Is Jerry pulling our chain?

[MRV52]

More like 'Is Fish pulling your chain'? Fish has to be the least reliable Cowboys source out there. He is always throwing out random crap.

Exactly I don’t buy 90% of things he says but I have a feeling they are going to make a trade.

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

More like 'Is Fish pulling your chain'? Fish has to be the least reliable Cowboys source out there. He is always throwing out random crap.

Yeah he is pretty bad. I mean its common sense the Cowboys are looking for trades lol. He's not really dropping anything groundbreaking.

 

[RustyBourneHorse]

Only Jerry Jones would put a franchise tag on a backup RB.

Yup and then be surprised when Pollard isn't the type of back who's skillset is running up the middle.....when a lot of us knew that.

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

Exactly I don’t buy 90% of things he says but I have a feeling they are going to make a trade.

I suspect its gonna be a older vet that is not going to make this fanbase happy lol. I predict a lot of sarcastic "championship" posts lol.

 

[Aven8]

Well we already made a trade with SF for a third string QB.

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

Only Jerry Jones would put a franchise tag on a backup RB.

He was a backup RB with production of a starter. Bringing Pollard back was not the issue. I commend them for putting a tag on him and not going big deal. There's just no holes there. The same stuff we said about Zeke last year we're saying about Pollard. We need to come to grips this run blocking sucks and has for some years.

 

[MRV52]

Yup and then be surprised when Pollard isn't the type of back who's skillset is running up the middle.....when a lot of us knew that.

Then it’s a Coach problem, why the hell run Pollard up the middle 10 times a game when you can use his speed wide or cutting back?

 

[Rayman70]

Make a call to the Titans and see if Jeffrey Simmons can be had. He is a beast at DT. We can be dominant inside with him/Hankins/Osa

 

[MRV52]

Well we already made a trade with SF for a third string QB.

Cooks and Gilmore also.

 

[Rayman70]

Jerry is a liar. He says things.

 

[RustyBourneHorse]

Then it’s a Coach problem, why the hell run Pollard up the middle 10 times a game when you can use his speed wide or cutting back?

Because maybe Jerry didn't give them the weapons needed, and McCarthy made it very clear he wanted to run the ball more?

 

[MRV52]

Because maybe Jerry didn't give them the weapons needed, and McCarthy made it very clear he wanted to run the ball more?

There wasn’t a problem running the ball last year and we had the same Oline. They are underperforming this year but I hope it’s the injuries and not playing together enough as the reason.

 

[blueblood70]

Yes they added like six players to the practice squad and I'm sure they're out looking for some minor additions to help with depth but really I agree with Jerry what he said earlier in the week if you look at our players that we started the season with outside of Trayvon diggs they're all still here at least for the most part N bland is doing a pretty good job replacing him we do not have any glaring holes enough to take high risk moves to give up draft capital and bring in aging players with no guarantee they're really going to help...

we need to get healthy adjust the schemes come up with better game plans and better play calling and adjustments in the games..

I believe it has a lot more to do with what I just mentioned than it does players and we're gonna need a little more effort execution and all that good stuff and I hope they discussed it made the adjustments that's what the bye week is supposed to be for..

we are 4-2 and it is only technically 1 game out of first a lot of teams in a 2-loss situation only 2 with 1 loss..umm ok.. can we stop overaerating as if we are 2-4..jeez



that is what the bye weeks for to discuss all this...

 

[blueblood70]

Because maybe Jerry didn't give them the weapons needed, and McCarthy made it very clear he wanted to run the ball more?

Nonsense everyone said Tony Pollard should be the running back 1RB1 he's ready he can do it so they paid him $10 million so he can stay here and be the number one I agree the coaches are not utilizing his athleticism the way they should be but there are guys on this team that can be utilized for short yardage The Dirty first in ten runs and all that good stuff the goal line I believe we do have the talent used to call them weapons we got rid of zeke and paid Tony Pollard 10 million so we should have cut Tony Pollard drafted a high starting running back on zeke's level maybe we should have went after bijon Robinson what gave up the draft for him??

I'm just saying stop I do believe it's the scheme not utilizing the talent Jerry gave them versus we needing to go out and what have Pro Bowl players at every position I've seen so many teams go at running back by committee or bringing less than stellar talent at the running back position and if you can block it up they can run the running back position isn't that hard we didn't need a special running back we were going to do running back by committee and I do believe it's more to do with the scheme not fitting the talent and I think they're gonna have to make those adjustments Pollard is not being used correctly and I think that Malik Davis and Rico dowdle and hunter need to do a lot more on first downs and obvious rundowns short yardage and goal line and occasionally you bring in a Tony Pollard in those situations but being more fresh and less expected but then use Tony Pollard for all the other stuff..

 

[RustyBourneHorse]

Nonsense everyone said Tony Pollard should be the running back 1RB1 he's ready he can do it so they paid him $10 million so he can stay here and be the number one I agree the coaches are not utilizing his athleticism the way they should be but there are guys on this team that can be utilized for short yardage The Dirty first in ten runs and all that good stuff the goal line I believe we do have the talent used to call them weapons we got rid of zeke and paid Tony Pollard 10 million so we should have cut Tony Pollard drafted a high starting running back on zeke's level maybe we should have went after bijon Robinson what gave up the draft for him??

I'm just saying stop I do believe it's the scheme not utilizing the talent Jerry gave them versus we needing to go out and what have Pro Bowl players at every position I've seen so many teams go at running back by committee or bringing less than stellar talent at the running back position and if you can block it up they can run the running back position isn't that hard we didn't need a special running back we were going to do running back by committee and I do believe it's more to do with the scheme not fitting the talent and I think they're gonna have to make those adjustments Pollard is not being used correctly and I think that Malik Davis and Rico dowdle and hunter need to do a lot more on first downs and obvious rundowns short yardage and goal line and occasionally you bring in a Tony Pollard in those situations but being more fresh and less expected but then use Tony Pollard for all the other stuff..

I do agree that Mike should be using Luepke a hell of a lot more than he has. He showed against the Patriots that he's a good up the middle back. But that's my problem with the whole system. Yes Pollard is a good back. But he's not Zeke or Derrick Henry. He's not Demarco Murray. You can't run him like he's that. So, we either need to run a player like Luepke or Dowdle more, or we need to bring someone in who is capable of that. Pollard is best when he's used on the outside, sort of like what they want to do with Vaughn. Perhaps drafting a back in round two or three would've been wise. I think Charbonney (now in Seattle) or Tank Bigsby would have fit the mold better.

 

[RustyBourneHorse]

There wasn’t a problem running the ball last year and we had the same Oline. They are underperforming this year but I hope it’s the injuries and not playing together enough as the reason.

That's my point. It's not the oline. At least in it of itself. It's that they're being used wrong because we are trying to use Pollard like he's Murray or Zeke. He's not Zeke. Unless Luepke and/or Dowdle are that type of back, Jerry needs to do his job and get that type of back on this roster.

 

[GMO415]

Nothing short of Aaron Donald will make a splash.

 

[blueblood70]

Nothing short of Aaron Donald will make a splash.

That'd be the only thing that satisfy some whiny fans maybe...

 

[blueblood70]

I do agree that Mike should be using Luepke a hell of a lot more than he has. He showed against the Patriots that he's a good up the middle back. But that's my problem with the whole system. Yes Pollard is a good back. But he's not Zeke or Derrick Henry. He's not Demarco Murray. You can't run him like he's that. So, we either need to run a player like Luepke or Dowdle more, or we need to bring someone in who is capable of that. Pollard is best when he's used on the outside, sort of like what they want to do with Vaughn. Perhaps drafting a back in round two or three would've been wise. I think Charbonney (now in Seattle) or Tank Bigsby would have fit the mold better.

Here's the problem Tony Pollard is not just being utilized improperly he also has been giving too many snaps he is not a running back one he is not a true starter he may have earned more carries than the rest whether it be two or three but in my opinion go look back without doing the math to the last five games last year three in a regular season two in the playoffs and now the first six games of this year and you're gonna find out he has only two touchdowns he's averaging maybe 3.9 yards per carry maybe 55 yards per game I mean this is not new this wake up call was before he got injured twice last year he was tailing off because he was being used too much everyone says he earned the carries he should start over zeke and they were wrong do you guys realize the first half of both the last two seasons that Ezekiel Elliott was averaging 4.8 yards per carry before his injuries about mid season??

He had more touchdowns with a better blocker and yes post injury he tailed way off but if we're looking at what Tony Pollard is doing behind this same line versus Zeke,

zeke was supposed to be washed and I believe if you just do apples to apples of the first half of this year and the first halves of both 2021 and 2022 compare zeke to Pollard zeke still at least the same or better...

They both are not playing very well for the money they're earning ,.

. now we get to get Pollard now we have receipts people picking on zeke for how much money he made well Pollard ain't doing any better... he's not if anything he's not scoring touchdowns and at least EZ was getting us some touchdowns, short yardage, and better blocking...

I'm not saying we shouldn't have cut him but Pollard can I handle the load and still be who he is yes right now he's an average back he's doing pretty well yardage wise but he's not special anymore he's not explosive he's not doing it this is a coaching issue a execution along the offensive line issue, yes, I think we could do better with the players we have on this team if they made these adjustments and I hope that they see what we see that's all we have to hope is they recognize this and some chages are ahead post bye

 

[Loso86]

Yes and I was one of them, but deep down I had my doubts that it would work. To be fair to Pollard the Oline blocking has been a disaster. Need it fixed immediately!!

It's been the same as last year. Been saying dude is not an every down back, I hate how we as fans and just this team always wants to mess up something good. He needs somebody to take the beating up front and he shows up with his speeds and receiving ability