Well because they're not breaking off 10+ yard runs, you fail to realize sir that in Dallas in order for us to WANT to run the ball, the call carrier MUST be getting these kinds of gains
At his point in his career no I'm sorry, let Hunter get in
Sadly though, he may be our 3rd best receiver presently behind Ceedee and Ferguson
Same with the crying about getting Henry!!!! He would be here and he would be the worst ever!! This line and scheme are horrible
It's crazy people don't see it man. CRAZY
I think its simply because the RBs are going to be different next season, but the OL has two rookies you've invested in, a RT that you're stuck with for another year at least, a LG you're about to pay top money to, and a RG that will be penciled in as a starter if he doesnt elect to retire. The only hope fans have for 2025 is convincing themselves that its not a talent problem on the OL and its simply coaching and RBs....the things Jerry will change at the end of the year and try to sell us on why we need to buy more tickets.
I think it's twofold, 1) JJ is trying to extract value out of the dead money he has over the original Zeke release, and 2) zeke was his pick and he wants to prove it was the smart pick...that we let him go too soon and he still had juice left...like Derrick Henry.
That would make sense except I watched Henry average 2.5 ypc for a quarter and a half and they NEVER stopped giving it to him. A couple of weeks ago he had something like 24 yards on 15 carries entering the 4th quarter and they STILL kept giving it to him. You know why? Because they unlike the Cowboys are COMMITTED to the run. I guarantee you that if Henry was playing for the Cowboys and he entered the 4th quarter with 20 some yards on 15 carries he would finish the game with 20 some yards on 15 carries. Regardless of the score.
Jerry wanted to tell the story about how Zeke marched into his office and implored the godfather to give him the ball.
I suspect if you put our line in Baltimore with their playcaller our line would do just fine. If you watch our schemes we are constantly trying to finesse people in the run game. As I mentioned they brought back the delay handoff where nobody blocks the backside DE play yesterday. That unblocked DE made the tackle every time we want it except for the one time Zeke shook him off and got two. Our line is HUGE and we are still *****footin around up there. We need to get a hat on a hat and move people. Until we do so we are going to continue to struggle to run the ball with any consistency. This is not the old 49er or Denver offensive line with smaller, quicker guys up front. These a behemoths and we need use them as such. I think Zack Martin is the smallest guy on our line by 10 or 15 pounds. Think about that.. a 315 pound man is our "lil guy." We need to be playing smash mouth not ballroom dancing.
He still would not have gotten the ball more than 10 times. Zeke had 5 carries (FOR THE GAME) until the last drive. Henry had 6 carries on his team's first two drives without a single 10+ yarder among them. But the Ravens kept feeding him. Until the Cowboys are willing to do that I am not interested in any of this "well we need to see big runs to keep running it." No team that actually wants to run the ball has that mentality. But then the Cowboys have proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that they don't want to run the ball.
I think more people need to watch Henry's games.. He has plenty of games where he does absolutely nothing for 8, 10 , 15 carries... Sometimes he will get top 20 carries averaging less than 2 ypc and his teams have always simply kept giving him the ball because they know eventually the dam will break. And it usually does. This coaching staff does not have that mindset so the notion that Henry would be running for 150 yards a game in Dallas is patently false. He gets bottled up for long stretches just like our guys, and he's running behind a much better line. The difference is when our guys are bottled up we stop running.. Henry's coaches refuse to do that and I applaud them for it.
Maybe but I think you have this backwards. I think the Cowboys need to get him going to establish the run. And they're never going to get him going on 2 carries a quarter. The dude just can't play that way. Like I said, some guys can come off the bench and some guys can't. Zeke appears to be the latter. It is what it is. If they want the most out of him they need to start him and feed him. If they're not willing to do that then I think we will continue to see him being ineffective. It's just not working out for him to run it one time, pass block two plays then go stand on the sidelines for 15 minutes. The old muscles and bones don't appear to get lubed up fast enough. It is what it is.
