Bills RB outstanding in four-game win streat.
A disappointing first season with the Bills compromised by injury provided LeSean McCoy with the added fuel to endure the most rigorous offseason training of his career with the aim of leading Buffalo's offense and reclaiming his status as an elite NFL back.
In Week 5 against Los Angeles, LeSean McCoy ran for 150 yards on just 18 carries. He averaged better than eight yards per rush as he was once again the engine that drove Buffalo’s offense to another victory. In typical McCoy fashion when asked about his performance in the post game press conference he quickly referenced the plays he didn’t make. Instead of talking about his 150-yard day, he was convinced with a couple of better decisions he could’ve done more.
“There were some plays I missed,” he said. “I could’ve had like 200 yards. Just small things. I get so wrapped up in trying to make too many plays. Sometimes you do things where you make it hard for yourself.”
Such is the mindset of the NFL’s fourth-leading rusher through the first five weeks of the 2016 season. He focuses less on his successful carries and more on the ones he feels should’ve gone for more yardage. Making it hard on himself might be the only way McCoy can excel in the way that he does.
That’s what he did this past offseason. Following a season where his unique burst and blinding jukes were robbed from him by a preseason hamstring injury that lingered through almost the entire season before a knee injury made him unavailable for the last two games, McCoy made sure Shady would be hard on Shady. Injuries would not compromise his ability. Critics would no longer wonder at age 28 if he still had it. No one would be more demanding of McCoy than McCoy.
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