Video: Deuce Vaughn: Energy and Brotherhood

[Bullflop]

We might see Deuce having more success this year, simply due to having a better OL blocking for him. If he's unable to improve his results in 2025, he'll most likely be cut. Whatever occurs to shape his fate, perhaps it won't be because he wasn't afforded more opportunities to perform.

I expect this regime to give him more chances to prove himself. McCarthy shortchanged him to some extent. Will Schotty be any different? Let's see if Deuce can prove himself, despite his lack of size.

 

[big dog cowboy]

That's part of what I'm saying though. I like Deuce. I just don't like wasting roster spots on players that don't play.

Stupid McCarthy!!!!!!!

 

[big dog cowboy]

Where are all the Matt Waletzko threads and insults?

My favorite is the non-Eric Scott threads. He was drafted at 178 and Deuce was drafted at 212. Additionally, the Cowboys used two draft picks to get him as they actually traded up (using a 5th rounder) to get him. He didn't make the team getting cut 4 months later on August 26th.

So they used a 5th and a 6th on a player drafted 34 spots ahead of Deuce who lasted all of 4 months. Where is all the hand wringing over this?

 

[chicago JK]

I am a Deuce fan. He has not done much in the NFL. He is probably a long shot to make the team. I would have loved to see him get extended carries in last years lost season. It did not happen. I still think in the right team he can be a serious weapon.

You can't hide the fact that he was an awesome college football player in a Power 5 conference. So good in fact, that Jayden Blue would have gotten his scraps in college if they were on the same team. College and the NFL are different obviously. Blue may be the better pro. In college it was not a question who was better.

 

[CowboysLakerBamaFan]

You can see it in his eyes. He knows he's on the bubble.

All I see is a video featuring some scrawny ball boy. Where's the part with the NFL running back we actually spent a draft pick on?

 

[NDGAEDE]

My favorite is the non-Eric Scott threads. He was drafted at 178 and Deuce was drafted at 212. Additionally, the Cowboys used two draft picks to get him as they actually traded up (using a 5th rounder) to get him. He didn't make the team getting cut 4 months later on August 26th.

So they used a 5th and a 6th on a player drafted 34 spots ahead of Deuce who lasted all of 4 months. Where is all the hand wringing over this?

Great point. I honestly forgot we even drafted a guy with this name. Apparently so did everyone on the board.

 

[visionary]

Any other franchise would have pulled the plug a long time ago.

A good FO would not have drafted him

 

[Reid1boys]

hes not on the bubble. No way he makes this team.

 

[blueblood70]

Um.... I never said ANY of that.

What I said that I hope that he gets 1800. Heck, I hope that he gets 2200 and breaks every rushing record. I hope that all 5 of our RBs get 1000.... But I NEVER said that I expect this. Nice imagination that you have there.

So if KC can rack up 17190 rushing yards, how many did their leading rusher have? LOL

It was a typo 1,790 yards 1790.. That's total yards man who cares what their lead back had i'm just telling you saying that not one of our guys are going to have 1800 yards it's just a terrible perspective it was a terrible post I don't care I disagree with you using that as some kind of way to diminish what we have other teams have done running back by committee including the Chiefs and you don't have to be dynamic in the run game you just have to be efficient that's what they tried last year but I'm telling you we had a better lead back in Rico last year getting 1100 of our yards and our team barely cracked 1700 total yards but I'm telling you the Super Bowl runner up had only 1790 total rushing yards as a team.....

 

[blueblood70]

Um.... I never said ANY of that.

What I said that I hope that he gets 1800. Heck, I hope that he gets 2200 and breaks every rushing record. I hope that all 5 of our RBs get 1000.... But I NEVER said that I expect this. Nice imagination that you have there.

So if KC can rack up 17190 rushing yards, how many did their leading rusher have? LOL

Insinuated and tried to diminish the running back by committee concept saying nobody on our team is going to have 1800 yards so why does it matter yes you did you basically said we don't have a dynamic rusher that can get 1800 yards it's going to be a failed offseason that they didn't do enough work and I'm telling you other teams haven't even got to that as a team lots of teams have not even reached 1800 total rushing yards...

Yeah it was inferred it was implied you didn't have to say it directly but I know what you meant you're trying to act like these guys we brought in in the draft and in the offseason are not going to be able to get the job done and I'm telling you it's a bad perspective. And a story we just need to watch and see it very well can end up being a bad decision but I think they'll pick the best three and do a running back by committee and we will be just fine you just need to be efficient you need to not give up on the run game the problem with our run game last year was they couldn't get the offensive line or pick who they wanted to run the ball most until like week 8 if they do this on game one and they make it a priority to run the football regardless if it's 3.5 yards per carry if it's not getting big time production you can't give up on it mike mccarthy was terrible at it kellen moore wasn't much better but I would take him over what I just saw the last two seasons..

But what you're missing here is RBC can work if the O line is doing their job in the run game so the schemes are good the play calls are good you can use multiple running backs to get the job done...

I mean it looks like if you took just the average of all 32 teams and with their total run production total run yards it probably on average for the whole entire league it's like 1750 because you have to get rid of the curve yes the top two teams that had Barkley and Henry obviously are a curve that is not the norm and you say you're going to take the rest of the team and then run the average.. While the Cowboys were not dynamic and that's what we were hoping we're more dynamic it's not just like having a guy have a career year in run production we need the entire run game to at least produce average to above average but we need some big plays to come out of it and I believe we're going to get that from guy like blue and hopefully we get it from the blocking we're going to have some more holes and maybe some longer runs and more touchdowns that's the problem it isn't the yards


it isn't even truly the yards per carry, we just need to get more from our backs as far as chunk yards and tds. Just simply needs to be more of a threat and I think last year if they had picked Rico early on and if they depict the bus 5 offensive line and early on we wouldn't have this conversation right now...

 

[OmerV]

What exactly has Mr. Vaughn done to earn anything? I can’t even recall hearing his name anytime in pre-season or on special teams if he is even playing on said unit.

Do you just read a few words, make up the rest in your mind, then blindly post a response?

I didn't say he has earned a right to stay in the NFL, I said he earned the right to get a shot in the NFL.

I doubt his shot will continue. Blue and Turpin are both small to smallish players who can do more - or at least I think Blue will be able to do more. So I agree it's time to move on from him. I never disputed that. I only disputed your claim that he never earned a chance in the NFL.

 

[blueblood70]

Um.... I never said ANY of that.

What I said that I hope that he gets 1800. Heck, I hope that he gets 2200 and breaks every rushing record. I hope that all 5 of our RBs get 1000.... But I NEVER said that I expect this. Nice imagination that you have there.

So if KC can rack up 17190 rushing yards, how many did their leading rusher have? LOL

I didn't want to do this but I took the extra time here's what I found there was approximately 65k total rush yards in the league divided by 32 teams.=2036 would be your average...

The crazy thing is by far the Eagles both in attempts total yards and yards per carry were the best run team in the league and they won the Super Bowl but then you have one that was around 16 in the Kansas City Chiefs that were running up but they were in the Super Bowl playing and they didn't have a strong run game you remember they used a guy that wasn't even much better than Rico you asked about their leading rusher UMM

Kareem hunt 736 lol less than rico , You know their starter got hurt pachenko but he didn't look the same as he did the year before 310, steele 183 perine 93

So the Kansas City Chiefs that were in the Super Bowl they're running backs together as a committee only had 1325 yards I guess they had five yards in other areas like the quarterback and you know they created rushing yards with the receiver and What not..

That's a true RBBC.. Sure it could be better and that's why we're having this discussion...

But the other anomaly here is the second best rushing team in the league was obviously Derek Henry and the Ravens they got knocked out of the playoffs hardly did they not so we had one of the best running teams make the Super Bowl the 2nd best running team not even go deep into playoffs and then we had one of the worst rushing teams make it to the Super Bowl and yes they lost but this is why this is all over the place I don't think there is a blueprint I think it's just about your total team how you create points how you play defense how you play special teams how you coach it all has to come together..

This is exhausting I have to do this type of research myself but there it is it's all in black and white people can argue all they want how Derek Henry could have helped the Dallas Cowboys last year when no he could not have he didn't even help the Ravens and yes he's a better player than we have here last year or this year as a running back but it doesn't equal success in the playoffs it doesn't equal success usually in the Super Bowl..

The team just needs to get better and we gotta hope not to have a record amount of injuries which is more the reason the Cowboys weren't successful last year..

KC rush stats

17 games

450 attempts

1,790 total yards

4.0 YPC

34 long

7 tds

15

105.3

7

2

106

Dallas rush stats

17

429

1,705

4.0

27

3

6

100.3

3

4

98

crazy close huh 1 team was 7-10 the other loses in the SB

 

[blueblood70]

Um.... I never said ANY of that.

What I said that I hope that he gets 1800. Heck, I hope that he gets 2200 and breaks every rushing record. I hope that all 5 of our RBs get 1000.... But I NEVER said that I expect this. Nice imagination that you have there.

So if KC can rack up 17190 rushing yards, how many did their leading rusher have? LOL

KC rush stats

17 games

450 attempts

1,790 total yards

4.0 YPC

34 long

7 tds

15

105.3

7

2

106

Dallas rush stats

17

429

1,705

4.0

27

3

6

100.3

3

4

98

crazy close huh 1 team was 7-10 the other loses in the SB

I realized my other posts are long but this is how it works I mean it's crazy isn't it I mean we had a terrible run game last year we get it but it wasn't the worst in the league but it stacks up with the loser of the Super Bowl I mean it is what it is but like I said the second best rushing team in the league was the Ravens with Derek Henry and yet I think they were one and done in the playoffs I mean it's just strange how it's all over the place I don't think there's a blueprint it would be nice if we had a better run game right out of the gate but we can do it with the players we have on this team we just need to do it more efficiently we need to do it more we need to commit to the ball running the damn football and not giving up on it..

 

[Pass2Run]

He gets as much as he deserves. There has been just a few. He is a nobody.

Folks around here pump.up Deuce a lot. Fan favorite perhaps so you see a lot more Deuce threads

Right now, the RBs in the room are question marks. Deuce is one of them.

 

[Johannes44]

, I said he earned the right to get a shot in the NFL.

6th round draft picks don’t automatically get the benefit to start or take up significant minutes unless they actually contribute enough to earn said minutes. I’m going to ask this one last time since 2023 when he was drafted what has Mr. Vaughn done to show that he is worthy of more minutes?

 

[diamonddelts]

47

I would like to see Vaughn get 800 yards and 6 touchdowns this season rushing and catches passes.

47 yards per game is your wish? Cowboys fans crave mediocrity any chance they can get it.

 

[InPhiltraitor]

The coaches that took half the year to figure out Dowdle was rb1?

Little bit of an exaggeration. Of course they hoped Zeke had something in the tank and does it help that other guy was named Dowdle? Who the heck is Dowdle?

In every game Dowdle played in during the 2024 regular season he had more touches than Zeke or RB2 with the exception of game 1. I think the staff was catching on pretty quick.

 

[Johannes44]

Who the heck is Dowdle?

Who is the man that would risk his neck for his brother man?

 

[blueblood70]

I am a Deuce fan. He has not done much in the NFL. He is probably a long shot to make the team. I would have loved to see him get extended carries in last years lost season. It did not happen. I still think in the right team he can be a serious weapon.

You can't hide the fact that he was an awesome college football player in a Power 5 conference. So good in fact, that Jayden Blue would have gotten his scraps in college if they were on the same team. College and the NFL are different obviously. Blue may be the better pro. In college it was not a question who was better.

As much as some of that made sense which it did and I agree with some of it but no way you're in the wheelhouse when you comment on blue..

blue only got scraps is why he didn't get to show out, he was on a team with a bunch of blue chip 5 star athletes ahead of him, it was hard for him to even get targets let alone carries because of the way they spread the ball around if you look at the way the teams assembled in Texas..

Deuce Vaughn would have gotten the same treatment. He would not have cracked the starting lineup in Texas I did it II am a supporter of Vaughn

I saw what he did in college but he did that on a Kansas team he was the man and he did great things but he is not beating out who we had on the roster of Texas and yes I'm a Longhorn fan that is the one reason blue did not get his opportunities if he was the number one guy on a good roster he may have been really good we just don't know that..

Don't come in here and tell me I'm wrong there is no way Vaughn gets anymore carriers or opportunities on those Texas teams the last three years not happening there were just too many guys that could have been Heisman hopefuls at running back they're stacked at literally almost all the positions but there's a reason blue didn't get the show out and I like it that he doesn't have a lot of miles on him I like it that he got past the 3rd round in my opinion he's a 3rd round pick that we got in the 5th because of how deep this draft wasn't I think he's going to be a lot better than people think...

The reason I say this is because every time the Texas team was struggling out offense and needed something to happen this past season every time they put him in he made that happen he was like the spark plug he was making key plays in these games and making the most of what opportunities he did get...

 

[jaythecowboy]

Little bit of an exaggeration. Of course they hoped Zeke had something in the tank and does it help that other guy was named Dowdle? Who the heck is Dowdle?

In every game Dowdle played in during the 2024 regular season he had more touches than Zeke or RB2 with the exception of game 1. I think the staff was catching on pretty quick.

Dowdle showed enough in preseason for me to see he was rb1. Zeke hasn’t shown any juice since the Cowboys got rid of him the first time so idk where any hope was coming from. I started checking the game stats and Zeke out of the first five games I checked Zeke was ahead two games and got one less carry one game. They were basically splitting carries.