Cut Pollard

Furboy said:
Tony Pollard needs to be either cut or on the hot seat. Last week, his poor decisions on KR put us in massive field position holes. Luckily for him, we ended up winning last week. This week, he had some poor decisions, and then that fumble that set up the safety. It's bad enough that our D is atrocious, but it's worse knowing that we are probably going to have to to travel about 90 yards to score a TD. Not to mention that I don't think he did anything but return kickoffs today. I'd say put Cedrick Wilson and/or Lamb back there on KR, and cut Pollard.

In his place, sign Lamar Miller (https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/M/MillLa01.htm). He's a FA, and would be a nice complementary bruising RB to help Zeke when he's tired. Or, sign Isaiah Crowell for the same purpose (https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/C/CrowIs00.htm).
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my only guess is he is being told to bring the ball out which is dumb. If he isnt being told then he should be or be benched for not listening
 
Furboy said:
Tony Pollard needs to be either cut or on the hot seat. Last week, his poor decisions on KR put us in massive field position holes. Luckily for him, we ended up winning last week. This week, he had some poor decisions, and then that fumble that set up the safety. It's bad enough that our D is atrocious, but it's worse knowing that we are probably going to have to to travel about 90 yards to score a TD. Not to mention that I don't think he did anything but return kickoffs today. I'd say put Cedrick Wilson and/or Lamb back there on KR, and cut Pollard.

In his place, sign Lamar Miller (https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/M/MillLa01.htm). He's a FA, and would be a nice complementary bruising RB to help Zeke when he's tired. Or, sign Isaiah Crowell for the same purpose (https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/C/CrowIs00.htm).
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No. Just take him off of KR duties
 
BigD_95 said:
my only guess is he is being told to bring the ball out which is dumb. If he isnt being told then he should be or be benched for not listening
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Weren't we told to do so last year with Garrett though? I seem to remember under Garrett, we'd have a lot of untimely returns. I think this may be a continuation of that.
 
Tangle_Foot said:
Let us not forget that we have an aggressive special teams coach. Without being that fly on the wall how do we know that Pollard isn't isn't given instructions to bring out anything that's 5 yards or less into the endzone.
True he did muffed the kickoff but I believe Pollard would have been better than Zeke in this game considering what we needed to do to move the ball against the Seahawks. Pollard would have been much better and running routes and finding the soft spots in coverage.
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On a day when a starter has a bad game the back-up is always the better player in the eyes of the fans.

Zeke had a bad game. But the notion Zeke should have been watching as Pollard played is just another aspect of this emotional vent about losing a game the fans thought could be won.

Pollard is not the blocker Zeke is. There is no question that a huge aspect of Zeke's contribution is blocking for Dak.

ESPECIALLY when you have a rookie center, a left tackle that has played all of two games, you moved your future hall of fame guard to tackle, and inserted your starting center after an injury to right guard. Then factor in you have Connor Williams, who couldn't block a troop of Brownies from an ice cream truck.

So much of what fans think is generated by the blame game. Find someone to blame your angst on.

Then the rebuttal is Seattle was injured too. But Seattle was collapsing the pocket and harassing Dak.

The real question is why would you run a slow developing screen against the Double Eagle formation of the Seattle defensive line. It's like the normal fan here didn't listen to a word Aikman said as to why Zeke was bottled up all day.

There are lots of moving parts on every play. Focusing on the RB while ignoring the rush and the state of the offensive line is a band aide for an emotional fan who cannot focus on all the parts, and needs someone to blame for his hurt feelings.

Do any of you people believe the coaching staff on any professional team uses emotions to dictate how they run that team? So much of analytics is posted here for the edification of fans.

For gosh sakes, read the posts by @Bobhaze His posts, for the most part, are as unbiased as possible. He just states facts through numbers without a predisposed outcome.

As long as it is honest analytics, it has a function. If it is disingenuous, and leaves out aspects to make a point that is inaccurate, that analytics is crap.

And that is EXACTLY the problem with the Pollard should have been in the game instead of Zeke. Because this fanbase cannot say for a fact Pollard can discern who to block on a passing down when he can't even make the correct decision on allowing a touchback on a kick-off.
 
Furboy said:
Tony Pollard needs to be either cut or on the hot seat. Last week, his poor decisions on KR put us in massive field position holes. Luckily for him, we ended up winning last week. This week, he had some poor decisions, and then that fumble that set up the safety. It's bad enough that our D is atrocious, but it's worse knowing that we are probably going to have to to travel about 90 yards to score a TD. Not to mention that I don't think he did anything but return kickoffs today. I'd say put Cedrick Wilson and/or Lamb back there on KR, and cut Pollard.

In his place, sign Lamar Miller (https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/M/MillLa01.htm). He's a FA, and would be a nice complementary bruising RB to help Zeke when he's tired. Or, sign Isaiah Crowell for the same purpose (https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/C/CrowIs00.htm).
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Does losing games cut off the oxygen to fan's brains?
 
If Pollard was our starting RB yesterday, Dak literally does not survive to see Monday morning.

Love Pollard's juice, but he is just such a mistake-prone player. Pass pro, fumbles, multiple mistakes on KRs... Hate to be that guy, but that's something Belichick understands. Dumb players cost you games.
 
beware_d-ware said:
If Pollard was our starting RB yesterday, Dak literally does not survive to see Monday morning.

Love Pollard's juice, but he is just such a mistake-prone player. Pass pro, fumbles, multiple mistakes on KRs... Hate to be that guy, but that's something Belichick understands. Dumb players cost you games.
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Exactly, and that's why he needs to, at the very least, be off the KR team if not cut.
 
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