One thing some hammer on Elliott about is his conditioning and tapping out in games. If they watched him in college he did that as well, particularly if they were power backing him.
He runs one way, all out and he's a contact back. He'll pull himself when he thinks he's lost that edge to recharge his battery and come back out making contact again.
He wasn't off last season, the club was 2nd in passing yards and that has to come at the expense of something. The most interesting part of this new offense to me is how McC and Moore are going to use Elliott and the tandem with Pollard. This is the best RB tandem McC has had so I don't think we can apply the past here.
If those 2 RB's are used in the passing game, Prescott won't have to worry about finding the open man, he'll have his pick of multiple open men.
Elliott's biggest challenge with be the D is not the opposition's but his own. Can they keep the score down to allow a power run game to dominate the field?
The biggest change I have seen to the NFL with the offenses is TOP just isn't the critical factor. Time was you only needed to look at two stats to know which team won the game, TOP and passing yards. TOP won and passing yards lost. The one flashback we did get last season was the top two passing teams missed the playoffs, that used to be the norm.