Looking Like McFadden Will Be The Starter

[Jstopper]

McFadden got what 2 carries and caught a pass. With a back up OL and no game plan. Randle played with all backups against a team that blitzed all night. Randle had more chances than McFadden, and had some decent runs. Game plan and a starting lineup, see what both can do.
Not to mention the starting WR out also. So no threat on the outside, no Witten. so yes, they could blitz and key on the run.

Look at this logical well thought out unemotional post. Bravo jazzcat, you're the real mvp

 

[gimmesix]

That sounds exactly like most posters description of Murray last year, so we should be able to get 1800 yards out of him.

Murray was very good at the line of scrimmage. If the hole was there, he got to it into the second level. If the hole wasn't there, he adjusted and found a spot to at least dive forward for a couple of yards. Where Murray wasn't good was making people miss on the second level. Sometimes he sought out contact, at other times he just made a poor decision either with the path he decided to choose or the angle.

From what I've seen, McFadden is the opposite of Murray. If the hole opens up, he's going to get through it and be hard to catch. If it doesn't open up, he'll run into his blocking rather than adjust and find the hole that did open up. Murray also had very good balance in traffic (but not so much in the open field) while McFadden has some struggles in that area.

I really feel much better about Randle's chances of success (although I don't feel at ease about that), but it would be great if they all succeed.

 

[ufcrules1]

You were always going to have to put a unproven guy back there unless you made a trade for a guy.

I'm not worried about it.


What bothers me is when Cowboyszone has a seizure everytime a run play gets stuffed and blames it immediately on the RB.

I don't care about run stuffs in the preseason. Nobody should care about that. We could have gotten someone in the draft like Ameer who has tons of upside potential or tried to trade for a player like Lamar Miller or similar. But no, we are going to roll the dice with DMC as our starter and Randle.

 

[CATCH17]

I don't care about run stuffs in the preseason. Nobody should care about that. We could have gotten someone in the draft like Ameer who has tons of upside potential or tried to trade for a player like Lamar Miller or similar. But no, we are going to roll the dice with DMC as our starter and Randle.

Ameer Abdullah is a Sproles type.. We'd still need a lead guy with Abdullah.


Imo, and maybe the Cowboys think like I do, the best backs were Gordon, Gurley, Yeldon, and David Johnson.

By the time we got to the 3rd round all those players were gone and your were left with the crappy guys like Jay Ajayi that Cowboyszone was in love with for some reason.

 

[silver]

they'll throw it more this season

I dont like this, but we may not have a choice. There were too many 3rd and short last night and we lined up in the shotgun. Last year we would've run half the time in those situations.

 

[Jstopper]

They will and if they have to throw a lot more the Cowboys will likely be scratching and clawing for 9 wins.

How do you reach that conclusion? So our talent level on our team is so lacking that if we don't run as much as we pass, then we will be scratching for a winning season? No. There is no logical way to reach that conclusion.

 

[gmoney112]

Not really sure how anyone can begin to judge the RB's performance last night with 4 OL starters out (and our starters are pretty good) against the Niners first string defense that, to me, looked like it run blitzed quite a bit.

The run game will look significantly different when our 2 All-Pro's and the second half of one of the best, if not the best, Left end rushing YPC tandem (Tyron/Leary) return.

Basically all last night proved was that they can take a few carries without shattering.

 

[Alexander]

What bothers me is when Cowboyszone has a seizure everytime a run play gets stuffed and blames it immediately on the RB.

Why should that bother you? Half the people around here have been saying the OL is so flawless that it blows holes open you could drive a semi through, so how could it be anyone's fault but the running back?

 

[Tommy]

I know it absolutely kills me. It's ok to let Murray go but you HAVE to have a back up plan. The obsessed about the defense and ignored the RB position. Acted like the only reason we were good at RB is because of the offensive line. For once we finally had an outstanding run game last year and our team kicked major butt because of it, now we are just going to ignore the position and put scrubs/unproven players back there? Dumb man.

They have a backup plan. You just don't like it.

BTW, if they did things your way they would have got rid of Romo a long time ago.

 

[jrumann59]

Spagnolo(NYG) will blitz the Cowboys like crazy in Week 1 because the perception out there is the Cowboys RBs are either unproven or unfamiliar with the blocking schemes. So this is something that bears watching. And quite honestly, it's the only way the NYG can apply any pressure and protect their shaky pass D.

I hope he does, his secondary has few holes in it also.

 

[PA Cowboy Fan]

We'll probably have to wait for the draft next year for Jerry to get Tony his Terrell Davis.

Another wasted year for Tony.

 

[YosemiteSam]

As long as our OL can open up holes like they do in college, McFadden will be fine. The problem is, opening holes that large generally do not happen at the NFL level.

 

[CATCH17]

Why should that bother you? Half the people around here have been saying the OL is so flawless that it blows holes open you could drive a semi through, so how could it be anyone's fault but the running back?

We use hyperbole as to how good the O-line was but it was good.

Even Murray had to establish himself in games and he didn't have a big game every Sunday or get positive yards every run.


The expectations around here have got out of hand and odds are even Murray couldn't reproduce what he did a year ago.

Bottom line... If it don't get blocked 9 times out of 10 you're getting stuffed at the line.

 

[JD_KaPow]

DMC has a career 4.1 ypc for a bad Oakland team..

4.4, 3.4, 5.2, 5.4, 3.3, 3.3, 3.4.

He's four years removed from a decent ypa. Injuries and age take their toll.

 

[Kevinicus]

It will be hard for me to judge Murray in what he's doing at Philly. They run a completely different system and the talent he has on offense around him is not as good as Dallas, especially the OL. And the fact he will not be the big bell cow like he was last year.

I think he fit this system very well. I was not that upset we let him go because I trusted the FO really had a plan to replace him. But all they did was pick up McFadden. Terrible.

Seems a little contradictory to me.

 

[CowboyRoy]

Listening to the post game show and the comments from Jerry, Broadus and others around Valley Ranch, that it's McFadden's job to lose. They just trust him more in pass protection. How many are genuinely excited about that? To go from Murray now to McFadden, a guy who has terrible YPC over the years, only carried it 200 plus times 2 times in his 8 seasons. Can't stay healthy. We are going from filet mignon last year to Taco Bell this year. Which will have a big domino effect on this team.

I see nothing from this game that suggests that McFadden will be the starter. Do they trust him more as a pass blocker? Probably. But that doesn't make him the starter. I do think Randle needs to add more physicality to his blocking style though. If he wants to win it out right.

Murray ain't filet he's ground chuck.

Randle is a better runner than mcinjury

 

[mrmojo]

IMO The running game is what got us to 12-4 and a good run into the playoffs......Im a little afraid if we dont establish the run again we will revert back to looking to pass first which didn't work in the past. I just hope one of these backs can establish themselves and we don't lose confidence in the running game....

 

[Staubacher]

Why should that bother you? Half the people around here have been saying the OL is so flawless that it blows holes open you could drive a semi through, so how could it be anyone's fault but the running back?

The starting OL come.on man

 

[CowboyRoy]

Matthews looked better than Murray did in their game. Murray looked real slow and lumbering compared to Sproles and Matthews.

Mathews is better than Murray. But he is even more injury prone than Murray is.

 

[Staubacher]

IMO The running game is what got us to 12-4 and a good run into the playoffs......Im a little afraid if we dont establish the run again we will revert back to looking to pass first which didn't work in the past. I just hope one of these backs can establish themselves and we don't lose confidence in the running game....

Romo pulled three or so games out his butt we would have lost running game or not.