Dak and his legs

sjmike

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I think an overlooked part of the Cowboys offense in the playoffs is Dak's ability to get out of trouble by running with the football. Hasn't done it too much this year until recently. He said that he was saving that for when the games really matter rather than risk an injury early in the season. I see a few rollouts and naked bootlegs to take advantage of the Niners pass rush. What say you??
 

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I think an overlooked part of the Cowboys offense in the playoffs is Dak's ability to get out of trouble by running with the football. Hasn't done it too much this year until recently. He said that he was saving that for when the games really matter rather than risk an injury early in the season. I see a few rollouts and naked bootlegs to take advantage of the Niners pass rush. What say you??

I think there should be a couple designed running plays for Dak early in the game. Have to let SF know he’s willing and able to get outside the pocket and run to slow down their pass rush. I really think Pollard and Jarwin are the X factors.
 

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I think an overlooked part of the Cowboys offense in the playoffs is Dak's ability to get out of trouble by running with the football. Hasn't done it too much this year until recently. He said that he was saving that for when the games really matter rather than risk an injury early in the season. I see a few rollouts and naked bootlegs to take advantage of the Niners pass rush. What say you??

This offense was at its best the first 6 or so games prior to his calf injury when he was running RPO, and using his legs more often. He didn't wait or was hesitant to run as he is now. He needs to open it up again and put pressure on the niners' defense by showing he will run it too.
 

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I think an overlooked part of the Cowboys offense in the playoffs is Dak's ability to get out of trouble by running with the football. Hasn't done it too much this year until recently. He said that he was saving that for when the games really matter rather than risk an injury early in the season. I see a few rollouts and naked bootlegs to take advantage of the Niners pass rush. What say you??
Dak and his legs? Nice..
 

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I think an overlooked part of the Cowboys offense in the playoffs is Dak's ability to get out of trouble by running with the football. Hasn't done it too much this year until recently. He said that he was saving that for when the games really matter rather than risk an injury early in the season. I see a few rollouts and naked bootlegs to take advantage of the Niners pass rush. What say you??
I think he was and still scared of getting hurt early n the season where games count those games count too so dumb excuse nobody open u run forget wat Jerry n them want nobody there pull it down get them tough yards move the chains
 

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It's an option that we abandoned. I think it was definitely drummed into Dak's head not to run after the calf injury.

We're starting to see it again, but still on a limited basis. Hopefully they'll open it up even further, but Dak needs to be smart about it & avoid risking injury just for yardage.
 

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This offense was at its best the first 6 or so games prior to his calf injury when he was running RPO, and using his legs more often. He didn't wait or was hesitant to run as he is now. He needs to open it up again and put pressure on the niners' defense by showing he will run it too.
Yep. It adds a extra person to defend and the risk/reward calculation says it’s the right time to do it if he still has it.
 
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His legs are way overrated by people here.

He's okay and can make a few plays, but he's slow to get going and not quick in the pocket.

Planned RPOs would probably help his game if nothing else than to make the defense respect it, but the spontaneous runs are typically disaster because he always takes off about 5 seconds too late. Fix the timing and it should be good for some first downs.
 
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