News: Cowboys Trade for Christine Michael per Schefter

JohnsKey19 · Sep 6, 2015

Hardline said:
Lol

JBell · Sep 6, 2015

The consensus among Seahawks fans is that they are NOT happy that he ended up in Dallas.

That should help some of you sleep a little better.

plymkr · Sep 6, 2015

Biggems said:
He is always dealing with nagging injuries and has fumbling issues.......seriously, I hate this trade.

We had Malcolm Brown for basically free.

We finally replaced Murray

StarBoyz83 said:

Dude, his "flows" are tight. Him and Ron Artest should make a double album.

DallasCowboys2080 · Sep 6, 2015

you think the coaches in Dallas will be able to force the guy to break his bad habits of using his hand wrong to run with the ball? the coaches out in Seattle couldn't force him to break his bad habits of wrongly using his hands to protect the football while running which led to a lot of fumbles.

PhillyCowboysFan · Sep 6, 2015

bkight13 said:
It took a long time and a ton of posts to get here, but things are looking up.

Fans happy with the old RBBC will love adding a thumper
Fans unhappy with the old RBBC will love adding a young, vet RB with upside

It's like Christmas in "The Zone"

visionary · Sep 6, 2015

BoysfanfromCanada said:
Absolutely no reason to keep Dunbar around over Edwards or Gardner (Edwards won job over him I'd say). No way there's enough balls to go around to keep involved too. First move I haven't liked this off season (not cutting Dunbar with Michael here, and losing depth at DE)

This x 100
Dunbar should have been gone

robjay04 · Sep 6, 2015

endersdragon said:
Are we keeping 4 RBs now (5 if you count Clutts)? Also why was he sort of a failure I'm Seattle... yea there is the Lynch thing but... still 51 career carries and them being willing to trade him for basically nothing seems bad

http://www.seahawks.net/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=112889

Hawks fans are pretty livid they traded him to a contender. A

DandyDon52 said:
good read, several bring up the fumbling issue, but several think it was stupid to trade him to dallas who is a rival contender in the playoffs,
and a team they play in dallas this year. They said smarter to trade him to a AFC team.
Many did think he might be a good fit here in dallas, and will find out if he is a bust or a talent.

They said he wasnt all that good at learning the plays, and his assignments, pass blocking, but was a good runner.

Reading that did make me feel good about the trade. Sure he has his problems(what do you expect when trading a conditional 7th pick?) but he clearly has a ton of upside and could turn out to be the best back on our roster.

Bullflop · Sep 6, 2015

FuzzyLumpkins said:
It was like in 70 carries. Looks like Seattle gave him a very short leash.

I counted 105 carries during 2013, 2014 and 2015 combined and 3 total fumbles when I looked it up. Are you sure you got that right? Not doubting he was on a short leash, though. I heard he got in the coach's doghouse by oversleeping and being late for a meeting.

CrownCowboy · Sep 6, 2015

Expected something like this.

The Cowboys figure that McFadden will get injured at some point and Randle cannot handle the role by himself. Dunbar isn't a between the tackles guy that you can lean on for 20 carries a game if you had to. I'm not even sure that Randle is.

Michael can make plays and provides needed depth. It's all good.

PhillyCowboysFan · Sep 6, 2015

visionary said:
This x 100
Dunbar should have been gone

Unless someone is looking to trade for one of our RB's.

On second thought..........naaaah!

Joe_Fan · Sep 6, 2015

I like the pickup. Is he my preferred choice? No, but I prefer him over Run DMC or Randle.

We're one Romo injury away from a lost season and Randle showed absolutely nothing to show that we should trust him in pass protection.

With that being said though I still wish that Rawls wouldn't have passed on us at the last minute and picked Seattle instead.

theogt · Sep 6, 2015

Hardline said:
Lol

He's as good or better an athlete it appears as Peterson. Obviously he's not as good a running back, though.

40 yard:
CM - 4.54
AP - 4.41

10 yard:
CM - 1.56
AP - 1.57

Vert:
CM - 43"
AP - 38.5"

Broad:
CM - 10'5"
AP - 10'7"

Shuttle:
CM - 4.02
AP - 4.40

3-cone:
CM - 6.69
AP - 7.09

mattjames2010 · Sep 6, 2015

Great decision! I'm glad we can put to bed that our coaching staff is okay with the other three backs we have.

Nightman · Sep 6, 2015

visionary said:
This x 100
Dunbar should have been gone

Dunbar has a role on the team and the RBBC. He is good with screens and dump offs and the 2 minute drill.
He also can contribute on STs.

11 DL is a lot, even for Marinelli.

darthseinfeld · Sep 6, 2015

MichaelWinicki said:
Good question.

I can't imagine it's the new guy... not without knowing the Cowboys' playbook.

I have no idea how his pass-blocking is.

It might take a couple weeks, but I believe Michael will spilt snaps with McFadden with Randle being his primary "backup" with Michael getting snaps on run downs and McFadden getting snaps on passing downs.

Michael in my opinion is a superior player to Randle and comes in with a similar rap sheet right now. Good runner who is unproven ( moreso then "bad") in pass pro. Given Randle knows the offense I believe for the first couple weeks of the season he will be the primary runner, but a major fire has been lit under him

Nightman · Sep 6, 2015

theogt said:
He's as good or better an athlete it appears as Peterson. Obviously he's not as good a running back, though.

40:
CM - 4.54
AP - 4.41

10:
CM - 1.56
AP - 1.57

Vert:
CM - 43"
AP - 38.5"

Broad:
CM - 10'5"
AP - 10'7"

Shuttle:
CM - 4.02
AP - 4.40

3-cone:
CM - 6.69
AP - 7.09

Wow. I have also seen CM tested as low as 4.43 in the forty.

mattjames2010 · Sep 6, 2015

http://www.fieldgulls.com/nfl-draft...raft-2014-sparq-profiling-part-3-running-back

A great read on why Michaels is considered an athletic freak.

darthseinfeld · Sep 6, 2015

Idgit said:
We really gonna carry four RBs? I find that prospect pretty unappealing. Michael probably doesn't cover kicks, does he?

I dont think so, but the upside is it basically goes against what Fish has been saying about us looking for a HB to play teams.

Fun to see Fish wrong

theogt · Sep 6, 2015

bkight13 said:
Wow. I have also seen CM tested as low as 4.43 in the forty.

That would make sense. Given his other measurables, including the 10 and 20 yard splits, the 4.5 seems very out of place.

Hardline · Sep 6, 2015

theogt said:
He's as good or better an athlete it appears as Peterson. Obviously he's not as good a running back, though.

40 yard:
CM - 4.54
AP - 4.41

10 yard:
CM - 1.56
AP - 1.57

Vert:
CM - 43"
AP - 38.5"

Broad:
CM - 10'5"
AP - 10'7"

Shuttle:
CM - 4.02
AP - 4.40

3-cone:
CM - 6.69
AP - 7.09

Athleticism on paper and athleticism on the field are two different things. Don't get me wrong. I like this trade and looking forward to seeing him run behind this offensive line

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