Christine Michael to Dallas

Cowboysrock55 said:
I don't know if that is the teams intention but I will say it's going to be difficult to have 4 RBs on the active game day roster. That means it could be hard for Michael to get carries at first. I fully expect McFadden to get his usual injury though and for Michael to play from there. I think it's less about developing his skills and more about just adding more talent to the position as an insurance policy.
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I think he is definitely a player the Cowboys belief is a future starter but I just don't see him getting carries this season unless randle falters or McFadden gets hurt. I would like him to flash this season. Wait and see I guess
 
GForce78NJ said:
Please compare Christine Michael to Eroc Dickerson one more time
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the point is that Dickerson had to learn a system/playbook too. are you implying that Michael is too stupid to play this year or something? he can't digest 20 run plays rather quickly?
 
GForce78NJ said:
I think he is definitely a player the Cowboys belief is a future starter but I just don't see him getting carries this season unless randle falters or McFadden gets hurt. I would like him to flash this season. Wait and see I guess
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I'm worried that we will be stubborn with McFadden and insist on using him even when he isn't being productive. I think McFadden will be great on some of our stretch stuff but I think the majority of his runs will suck.
 
bbgun said:
the point is that Dickerson had to learn a system/playbook too. are you implying that Michael is too stupid to play this year or something? he can't digest 20 run plays rather quickly?
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Not stupid. Inconsistent and fumbles. Needs work on his mechanics as a running back. He's talented and has not put his game together which is why he is now a cowboy
 
GForce78NJ said:
Not stupid. Inconsistent and fumbles. Needs work on his mechanics as a running back. He's talented and has not put his game together which is why he is now a cowboy
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He has one career fumble. Has he been fumbling in preseason or something?
 
Cowboysrock55 said:
He has one career fumble. Has he been fumbling in preseason or something?
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this is the article i read. to say i know more than just reading this would be a lie but if you can't beat out Robert Turbin for the #2 there has to be some truth to it:


hird-year pro plays well in spurts but also fumbles the football.
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By Jayson Jenks
Seattle Times staff reporter

The Seahawks have always been clear on what’s kept talented running back Christine Michael from seeing the field more: his inconsistencies. The Seahawks need to be able to trust Michael from down to down, and three years into his pro career, they have not been able to do that.

Michael’s first drive on Friday encompassed his plight perfectly. On his first carry, Michael spun, made a defensive lineman miss behind the line of scrimmage and turned what should have been a loss into 5 yards.

On the next play, he picked up a blitzing linebacker and stonewalled him, allowing quarterback Tarvaris Jackson to complete a pass and pick up a first down on third down.

And then, two plays later, Michael tried to stretch a run outside, became careless with the ball and fumbled. He lost 9 yards, and it killed the drive. Michael also struggled with fumbles last preseason, something Seahawks coach Pete Carroll and his staff don’t tolerate.

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“As a guy that’s growing, that’s football,” Michael said. “You’ve just got to go to the next play, man, and hopefully stack some good plays on top of each other.”

The head-scratching inconsistency has limited him to 52 carries in his first two seasons.

Michael finished with 15 yards on seven carries, but in fairness Carroll said the offensive line didn’t block well for Michael. Thomas Rawls, who replaced Michael in the second half, led the Seahawks with 31 yards on nine carries and scored a 19-yard touchdown on a screen pass.


http://www.seattletimes.com/sports/...ent-play-from-running-back-christine-michael/
 
I thought Turbin was always a pretty good back. He got cut because he was hurt but it's not like the guy was trash.
 
Christine Michael’s inconsistency proved to be his downfall with Seahawks
Originally published September 6, 2015 at 5:03 pm Updated September 7, 2015 at 11:29 am



Despite immense talent, Michael never caught on to all of the intricacies the Seahawks demand of their running backs, and he was traded to Dallas for a conditional seventh-round pick.



By Jayson Jenks
Seattle Times staff reporter
It was accepted as gospel — from coaches, scouts and nonpartisan evaluators — that running back Christine Michael oozed talent. He walked into a room or onto a field and his potential demanded to be seen. It was that obvious.

Former NFL scout Louis Riddick once called Michael the most gifted running back drafted in the last five years. A strength and conditioning coach who worked with both players once said Michael was just as explosive as Adrian Peterson.


And yet on Sunday the Seahawks traded Michael, a second-round pick in 2013, to the Dallas Cowboys for a conditional seventh-round pick. It’s the kind of trade teams make for players they’re about to release, and it marked an end to a frustrating and unfulfilled two years of promise.

Christine Michael file
Height: 5-10. Weight: 221

Age: 24. School: Texas A&M

Drafted: Second round in 2013 by the Seahawks.

Traded: Seattle sent him to Dallas for a conditional seventh-round pick.

2013 season: 18 carries for 79 yards.

2014 season: 34 carries for 175 yards.

Michael touched the ball only 53 times in two seasons, but the play that defined his tenure in Seattle was a 12-yard catch last year in San Francisco — the only catch of his career.


As Michael neared the first-down marker — it was second-and-13 — he slowed up and stuttered before stepping out of bounds. Had he lowered his shoulder, had he used his powerful 221-pound body, he would have easily picked up the first down.

But as inexplicable as that decision was, it was what happened right after that cemented the play: Michael kept running into the end zone, yelling all the way, celebrating his run — and he hadn’t picked up the first down. He was immediately taken out of the game.

It was always that way with Michael, a strange cocktail of talent, potential, immaturity and inconsistency.

There was the time in Philadelphia last year when he picked up 7 yards and then tried to wave off starter Marshawn Lynch as Lynch jogged onto the field. Michael lost that battle, although safety Earl Thomas remarked with admiration, “That took balls.”

There was the time the Seahawks fumbled the snap in the red zone in Carolina last season, and Michael, the presumed ball carrier, repeatedly waved his hand in disgust, like a fan disagreeing with an official’s call.

He admitted after his rookie season that he wasn’t a “complete pro.” But the same problems that plagued him then haunted him throughout his career.


The Seahawks have to trust their running backs, and that trust plays out in many ways. Michael struggled with most of them. He fumbled in the preseason, something coach Pete Carroll and his staff won’t tolerate.

He didn’t always hit the right holes or follow the specifics of a play. Seattle running backs are asked to hit “dark creases” — designated spots in the line where a hole might not exist one second before opening the next. Lynch does that better than anyone, and fullback Derrick Coleman once said the backs who don’t do that aren’t here anymore.

Those intricacies, the finer points of the position, evaded Michael, and even his vast amount of talent couldn’t overcome his shortcomings.

“You might see the great cut one time and then not the next, and it’s the exact same scenario,” offensive-line coach Tom Cable said last year. “He comes across and makes a great blitz pickup one play and then he’s supposed to chip and then, ‘Oh, I’m going to get out for my route, and oops I forgot to chip.’ It’s just being able to put a good play together and then a good one the next time and the next time. When that becomes his habit, then he owns it. Right now he doesn’t own it.”

Or, as former Seahawks fullback Kiero Small put it last year, “Once he gets to point B, his God-given ability takes over. It’s getting from A to B with him.”

Michael never got to point B with the Seahawks, at least not with any consistency. He was the logical heir to Lynch’s throne, the next engine to power the Seahawks’ offense.


It was a whiff, perhaps the biggest of the Carroll-John Schneider era, and now the Seahawks have to look for another young running back next offseason (undrafted rookie Thomas Rawls has looked promising, but the Seahawks will need more options).

Michael gets a fresh start with the Cowboys and their top-shelf offensive line. Maybe it will work out. But he will have to solve the puzzle of his talent, the one he never resolved in Seattle.

“It’s that delicate balance between his functional football playing ability and his makeup,” said Riddick during Michael’s rookie season.

“You have to tie the two together so you have someone who isn’t just going to tease you with potential and not turn that into sustainable talent. And that’s what people were scared of with Christine.”
 
Anybody we were going to trade for has warts, outside of contract-year Lamar Miller who would've cost at least a 3rd most likely. Might as well take a chance on someone with great talent who has a problem in his head, if he figures it out, we have a steal, if he doesn't we lost a 7th round pick that we will recoup through compensatory picks so who cares?

I'm encouraged that we will seemingly be searching high and low for RB's as the year goes on unless we are completely satisfied with what we have.
 
For a 7th, this seems like a low risk high-upside trade. Any concerns aren't about Michael and the trade value, but the RB situation overall. A lot of unproven players.
 
Jiggyfly said:
Seattle running backs are asked to hit “dark creases” — designated spots in the line where a hole might not exist one second before opening the next. Lynch does that better than anyone, and fullback Derrick Coleman once said the backs who don’t do that aren’t here anymore.
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This is encouraging in a strange way and explains why his highlight runs only seem to happen when the OL has blown open giant holes.

He just didn't get their blocking scheme, so maybe there's a chance the Cowboys' blocking scheme comes more naturally to him. Hey, it's a chance.

I know it takes a special kind of patience to run behind a zone-blocking scheme (which Murray had in abundance), but with the blocking he's going to get and the way the safeties have to respect Bryant and Witten you've got to think Michael will have some big-time chances to show off that speed and power.
 
mschmidt64 said:
Hmmm... Like maybe they wanted a 6th from us because we pick so low, or a 7th from the Titans cause they'll pick high.
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If nothing else a 7th from the Titans is worth a little more than one from us if you have the choice between the two
 
Iamtdg said:
Momma wanted a girl. It's that simple, unfortunately.

Personal[edit]
Michael's first name, which is unusual for a male, is pronounced chris-TIN /krɪsˈtɪn/.[9] His mother told him that she first thought the child to be a girl and so she chose the name before she knew the baby's sex; she likened the name to the character in the Johnny Cash song "A Boy Named Sue".[10]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Michael
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This is what happened when my Mom was born, but luckily the name they had picked out was Jack so they just named her Jackie. Could have been worse
 
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