RB as it could. For example, with 297 carries this year Marshawn Lynch has a 5.0 yards per carry this season. But he only has a career average of 4.2 ypc. Lynch won’t ever get up to Charles’ level in terms of yards per carry, but then again Charles won’t ever get up to Lynch level in terms of yards after contact.