Not sure I understand the examples compared to taking Gibbs in round 1 and the role he would have to have to justify the pick.
1-I think you’re remembering Ty Montgomery a little too fondly. He was never all that good. His best season was 805 total yards and 3 tds, only averaged 5 rushing attempts per game. If I recall he was thrust into RB out of desperation because of multiple injuries that year. The following year he was phased out of the offense because he wasn’t good (less than 400 total yards and only 23 catches). The year after that he didn’t finish the season with the packers
2- Randall Cobb was just a receiver, a good 1, but not a “hybrid” player like you’re implying McCarthy used him as. His career high rushing attempts is 13.
Starting from the role and justification:
-Gibbs is not a guy you want making his hay in-between the tackles. He can do it but he has so many hybrid qualities and explosiveness that he’d be most effective used in a non-traditional way.
-In the past offensive regimes, this team has had trouble using guys on offense outside of traditional roles. They use these types on jet sweeps and call it a day. Without a plan for how to use this type of player, I don’t get why they’d select him for a traditional RB role especially when Pollard has the lighting side covered.
-The Cowboys have been said to be looking for a Zeke replacement profile-wise. A bigger back that can handle some of those dirty touches. Gibbs doesn’t fit that profile, so selecting him would insinuate there’s some sort of plan in place.
-Finally, I am not necessarily saying justification in terms of if they should or shouldn’t make the pick. I’m saying it in terms of the factors I mentioned above, it wouldn’t seem likely the team drafts Gibbs to fill the role they’ve been expressing interest in. This leads me to believe that if that pick is indeed made Mike has some ideas for Gibbs use dating back to what he did with Cobb and Montgomery.
Now, in terms of the comparisons of roles with Cobb and Montgomery, here’s what I’m saying;
-Mentioning Ty Montgomery is not about his career or how good he was, it’s purely about the way Mike used him in GB.
-I said
early Cobb. His rookie year he played a much more creative all around role. He developed quickly into a reliable slot but he came into the league out of college being a hybrid type guy.
-Both these guys ran routes out of the backfield, started lined up in the backfield and flared out to the slot to run routes, and were chess pieces that GB used in multiple alignments to create mismatches.
-Yes, Montgomery was much more of a runner than Cobb was. But the point is they were both used in non-traditional ways to exploit matchups. This history Mike has makes me a bit more confident that we can use a guy like Gibbs to his full potential. I would not feel that way with previous offensive regimes.
