It will end up being a 5th and there isn't a world that exists where howard is a top 10 back.
+1
He's 19th in the NFL, getting 58.3 yards per game (LINK). Still a good RB for sure. No, don't measure him for his Hall of Fame jacket just yet tho :-)
A creative, savvy-in-the-run-game HC or OC could wreak havoc on opposing teams with a Monty/Howard RB duo. One is the shifty type, one is the power/short yardage guy. Reminds me of how the Pats and Eagles used Blount a few years ago as their #2 RB and they we both effective combinations.
Matt Nagy ain't that coach though. He's utterly clueless at how to design a competent NFL rushing attack. Which is why spending what we spent on Mike Davis was stupid. Could have got way more production out of Jordan Howard for 1/3 rd the price.
LINK Khalil Mack thinks Jordan Howard is “a hell of a ballplayer.”
Playing against his former team, Jordan Howard had 19 carries for 82 yards, including a 13-yard touchdown to cap the opening drive of the second half and put the Eagles up 19-0. The Bears defense, down a couple of key defensive linemen, gave up 146 yards on the ground.
“He runs the ball tough,” Bears outside linebacker Khalil Mack said. “But you can’t give him those lanes, and we gave him a lot of different things early. And they were able to capitalize on them.”
Howard said it didn’t necessarily mean more to do it against the team that traded him in March for a sixth-round 2020 draft pick — “I don’t need validation from anybody,” he said — but he did have some fun playing against his former teammates.
“I just did a little more talking than I usually do,” Howard said. “There was a little back-and-forth with the guys. Everything else was normal. It definitely was a little strange because I didn’t really go against them that much in practice. They never really tackled me.”
Howard has 119 carries for 525 yards and six touchdowns for the Eagles. The Bears’ leading rusher, rookie David Montgomery, has 112 for 406 and five.
LINK Khalil Mack thinks Jordan Howard is “a hell of a ballplayer.”
Playing against his former team, Jordan Howard had 19 carries for 82 yards, including a 13-yard touchdown to cap the opening drive of the second half and put the Eagles up 19-0. The Bears defense, down a couple of key defensive linemen, gave up 146 yards on the ground.
“He runs the ball tough,” Bears outside linebacker Khalil Mack said. “But you can’t give him those lanes, and we gave him a lot of different things early. And they were able to capitalize on them.”
Howard said it didn’t necessarily mean more to do it against the team that traded him in March for a sixth-round 2020 draft pick — “I don’t need validation from anybody,” he said — but he did have some fun playing against his former teammates.
“I just did a little more talking than I usually do,” Howard said. “There was a little back-and-forth with the guys. Everything else was normal. It definitely was a little strange because I didn’t really go against them that much in practice. They never really tackled me.”
Howard has 119 carries for 525 yards and six touchdowns for the Eagles. The Bears’ leading rusher, rookie David Montgomery, has 112 for 406 and five.
The Pace-Nagy regime has some serious egg on its face for the Jordan Howard-Mike Davis mess. Their only saving grace is that it doesn't get as much attention as the massive egg on their face from the Trubisky debacle.
The Pace-Nagy regime has some serious egg on its face for the Jordan Howard-Mike Davis mess. Their only saving grace is that it doesn't get as much attention as the massive egg on their face from the Trubisky debacle.
#silverlining
Personally, I hold Pace primarily responsible for the team right now - not all by any means but he IS the GM of this mess. I hold Nagy just about as much responsible, for obvious reasons. Mitch? Mitch is definitely a part of the problem too... it's a team failure from GM to coaching to players. That is what makes me sick thinking about. Replacing Trubisky is a huge problem in-and-of-itself, but that is not going to fix this Bears franchise. It's like fixing a blown car engine on a car that has been totaled in an accident. A fixed engine is important and nice, but there is more to fix here than the one failed part - as important as that part may be.
The Pace-Nagy regime has some serious egg on its face for the Jordan Howard-Mike Davis mess. Their only saving grace is that it doesn't get as much attention as the massive egg on their face from the Trubisky debacle.
#silverlining
Personally, I hold Pace primarily responsible for the team right now - not all by any means but he IS the GM of this mess. I hold Nagy just about as much responsible, for obvious reasons. Mitch? Mitch is definitely a part of the problem too... it's a team failure from GM to coaching to players. That is what makes me sick thinking about. Replacing Trubisky is a huge problem in-and-of-itself, but that is not going to fix this Bears franchise. It's like fixing a blown car engine on a car that has been totaled in an accident. A fixed engine is important and nice, but there is more to fix here than the one failed part - as important as that part may be.
The whole Pace-Nagy-Trub trio is joined at the hip. Their fates are intertwined. The 1st two will prob survive a little longer than Mitch, merely because of the structure of their contracts but all 3 look at this point to be destined for failure.
This is Ryan Pace's 5th season as GM. It looks like the team will finish last in the NFCN for 4 of those 5 years. That's pretty tough to defend. Not to mention picking 2 unsuccessful HCs and busting a slew of high round picks (White, Shaheen, and most of all Trubisky).
Nagy has been a spectacular fail this season no question. We don't know what his O would look like, good or bad, with a competent QB who could run it cuz we don't have one. We will probably never know as I think he will be shown the door after the 2020 season.
Trubisky needs to go and, I'll disagree with you here, he is the biggest problem with the team. The biggest single/individual problem anyway and the biggest problem that actually can possibly be addressed (as I've said before, ownership isn't going to fire Pac or Nagy this year because they don't want to eat the balance of their contracts).
We have no idea of what "the car" looks like, JABF. Good, bad, fast, slow, ugly, beautiful, whatever. We have no idea what the car looks like or how well it can perform because the engine that powers it (Nagy's O) is being operated by a QB that is utterly incapable of directing it properly. "The car" is being driven by the worst starting QB in the entire league, including the backups and 2nd/3rd stringers forced into action by injury.