byau":951ypioy said:Listening to the ESPN Football Today podcast from Monday, the ESPN Dallas reporter was talking about the Dallas Cowboys and said the one thing they did really well was sticking to their commitment to run.
Not just against the Seahawks, but last week as well. When Dallas went down 21-0 at half, they didn't abandon their run game and put faith in it that it would be dividends and eventually wear the opposing D down.
Same thing happened with Seahawks too. I think the stat was that Demarco was still at about 60 or 70 yards for the game until the last few rushes where he had something ilke two rushes for 20 to 30 yards each
And the beat writer even went on to say that it's interesting that even very smart coaches in the NFL for some reason abandon the run too early
Going forward, I'd love to hear this praise for Seattle in the coming weeks. You think they would have learned from San Diego. Now they have a sample size of 2: lose games when you don't run.
Listening to 10/13 podcast
http://espn.go.com/espnradio/podcast/archive?id=2544457
That's the thing about the running game; it ALWAYS pays off in the 4th quarter. Always. SD and AZ beat us through their commitment to the run, despite a lack of yards.
Which is why I don't buy into the "we couldn't run, we we're facing 9 man boxes vs Dallas"? Yeah, so? That's how it was last year too. I'll take a 3 and out if the Hawks ran on 1st and 2nd, over a 3 and out with passes on 1nd and 2nd. The latter doesn't help later in the game.