Pollard should be the between the 20s, 1st and 2nd down back. Zeke the 3rd down back, short yardage back, and red zone back.
Use Pollard on the field and on the downs where his speed and homerun ability are most useful.
Use Zeke where his blocking and between the tackles running is the most useful.
It's not complicated.
Zeke would be better late in the game. So would Pollard. Backs are super freaks in terms of stamina, and defenses wear down faster than they do. If you're trying to run out the game, maybe Zeke has the advantage in consistent positive yardage, down after down.
I agree. The back who comes in 2nd is going to look like the best back, because the first one has done all the work.
It's like Zeke not getting credit for setting up Pollard's runs.
Really, Zeke does all the work and Pollard comes in and cleans up because Zeke set up his runs for him.
I"m suggesting we flip the script, and let Pollard start first. We're a RBBC team anyway. There's no use trying to hide it. Just show our hand and start the game with Pollard. It makes us harder to figure out. Plus, with Pollard, especially if they start him early on, or at least try to, he helps you keep teams honest because he can break a long run, so you have to respect the run. That helps Dak in passing situations. Or it could.
I hope Moore is really looking at his playbook, and thinking about how we can make our offense less predictable with the personnel that we have.
Last year, we became too predictable.
CouchCoach, I think it was, posted a thread about how teams figured out how we were beating them on the blitz, so they stopped blitzing to beat us, and it worked. We have to mix it up a little better out there. We have to have rules we go by, all the time, and some that we change from week to week.
This could also extend Zeke's career. And his value as a player. It's a win, win. You don't bench one of the best backs in the NFL, you just make him a team player, not a me player.
That has value.
We also need to pay attention to our #3 RB.
If Shampklin isn't it, we could be pretty thin there. But having watched some Harvard games, I do like him as a player. Smart, smart player.