Then who do you have taking Fred Jackson's 130 carries from last year? None of Faulk's backups ran the ball more than 78 times in a season during the 1999-2001 time period. Lynch also didn't have the Greatest Show on Turf taking DBs off the line of scrimmage, ramping up his ypc average.
And Lynch isn't a Hall of Famer. Faulk was pushing that status before he left Indy.
The Rams ran on 43.4 percent of their total plays in 1999, 37.8 in 2000, 41.3 in 2001. By the time Martz coached his final full season in St. Loo in 2003, just 38 out of every 100 plays were runs. And for the most part, the Rams were a decent team while he was there, so some of those were undoubtedly to burn clock at the end of wins. Take that away, and ...
Lions 2006: 304 of 963, 31.6 % (down from 404 of 955, 42.3 % the year before he got there)
Lions 2007: 324 of 965, 33.6 %
To compare, the Bills ran 45.9 percent of the time last year, down from 48.7 the year before.
"RB neglecting"? Guilty as charged.