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Darren McFadden and the glass-half empty or half-full report
By Marcus Mosher
During the football season, we have a weekly tradition of watching the Sunday night football game at my house with some relatives who just so happen to be die-hard Steeler fans. They loathe the Cowboys as much as they like their favorite team. What I always find fascinating is discussing/arguing about the results of the earlier games, especially when the Cowboys play. We both can watch the same game and come to totally different conclusion based off the results. “They only looked good because the other team played poorly,” is an argument I hear a lot and it’s almost always followed by “Well, they made the other team look bad.” You get the picture. Depending on your personal bias will reflect on how you feel about a player, team, or game.
How does this relate to Darren McFadden and his performance on Saturday night? Let’s take a look at two of his runs, from both the glass half-full and the half-empty approach.
The first play that we are going to look we can actually get a pretty good look at by just using one still shot. The knock on Darren McFadden is that he’s not the most powerful runner, but if you get the former first round pick in the open field, he can still make plays. Here is one of McFadden’s earlier runs in the game vs. the Vikings:...
Read more at http://cover32.com/cowboys/2015/09/...mpty-or-half-full-report/#wQYZfUPyAAo6qcRS.99
By Marcus Mosher
During the football season, we have a weekly tradition of watching the Sunday night football game at my house with some relatives who just so happen to be die-hard Steeler fans. They loathe the Cowboys as much as they like their favorite team. What I always find fascinating is discussing/arguing about the results of the earlier games, especially when the Cowboys play. We both can watch the same game and come to totally different conclusion based off the results. “They only looked good because the other team played poorly,” is an argument I hear a lot and it’s almost always followed by “Well, they made the other team look bad.” You get the picture. Depending on your personal bias will reflect on how you feel about a player, team, or game.
How does this relate to Darren McFadden and his performance on Saturday night? Let’s take a look at two of his runs, from both the glass half-full and the half-empty approach.
The first play that we are going to look we can actually get a pretty good look at by just using one still shot. The knock on Darren McFadden is that he’s not the most powerful runner, but if you get the former first round pick in the open field, he can still make plays. Here is one of McFadden’s earlier runs in the game vs. the Vikings:...
Read more at http://cover32.com/cowboys/2015/09/...mpty-or-half-full-report/#wQYZfUPyAAo6qcRS.99
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