Seattle running back Marshawn Lynch is highly valued by assistant head coach/offensive line Tom Cable.
“He’s the best player in the back field in pro football,” Cable said. “I don’t think there’s a better runner than him. I’ve been around some good ones and they’ve all run for 1,000 yards, but he’s done it his way.”
Lynch rushed for 1,306 yards during the regular season and has added 216 more yards in the playoffs. He has amassed six, 1,000-yard seasons.
“For me, he makes it easier for everybody,” Cable said. “When you’re the best and you accept that responsibility, which he has, that’s what people need to understand. He truly gets the responsibility to take this football team where it wants to go. We all just kind of work with him and he works with us to get that done.”
It normally takes more than one tackler bring Lynch down.
“I just read a stat this morning that he has the highest total, I think in three years of football, in yards after contact,” Cable said. “Those are car crashes every time (with) guys hitting him. When you do that over and over and only miss (a few games) that’s pretty phenomenal.”
Lynch has been trying to minimally meet his league mandated media obligations during Super Bowl week by making statements instead of answering any questions.
Lynch’s teammates have generally supported the spectacle that he’s made of himself.
In a sense, they wish the public would get a chance to know the real Lynch.
“I just know that Marshawn is an extraordinary character,” Seattle coach Pete Carroll said. “He is the most giving, the most loyal, one of the great teammates that you can want on a team because of the way he takes care and looks after people.
“He’s got a remarkable sense about that. His sense for loyalty runs extraordinarily deep and his teammates know that.”
