got stuffed behind the line, but would later make up for it by following Richardson and Faneca down the field for a 27 yard gain. It was kind if the same with LT, only he didn’t have a dominant O-Line to let him break a big one now and then. Without those two 70 yard rushes against Buffalo, his yards per carry for the season is down to 3.8. Now I’m not taking anything away from Jones, because those runs happened, but seeing as how he had never had a run that long in his career, and had two in one game, I’m going to say at least part of that was due to great blocking and awful run defense. They count, but they also easily could have not happened, only 2 plays out of 331 that accounted for a very big difference in overall yards per carry.

Let’s assume that the same thing happened for LT. The Jets had a better line, more committed to running the ball. Just for fun, let’s say that LT was given 250 carries, instead of 223. In 24 of those carries, he averages 3.5 YPC, but on the other 3, he happens to bust a 70 yarder, a 60 yarder, and a 50 yarder. All the sudden his numbers for the year are 250 carries for 994 yards and a 3.9 YPC instead of 3.3. Because of the team he played on and their style of offense, and the weak line, he didn’t get the opportunities to run for 2, run for 2, run for no gain, run for 3, run for 4, run for 3, and then bust a huge one like Jones did a couple of times.

Now, I can’t prove that he would have eventually broke any big runs, I can just point out what I did, and state my opinion, which is that I do think that running behind the Jets line, while he may have the same kind of 2, 3, 4 yard runs Jones did, eventually he will be able to find a hole and break a long run to make up for some of the 2,3, and 4 yarders.