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Le’Veon Bell, Ezekiel Elliott, Todd Gurley and the year the NFL running back position began to lose its power

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“Running backs are expendable.”  Those words, recently spoken by my brother-in-law, stung me like a Clubber Lang punch to the stomach. I grew up in the 1990s, when the NFL’s biggest names were mostly running backs. Emmitt Smith won league and Super Bowl MVP in the same year. Barry Sanders shared league MVP honors with … Read more

Todd Monken on offense getting to the line quicker: ‘[if] you want your quarterback to play his best, you’ve got to empower him’

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Consistently this training camp, the Baltimore Ravens’ offense has approached the line of scrimmage with hefty time remaining on the play clock, and it’s by Offensive Coordinator Todd Monken’s design. “The idea is to leave the quarterback enough time at the line of scrimmage to assess the defense, make changes and be in control,” Monken … Read more