Are We Going To Keep Pretending That Tony Pollard Shouldn't Be The Main RB?

[MountaineerCowboy]

Zeke - 109 carries, 443 yards, 4 TDs, 4 YPA, 6 catches for 32 yards.
Pollard - 103 carries, 621 yards, 6 TDs, 6 YPA, 15 catches for 134 yards.

Zeke - 0 100-yard rushing games.
Pollard - 3 100-yard rushing games.

Zeke - 16 attempts per game for 63 yards per game.
Pollard -11 attempts per game for 69 yards per game.

Let's stop playing here and give Pollard the 16 attempts per game and Zeke the 11 attempts. That needs to flip. The offense will be better off for it. Heck, I even like what Davis is doing out there.

Also, for the "Pollard can't carry the load" folks. He had 22 rushing attempts yesterday. That ties Zeke's highest amount of the season in 1 game.

 

[Jarv]

I love Zeke.

I love the Cowboys more.

Zeke is cut next year unless we can get a bag of chips for him.

 

[Carson]

Davis looks good as well.

Not sure why they don’t just run them more and more.

 

[MarionBarberThe4th]

Yea the cowboys are famous for coddling big name stars but I think you’ll see a change.

for some reason I bet they start zeke tho. He’ll get the first series. They’ll provably force zeke on the field in two rb sets and draw up misdirection kind of plays but pollard burst is exceptional. He’s making plays. Zeke is just churning out yards. His body is giving out on him already.

 

[MarionBarberThe4th]

Honestly you could play zeke as some
Fullback hback
and extra offensive linemen as lead blocker.

 

[starfan1]

well to be fair KM dont know how to use any of them but valid observation nonetheless

 

[Ken]

Davis looks good as well.

Not sure why they don’t just run them more and more.

Not sure why they didn't give Davis about 5 more carries.

 

[nightrain]

The Cowboys should have run more yesterday utilizing both backs.

 

[nate dizzle]

The Cowboys should have run more yesterday utilizing both backs.

The question is whether they called more running plays than what we saw...

 

[CTcowboy203]

I want to use both but don’t care who gets more Carries. If that’s pollard so be it. We will however need both to have big roles Imo

 

[RonnieT24]

Malik Davis had the longest run and the better ypc average.. Why aren't we discussing why he isn't the starter? I mean that's how this works isn't it?

 

[MountaineerCowboy]

Malik Davis had the longest run and the better ypc average.. Why aren't we discussing why he isn't the starter? I mean that's how this works isn't it?

Dak and Zeke are your guys, Ronnie.

We know you could never quit them. This thread for the logical fans.

 

[cnuball21]

Zeke - 109 carries, 443 yards, 4 TDs, 4 YPA, 6 catches for 32 yards.
Pollard - 103 carries, 621 yards, 6 TDs, 6 YPA, 15 catches for 134 yards.

Zeke - 0 100-yard rushing games.
Pollard - 3 100-yard rushing games.

Zeke - 16 attempts per game for 63 yards per game.
Pollard -11 attempts per game for 69 yards per game.

Let's stop playing here and give Pollard the 16 attempts per game and Zeke the 11 attempts. That needs to flip. The offense will be better off for it. Heck, I even like what Davis is doing out there.

Also, for the "Pollard can't carry the load" folks. He had 22 rushing attempts yesterday. That ties Zeke's highest amount of the season in 1 game.

Last 2 weeks have pretty much slammed the door closed in this debate. Case closed.

 

[LucaBrasi]

We aren’t going to pretend, but the coaches probably will. Mainly, because dumb and dumber in the FO gave Zeke that contract.

the way things work at The Star

 

[Coogiguy03]

I love Zeke.

I love the Cowboys more.

Zeke is cut next year unless we can get a bag of chips for him.

Too many chips are the reason why we're even talking about cutting Zeke!!!

 

[Coogiguy03]

Yea the cowboys are famous for coddling big name stars but I think you’ll see a change.

for some reason I bet they start zeke tho. He’ll get the first series. They’ll provably force zeke on the field in two rb sets and draw up misdirection kind of plays but pollard burst is exceptional. He’s making plays. Zeke is just churning out yards. His body is giving out on him already.

Crazy how you see Tony get more yards on carries Zeke would have only gotten 2 on

 

[fivetwos]

At this point we need all three of them to run the ball effectively and play keep away as best we can.

This run defense is atrocious and it needs to be kept on the sidelines as much as possible.

It can’t possibly be fixed until the off-season, and even then they will probably just ignore it again because the draft didn’t fall that way.

They need TWO solid proven veteran run stoppers and some money needs to be spent on at least one of them. Not dudes on their fourth team on the wrong side of 30.

A fast and tough LB is needed as well.

 

[lukin2006]

 

[terra]

Dak and Zeke are your guys, Ronnie.

We know you could never quit them. This thread for the logical fans.

well you certainly are not one of them.

 

[terra]

At this point we need all three of them to run the ball effectively and play keep away as best we can.

This run defense is atrocious and it needs to be kept on the sidelines as much as possible.

It can’t possibly be fixed until the off-season, and even then they will probably just ignore it again because the draft didn’t fall that way.

They need TWO solid proven veteran run stoppers and some money needs to be spent on at least one of them. Not dudes on their fourth team on the wrong side of 30.

A fast and tough LB is needed as well.

Yeah, Hankins was a good pickup but sadly I think the clown show will not do any more to fix the Run D.