 It's been a question that's been going through Raven's heads for a long time now. Really especially ever since that Titans playoff loss. The Ravens went into that game with Mark Ingram not being healthy. He was banged up still dealing with his calf injury. And he was back but he wasn't back. And the next best running back that they had on the team was Gus Edwards. Now Gus Edwards was in his second year but he had already proven he can carry the load. Just a few weeks prior he did just that when Mark Ingram didn't play against the Pittsburgh Steelers. So in the Titans game and the playoff game you just came from breaking Russian records that had been in the league for over 50, 60 maybe 100 years and they decided you know what instead of using Gus Edwards as our feature back and he has been our feature back before in the past even though we got a banged up Mark Ingram you know what let's let's just pass the ball. Let's become a passing team all of a sudden let's completely go away from our game. Gus sat there. Gus even got a couple of carries in the game and he did good. He even got like an 18 to 20 yard carry. Then after that nothing. Never saw him in the game again. Never saw him get another snap again. So then you look at this year the year that Gus Edwards is having is it's been a good year it's been a productive year but at the same time he's not been he's not given a chance to produce. Let's look at his numbers from this year. Alright in the Cleveland game he had four carries for 17 yards that's 4.2 yards a carry. That's solid that's solid but he only got four carries what can you do with that? You don't get a chance to get into a rhythm and I know the Ravens are running back by committee they don't have one guy where he's the feature back even though Mark Ingram is the he's the starter and whatnot and he's out there more than the other guys so I guess he is the feature back but it's a different he's a different type of number one running back for the Ravens than like an Ezekiel Elliott for the Cowboys or something like that. But anyway against the Texans 10 carries for 73 yards 7.3 yards per carry. So look at that against the Texans and the thing with him against the Texans a lot of those runs came at the end of the game when the Ravens had to run out the clock so what made it worse was that the Texans knew the Ravens were running the ball and they knew they had to stop the Ravens from running the ball in order to try to come back and win but they still couldn't stop. Let's move on so last night against the Kansas City Chiefs four carries for 39 yards four carries for 39 yards he averaged 9.8 yards a carry 9.8 yards a carry so this season he has 18 carries for 129 yards and he averages 7.2 yards per carry but for some reason the Ravens they they choose to be cold to Gus Edwards they even cold it in the water that's in these bottles and that's the coldest water and I I'm just like wow but I mean to help cheer you up you can hit up their website that's in the description so again you can get your coldest bottle and you know what maybe that maybe when you get the coldest water bottle it might not even be as cold as the Ravens are to Gus Edwards it might not be that's certainly still use the cold engraving vise to get the 10% off and also get into their weekly giveaways and all that too but it seems like the Ravens they give away Gus opportunities more more than they do giveaways on their website but check that out it's in the description right at the top but I'm just really I'm puzzled I'm confused and I want what does Gus have to do what does he have to do to get more of an opportunity what does he have to do to get more consistency if you just look at his numbers I know numbers don't tell the whole story but with Gus Edwards numbers they tell a lot of the story if you look at his numbers his rookie year 137 carries 718 yards average 5.2 yards a carry and that's when Gus Edwards was a lot bigger next year 2019 last season had 133 carries 711 yards average 5.3 yards a carry it's a backup now it's a backup running back you're not the starter and again this year right now 18 carries for 129 yards average and 7.2 yards a carry and it's it's like what was what's gotta give what what has Gus Edwards done to this coaching staff to where this guy just they don't include him they exclude him out of all out of all of their plans and what makes it worse and what makes it even more frustrating is that he's been so successful he's been successful as a runner and this is this is not a new issue this is something that we've been talking about for a long time but it just it showed his ugly head even more in the loss last night because he was doing so well when he got the ball he was doing really good when he got the ball but they just decided you know what Gus Edwards running game no well that's out the window and the thing the thing about it too is that it doesn't just happen when they panic it's happening when they don't panic as well it just happens a lot but when they panic is certainly it just gets worse it gets worse so I'm just I'm not understanding what's going on and like I said before I of course I would love for Gus to stay on this team forever love Gus Edwards love what he brings to the table you never hear this guy complain at all he has every right to complain but you never hear him complain but what I said last night in the stream is that I feel like with Gus Edwards if if you're not gonna use him man if you're not gonna use Gus Edwards trade him trade him as frustrating as that would be trade him let somebody else use Gus Edwards because somebody else will use him but trade him if you're just gonna have him sitting around especially when he got he's showing you like hey I'm working I can be a part of this game plan and the game plan that includes me it works we get positive yards trade them trade them it's like y'all saving them for a special occasion or something it like what is it my God night just said that he feels like the Ravens they just trying to keep Gus Edwards value damn and it's like yeah you could understand that because he expects them to get rid of Mark Ingham next year and try to retain Gus but and they can't do that because they could next year he would be a restricted free agent so they could place a free agent tender on and he was they'll be super cheap he'll be super cheap and Gus him being an unrestricted free agent him coming into the Ravens and coming into the league as an unrestricted free agent it's worked against them big-time money wise man because he certainly could have cashed out but I mean and he's eligible I believe he's eligible to get a contract extension now where they could like give him a big raise but no they ain't they ain't thinking about that right now I honestly don't even expect them to do that I would love for them to keep Gus Edwards but like I've said this plenty of times before I just feel like it's going to be another Hayden Hurst situation and you can understand why Hayden Hurst remember he's first round draft pick supposed to be the starter got hurt Mark Andrews he end up getting in then Lamar end up getting in Lamar Mark Andrews they had that connection then they took off Hayden Hurst was sort of the third guy he was like the odd man now with the tight ends and he was just like no I'm not getting enough opportunity I want to get out of here and say there's nothing against the team it was no bad blood with the Ravens anything like that but you just want more opportunity you can completely understand them Gus Edwards wants to start a couple years ago but Mark Ingham comes in understandably Mark Ingham veteran guy veteran presence all that cool Mark Ingham comes in produces running back by committee but Gus Edwards knows we know like a lot of I see I see so many comments every single day Gus should be the starter Gus should be the starter start Gus run Gus more I see him every day I know y'all see him too but for some reason Ravens they don't see it they don't see it and I'm I just don't know what it is I don't know what it is that's going to make them see like hey Gus is that guy is his music that offensive to where they feel like you know what that guy we don't like his song so we're not going to run I don't know what it is because there's like there's nothing that you can tell me that would make it make sense nothing there's nothing you can tell me that it make it make sense to why they don't use Gus Edwards more I just I don't understand it what like what what is it going to take what is it going to take he deserves much more opportunity than he's getting and I and I'm not just saying that because I'm not saying that just as a fan but just as what would be best for the team Gus Edwards deserves far more opportunity than this but he just simply isn't getting it and I don't know why I I don't know why is puzzling man it is one of the most confusing situations for the ravens right now it was confusing in the playoff game it's been confusing throughout this season and it's just confused like why why is it why especially in the game against the chiefs especially in that game now I don't know if Mark Ingram if he just had it has a having a rough start right now or I don't know if he's actually just lost lost a little bit of a step because he doesn't look as juiced as he did last year he doesn't look as just that he doesn't have as much burst as he did last year and again it could be just because it's been a slow start and maybe he got to get in the groove of things maybe it's the lack of the off season but Gus is there he's ready he's waiting for I don't know man I just it's something that's just strange it's strange and nothing about it is it makes any kind of sense whatsoever but I'm trying to figure it out because again just looking at the numbers man against the Browns 4.2 yards of carry against the Texans 7.3 yards of carry against the chiefs 9.8 yards of carry and just to put that into perspective let's look at Mark Ingram Mark Ingram against the Cleveland Browns 2.9 yards of carry against the Texans 6.1 yards of carry and against the Chiefs 4.3 yards of carry so Mark Ingram besides that first game but Mark Ingram see the thing with him he's been getting more opportunities 10 carries 9 carries 7 carries now with Gus has been four carries 10 carries four carries so not actually not too far off from Ingram not too far off but still when you see what he's doing numbers wise it's like oh yeah he definitely needs more of a shot so I don't know hopefully Ravens man it's it's it's just week three so they got some time to make adjustments they got plenty of time to make adjustments and let's just hope man let's just hope that they can get this thing right because we know that Gus is I know he's not the only running back on the team of course you got Ingram you got JK Dobbers and like we said earlier we know it's running back by committee but still man like someone's gotta give me something has got to give but anyway appreciate y'all I love y'all team keep it clean and like it seems like the coaches their patience their tolerance with Gus Edwards seems to be I'm out