I say give Daniels the rock more. He's averaged 5 yards per carry on the season. Even if you back out his 56 yard long carry, he's still averaging 4.4 yards per carry.

He popped the 56 yarder against South Carolina. Should have given him more than 13 carries. He may have popped another one.

That dude needs 20+ rushes per game since Moss is out. Daniels has caught 5 passes with an average of 12 yards per catch....and one going 22 yards. Give him 3 or 4 swing passes per game!

For the love of Mario, give Daniels the ball more....get him running downhill early and often.....and wear out the defense in the 4th quarter!!!

Rod '92

Problem is the toll that running 10 times and upping it to 20+ times a game is so much greater. If Daniels gets hurt we no longer have any proven back that can run between the tackles and our offense becomes one dimensional. Don't get me wrong Daniels is a good back but we don't have the RB depth to run him that many times until the Texas game where he has time to heal after

That makes sense to me, and I'd like to see the Refugio Flash get a touch or two.

Yep, I not sure Daniel's is a 20 to 25 touch RB. He's a very good RB but that many touches will take a toll on any RB. He's just one hit away from joining Moss on the sidelines. He will be the primary guy but we have to find some other guys that can keep his legs fresh.

Limit him to like 5-8 carries vs New Mexico st and let smith and anyone else carry the bulk of the load to get their feet wet and see what else we have heading into Auburn

Ej smith should get 10-12 carries while bussey or whoever else should get 5-10

Also, let reed air it out some so we can get him more comfortable making his reads and delivering the ball accurately and on time

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Limit him to like 5-8 carries vs New Mexico st and let smith and anyone else carry the bulk of the load to get their feet wet and see what else we have heading into Auburn

Ej smith should get 10-12 carries while bussey or whoever else should get 5-10

Also, let reed air it out some so we can get him more comfortable making his reads and delivering the ball accurately and on time

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Limit him to like 5-8 carries vs New Mexico st and let smith and anyone else carry the bulk of the load to get their feet wet and see what else we have heading into Auburn

Ej smith should get 10-12 carries while bussey or whoever else should get 5-10

Also, let reed air it out some so we can get him more comfortable making his reads and delivering the ball accurately and on time

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Totally agree. Save Daniels for the remaining SEC games and lets get some miles under the other backs to have them ready and confidence boosted.

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Limit him to like 5-8 carries vs New Mexico st and let smith and anyone else carry the bulk of the load to get their feet wet and see what else we have heading into Auburn

Ej smith should get 10-12 carries while bussey or whoever else should get 5-10

Also, let reed air it out some so we can get him more comfortable making his reads and delivering the ball accurately and on time

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From what I have seen EJ Smith is not a 10-12 carry a game type, he is more third down with some off the edge rushes. I think this weekend you will get a walk on or 1-2 of them combining for 10+ carries to gauge how they do not on the playing field. We need another bruiser when Daniels needs a breather, Smith and Bussey cannot do that

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Limit him to like 5-8 carries vs New Mexico st and let smith and anyone else carry the bulk of the load to get their feet wet and see what else we have heading into Auburn

Ej smith should get 10-12 carries while bussey or whoever else should get 5-10

Also, let reed air it out some so we can get him more comfortable making his reads and delivering the ball accurately and on time

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From what I have seen EJ Smith is not a 10-12 carry a game type, he is more third down with some off the edge rushes. I think this weekend you will get a walk on or 1-2 of them combining for 10+ carries to gauge how they do not on the playing field. We need another bruiser when Daniels needs a breather, Smith and Bussey cannot do that

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It may be so, but ej hasn't really had the chance to get a good number of carries in a game

If I'm Elko or Klein I want to see what ej can really do when called upon to be a regular piece of the puzzle

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Limit him to like 5-8 carries vs New Mexico st and let smith and anyone else carry the bulk of the load to get their feet wet and see what else we have heading into Auburn

Ej smith should get 10-12 carries while bussey or whoever else should get 5-10

Also, let reed air it out some so we can get him more comfortable making his reads and delivering the ball accurately and on time

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From what I have seen EJ Smith is not a 10-12 carry a game type, he is more third down with some off the edge rushes. I think this weekend you will get a walk on or 1-2 of them combining for 10+ carries to gauge how they do not on the playing field. We need another bruiser when Daniels needs a breather, Smith and Bussey cannot do that

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It may be so, but ej hasn't really had the chance to get a good number of carries in a game

If I'm Elko or Klein I want to see what ej can really do when called upon to be a regular piece of the puzzle

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EJ is proving to be an important pickup in the offseason. Proven P5 RB. He's going to do great when he gets a chance.

I have not given up on EJ, just need to see more of the guy!

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Limit him to like 5-8 carries vs New Mexico st and let smith and anyone else carry the bulk of the load to get their feet wet and see what else we have heading into Auburn

Ej smith should get 10-12 carries while bussey or whoever else should get 5-10

Also, let reed air it out some so we can get him more comfortable making his reads and delivering the ball accurately and on time

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From what I have seen EJ Smith is not a 10-12 carry a game type, he is more third down with some off the edge rushes. I think this weekend you will get a walk on or 1-2 of them combining for 10+ carries to gauge how they do not on the playing field. We need another bruiser when Daniels needs a breather, Smith and Bussey cannot do that

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It may be so, but ej hasn't really had the chance to get a good number of carries in a game

If I'm Elko or Klein I want to see what ej can really do when called upon to be a regular piece of the puzzle

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EJ is proving to be an important pickup in the offseason. Proven P5 RB. He's going to do great when he gets a chance.

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This is sunshine pumping at its best. EJ hasn't even been good with the chances he's been given thus far. To say he'll be great is serious Kool Aid drinking.

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Limit him to like 5-8 carries vs New Mexico st and let smith and anyone else carry the bulk of the load to get their feet wet and see what else we have heading into Auburn

Ej smith should get 10-12 carries while bussey or whoever else should get 5-10

Also, let reed air it out some so we can get him more comfortable making his reads and delivering the ball accurately and on time

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From what I have seen EJ Smith is not a 10-12 carry a game type, he is more third down with some off the edge rushes. I think this weekend you will get a walk on or 1-2 of them combining for 10+ carries to gauge how they do not on the playing field. We need another bruiser when Daniels needs a breather, Smith and Bussey cannot do that

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It may be so, but ej hasn't really had the chance to get a good number of carries in a game

If I'm Elko or Klein I want to see what ej can really do when called upon to be a regular piece of the puzzle

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EJ is proving to be an important pickup in the offseason. Proven P5 RB. He's going to do great when he gets a chance.

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This is sunshine pumping at its best. EJ hasn't even been good with the chances he's been given thus far. To say he'll be great is serious Kool Aid drinking.

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I don't think we know how good or bad ej will really be because we haven't really seen much of him

I think the coaches need to just give him a good number of plays this week so they can gauge what we have before going into the auburn and Texas games

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Limit him to like 5-8 carries vs New Mexico st and let smith and anyone else carry the bulk of the load to get their feet wet and see what else we have heading into Auburn

Ej smith should get 10-12 carries while bussey or whoever else should get 5-10

Also, let reed air it out some so we can get him more comfortable making his reads and delivering the ball accurately and on time

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From what I have seen EJ Smith is not a 10-12 carry a game type, he is more third down with some off the edge rushes. I think this weekend you will get a walk on or 1-2 of them combining for 10+ carries to gauge how they do not on the playing field. We need another bruiser when Daniels needs a breather, Smith and Bussey cannot do that

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It may be so, but ej hasn't really had the chance to get a good number of carries in a game

If I'm Elko or Klein I want to see what ej can really do when called upon to be a regular piece of the puzzle

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EJ is proving to be an important pickup in the offseason. Proven P5 RB. He's going to do great when he gets a chance.

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This is sunshine pumping at its best. EJ hasn't even been good with the chances he's been given thus far. To say he'll be great is serious Kool Aid drinking.

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I don't think we know how good or bad ej will really be because we haven't really seen much of him

I think the coaches need to just give him a good number of plays this week so they can gauge what we have before going into the auburn and Texas games

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What will it show if he runs for 100+ yards against a garbage opponent? Nothing.

No disrespect to the kid but the coaches already know what they have in EJ and it isn't good.

If his dad wasn't named Emmitt there wouldn't be this sunshine pumping.

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Limit him to like 5-8 carries vs New Mexico st and let smith and anyone else carry the bulk of the load to get their feet wet and see what else we have heading into Auburn

Ej smith should get 10-12 carries while bussey or whoever else should get 5-10

Also, let reed air it out some so we can get him more comfortable making his reads and delivering the ball accurately and on time

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From what I have seen EJ Smith is not a 10-12 carry a game type, he is more third down with some off the edge rushes. I think this weekend you will get a walk on or 1-2 of them combining for 10+ carries to gauge how they do not on the playing field. We need another bruiser when Daniels needs a breather, Smith and Bussey cannot do that

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It may be so, but ej hasn't really had the chance to get a good number of carries in a game

If I'm Elko or Klein I want to see what ej can really do when called upon to be a regular piece of the puzzle

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EJ is proving to be an important pickup in the offseason. Proven P5 RB. He's going to do great when he gets a chance.

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This is sunshine pumping at its best. EJ hasn't even been good with the chances he's been given thus far. To say he'll be great is serious Kool Aid drinking.

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I don't think we know how good or bad ej will really be because we haven't really seen much of him

I think the coaches need to just give him a good number of plays this week so they can gauge what we have before going into the auburn and Texas games

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What will it show if he runs for 100+ yards against a garbage opponent? Nothing.

No disrespect to the kid but the coaches already know what they have in EJ and it isn't good.

If his dad wasn't named Emmitt there wouldn't be this sunshine pumping.

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I disagree that it won't show anything if he goes for 100+

I also think he needs more reps do he is ready for the next two fanes after this one

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Limit him to like 5-8 carries vs New Mexico st and let smith and anyone else carry the bulk of the load to get their feet wet and see what else we have heading into Auburn

Ej smith should get 10-12 carries while bussey or whoever else should get 5-10

Also, let reed air it out some so we can get him more comfortable making his reads and delivering the ball accurately and on time

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From what I have seen EJ Smith is not a 10-12 carry a game type, he is more third down with some off the edge rushes. I think this weekend you will get a walk on or 1-2 of them combining for 10+ carries to gauge how they do not on the playing field. We need another bruiser when Daniels needs a breather, Smith and Bussey cannot do that

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It may be so, but ej hasn't really had the chance to get a good number of carries in a game

If I'm Elko or Klein I want to see what ej can really do when called upon to be a regular piece of the puzzle

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EJ is proving to be an important pickup in the offseason. Proven P5 RB. He's going to do great when he gets a chance.

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Really? Maybe he's a nice kid and a warm body, but I haven't seen anything yet that he does well. Amari on the other hand has shown to be a good back. He seems more than capable of 15+ carries a game. The concern, still, is Klein's craptastic passing scheme. If we can't throw the ball it won't matter who is trying to run it.

I think we just need to utilize him a little better. He runs better in open field, and we haven't been good about getting him in open space.

Some of the problem is him needing to choose his lanes and holes better, which I'm sure he's working on. There is some runs where if he read the fit just a bit better he could really bust it.

Moss is great at it, hopefully he can help coach him up and take on the leadership role for the rest of the season.

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I think we just need to utilize him a little better. He runs better in open field, and we haven't been good about getting him in open space.

Some of the problem is him needing to choose his lanes and holes better, which I'm sure he's working on. There is some runs where if he read the fit just a bit better he could really bust it.

Moss is great at it, hopefully he can help coach him up and take on the leadership role for the rest of the season.

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Hahaha I had some other guy on another thread say that he thought EJ was teaching Moss how to pick up the running lanes. Hahaha

If EJ still needs to figure out which hole to hit by this time in his career, it's never gonna happen. If he's not Emmitt's son, no one is pumping him up

Hi Mrs. Daniels.

What we need to do is come out throwing it, and hopefully effectively. If we don't, then everyone will stack the box knowing we don't have much for runners, and not thinking Reed can get it done through the air. If we start out trying to jam Amari and EJ up the middle it won't work, even against lowly NMSU if they constantly have one more defender than we have blockers. Do that and we hurt our runners psyche, give the defense confidence, and put ourselves in a hole we might struggle out of offensively. We are on a razors edge of keeping this season going offensively. If we shoot ourselves in the foot out of the gates, it will be bad.

If we are going to use EJ a bunch, which we have to because we don't have anyone else, we probably need to use the model that got his dad a billion yards. Aikman wasn't the best QB ever either. But came out throwing and put up points to get a lead, then let Emmitt run to wear down the clock and defense. We do that and get Reed some confidence in his arm, make the rest of the teams respect his ability going forward, then let our backs run out the rest of the game, and that's our recipe for success the next 3 games.

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Limit him to like 5-8 carries vs New Mexico st and let smith and anyone else carry the bulk of the load to get their feet wet and see what else we have heading into Auburn

Ej smith should get 10-12 carries while bussey or whoever else should get 5-10

Also, let reed air it out some so we can get him more comfortable making his reads and delivering the ball accurately and on time

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From what I have seen EJ Smith is not a 10-12 carry a game type, he is more third down with some off the edge rushes. I think this weekend you will get a walk on or 1-2 of them combining for 10+ carries to gauge how they do not on the playing field. We need another bruiser when Daniels needs a breather, Smith and Bussey cannot do that

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It may be so, but ej hasn't really had the chance to get a good number of carries in a game

If I'm Elko or Klein I want to see what ej can really do when called upon to be a regular piece of the puzzle

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EJ is proving to be an important pickup in the offseason. Proven P5 RB. He's going to do great when he gets a chance.

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No he's not. He's a below avg SEC rb

Daniels doesn't really need to play this week. He is gonna get a ton of touches after that so let him rest. And he has played a bunch so it isn't like he is rusty.

Smith should be third string. Bussey should be getting most of playing time this weekend, working on mesh with QB, etc. keep developing Bussey and ride Daniels and Bussey for rest of season. Smith should get very limited PT.