BEREA: When running backs don’t get the ball as much as they’d like, they’re frustrated.
And when former running backs who coach the position are guiding players who don’t get the ball as much as they’d like, they’re frustrated, too.
Enter Browns running backs coach Wilbert Montgomery.
“It’s hard when you don’t get opportunities to carry the ball,” Montgomery, a two-time Pro Bowler with the Philadelphia Eagles who played in the NFL from 1977-85, said Wednesday after practice. “Everything you do as a runner, you have to get a rhythm, and the way we’ve been playing and how we’ve been playing hasn’t allowed the running backs to do what they can do and to showcase their abilities.