Video: Akoye is a big fan of Tony Pollard

[buybuydandavis]

We just had a lot of chitchat on Pollard in a thread. So here's AKOYE Media's breakdown of Pollard. He has very high expectations.

 

[xwalker]

We just had a lot of chitchat on Pollard in a thread. So here's AKOYE Media's breakdown of Pollard. He has very high expectations.

He is wrong about Pollard's weight:

Pollard
HT 6-0
WT 210
40-YD 4.38
20-YD 2.55
10-YD 1.53
VJ 36-1/2
BJ 10’05”
SS 4.37
3C 7
BP 18


Kamara
HT 5-10
WT 214
40-YD 4.53
20-YD 2.61
10-YD 1.55
VJ 39 1/2
BJ 10’11”
SS
3C
BP 15

 

[xwalker]

We just had a lot of chitchat on Pollard in a thread. So here's AKOYE Media's breakdown of Pollard. He has very high expectations.

I'm a big fan of Pollard but the guy doing the video said that Pollard is more valuable than Zeke...

 

[Oz-of-Cowboy-Country]

Zeke and Pollard will be the best one-two punch in the NFL for years to come. Mark my words.

 

[Tangle_Foot]

Pollard more valuable than Zeke more valuable than Gallup.
I think he meant more versatile
well he did say we could mock him
I do however agree with him about Pollard's versatility creating problems for defenses. He could be a huge weapon for us if we get him involved in the offense. Kellen Moore has to be all smiles when he looks at what he has to work with.

 

[Hadenough]

This is good to hear! I feel like if Zeke gets some help he would be more effective and if this kid turns out to be a playmaker that would be really big. Akoye keeps comparing him to Kamara but lets hope this offense uses him downfield like Kamara.

 

[cern]

He certainly looked good against collegiate talent. Can't wait to see him in pads and preseason.

 

[Stash]

This is good to hear! I feel like if Zeke gets some help he would be more effective and if this kid turns out to be a playmaker that would be really big. Akoye keeps comparing him to Kamara but lets hope this offense uses him downfield like Kamara.

I can't help but to think that he stole Kamara's name from Stephen Jones saying it first.

The most important thing he said was qualifying his statement by saying it's depends on the creativity of the Cowboys coaching staff. If Pollard is what some people think, and this was Kellen Moore's guy on draft day, the onus is now on Moore to use him.

Otherwise, it's like those perpetually wasted second round picks on TE's who seldom played. And a waste of resources.

 

[cern]

I can't help but to think that he stole Kamara's name from Stephen Jones saying it first.

The most important thing he said was qualifying his statement by saying it's depends on the creativity of the Cowboys coaching staff. If Pollard is what some people think, and this was Kellen Moore's guy on draft day, the onus is now on Moore to use him.

Otherwise, it's like those perpetually wasted second round picks on TE's who seldom played. And a waste of resources.

How true. Witten was allowed to be a progress stopper by the other two musketeers, tony and Garrett. Last year was the first time any te's on this team showed improvement in a decade. And conspicuously witten wasn't here.

 

[Stash]

How true. Witten was allowed to be a progress stopper by the other two musketeers, tony and Garrett. Last year was the first time any te's on this team showed improvement in a decade. And conspicuously witten wasn't here.

I can't blame Witten for being as great as he was, I'm grateful for that. But I can and do blame an organization and coaches that continued to try to implement a two-TE offense for years and failed time and time again.

When you use a second rounder on a player, you're committing to playing him, and this team never did. And you can't blame a player for failing when they never truly get the opportunity to succeed. Fasano and Bennett showed they could play in the NFL and did elsewhere with more opportunities. That shows the talent was there. Escobar was simply a huge miss, and it will be forever known that they drafted him ahead of Travis Kelce.

The consensus opinions say that Pollard was overdrafted and could have been had later. Now the onus is on the Cowboys to show that they were right to draft him when and where they did, and that means getting him on the field and using him. For much more than just kickoff returns, which have been phased out by the league. That's why I laugh whenever it's mentioned with his name. If you drafted him for that? You're an idiot that doesn't know the NFL game, like when we drafted David Bueller because he had a strong kickoff leg when the league moved the kickoff forward and it didn't matter.

 

[Typhus]

I can't blame Witten for being as great as he was, I'm grateful for that. But I can and do blame an organization and coaches that continued to try to implement a two-TE offense for years and failed time and time again.

When you use a second rounder on a player, you're committing to playing him, and this team never did. And you can't blame a player for failing when they never truly get the opportunity to succeed. Fasano and Bennett showed they could play in the NFL and did elsewhere with more opportunities. That shows the talent was there. Escobar was simply a huge miss, and it will be forever known that they drafted him ahead of Travis Kelce.

The consensus opinions say that Pollard was overdrafted and could have been had later. Now the onus is on the Cowboys to show that they were right to draft him when and where they did, and that means getting him on the field and using him. For much more than just kickoff returns, which have been phased out by the league. That's why I laugh whenever it's mentioned with his name. If you drafted him for that? You're an idiot that doesn't know the NFL game, like when we drafted David Bueller because he had a strong kickoff leg when the league moved the kickoff forward and it didn't matter.

Moore needed a Tony Pollard for his offense to work properly, now if Pollard is not utilized properly, then promoting Moore to OC was in title alone, and will be a wasted opportunity.
I don't see that happening, I believe this franchise has decided whole heartedly ,that they are all in offensively with Kellen Moore, and Pollard will be utilized and a very dangerous weapon. Players fit a system,, the question will be if this franchise allows that much accountability to KM in his first year as OC.

 

[Stash]

Moore needed a Tony Pollard for his offense to work properly, now if Pollard is not utilized properly, then promoting Moore to OC was in title alone, and will be a wasted opportunity.
I don't see that happening, I believe this franchise has decided whole heartedly ,that they are all in offensively with Kellen Moore, and Pollard will be utilized and a very dangerous weapon. Players fit a system,, the question will be if this franchise allows that much accountability to KM in his first year as OC.

I hope you're right, but I've heard chatter like this time and time again and the results have never lived up to the huge. You can go back to the drafting if Fasano and the two TE offense that never materialized for years, to Lance Dunbar being the next big thing gadget guy, to the talk of Tavon Austin and the "20 touches" that Stephen Jones talked about that never came close to happening.

I've reached the point of "show me, don't tell me".

 

[OmerV]

I'm a big fan of Pollard but the guy doing the video said that Pollard is more valuable than Zeke...

The guy struggles a little as a speaker, so surely he just fumbled what he was trying to say. Either that or he’s an idiot.

 

[Idgit]

The guy struggles a little as a speaker, so surely he just fumbled what he was trying to say. Either that or he’s an idiot.

He didn’t stumble. Just thinks Pollard is more valuable than Zeke because ‘he can do more.’

 

[links18]

This was the same guy who did a video hyping Olawale, who got like four touches all season. Not his fault I guess that the staff couldn't figure out how to use him.

 

[OmerV]

He didn’t stumble. Just thinks Pollard is more valuable than Zeke because ‘he can do more.’

I don’t think he really means Pollard it’s a more valuable player though, I think he just means that having a more diverse skill set is more valuable than having a less diverse skill set.

 

[CATCH17]

Even if he is as good or better then Alvin Kamara don’t expect this coaching staff to figure out how to use a player like this in our system.

 

[gimmesix]

I hope you're right, but I've heard chatter like this time and time again and the results have never lived up to the huge. You can go back to the drafting if Fasano and the two TE offense that never materialized for years, to Lance Dunbar being the next big thing gadget guy, to the talk of Tavon Austin and the "20 touches" that Stephen Jones talked about that never came close to happening.

I've reached the point of "show me, don't tell me".

It really depends a lot on the player. You can have all kinds of plans, but if the player doesn't live up to those plans either because of injuries or something else, then you are going to use him less. I'm not saying that's always the case, but it's easy to use a two-tight end offense when you have Gronk and Hernandez or to mix in a specialty back who can make plays downfield when you have a Kamara.

I hope Pollard can turn into a similar kind of specialty back, but I'll also believe it when I see it both on him becoming one and us using him as one.

 

[gimmesix]

This was the same guy who did a video hyping Olawale, who got like four touches all season. Not his fault I guess that the staff couldn't figure out how to use him.

It's players like Olawale who keep me from having much hope for this coaching staff. He's a role player, but we rarely used him to his strengths. We'll see if that changes with Moore.

 

[Stash]

This was the same guy who did a video hyping Olawale, who got like four touches all season. Not his fault I guess that the staff couldn't figure out how to use him.

I've seen examples of Olawale being capable of much more than anything Linehan and the Cowboys ever did with him. In fact, there's virtually the exact same play as the one he dropped in the end zone. He made the catch on a similarly underthrown pass for Oakland.

There's untapped potential in him too, and I have to think the team agreed when they re-signed him.