Actually yes and I'll tell you why. Other teams seem to go to the edges more when running the ball back from a kick or during early tackle hit up's when forwards are lumbering back onside. Its also why a lot of other teams seem to make more ground than we do. Our backs have this habit of trying to run towards the middle of the field. For argument sake, someone like Reuben Garrick would be far better off trying to use his pace out wide on returns or hit ups than he would trying to run through a wall of 110+ kg defenders. Yet time and time again, where does he and our other outside backs run to? The middle of the field where they often get smashed and pushed back.
As I said in another thread ... players need to be smarter. If you've got a wall of forwards in front of you spread out across the middle of the field, yet you're opposite backs are questionable defenders with average pace, you don't run into the forwards where you'll be gang tackled, especially if you're a 90 kg outside back. There is tough and there is smart. Outside backs need to be tough as well as forwards, but ours need to be a lot smarter in how they play.
