Over 40% of the time DAL has 1 TE and either 1FB or a 2nd TE.
Swain plays 90% of the snaps
Jarwin 28%
Rico 10%
Schultz 5%
Olawale 9%
They are not a heavy spread team compared to most anyone else in football.
They rank top 5 in most 2 TE sets.
Here's the snap counts for all offensive players, in order.
If we were putting our most productive players on the field, Hurns wouldn't be getting snaps. He doesn't produce in yards per target, and has a low catch percentage. And we wouldn't be playing Jarwin at all. Not a blocker, hasn't produced receiving.
Between Hurns and Jarwin, Linehan is using a full time position on two of our crappier players.
Top 5 productive players - Zeke, Swaim, Beasley, Gallup, Austin.
Naturally Linehan being Linehan, I don't think we ever saw the lineup of most productive players. But I kind of like the looks of it, and think any OC not named Linehan could have done something with them.
Austin gives us a great all around run/short/deep threat. Best yards/target, by a long ways. Naturally, Linehan gives the most productive player only 25% of the snaps.
Beasley will get open if you don't double him. Gallup has been the bigger deep threat, but has a poor catch rate, yielding about the same yards per target as Beasley and Swaim. Again, I had been griping about Swaim, but really, he's about as effective as our WRs and can block.
With Austin out, I would have gone with Butler, to keep the deep threat alive, and who was very productive per target last year. Naturally, Linehan just cut him instead of cutting Thompson who we're probably cutting soon anyway to retrieve the 4th round comp pick.
Looking at the numbers, I see a lot of productive players. The OC is the problem.
We didn't really need Cooper. And looking at the players, I'm betting that Cooper keeps our most productive player, Austin, with a low snap percentage.
Likely starting 5 - Zeke, Swaim, Beasley, Gallup, Cooper.
Cooper should at least keep Hurns off the field with Austin.
Geoff Swaim TE 89.46%
Ezekiel Elliott RB 89.01%
Allen Hurns WR 67.26%
Cole Beasley WR 63.90%
Michael Gallup WR 57.85%
Deonte Thompson WR 37.44%
Blake Jarwin TE 27.80%
Tavon Austin WR,RB 23.54%
Rico Gathers TE 10.76%
Rod Smith RB 9.42%
Jamize Olawale FB 8.74%
Terrance Williams WR 8.52%
Dalton Schultz TE 4.71%
No. Player Tgt Rec Yds2 Y/R Y/T TD2 Y/G4 Ctch%
11 Cole Beasley 43 33 350 10.6 8.14 2 50 76.70%
87 Geoff Swaim 24 19 205 10.8 8.54 1 29.3 79.20%
13 Michael Gallup 22 10 190 19 8.64 1 27.1 45.50%
21 Ezekiel Elliott 36 25 175 7 4.86 1 25 69.40%
17 Allen Hurns 28 13 158 12.2 5.64 1 22.6 46.40%
10 Tavon Austin 9 7 130 18.6 14.4 2 21.7 77.80%
15 Deonte Thompson 18 12 103 8.6 5.72 0 14.7 66.70%
80 Rico Gathers 5 2 46 23 9.2 0 7.7 40.00%
89 Blake Jarwin 6 2 27 13.5 4.5 0 3.9 33.30%
