I've recall that play many times where Zeke was stuffed. The Denver game a few years back comes to mind.
Then once we started faking to Zeke and running it outside we saw better success.
Regardless, we don't have Zeke anymore and it's a play that we should just completely scrap. If we can get a TD from playing the Giants from that play I can't imagine stronger and more physical defenses being the same outcome.
"Many" is probably an overstatement. His conversion rate in those situations was #1 or #2 in the league the previous three seasons. Not saying he was never stuffed, just that it was relatively rare. He was strong enough and powerful enough to drag people for the needed yardage more often than not. In 2022 in goal to go situations Zeke scored 11 TDs and got 13 first downs on 26 carries. That's 24 out of 26 times getting the desired result. In 2021 it was 7 TDs and 8 first downs on 17 carries. Or 15 of 17 getting the job done. So 39 for 43 over the two seasons. 90.7%.
Now let's look at TP in that same role so far this year. So far this season TP has 2 TDs and 4 first downs on ... get this.. 21 attempts. That's 6 out of 21. I will leave it to you to determine if that's better or worse than 90.7%. Factor in the Zeke played the back half of both '21 and '22 with a jacked up knee and you start to get the picture that for all the grief this fan base gave the guy he was REALLY good at what he was asked to do. They are asking Pollard to do what Zeke did which is just dumb. He aint Zeke.. they need to let him do what HE do and let Rico or Luepke fill the Zeke role. They may not be as good at is as Zeke.. few are.. but I can't imagine they'd be any worse than what Pollard is doing. And in taking that load off him maybe we put the explosive plays back in his game.