4 things that "Running backs don't matter" ignored in 2021

Seaside Joe 1177: What's between the cherries that Analytics leaves behind every time they go picking?

I’ll stop short of saying something as egomaniacal and untrue as “I helped start the running backs don’t matter movement,” but I want to assure everyone who reads this of one thing before all other things: I was there.

I know the arguments.

Beginning in 2011 with my weekly Field Gulls series “Seahawks Advanced Stats” after every game, I wanted to do eve…