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Matt Forte: Even better than his stats look
Matt Forte: Even better than his stats look
Posted by Michael David Smith on October 21, 2011, 4:26 PM EDT
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Bears running back Matt Forte is feeling unappreciated by the Bears, but every NFL fan should appreciate what Forte is doing this season. Forte leads the league in yards from scrimmage, but his season has been even more impressive than that sounds.
With 527 rushing yards and 381 receiving yards, Forte is on pace for 1,405 rushing yards and 1,016 receiving yards. Roger Craig (1985) and Marshall Faulk (1999) are the only other players in NFL history to top 1,000 yards both rushing and receiving in the same season.
But Craig and Faulk were playing in two of the best offenses the game of football has ever seen. Forte is having an amazing season in a mediocre offense: The Bears are right in the middle of the league, ranked No. 16 in total offense with 1,967 yards this season.
Below we have the list of the Top 10 players in the NFL in total yards from scrimmage, but we’ve added another number — the percent of the team’s offense that each player in the Top 10 has accounted for this season.
1. Matt Forte: 908 yards, 46.2 percent of the Bears’ offense
2. Fred Jackson: 880 yards, 38.7 percent of the Bills’ offense
3. Wes Welker: 804 yards, 28.2 percent of the Patriots’ offense
4. Darren McFadden: 761 yards, 34.0 percent of the Raiders’ offense
5. Ray Rice: 700 yards, 38.1 percent of the Ravens’ offense
6. LeSean McCoy: 692 yards, 26.1 percent of the Eagles’ offense
7. Jahvid Best: 677 yards, 30.7 percent of the Lions’ offense
8. Steve Smith: 675 yards, 26.9 percent of the Panthers’ offense
9. Ryan Mathews: 674 yards, 32.4 percent of the Chargers’ offense
10. Maurice Jones-Drew: 647 yards, 41.4 percent of the Jaguars’ offense
As you can see, Forte is responsible for a far larger share of his team’s offense than any of the league’s other leaders in yards from scrimmage. He’s right to believe he deserves to be paid like an elite running back.
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Speaks for itself. You keep playing hardball Jerry it's sure to be your ticket out of town, the straw that broke the camel's back.
What should you call any : Fumble , Hold , Interception , Three and out , or Sack ?
A " F.H.I.T.S " ? or a J'Marcus ?
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It's frightening to imagine what our offense would look like without Forte. With the season he's having, his price tag is sky-rocketing because of Angelo's incompetence/inability to get this deal done before the start of the season...just like most of us knew it would. So now it looks like Angelo will be faced with either paying Forte top dollar (whether by contract or franchise tag) or losing the centerpiece of the offense.
You can debate whether or not Forte is an "elite" RB, but you can't dispute his value and importance to this offense...the numbers above show it.
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Originally Posted by
KML 
It's frightening to imagine what our offense would look like without Forte. With the season he's having, his price tag is sky-rocketing because of Angelo's incompetence/inability to get this deal done before the start of the season...just like most of us knew it would. So now it looks like Angelo will be faced with either paying Forte top dollar (whether by contract or franchise tag) or losing the centerpiece of the offense.
You can debate whether or not Forte is an "elite" RB, but you can't dispute his value and importance to this offense...the numbers above show it.
I think All-Purpose back covers it. And an elite AP back does more than just a 'running' back so.... looks like a no-brainer to me.
What should you call any : Fumble , Hold , Interception , Three and out , or Sack ?
A " F.H.I.T.S " ? or a J'Marcus ?
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Something that stands out to me; the more yards the team has the less likely the player is to have a large % of the O, outside of FJ, every O w/more then 2K yards is no where near Matt PayDay Forte. If the OL can find a way to protect JC, I think you're going to see Forte's #'s come down. Which would actually be a good thing, b/c he is on pace for 360 touches(264 runs 96 passes approx). This is eerily similar to his rookie year when he had 380 and played hurt the whole season after it. I'd actually like to see his touches as close to, if not under 300 if possible.
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Blue Horse-shoe I think All-Purpose back covers it. And an elite AP back does more than just a 'running' back so.... looks like a no-brainer to me.
If this keeps up, and barring an injury it should, Angelo won't have a leg to stand on with his arguement that Forte is not an elite back. First out of ten in total yardage and two of them are WRs? Forte called it. He said the price tag was only gonna be higher if that waited and he's keeping his word and making Angelo eat his.
If they don't sign him somebody will shoot Angelo. In fact it might even be me, LOL.
I'm getting to that age where a lifetime warranty just doesn't mean as much to me anymore as an afternoon nap. 
Honey Badger Don't Care. Honey Badger Don't Give a Shit.
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Few other interesting tid bits, 16 game expected touches:
and total % plays run by the team and through the playler so far:
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I doubt he'll be playing for the Bears... Someone is going to make him a great offer..
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we'll ft him next year; the year after he'll still be attractive, but not as much.
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gammabears I doubt he'll be playing for the Bears... Someone is going to make him a great offer..
They can offer anything they want but if the Bears slap a franchise tag on him, which they will, he won't be going anywhere but here in 2012.
I'm getting to that age where a lifetime warranty just doesn't mean as much to me anymore as an afternoon nap. Honey Badger Don't Care. Honey Badger Don't Give a Shit.
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