Jeff Fisher is a divisional game wizard. Honestly if the rams went 6-0 in divisional games and lost every other game of the year he would be perfectly happy.
The worse is kickoff. For example, you will get a few minutes of commercials, see a kickoff (about 5 seconds of play), and then commercials again. And then when you ARE watching the game...
Here's the article it came from. I haven't done any fact checking: http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704281204575002852055561406
Its likely accurate but its the equivilent of taking a Soccer broadcast and only counting the time spent when a player is physically touching the ball and disregarding time spent on a pass as it travels between players. It significantly reduces the amount of "action" that is actually taking place. With the huddles, audibles, motions etc removed that is basically an 11 minute full contact brawl. Think boxing with 106 people in the fight that doesnt stop for breaks between the rounds.
I didn't watch the full game, but the few plays by Haynes I saw looked really good. Of course most people are focused on his first touch, which was a fumble.
He is taking Punt Returns and is #2-3 on the RB depth chart. He had 4 touches for 13 yards and the one punt return that was a fumble. If I recall the 49ers recovered it but there was no return on the punt.
Here are the stats. The fumble was recovered by the Vikings, but they were unable to do anything with it. Bush, the #2 running back had a calf injury early in the game and Haynes took over his spot. He had 1 reception for 7 yards, 4 runs for 13 yards, a 3.3 yard per carry average. His longest run was 9 yards, including 3 yards after contact, which is above the NFL average. Only the punt return that he fumbled counted towards his stats because the other return had a flag on the play. That one would have been a 10 yard return. His stats aren't stellar, but when you consider he only put pads on for the first time five months ago, that's really impressive. He's doing as good or better than most rookies would.
Yeah, I'd say they were terrible, but seeing things through darklords point of view certainly changes my view on it. So, I'd say his stats were mediocre.
You can draw almost zero conclusions from so few touches, so hard to say anything at this point from them. That said, if you saw something in his steps/movement during the game itself, that's probably slightly more valuable.
I agree, the dataset is far too small for an accurate conclusion. I found a video that has one of the moves that impressed me. While he only is credited for a 7 yard reception, he was 7 yards behind the line of scrimmage when he caught the ball, almost 5 yards behind the line of scrimmage when he got past the first defender. Skip ahead to 24 seconds to see the play. Unfortunately it cannot be imbedded.
He was very impressive in the pre-season but its hard to tell for sure playing against people usually 3rd or 4th on a depth chart. He has a much more methodical approach to his runs that I can appreciate. Most running backs these days just kick it into top gear and hope a hole opens up in front of them but Hayne seems to take his time and find the hole before taking off. As a result he will likely have less 20+ yard runs than other people but I expect his average run to be longer than most.
Those do look pretty impressive. He almost always gains yards after contact (an area where runners like Lynch makes a lot of their gains).