It has to be Blue. Who else would it be? Dak is not taking this team to 12 wins without a serious run game. Who besides Blue can give us that? If he can't do it, then no, we're not winning 12 games. But our bad run D hasn't stopped us from winning 12 games before.
I mention Blue because he has the speed. But it will mostly be about our OL. Even in a pessimistic scenario I can see 8 wins. If the team is better than we expect, who know?
I understand where you're coming from and to some extent I can agree,
but I'm saying you need to give this a chance,
a 3 headed running back room can work, and you don't have to be the best running team to get into the Super Bowl or to go further in the playoffs. We just watched the Kansas City Chiefs who had a bottom 10 run game in this league go to a Super Bowl, yes they lost but they didn't have anything special at the run area,(Look it up I already did they were right there with the Cowboys with their run offense) they just were steady, that's what you need we need an efficient run game to start with and yes Blue can be the guy to give you that dynamic play, he along with Turpin need to have a lot more plays created, to help us have that impact play here and there in the game from the offense.
You think of what Lamb already gives us but you add now a guy like Pickens to this offense and how this coaching staff hopefully utilizes blue and turpin more to get you those chunk plays, but in the meantime in the middle all you need is a steady run game, and you need to commit to it, it doesn't matter if you're getting only 3.5 five yards per carry as long as you're setting yourself up in third and under 5, if possible, then you have everything open to you as a play caller and yes Dak can operate out of that, we've seen it.
And that's acting like you sit here and forget that Troy and Roger had some of the best run games, offensive lines ,and coaching Staffs in the history of the NFL, and acting like they would be able to do any better than Dak in this mess, especially last year it's the same thing in 2020 ,almost no signs of an offensive line or a run game....
So yes, just keep names out of it, quarterbacks can have a much easier time and more success if they have a strong run game, ask Jalen Hurts...lol
That's the irony here they had the best run game in the NFL by far last year and won a Super Bowl they didn't ask the quarterback to hardly do anything but because they had to pressure off him and the defense has had to respect the run game when they needed him Jalen Hurts looked good ,he looked efficient ,and yet they beat the team in the Super Bowl they had one of the worst run games but both of them were in the Super Bowl ,1 with the best run game ,one with the worst run game. ironic huh?
Just want to be clear here it can work the running back by committee worked for San Francisco before Christian Mccaffrey got there and what I saw is that's not all you need ask Derek Henry how it feels to leave the Titans and join the Ravens who just went to a AFC championship game,
And ironically, they didn't even get back there with Derrick Henry, and they had the second-best run game in the NFL with one of the MVP quarterbacks and they still did it mate the AFC championship game...
irony? That's what fans need to keep reminding themselves is that the team game you need all phases including the coaching Staffs the schemes it needs to all come together you need it all you can't just have a dynamic offense ,if your defense can't hold up..
I mean ask the Ravens, the Ravens literally were loaded on offense for the most part, I mean when you have that kind of run game and you fall short of at least advancing to anther AFCCG.
Oh, I saw the 49ers with a running back by committee have about three running backs with around 500 yards each around 3 to five touchdowns each and sometimes they brought in a fourth running back with Garoppolo at quarterback and made it to a super bowl. hmm ironic..
So, I think we do have the pieces I think the guys that got in the draft in the offseason they're going to find the best ones to rotate along with the scheme in the offensive line ,and what's more important is the play calling and committing to the run game, no matter how it looks early you need to create offense, sometimes and Mike Mccarthy wasn't up to doing that either his best players did it or he just basically decided not to do it until things became critical....
We do have some dynamic players on this offense ,if you can't win more than eight games with a healthy and I have to premise that healthy with Prescott, Pickens, lamb ,and a mix of blue and turpin To find success in between using your other running backs to get your short yardage stuff to get the steady 3 yards here and there occasionally get four or five yards, then this is the wrong coaching staff once again the asset is key the offensive line but Mike McCarthy waited until mid-season to start being creative.... you have to do that every game from game one to game seventeen, you got to create things you can't just sit back and let teams dictate to you how the games are going to flow on both sides of the ball.
You don't have to be dynamic, you have to be committed to dictating to the teams what you want to do even if it's not chunk plays all the time and you can do that with the players we have on this team right now.. Again look it up Kansas City made it to a Super Bowl with very little impactful players on offense other than the quarterback obviously but they created everything they got that got them to the Super Bowl it was done with scheme and timing and they executed when they needed to but they were not dynamic in the run game but really if you look at that whole team they didn't have a wide open offense they had a pretty damn good defense until the Super Bowl loss...
