Cowboys Claim RB Rod Smith from SEA

[wileedog]

Wow the coaches will do any thing to get rid of our current RBs.

If only they had that mentality in the offseason.

 

[superonyx]

Our they could be playing without their two best offensive players allowing teams to put 9 guys in the box?

How many are in this box? 9? How big is this box?
The giants and eagles faced us with Romo and partially Dez and we were very ineffective running the ball.
How often do you really think teams are playing us with 9 in the box? Any play where we had Beasley in the game would mean you cant have 9 in the box or someone wouldnt be covered at all. I dont believe the box has been this loaded. 7 or 8 maybe....but 9? Even Weeden could find an open man against a 9 man box.

 

[Dave_in-NC]

If only they had that mentality in the offseason.

Yup, they can't even claim hind sight.

 

[cej757]

I think Garrett finally realized Randle and McFadden are too light to push the pile or to break arm tackles. This Rod Smith is a big dude.

 

[RunDMC]

How many are in this box? 9? How big is this box?
The giants and eagles faced us with Romo and partially Dez and we were very ineffective running the ball.
How often do you really think teams are playing us with 9 in the box? Any play where we had Beasley in the game would mean you cant have 9 in the box or someone wouldnt be covered at all. I dont believe the box has been this loaded. 7 or 8 maybe....but 9? Even Weeden could find an open man against a 9 man box.

The Cowboys ran the ball just fine against the Giants. Even though Randle left some yards on the field he still ended up with 70 yards rushing I believe and would've had well over 100 if they didn't have to abandon the run because they fell behind. They didn't run it well against Philadelphia, but Romo only played half the game and they didn't run it well against them last year even when Romo played both games. Even if Beasley is out there he's really the only receiver you have to worry about because Weeden won't look down field to Williams or Butler before he hurt his hammy with the exception of that one big play.

 

[Alexander]

Anybody else see this? Know about him? Saw him play last weekend.

He is a big fellow.

Saw him briefly in the Bengals game. Looked like Chris Warren a bit.

 

[Bleu Star]

Chrun baby churn.


So many around here complaining about RB corp should give the FO some credit for bring in Michael and now Smith. At least we aren't sitting still. We're making moves and addressing the situation.

Yeah. I agree with you and I get that. The fact remains that, if it wasn't for their pig headed blunder followed by a stubborn attempt at trying to make us think a Scatback By Committe system would work, we would probably not be trolling for trash right now.

 

[Bleu Star]

Meh, how many running back KS do they need. We don't use the ones we have !
(Unless they gonna cut someone)...

Hopefully it is DMC and then the bye week transformation will be complete.

 

[Idgit]

You might want to edit this post..LOL.

Right. Meant to say 'high ones.'

 

[ActualCowboysFan]

How many are in this box? 9? How big is this box?
The giants and eagles faced us with Romo and partially Dez and we were very ineffective running the ball.
How often do you really think teams are playing us with 9 in the box? Any play where we had Beasley in the game would mean you cant have 9 in the box or someone wouldnt be covered at all. I dont believe the box has been this loaded. 7 or 8 maybe....but 9? Even Weeden could find an open man against a 9 man box.

Did you watch the game on Sunday? There was 9 in the box quite a bit. It was even pointed out by Simms.

And lol at the 10 minutes of Dez being enough for your sweeping conclusions. I know being right is what's important, but there's simply no way to assess the running game without their two best players.

 

[cowboyuptx]

I think the Cowboys are looking to do two things, get rid of McFadden, and find somebody to replace Dunbar.

 

[cowboyschmps3]

Judging from the RBs we were interested in - Lamichael James, Isaiah Pead, and now Smith -- this is exclusively a ST signing. All these guys return kickoffs. I dont expect Smith to challenge our top 3 RBs. THere is a chance, though, that we decide to move on from McFadden because of his weak pass pro and adding little to the running game.

Wouldn't be surprised if they don't like what they see next week they sign one of the workout backs.

 

[superonyx]

The Cowboys ran the ball just fine against the Giants. Even though Randle left some yards on the field he still ended up with 70 yards rushing I believe and would've had well over 100 if they didn't have to abandon the run because they fell behind. They didn't run it well against Philadelphia, but Romo only played half the game and they didn't run it well against them last year even when Romo played both games. Even if Beasley is out there he's really the only receiver you have to worry about because Weeden won't look down field to Williams or Butler before he hurt his hammy with the exception of that one big play.

We ran for 80 yards and averaged 3.5 YPC against the Giants.
Not the way I define fine.
It's been 5 games now. How many more excuses are we going to have to make.

 

[texbumthelife]

Chrun baby churn.


So many around here complaining about RB corp should give the FO some credit for bring in Michael and now Smith. At least we aren't sitting still. We're making moves and addressing the situation.

That's all this is. Churn just to churn. We'll never have that ever important chemistry at the bottom of the roster at this rate!

 

[Idgit]

We ran for 80 yards and averaged 3.5 YPC against the Giants.
Not the way I define fine.
It's been 5 games now. How many more excuses are we going to have to make.

We don't need excuses. We need our QB back, and we need to be getting turnovers. If we had those two things, the rushing would either be there, or it wouldn't matter.

 

[superonyx]

We don't need excuses. We need our QB back, and we need to be getting turnovers. If we had those two things, the rushing would either be there, or it wouldn't matter.

I agree. We do need our QB back. The guy who is good enough to lead us to points even when our running game is non existent.

It seems like we have been reduced to putting this all on Romo.
I guess we now know why Romo and Dez wanted Demarco back.
In the meantime we will be making excuses week after week to explain our running games fall from grace.

 

[RunDMC]

We ran for 80 yards and averaged 3.5 YPC against the Giants.
Not the way I define fine.
It's been 5 games now. How many more excuses are we going to have to make.

Did you miss the part where we fell behind and had to go into passing and two minute mode?

 

[ActualCowboysFan]

We ran for 80 yards and averaged 3.5 YPC against the Giants.
Not the way I define fine.
It's been 5 games now. How many more excuses are we going to have to make.

Losing your two best players isn't an excuse. It's reality.

 

[superonyx]

Did you miss the part where we fell behind and had to go into passing and two minute mode?

Nope...the 3.5 YPC doesn't go down because we started passing the ball more.

 

[WoodysGirl]

I think the Cowboys are looking to do two things, get rid of McFadden, and find somebody to replace Dunbar.

Fwiw, I have read that mcfadden will take over Dunbar's role.