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Originally Posted by barrett
Kubiak had one year with Carr and then dumped him.
His action taken at RB was to mentor/get in line an undrafted but talented RB. That decision was definitely not forced on him from above.
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I'll give you Carr due to my timeline of Kubiak's tenure being off, but Foster coming into play was more out of necessity than a master stroke of genius or mentoring on Kubiak's part. Even if you give him credit for Foster, this is the same guy who passed on drafting RB prospects for years for the likes of Ahman Green, Chris Brown, Ron Dayne, Ryan Moats, etc. And getting back to my main point, he took waaay too long to address the situation.
Kubiak's Tenure:
2006 RB's: Vernand Morency, Ron Dayne, Samkon Gado, Chris Taylor
2007 RB's: Ron Dayne, Darius Walker, Ahman Green, Chris Taylor
2008 RB's: Ryan Moats, Steve Slaton, Cecil Sapp, Ahman Green
2009 RB's: Chris Brown, Steve Slaton, Chris Henry, Ryan Moats, Arian Foster
2010 RB's: Arian Foster, Steve Slaton, Derrick Ward, Ben Tate
Foster didn't really play until very late in the 2009 season because of injury and the fact that no other RB on the roster could play. He had such faith in Foster he used a high pick on Tate the next year (which I'm glad they did, BTW).
As for my comment of being force-fed, I'll clarify that it's mostly the coaching staff changes/decisions that seem force-fed on him.