I think that's a blocking problem. I wish that he'd stuck his foot in the ground and punched it into the end zone, too, but that's not what happened. I can't tell you right now if the hole had opened up.
I don't think that the design for all these plays is to bounce outside. I think that cutback lanes should be opening up for all three backs, but the blocking has been bad enough that they don't appear.
That play infuriated me when it happened. I don't know if I would say the hole opened but it was apparent if he kept going wide they were going to string it out and he had to as you said stick his foot in the ground and go forward and instead he wimped out and ran into the defender.
He had run hard earlier and did again late but that would have been a TD if he'd turned upfield there was enough there for him to get one yard but I think he lost 2 by going sideways.
I thought he did ok, had some tough runs later on, they showed him on the sideline holding the ball so my guess is they have him working on the fumbling now and he seemed fine.
Palmer was furious with Ellington on that screen, he got tripped and just stayed down and Palmer threw the ball at the ground and then yelled at him "get up." Not sure the play was going anywhere but Carson was clearly furious with him for not getting up faster.
It's weird 3 weeks ago we had as good a trio of RB's as there was in the NFL. Now Johnson is clearly slowing down and then hurt, Ellington keeps wimping out and then got hurt and suddenly it's DJ and Taylor. I'm guessing we'll sit both injured guys and bring Kerwynn back as the 3rd RB.
Infuriating that CJ got hurt on such a dumb play too, did they really think someone was going to cover Palmer on a stacked WR set? They just took his man and he came flying off the edge and hit CJ in the knee. Really dumb play.
