I don't remember seeing him either and was wondering about it during the game. It makes no sense after the game he had last week. Then again, I've used the phrase "It makes no snese" so often over the years regarding this team, I shouldn't be surprised.
You are forgetting his fumble. It's happening too often.
That was on a reception.
So?
Agreed.
So Murray was rushing well 5.0 yards per carry without the big 51 yarder.
Honestly, pdom, I really hate this; someone was running a certain yards per carry stat. I am not sure it means much. What matters more is situational football and there is an ebb and flow to every game. Stop fumbling almost every game. This game went to OT, what yard line was Murray's fumble? That's what matters to me, at least for this week.
We would have had more TOP had we run more. I don't think that the Redskins could have stopped 3 consecutive runs from gaining a first down at any point in the game tonight. We gave them the game by going finesse and playing soft football.
yards per carry is absolutely important. This isn't rushing for 15 yards on 3rd and 20 to skew the statistics. Murray was getting real yards.
He was consistently getting rushes of more than five yards on first down, then we would go to the shotgun for the next 2 plays, insane. I can see following up a good run with play action, but just saying "we're not going to run, please blitz the shit out of Romo" is insane.
No, I am not saying that. You are looking at stats in a vacuum. Yes, lets's rush for 5 yards and then 5 yards. That would be nice.
The Redskins weren't stopping him. If we had ridden Murray like in previous games we'd have dominated TOP again and won the game easily.
Now I'm with you that you can't look at stats at face-value, but Murray's rushing today is about as consistent as you can get. Only two rushes over 10 yards (51, 12) and only one rush for negative yardage.
6-2. And failed to gain a game on the Eagles after playing a bad football team.