Twitter: Garrett: McFadden named starter against Seattle

[xwalker]

They have kept him out of running situations as well.
It's not a fair assessment to say say his chip blocking play shows they don't trust him to pass block. Teams don't know how many defenders are coming when the call a passing play. The RB that only chip blocks on one play would be expected to pick up a blitzing LBer on another play.

The play where he chip blocked was a pass to him. It appeared to be a designed pass not a dump off. The chip was intended to make it appear that he was not going to run a pass route. Tyron intentionally short set to give the RB a clear shot at the chip. It was an interesting play design.

The predesigned chip was much different than a standard pass block where the RB does not know where or who he will be blocking.

He touched the ball on all but 1 snap that he played. That is a strong sign they didn't want him in the game on passing plays that were not passes to him.

 

[fortdick]

Randle is getting benched simply b/c JG doesn't like him.

Dern that McFadden! Going out and having a great game causes folks to find a whole new reason to gripe and depress everyone else. I was foolish enough to believe the performance he had would be a positive thing. How little did I know that it was actually a manifestation of what is actually wrong in Dallas. The guy rushing for 150 yards actually proves that he should not be the starter and that the other running backs on the tea are better, but being purposely held back for political reason. We need to just give Randle a real chance. After all, the offensive line laid down for him and only played hard for McFadden.

Do I understand now?

 

[DandyDon52]

After Jerry Jones told him, yes.

LOL yeah I imagine he told JG McF should start, to me JG does not like randle but clearly thought he was the better back.

On CM, until he gets more of a chance, we just wont know.
CM is like McF was , looks barely ok, but then McF gets 29 carries, and walla 152 yds !
Give CM 29 carries and you will know whether he is any good or not.

McF looked good, but I wonder if he will tire out , he looked gassed in that last game.
Going from 5 carries a game to 29 is a big step.

it may be tougher to run against seattle, so will be interesting to see how it goes.

 

[Danger]

Wow. Can't go more than a couple posts without seeing agenda riddled drivel by the same posters on every thread.

Anyway good for DMC. With the OL returning to form, he should have another good game against the Seahawks.

 

[DandyDon52]

Dern that McFadden! Going out and having a great game causes folks to find a whole new reason to gripe and depress everyone else. I was foolish enough to believe the performance he had would be a positive thing. How little did I know that it was actually a manifestation of what is actually wrong in Dallas. The guy rushing for 150 yards actually proves that he should not be the starter and that the other running backs on the tea are better, but being purposely held back for political reason. We need to just give Randle a real chance. After all, the offensive line laid down for him and only played hard for McFadden.

Do I understand now?

Well the run blocking was better this game , and JG does not like randle, but JG felt randle was the best back.
NOw I dont know if it was JG or JJ or both, now decided McF is the best back.
He did look good, and I want to see him start another game or 2 and see how he does.
Any back can have 1 good game.
They might want to give CM more carries and rest McF more during the game.

 

[Zordon]

Randle is getting benched simply b/c JG doesn't like him.

Yup and Jerry loves McFadden.

 

[JohnsKey19]

I am pleased they finally stuck with primarily one RB allowing the him to get into a rhythm and establish a chemistry with the OL. I believe that made a huge difference.

The issue is I'm not sure McFaddens legs can hold up getting 22-25 carries a game, but we will see.

 

[links18]

Many of the Randle supporters do not want to see McFadden supplant him as the starter at RB.

There are Randle supporters?

 

[Aven8]

We will need all the RB's this week. They better get there big boys pants on because there is going to be some hitting. Wagner is better than all 3 of the Gents LB'S combined!

 

[Toruk_Makto]

What?? micheal isn't that good? what tape you be watching Michael is good and everybody wasn't all up on the Darren mccfadden bandwagon before...

His tape? Dude has 277 career rushing yards in 3 years.

 

[Nightman]

His tape? Dude has 277 career rushing yards in 3 years.

Randle didn't have much more when he was just handed the keys.

 

[Hoofbite]

Michael isn't that good. There's a reason Seattle dumped him for nothing basically. He has shown nothing in Dallas. They gave him five carries and he didn't do anything with them to warrant more of a work load. McFadden just proved on Sunday that should continue to get more carries.

Always good to hear from a guy who doesn't have a horse in the race.

 

[Toruk_Makto]

Randle didn't have much more when he was just handed the keys.

There was an open competition this offseason. Randle won.

Deal with it.

 

[gimmesix]

He looked like a different back on a couple runs last week. I still thought Randle ran better, before he was hurt, but McFadden played really hard. I have no problem naming him the starter this week as a result. He gest to the edge so fast. Now that our interior OLs are healthy and moving well, I hope we see more of that early in games. It's something DMC does that's unique from the other backs on the roster. If we get the outside runs working, Dez back in the lineup to loosen things up, we should at least be able to run the ball well enough to avoid some passing game risks. From there we can just rely on the defense to not give up a lot of points.

That assumes, of course, we're not giving up possessions and points on special teams like we did last week.

We'll see. I'm still not ready to put my trust in a back who has had games like this in his career only to suck at other times.

I do agree that he looked like a different back last week because of his decisiveness, which allowed him to attack the defense with speed and power. I don't know if it was an aberration based on the blocking or what he was seeing, though. If Seattle is able to clog up some of those lanes will McFadden slip back into being hesitant?

My issue with Randle (and why he has not been the back to step up and seize the lead role) is that he has great improvisational skills (which McFadden does not), but he doesn't have great non-improvisational skills, if that makes sense. McFadden can blast a run up in there when he's decisive and deliver a blow. Randle does that on occasion and he does fight for yardage, but he just isn't a power back when it is necessary for him to be.

If McFadden shows that he can be down after down, then he's the back we need in the lead role ... but it's a big if at this point in his career. Frankly, I think Michael might have the blend of that power and Randle's improv skills (but not McFadden's speed), but we haven't really been given a chance yet to see if that's the case.

Again, I don't care who emerges (even if it's a player who isn't on the roster now) as long as someone(s) can provide the kind of running threat we saw last week. We get that back, along with this defense continuing to come together, then we've got a real shot at doing something if we can manage to keep ourselves in the race until Romo gets back.

 

[gimmesix]

He looked like a different back on a couple runs last week. I still thought Randle ran better, before he was hurt, but McFadden played really hard. I have no problem naming him the starter this week as a result. He gest to the edge so fast. Now that our interior OLs are healthy and moving well, I hope we see more of that early in games. It's something DMC does that's unique from the other backs on the roster. If we get the outside runs working, Dez back in the lineup to loosen things up, we should at least be able to run the ball well enough to avoid some passing game risks. From there we can just rely on the defense to not give up a lot of points.

That assumes, of course, we're not giving up possessions and points on special teams like we did last week.

We'll see. I'm still not ready to put my trust in a back who has had games like this in his career only to suck at other times.

I do agree that he looked like a different back last week because of his decisiveness, which allowed him to attack the defense with speed and power. I don't know if it was an aberration based on the blocking or what he was seeing, though. If Seattle is able to clog up some of those lanes will McFadden slip back into being hesitant?

My issue with Randle (and why he has not been the back to step up and seize the lead role) is that he has great improvisational skills (which McFadden does not), but he doesn't have great non-improvisational skills, if that makes sense. McFadden can blast a run up in there when he's decisive and deliver a blow. Randle does that on occasion and he does fight for yardage, but he just isn't a power back when it is necessary for him to be.

If McFadden shows that he can be down after down, then he's the back we need in the lead role ... but it's a big if at this point in his career. Frankly, I think Michael might have the blend of that power and Randle's improv skills (but not McFadden's speed), but we haven't really been given a chance yet to see if that's the case.

Again, I don't care who emerges (even if it's a player who isn't on the roster now) as long as someone(s) can provide the kind of running threat we saw last week. We get that back, along with this defense continuing to come together, then we've got a real shot at doing something if we can manage to keep ourselves in the race until Romo gets back.

 

[LittleBoyBlue]

Something is definitely up, I like Michael's running style better because he has balance. McFadden's balance was slightly better last Sunday, he managed to stay up right a second longer than he usually does.

I hoping CM is the back that can take a lot of snaps with DMC getting the last years Randle snaps.

Honestly though.... With Romo threatening the Seattle defense I don't expect run much with success.
Cassel has to stop with the picks.

 

[CowboyStar88]

There was an open competition this offseason. Randle won.

Deal with it.

There was? I am not being sarcastic that is actually a legitimate question. If that was an open competition then that was the weakest "competition" I have ever seen, because it did not appear to be that way at all. I felt/thought/understood it was Randles job from the way it was portrayed by the media and coaches IMO

 

[gimmesix]

A RBBC is best when you let one guy take the bulk of the carries in any one game.

Switching series back and forth seems worthless. Run one guy and let him get his rhythm. Even McFadden had 6-10 carries that gained very little but then was able to hit a 24 yarder and a few 10 yarders.

The RBBC just means you have 3 equal options instead of one expensive horse and 2 plow horses.

Oh, I agree. There has to be a leader who is allowed to get into a rhythm. Garrett said as much with his comment about waiting for someone to step up and be that guy.

The problem I have with how Dallas approached this season at the position is it went into this willing to play the waiting game because it didn't know if it had that guy on the roster. The team really doesn't even know now. McFadden will be given that shot because he stepped up last week, but it doesn't mean he'll do anything with it.

Randle was given that shot, but he didn't seize the role. Michael might be given that shot if McFadden fails.

This didn't need to be a season where we took RBs for test drives, because we had Super Bowl aspirations. Who knows? if we had had a certified lead dog on the team, maybe that would have made a difference in some of these close games and we'd be in better position when Romo comes back to reach that goal. Playing the waiting game might have cost us at a time when we don't have Romo to make up for not having that lead dog to lean on in his absence. If we could have run the ball effectively in the second half against Atlanta and New Orleans, maybe the outcomes would have been different.

 

[Bleu Star]

What?? micheal isn't that good? what tape you be watching Michael is good and everybody wasn't all up on the Darren mccfadden bandwagon before...

Please don't feed the Toruk.

 

[Bleu Star]

A RBBC is best when you let one guy take the bulk of the carries in any one game.

Switching series back and forth seems worthless. Run one guy and let him get his rhythm. Even McFadden had 6-10 carries that gained very little but then was able to hit a 24 yarder and a few 10 yarders.

The RBBC just means you have 3 equal options instead of one expensive horse and 2 plow horses.

When they went into this SBBC crap, they had no idea how to execute it and their lack of understanding has been on display for all to see for several weeks now. Giving Michael a carry here and a carry there is laughable. Finally we may be seeing signs of our coaching staff beginning to get it before it's too late. Give DMC the bulk of the carries and allow Cmike to become a true change of pace with 10 to 15 carries per game. That may actually work. Up until this point, the coahing pitch count crap had been very bush league and it shows in the results.