News: DeMarco Murray: I ran well against Minnesota

dallasdave

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Murray ran well when given the chance. Chance is the key word here, because he was not given much of one.
 

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Those plays happen to every RB. Even Peterson got stopped for a loss a few times Sunday but no one would advocate that Minnesota stop giving him the ball.
Should he still have gotten more carries? Absolutely. But JG didn't want to run the risk of 2nd and 12 every series.
 

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This is the deal. This coaching staff is trying to stay in safe down/distance situations. Who can blame them? Negative runs put you in bad down/distance situations. So once negative runs start to pile up...they are the root of 3 and outs.....they abandon the run. Of course penalties also play a part in 3 and outs. But this team rarely recovers from negative runs. And with a fragile injured defense. Dallas is doing whatever it can to move the chains. Especially when those negative runs are the result of guys losing one on one battles. That sends signals to the coaching staff that we cannot outphysical the opponent. The loss of Brian Waters is huge!

You realize that Adrian Peterson had more negative runs than Murray did, right? 8-9 carries isn't even nearly enough sample size to draw your conclussions. They abandoned the run because they don't believe in it. Period.
 

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Murray stinks.
Yet I think largely because of Callahan's lame game plan/strategy.
You half to commit to the run and stay with it. With more runs, Murray gets in sync.
That is how it go.

Murray is not the problem, but with this game plan, he certainly becomes the fall guy.
 

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You realize that Adrian Peterson had more negative runs than Murray did, right? 8-9 carries isn't even nearly enough sample size to draw your conclussions. They abandoned the run because they don't believe in it. Period.

The proof is in the pudding.
 

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Murray stinks.
Yet I think largely because of Callahan's lame game plan/strategy.
You half to commit to the run and stay with it. With more runs, Murray gets in sync.
That is how it go.

Murray is not the problem, but with this game plan, he certainly becomes the fall guy.

You can't be the fall guy when you never get the ball. Absolutely no blame can go to the offensive line or the running backs.
 

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You can't be the fall guy when you never get the ball. Absolutely no blame can go to the offensive line or the running backs.

I humbly disagree with your description of the O line. They are not opening up the holes that Murray need and that might be the overall problem with the running game.
 

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Murray stinks.
Yet I think largely because of Callahan's lame game plan/strategy.
You half to commit to the run and stay with it. With more runs, Murray gets in sync.
That is how it go.

Murray is not the problem, but with this game plan, he certainly becomes the fall guy.

I agree that the run game gets better the longer you stick with it. You wear down on those d-lineman and linebackers with the run early and late in the game when they are gassed is when you get those nice gains on the ground.

Murray is averaging almost 5 yards/carry over the course of this season. That's good production and he should see the ball more imo
 

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I humbly disagree with your description of the O line. They are not opening up the holes that Murray need and that might be the overall problem with the running game.

So 30 yards on his first handful of carries isn't convincing for you? Or the fact he is averaging over 5 yards a carry on the season? The holes are developing and Murray is finally learning how to run behind this scheme. The coaches are the problem.
 

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We are going to need the run game here sooner or later to protect leads, or else we will be in the "team with the ball last wil win" scenarios every week because of our depleted defense.
 

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He was stopped twice in the backfield though, if I'm not mistaken.

He was. Once for 0 yards, and another time for -2 yards.

The problem is that his other two runs went for 6 yards, and 27 yards.
 

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I think Murray is gone at the end of the year. He's obviously frustrated and he's not the back the Cowboys want.. well in this offense they want no running back but I think both parties want to move on.
 

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You realize that Adrian Peterson had more negative runs than Murray did, right? 8-9 carries isn't even nearly enough sample size to draw your conclussions. They abandoned the run because they don't believe in it. Period.
Are we really going to compare Peterson to Murray. Furthermore, the Vikings have little else. Why would we constantly stare at 2nd and 12 when we have Romo, Dez, Witten, Williams etc. I wish we could run it better so we could run it more. But there are only so many possesions in a game...and fans, coaches, players etc...get frustrated when we are not getting first downs. Not only that...with this defense, we cannot afford too many 3 and outs. Even in our heyday of the 90s....we threw in the first half to get a lead. Then ran it in the 2nd to bleed the clock. We have to put points on the board and move those safeties out of the box to run it better. We do not have the horses up front to just line it up and blow people off the ball.
 

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wasn't his last attempt the failed third down where Romo tried to nudge the ball forward?

bump to say it was.

On third and 1, he ran for no gain, and didn't seem to fight hard at all.

it was his last rushing attempt of the game. the few runs we called after that went to Dunbar
 

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So 30 yards on his first handful of carries isn't convincing for you? Or the fact he is averaging over 5 yards a carry on the season? The holes are developing and Murray is finally learning how to run behind this scheme. The coaches are the problem.

The holes might be developing. But certainly not on a consistent basis or basi.

I agree that the coaches are the problem. And 5-per carry is something that I would really stress at the next coaches' meeting (if I were to be invited into that August assembly of personages)

But, still 30 yards is nothing to be proud about and Callahan needs to wake up with the words "balanced attack" on his forehead. Better yet, on his wrist so he don't half to read the words "kcatta decnalab" in the mirror. And then he'd really be confused like Dez on penalties.
 

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Only thing I can think of is that the coaching staff has lost faith in Murray for some reason. Maybe it is the way he handled his injury or they may have perceived that he is not giving 100% when handed the ball. IF that is the case, I can see not giving him the rock, but that is not played out in the stats so far this year. He has been productive.

I guess we have to, ahem, trust, [insert hacking sound] in Garrett and the coaching staff [think I threw up in my mouth a little bit].
 

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Only the coaching staff knows the answer to why Murray didn't get many touches last game. Maybe the Coaching staff didn't want to put to much on his shoulders in his first game back from injury??
 

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Are we really going to compare Peterson to Murray. Furthermore, the Vikings have little else. Why would we constantly stare at 2nd and 12 when we have Romo, Dez, Witten, Williams etc. I wish we could run it better so we could run it more. But there are only so many possesions in a game...and fans, coaches, players etc...get frustrated when we are not getting first downs. Not only that...with this defense, we cannot afford too many 3 and outs. Even in our heyday of the 90s....we threw in the first half to get a lead. Then ran it in the 2nd to bleed the clock. We have to put points on the board and move those safeties out of the box to run it better. We do not have the horses up front to just line it up and blow people off the ball.

I am not comparing Murray to Peterson, don't be ridiculous. I am contrasting the two teams who played Sunday in the most recent contest for the Dallas Cowboys. Murray looked very good early on, when he was getting touches. He had bounce in his step, was cutting hard and had good burst. He was finding holes and making defenders miss. I have watched the game several times. There was nothing in this particular game to indicate we would have had a real difficult time running. It certainly wasn't evident on the few carries Murray did get.

Simply put, it is impossible to gauge what this team can do running the ball, because we don't ever run the ball. What you say are simply excuses. Callahan has never run the ball, even with a beefy oline in Oakland and some very very good talent in Nebraska. Garrett showed absolutely no commitment to the run when he was offensive coordinator, before and after becoming head coach, with all different levels of talent.

Tony Romo had 17 incompletions. Do those incompletions not result in 2nd or 3rd and long? Did they not have anything to do with the sacks that hurts drives several times? Murray averaged 7.8 yards a carry. Romo averaged 6 yards a pass attempt.

Don't try to convince me this is a down and distance argument when time, fact and logic make it clear this is a philosophical issue. Callahan and Garrett don't believe in running the ball.

And, if you want to make this an argument about protecting the defense, runs (even for no gain) take significantly more time off the clock than incompletions, penalties and sacks.
 

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According to my fantasy team, he didn't run that well.
 
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