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Originally Posted by nath
I was intrigued by your Ramsey / Henry idea but you lost me at "there's 20 RB in the league that could have done what Zeke did." There might be three.
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Originally Posted by nath
His point has gone from "20 RBs could do what Zeke did" to "20 RBs could run for 1200 yards in the Dallas offense" to "Zeke is only good not great" to "Zeke is overrated because of Dallas' OL" to "I think Zeke might never improve on his rookie year" over the course of the day.
I think the more important question, at least regarding his original point, is how valuable was his production even? I don't know how I'd go about answering it, but I'm gonna try.
Let's assume your baseline assessment that "only 3-4 RB's in the league could do what Zeke did" is true. Then let's put a league avg RB as Dallas #1 RB last year, what do we think he does behind that OL? Let's say we know the production will drop, which would also cause the volume to drop some. Couldn't you make the argument that replacing x% of running plays with passing plays in a situation like Dallas (Zeke 5.54 ypp on runs, Dak 7.9 y/a) is always going to be a good thing? I understand that a running game like the one Dallas had last year is going to positively affect the passing game, but I would argue that with Dallas OL they would stress the run and the run would be something to gameplan against pretty much no matter what.
So I guess my conclusion is that you would much rather have ~random RB+Ramsey than just Zeke on that Dallas team.