Running backs also look good when they have fresh legs facing a defense that has been grinding all season. I like Deuce too but people need to slow down on his greatness. He could have a role in this offense but McCarthy and Schottenheimer clearly are not the ones to devise it.
I really don't understand it. Very very few players can play in any system.
If used correctly perhaps that doesn't happen, he got hit by big dudes in college and bounced right up. he hasn't been given a fair chance at a role here in Dallas. LOOK at his college tape and figure it out. Dude was a dynamic runner.
The shotgun is a terrible play type for running the ball.
In this case, NOT out of the shotgun.
99%. Deuce is short, not small. He's built like a dang fireplug. Slim builds are the ones who get injured, and often taller players. W/ his solid build, he'd prolly never get hurt.
There are backs who excel in it.. Pollard is one.. Saquon is too. Barry Sanders was the best at it obviously.. Emmitt likely never would have gotten past 10,000 yards running it much less 18,000. Downhill guys like Henry and Zeke? Not a chance. The best coaches figure out what their guys can do and repeatedly devise a plan to let them do it. Stupid coaches try to force guys into their "system."
The only injury worry I would have on a guy with his guild would be hammies. He is wound VERY tight and given that he is likely going to spend his entire career being asked to some in cold off the sidelines I could see him pulling one every other season if he's in the regular rotation. He's a solid 175-180 on a 5'5" frame. If he were 6 inches taller that would be like 5'11" 235. The fact that people don't understand that never ceases to amaze me. That and the fact that Deuce has been the smallest guy on the field his entire life. He didn't just become small this past year. Dude knows how to play at his size. How to avoid big hits and how to fall to say nothing of how to get out of bounds and on the ground before the entire defense gets there. You learn these skills as a small guy when you're on the sandlot in elementary school.
I think Rico showed he was our best back this year, but I really think there's more to Vaughn and the coaches just haven't figured out how to use him.
This. I think Rico is a serviceable back. But it took them 10 games to figure that out. 12 games to figure out Turpin needs to be involved in the offense. Wasting quality touches on Zeke was asinine. Poor and unimaginative coaching at its worst.
I don't think it was quite 10 games was it? He took over as the starter in week 2 and began getting the bulk of the carries in week 4 or 5 basically starting at Pitt. Still the need to stick with him rather than rotating took way longer than it should have. It also took way too long for them to figure out that Zeke was not a "change of pace" type back. He couldn't get going on sporadic touches so they should have parted ways with him much sooner. And lest we forget, Turpin had a bad case of the dropsies early in the season. Fortunately for him he found a cure but a lot of the blame for his underuse early on falls to him.
I could see this front office justifying not drafting a running back because of Dowdle and Deuce, even though they have not used him enough to know exactly what he can handle in this league.
you guys are over the top with your demands,
Yep.. the only power any of us has is to not watch or go to the games. Jerry gonna do what he damn well pleases with his team. Frankly if I can swing it financially I am always going to go to at least one game every season. It's fun.. No not as much fun if my team sucks but still fun. I am going to watch every Sunday (Thrusday, Monday or Saturday) because that's what a fan does. Yes we can complain till the cows come home but ultimately, until about 100 million people turn their backs on the Cowboys, nothing is going to change in Jerry-land.
how is he a home run back? his longest run was 13 yards...
could it be that duece sucks?
Well some suggestions or ideas it's OK some are wild where they use words like conditions like they have some kind of power literally the word better comes to mind like Rico dado had he been given the ball more than 10 * a game or less the first eight games of the season I imagine he had about 1300 yards this year easily I could see that if they made him the feature back early we wouldn't be saying we need 3 new running backs no what I saw is the offensive line was better they called more runs than they did at the beginning of the year they got more creative they used Turpin in the backfield more lately if they started the season like this I could only imagine we wouldn't be having these conversations about having no running backs we actually do have a decent rotation of running backs if they would have stuck to Rico as the primary and then work these backs in creatively like they have the last three or four games from day one...
