Is our HB group historically bad?

[darthseinfeld]

We have two backs that are completely out of gas in Elliott and Cook. And two backs who have done next to nothing in the NFL. We are at a point where Rico Dowdle is our best hope to have an adequate every down back

Is it possible we have one of the worst HB groups of all time. I honestly cant remember a worse group anywhere

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

We have two backs that are completely out of gas in Elliott and Cook. And two backs who have done next to nothing in the NFL. We are at a point where Rico Dowdle is our best hope to have an adequate every down back

Is it possible we have one of the worst HB groups of all time. I honestly cant remember a worse group anywhere

Very well could be. One of the worst I’ve seen around here going back to the Troy Hambrick years.

 

[shabazz]

Absolutely......the present adjectives are slow, old, mediocre, over the hill, undersized, inexperienced and underwhelming

 

[Chasing6]

We have two backs that are completely out of gas in Elliott and Cook. And two backs who have done next to nothing in the NFL. We are at a point where Rico Dowdle is our best hope to have an adequate every down back

Is it possible we have one of the worst HB groups of all time. I honestly cant remember a worse group anywhere

They haven't played yet.

 

[thunderpimp91]

Possibly but excellent OL play could bail them out. The Cowboys are counting on a lot of things to fall their way for this run game to show improvement, but its certainly possible.

 

[darthseinfeld]

They haven't played yet.

Well the only real hope we have of having an effective every down back is a guy with fewer than 100 carries. He has a career YPC under 4 as a #2 back.

Vaughn is too one dimensional to be expected to have a heavy work. He was a disaster in pass pro last year.

Zeke was slow 5 years ago

With Cook, backs that have a history of lower body injuries dont age well. If you are expecting a rebound year, you will probably be disappointed

 

[Chasing6]

Well the only real hope we have of having an effective every down back is a guy with fewer than 100 carries. He has a career YPC under 4 as a #2 back.

Vaughn is too one dimensional to be expected to have a heavy work. He was a disaster in pass pro last year.

Zeke was slow 5 years ago

With Cook, backs that have a history of lower body injuries dont age well. If you are expecting a rebound year, you will probably be disappointed

There is no hope for an every one back in this group. That is the whole point of having a committee.

Next years draft is deep at RB. Hopefully we get 2 and still have a committee.

 

[zrinkill]

They are better than last year.

 

[John813]

2003 we know was bad.

Hambrick lost battles to stiff blades of grass in the open field.
Cason I don't remember at all.
Richie Anderson was decent as a do it all but average in everything back.

 

[Hawkeye0202]

I think this group is going to surprise some fans. Keep in mind, MM doesn't ask much from his RBs in the conventional concept of say 100+ yards per game from one player. He is more concerned with having the right player(s) on the field for protection and receiving and spreading the yards among several players. In other words, he will use 2-3-4 players to be your traditional 3-down RB.

 

[KJJ]

We have two backs that are completely out of gas in Elliott and Cook. And two backs who have done next to nothing in the NFL. We are at a point where Rico Dowdle is our best hope to have an adequate every down back

Is it possible we have one of the worst HB groups of all time. I honestly cant remember a worse group anywhere

I wouldn’t go as far as to say Zeke is “completely” out of gas. He did have over 600 rushing yards in a limited role on a bad team with no QB last season and had just under 1000 combined yards. He scored 5 TDs. He caught over 50 passes for over 300 yards. We’ll see how bad this group is when the regular season starts. Hopefully it isn’t as bad as it looks. If the young players on the OL improve us upfront that would help.

 

[heir]

It's not even close to the worst of all time. Thos ewhonsay that do not remember Darryl Moose Johnson was a TAILBACK with the backfield mate Tommy Agee.

 

[HungryLion]

Historically? Probably not. I remember the hambrick year. That was pretty bad.

But yes our RB group is really not good on paper.

We have to really really hope that Zeke and Cook have more left in the tank than they have recently showed.

 

[darthseinfeld]

There is no hope for an every one back in this group. That is the whole point of having a committee.

Next years draft is deep at RB. Hopefully we get 2 and still have a committee.

I think this group is going to surprise some fans. Keep in mind, MM doesn't ask much from his RBs in the conventional concept of say 100+ yards per game from one player. He is more concerned with having the right player(s) on the field for protection and receiving and spreading the yards among several players. In other words, he will use 2-3-4 players to be your traditional 3-down RB.

Having a commitee is ok if all the HB's on your roster dont suck. We pretty much have 4 very bad running backs

 

[DuncanIso]

Very well could be. One of the worst I’ve seen around here going back to the Troy Hambrick years.

Weird how nobody was saying this last Summer, when we had one-leg Tony Pollard leading the same scrub RBs.

Could it because Zeke > Tony ?

 

[Hawkeye0202]

I wouldn’t go as far as to say Zeke is “completely” out of gas. He did have over 600 rushing yards in a limited role on a bad team with no QB last season and had just under 1000 combined yards. He scored 5 TDs. He caught over 50 passes for over 300 yards

I think we can expect at least this much from Zeke, which would be great. Remember he did this with some awful QB play last season.

 

[dagreat1_87]

Can't say it's the worst in history but it ain't good. It reminds me of our WR group that first year after we let Dez go....awful play that led to us trading for Amari....i could see something similar happening this year

 

[DandyDon52]

We have two backs that are completely out of gas in Elliott and Cook. And two backs who have done next to nothing in the NFL. We are at a point where Rico Dowdle is our best hope to have an adequate every down back

Is it possible we have one of the worst HB groups of all time. I honestly cant remember a worse group anywhere

depends a lot on coaching and play calling.
Can the line open some cracks?
Even a good RB needs cracks, and good coaches. Line coach blocking schemes etc.

 

[Mr_437]

We talking Paul Palmer - Tommie Agee, Hambrick, Joseph Randle type backfield.

 

[Plankton]

We have two backs that are completely out of gas in Elliott and Cook. And two backs who have done next to nothing in the NFL. We are at a point where Rico Dowdle is our best hope to have an adequate every down back

Is it possible we have one of the worst HB groups of all time. I honestly cant remember a worse group anywhere

Look at the Cowboy running back group in 1989:

Paul Palmer
Broderick Sargent
Junior Tautalatasi
Darryl Clack
Kevin Scott
Daryl Johnston