Mike wanted to run the football. What really happened?

[khiladi]

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/39247349/what-happened-tony-pollard-cowboys-rushing-attack

In last week's win against the Detroit Lions, the Cowboys had 62 yards on 21 carries. Eleven of those carries went for no gain or negative yardage. The Lions often had more defenders than the Cowboys could block.

"A big part of our discussion on Monday was the number of runs we had against empty pressure looks. We didn't give our guys great looks in that particular phase of the game," coach Mike McCarthy said. "The numbers were excessive.

"I think it's definitely something you want to experience during the season because we've actually done very well against empty, but the last couple of weeks, we're a little bit of an empty pressure magnet right now. ... It's good for us. It's made us really knuckle down and review some things and just apply more reps in that area."

Seems like a scheme issue, in the dumbed-down Texas “West Coast” offense.

 

[KJJ]

We miscalculated at RB and had injuries on the OL to start the season. It took several games before we had our entire starting OL together. Even then the run blocking wasn’t very good.

 

[RonWashington]

Tyler Smith is the only OL whose career is trending up . That’s the bottom line on your run game . Better upgrade this unit in the off-season .

 

[DuncanIso]

All last offseason anytime a mike was put in his face he talked about running the football and eliminating the TO’s.

Fast forward to the first month of the season and the dink and dunk offense was born. It actually moved the ball ok, but we couldn’t score in the redzone for what seemed like a month.

After the SF game, things changed and he opened it up passing wise but the running game never did anything. From the SF game on Lamb was the most productive WR in football.

So what happened? We all saw the Oline was terrible at run blocking as backs would get hit in backfield repeatedly. They had this propensity to keep running off Center and off Guard all throughout the year.

How is it fixed? Get better Guards? We have two of the best in football. Get a new Oline coach? Change the run scheme? I was under the impression that was Schotty’s baby, and if it was he failed.

My point is we can’t expect to just bring in a new RB and do the same thing.

How can it be fixed?

We got scrub RBs.

 

[DuncanIso]

Tyler Smith is the only OL whose career is trending up . That’s the bottom line on your run game . Better upgrade this unit in the off-season .

Pro Bowl OL can’t make scrub RBs elite.

Draft a RB.

 

[RonWashington]

Pro Bowl OL can’t make scrub RBs elite.

Draft a RB.

Pollard is not a “ scrub “. Jim Brown would have had issues with the OL play this year .

 

[Wildcat711]

Pollard is not a “ scrub “. Jim Brown would have had issues with the OL play this year .

Wonder if he will be back next season.. I think prob not.. but honestly.. I wouldn't have a clue what this FO thinks.

 

[RonWashington]

Wonder if he will be back next season.. I think prob not.. but honestly.. I wouldn't have a clue what this FO thinks.

I draft a Back to go with Pollard . I’m done with the Rico Dowdle Malik Davis experiments