As those highlights show it. Grant was good at turning up and going. But except the 1 where he cut 15 20 yards down field. When Grant turns and makes his burst, he has the ability of about 10-15 degree cuts. If it takes more than that, he ain't making the cut.

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QB makes a difference too. This is not a slight against Rodgers before all the Rodgers-obsessed lose it and automatically assume a Favre compliment means someone is dissing Rodgers.

But I think its clear that Favre has made average or slightly above average RBs look pretty good in his career. The ability to read the defense and audible out of clear run stuffs helps. Plus in 2007, Favre had one his best statistical regular seasons ever which always helps the RB.

With time and experience Rodgers will able to read the defenses like Favre can now. But I think vetern QB v. rookie/2nd year QB makes a difference. Or maybe its all a concidence, who knows.

Oh yeah, and his "pay day" year makes a difference too, he does not look as hungry.

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In that season, we went in with NO RUNNING BACKS.
Vernand Morency, iirc, was supposed to be the "starter," but hurt his knee on the first play of TC.
Wynn first got a shot until he strained his labia. Then they went with Bjack, who was overwhelmed as a rookie. I think Noah Herron ended up on IR. By this time, Grant had begun to learn the playbook. He had been picked up at the time of the final cutdowns.
So it was really only from week 10 on that Grant was even getting any action. For most of that season, we had NADA at RB.
Kind of like last year on Dline and this year on Oline. Except that Grant came out of nowhere to save our asses. Sort of like Lang has done this year.
He did all right. Doesn't seem to have the same burst as he did that year. Maybe missing all that training camp, spending last year injured and getting his big payday has taken away his edge.
The thing about Grant is that he NEVER got alot of yards. It's just that occasionally he would break a long run that would increase his per carry average. He hasn't been breaking those, for whatever reason.

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LJ had over 400 carries that one year. No RB has had that many carries and gone on to continue to be successful. It's like a pitcher throwing out his arm.

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My knock on Grant is that he doesn't catch the ball consistently out of the backfield. If he was, we could use screens and traps and whatnot AS running plays, which is what we would need to do against a Dline like the Vikes. This would get him and the running game in general into more of a rhythmn, like getting him more carries.
It was also slow down the passing game. This could be why they signed Green.

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Hence the importance of running screens. But we can't do that with Grant, because he will drop the ball. Like on that two point conversion yesterday.

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And Lang is a better run blocker than Clifton ever was.
The thing is, since MM instituted the zBS, (I spell it that way to emphasis the "BS") the Oline has always taken until about week TEN to gel.
This was previously based on the fact that MM was playing "musical chairs" with the Oline. However, perhaps it is due to the fact that you can't practice zBS in training camp, because you don't want to cut your own defensive players.
It may also have to do with the fact that the zBS is F'n stupid, and they tend to get away from it more later in the season when they are playing in weather. And when it consistently proves to be stupid and ineffective.

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I don't think it's necessarily so much the Browns being bad on the Dline as the Vikes being unusually good there. By far.

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Yeah, I wonder if he even SEES those lanes. Bjack cuts way better than Grant.

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That ball was deflected by one of the Williams. Other than that Grant had a few nice catches.

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