James Starks

They could ground and pound with whatever running back.

Uh, Dwayne Harris, James Starks, Sam Congado, um, a, a washed up Amon-Ra Green you can put in there.

Ty Montgomery when you need him, Randall Cobb when you had no running ba- Like, you could put guys back there and they would still be effective.

To have 17 rushing yards last night between three guys, um, I had a friend look at me and, and she's like, you know, "Is, is this, would Josh Jacobs fare better?" I'm like, "Uh, maybe he gets us 25 or 30." Josh Jacobs, when he was on the Raiders, was very good at avoiding bad offensive line play where defensive line would blast in and he would have these, like, after contact stats that were insane, or, like, expected yards, statistic, PFF, et cetera.

You can't, you can't play offense.

Like, uh, in 2010, that team, what one player changed the, the entire outcome of that season? James Starks.

When they started to be able to run the football, that changed everything for them.

If you do not have virtuosic offensive talent, you cannot run an offense without a run game.

I've played in a couple weird games.

I can remember being down at Carolina for a game, and this was the game that Nick Collins left in an ambulance, and then I think it was either the next play or a couple plays later, James Starks leaves the game.

He needs to be carried off the field because he can't think, and he had... you know, concussion situations.

I've had a couple games where you just start feeling it's in the air.

Till Ryan Grant stepped on the scene where we had dudes that could really run the ball.

Even our Super Bowl run, James Starks hit the scene.

You know what I mean? So we have to find a way to run that football to help this offensive line out and the quarterback.

How much does Josh

We'll see more of the guy they just traded for in Caleb Johnson as he continues to get acclimated to this offense.

Um, the Packers won a Super Bowl in 2010 with committee, right? Ryan Grant went down that season, a guy nobody had ever, ever heard of in James Starks became a post-season hero.

Um, Brandon Jackson was their leading rusher that year.

So they had won a Super Bowl with that position, you know, not being a top 10 guy like Josh Jacobs is viewed as.

That was a journey at running back.

The Packers presumably were going to have James Starks to start that year.

They were going to have third-round pick Alex Green out of Hawaii.

and then they were supposed to have a few other guys too that were contributors.

But fourth overall in the 2005 draft.

He had 71 carries for the Packers that year.

James Starks, another 71 in six games.

Then Aaron Rodgers, who you're not building the plane around.

Um, typically the tall runners, they struggle a little bit.

I'll give you an example of one that had a little bit of success in Green Bay enough to help us get a Lombardi was James Starks.

James Starks was a very, very, um, very vertical runner.

Now he was like, I think six foot two or six foot one, somewhere around that size, probably very similar.

to Caleb Johnson, but he ran upright.