Sorry I don’t buy into the loading up on zeke, stacked line , 8 man box theories…. That’s not anything new, and the same way they are stacking the line against zeke, ..teams should stacking the line against the likes of Cook, McCaffrey,
but yet these guys are still among the top of the pile in rushing totals and leads, and they are still more than delivering their share of splash plays. We’ll see a number of 6 to 8 splash plays while we’ll only see 1 for zeke ?
They are showing burst whether in-out of holes or bounce outside runs, elusiveness and breakaway separation from the defense. That’s no longer a staple of zeke’s runs.
It seems so geared to up the middle power runs now and solely.
- How much has this run attack has to do with coaches re-coaching and re-shaping zeke into more of a grinding runner and less of a look to breakaway runner ?
- How much has to do with the OL in terms of personnel ? just cannot move opposing bodies off the ball and get a push ?
- How much has to do with run block schemes ? Has the variations changed under Columbo into more man up power and less zone block stretching ?
- I’ve been so mystified and confuse by the sudden lack of burst and splash from zeke, that I even started 2nd guessing if the way we are running zeke out of formation, such as the draw handout, instead
of more out of his deeper handouts with QB under center. . ..could we be running him too much of the RPO draw handoff set..vs how he can get his deeper, quicker look at the developing holes
in the OL.?
- Remember how Emmith Smith was questioning how/way we were running zeke in that same RPO formation at the beginning of his rookie year and season opener vs Giants in 2016 ?
and that's when the Cowboys changed up and seemingly were taking Emmit's advice at a standard stance and the deep handoff - where he seemed a great deal more effective ?
