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Originally Posted by rafiki
Would you want a friendly wager based on carries per game? Because I can promise you that if healthy, DMC will bell cow the load. Why (in no order):
1) DMC is the better pass blocker by a decent margin
2) Of the 2, DMC is the better pass catcher by an exponential margin
3) DMC is the better runner to boot (pick any stat you want to measure by)
4) They've already shown they'll use him that way when possible
They may give the goal lines to Morris, and they may certainly spell DMC with Morris because they can. But DMC will be the feature back FOR SURE. And no they won't bring in a better back, they like DMC-Morris a lot as a 1-2.
I don't disagree with (1)-(3), but (4) is where I'm not convinced. I didn't watch every Dallas game last year, so perhaps I'm missing some key context and tidbits information. When (and in what instances) did we see evidence of (4)?
From some quick cursory glancing at last year's stats, the only interesting tidbits I see are weeks 16-17 (14 carries and 7 carries for DMC). Morris had 8 carries in week 17. (Not that week 17 is an important data point as they had the 1-seed locked already). That doesn't look like bellcow work to me for either, but, again, I'm probably missing some important info (usage, red zone opps, 3rd-and-short stuff, perhaps).
In any event, I'm not really a fan of trying to draw strong inferences from this small sample size, and I do think the chance of the team adding another RB is maybe only 5%-10% (so any friendly wager would have to have appropriate odds
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