Is Rod Smith the answer at runningback?

[Captain43Crash]

I did...I've been watching him and understand he's a pet cat to some like Darius Jackson last year. Then I got curious and checked out his yardage stats and special teams tackle stats after some claimed he was a ST ace. So I actually did a little studying on him.

Hey it's ok if you like him. To each their own. But If im a betting man, I'd bet that he's not a feature back- hence my thread topic "is rod smith the answer". To me the answer is no. Backup. Yeah

You could be right, maybe with more carries he will be exposed as just a backup or worse. He’s definitely not my pet cat, that would be Switzer, but I do see some potential and like his running style. Hopefully for the teams sake he can help us win 4 games( wishful thinking) before Zek gets back.

 

[LatinMind]

Yeah....that tune has changed a lot lately.

Didnt McFadden show this to be true? He got 1000 yrds with no passing game. Only tune that changed was Dallas coaching didnt give the running game a chance. They literally stopped calling run plays. When they went back to it in the 3rd Morris got 45 yrds in one drive. The thing that killed that idea, was ATL had the first drive of the 3rd that took up a big part of the quarter, and their 2nd drive of the quarter lasted until the 4th quarter. Dont try and post a negative opinion especially one thats not accurate to minimize the quality of the ol. Especially if its not even close to accurate, coaches not calling run plays doesnt mean the OL is bad, it means the coaches outcoached themselves.

Dallas ran 21 times for 107 yrds for a 5.1 yrd avg. Thats pretty damn good.

Morris 4.8 yrd avg
Dak 7.0 yrd avg
Smith 4.7 yrd avg

That shows me the coaches didnt allow the run game to get started. And again refs basically put the Cowboys in alot of long yrd situations and questionable Penalties. As even Aikman couldnt explain it, and he's never biased for the Cowboys.

 

[SSoup]

The answer is simply to call running plays in the booth and to not audible into passing plays too often at the line of scrimmage.

Very few defenses will smother our running game for 4 qtrs if we stick with it. And very few defenses will smother our passing game if we're running passes with the benefit of the defense credibly believing very many of those plays will be runs. And opposing offenses find it harder to have their way with our defense when our offense is committing to the run and doing its best to hide our defense as long as possible on the sideline.

Or, you know, call more passing plays than necessary again and let unnecessary negative plays from the passing game cause us to fall further behind and lose more decisively than we would've if we ran it more. You know. Whatever. That's one way to go.