Who’s decision was it to make Pollard the primary back?

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I only read the 1st four words of the title of this thread, and I know the correct answer:

Jerruh.

If the rest of it was "draft Mazi" or "hire MM" or "trade a 4th for Trey Lance" or "charge $14 for a MillerLite" ....no matter what the end of that statement was.....my answer is correct
 
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thunderpimp91 said:
I’m more disappointed in Brian schottenheimer. The guys value really comes in the ability to have a creative run game. Maybe we have that the issue is MM refuses to call anything other than a dive play but I’m not sure Pollard is being set up for success at all in this offense.
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In fairness the RB coach was the run game coordinator and he was out for the season until last week.
 
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Rockport said:
Whomever it was should be fired. PLEASE TRADE FOR A REAL #1 RB!
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Virtually every poster here was screaming for Pollard to be RB1 last year after a few flashy plays. Life’s different when you’re the man, though. He isn’t and will never be a legit RB1 that can run a team to a deep playoff run.
 

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LovinItAll said:
Virtually every poster here was screaming for Pollard to be RB1 last year after a few flashy plays. Life’s different when you’re the man, though. He isn’t and will never be a legit RB1 that can run a team to a deep playoff run.
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No, not even close. It was split almost 50-50. Maybe it was more like 60-40 for, not sure, but it was far from "virtually every poster here".
 
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Rockport said:
I don’t have any angst other than I wish they were better. I have no control over the situation.
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Exactly you are antsy about the RB position and are looking for someone to blame. It's uncertain so I get the angst.

What I do not get are people that always look for an individual to blame for their unease. Scapegoating is what it is.
 
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Myself, I just think we could use a back with size to partner with Pollard. I think the issue is way overblown because running efficiency doesn't matter much. There is a ton of evidence that playaction still works if your running game is not efficient.
 
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FuzzyLumpkins said:
Myself, I just think we could use a back with size to partner with Pollard. I think the issue is way overblown because running efficiency doesn't matter much. There is a ton of evidence that playaction still works if your running game is not efficient.
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Not in the red zone it doesn't. At least not for the Cowboys.
 

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FuzzyLumpkins said:
Myself, I just think we could use a back with size to partner with Pollard. I think the issue is way overblown because running efficiency doesn't matter much. There is a ton of evidence that playaction still works if your running game is not efficient.
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Not really. The bigger threat your running game presents, the better playaction works.
 
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RonnieT24 said:
Actually I believe Steve Cauthen passed him for most career wins in the early 2000s.
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My bad.. it was Russell Baze who claimed the title of winningest jockey of all time in 2006. But apparently some Brazilian jockey whom I never heard of passed Baze in 2018. I should have remembered Baze because he was a native of the Bay Area and rode most of his winners out there while I was living there. The radio talking heads used to make a huge deal about him. The thing I remember about him is that he would often ride a horse in every race on the schedule on a given day. And he would win like 3/4 of them. Dude was amazing in his ability to guide a horse to victory. Did it over 12,000 times in his career. Just amazing..
 
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Not really. The bigger threat your running game presents, the better playaction works.
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Nope

Play-action is not correlated to run frequency or effectiveness​

Further, play-action effectiveness isn’t reliant on whether a team is good at running the ball or even if a team runs the ball at all. A limiting belief from coaches is that they have to establish to the run to be able to have effective play-action. Data does not support that. For years, play-action success rate has been uncorrelated to rush attempts and rushing success rate. Running play-action is just as effective when you’ve run the ball 30% of the time as it is when you run it 50% of the time.

What’s more, it doesn’t matter if you’re breaking off big chunks on those runs, either. That’s true in season-long data sets and within individual games as well. Regardless of how often a team has rushed in subsequent plays or how well they rushed in subsequent plays, the yards per attempt on play-action remain stable and higher than normal dropback passing.
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https://weeklyspiral.com/2021/10/29/play-action-passing-is-the-best-play-in-football/
 
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