But people expecting Blue to be that RB1 are asking far too much. It is very much like asking Guyton to be LT1.
Seeing the vision of something that has never occurred isn't team building, it is a fever dream.
Dallas wanted to get much faster on offense and Blue helps big time, so they took him over better RBs.
Don't think anybody is expecting that at all...
And literally it's completely different a left tackle being green first time playing that position, and asked to play a different position is polar opposite of a RB..
We both know that running back is one of the easiest transitions from college to the pros, you're defining it like this man needs to learn how to run the football again, no he does not...
he also has NFL blockers if you're saying his offensive line was so good in college, they should be better in the nfl, it made him look better... well that must go for the rest of the guys too, he isn't a day 1 ,3 down back, and neither is a lot of players in this league, that carve out a really nice career for themselves, but he is big enough and explosive enough to become a spot starter doesn't need to be a power back or a goal line back, short yardage back ,or a 3 down back..
he's none of those things but he definitely can compare to a Tony Pollard and even to some extent Kamara and the other guys mentioned it in here, I see some Reggie Bush in him... Yes all of this is just projections and comps doesn't mean he's going to be these players but it doesn't mean he isn't.....
You're right the Cowboys probably should have paired him with Nick Chubb, but this is nowhere near comparing this to Guyton, Guyton was a rookie playing a position he never played before, one of the toughest positions in football... running back is one of the easiest positions in football if you know the playbook and you have good blocking, they hand you the ball and you run..lol
he has the instincts, size and speed, this isn't D.Vaughn, this is not a gadget player this is not a small undersized player.. he is at the exact size as Jamir Gibbs same speed same body same everything, a lot of players have a similar body at running back to Blue.
No the expectations are not for him to come out of the gate and get 50% of the snaps or more,
but I think he could get there but you're over here predicting he could get injured, yeah right you mean like half our team did last year, like I don't know Overshown's been hurt twice same as diggs, Lee, LVE, has been hurt multiple time, weren't they top line starters?
I mean should I mention the rest? I mean how many times did Prescott been hurt, and he's a quarterback... I mean you're predicting that, this expectation should be quelled because he can possibly be injured and sit out right that would be all NFL players....
Sometimes you guys try harder to be smarter than the rest of the room and try to come up with all kinds of excuses why we should just not be giving opinions on where why we see upside from this player..
BTW no one can predict what's going to happen but I watched him in college and the guy is more than a gadget player ,he's not just a 3rd down back ,people keep calling these guys 3rd down backs, no they are change of pace backs, meaning they can come in at any time if you have the right play caller the right design the right blocking and they can have an impact on any down, a spark plug..
That's the difference between a gadget back and a player like blue, gadget backs when they come in teams know exactly what might be coming because they can only do a certain amount of things, actually blue can run between the tackles just like Tony Pollard did he you just can't have him do it all the time on a regular basis, he can handle the entire playbook..
He can help this team if this coaching staff is worth any of the salt that people are describing, they can be they can get creative he should be as big an impact or better than when Tony Pollard was backing up a healthy Ezekiel Elliott, that's what we need from blue...
Only true concern is the fumbling and hopefully that just doesn't carry over and he could get it fixed pro coaching also helps....
