So another great job coaching and asking Pollard to do something he is not good at. Sounds like the Mazi situation.
Sometimes coaches get caught up in what they want to do even if it isn't the best fit for who they've got. I really think with Mazi that Quinn believed he had the explosive power to be a 3-tech, never mind that he's slow off the snap and didn't really display that in college despite testing well. I'm not sure what the thinking was with Pollard. He had shown some ability to run inside, but it keyed off his ability to really operate well in space, so when he was in the game, defenders had to worry about containing him off tackle. Last year, they weren't so worried about that because we ran him inside more. Now, there could have been a reason for that. Based on his own words, he wasn't back to form for the first half of the season. The coaches could have noticed that early and decided to not have him try to navigate space as much until he got his legs back. However, that just goes back to the poor job this front office does in filling needs. We had Pollard coming off a broken leg and a couple of UDFAs, and we not only let Elliott walk (and for what he was making and how his play was trending, that was understandable) but we didn't draft a back until the sixth round. We could have had De'Von Achane or Tyjae Spears, even with a trade down, if we hadn't been so dead-set on getting a tight end.
These coaches are not given what they need for their offenses and defenses to function at full capacity, so they make due, like Quinn using safeties at linebackers. His signings as head coach in Washington show that he'd prefer to have really qualified LBs, but that's not what he had to work with.
