Yeah the team needs to be careful about that otherwise teams are going to just focus on Pollard if he is in the game. They need to start using him as a decoy on some of that stuff. Fake it to Pollard and go the opposite direction.
If it really truly was because of the shot, that could possibly be the most petty thing I have ever seen Jerry do.
Yeah I think this all comes from the fact that Zeke is a good blocker. So they really only want to pull him in favor of Pollard when Pollard is getting the ball. But they are just going to have to trust that Pollard can dive at a dudes legs or provide a serviceable level of blocking. You can't make it too obvious. It's sort of like you can't only use Turpin on offense when he is getting the ball. It just becomes too obvious. Hopefully this is just a one game quirk. Turpin for example had 5 snaps but only one touch. So they did a good job of not just putting him on the field for him to get the ball.
Just get them on the field at the same time. They can't focus on them both.
Or just move Smith back to LG where he was expected to play this year. Of course, that would delay his progress as a LT, so there's a dilemma here.
Nor has he been this dominant without Gallimore as well.
Maybe although Smith has played so well that I'm begining to wonder if he isn't better than Peters at LT. Getting your 5 best on the field at all times is a great concept. But at the same time LT is the most important position and you want the best LT on your roster to play and start there. All depends how good Peters is I guess.
Agreed, roll with him at LT. We dont need a rusty Peters moving laterally against top DEs.
Parsons doesn't count obviously, I literally compared him to LT and Reggie White in this thread, it's pretty obvious I'm saying that in comparison to LVE/Cox/whoever else.
Let me re-rank those for you using my brain instead of analytics...
