We're counting down the days to our annual trip to Oxnard with a deep dive into every position group the Cowboys will field in camp. Today we look at their running back room, one that has the least invested in it across the entire NFL. Will the Cowboys' cheap approach lead to any dividends on the field this season?
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00:00It has become the analogy I've made is this is very similar to me to what they did with
00:21receiver in 2018 when they walked away from Dez which not to say that Dez should have
00:27stayed here they made the early decision sought in advance walked away from the decline.
00:31Dez was done.
00:32Yeah.
00:33It's amazing to me how many Cowboy fans like fight that.
00:36Refused to admit that his foot just got bunched and he was terrible.
00:39I mean just they got ahead of the decline they did what the Patriots have done typically
00:43throughout the years but the problem was is that they entered that 2018 season doing the
00:46wide receiver by committee approach.
00:48As a reminder week one of that season Dallas started with Terrence Williams and Deontay
00:53Thompson as their starting wide receivers and then behind them subbing into the game
00:57were Alan Hearns a rookie Michael Gallup Tavon Austin and Cole Beasley.
01:02You can get away with that with a great quarterback.
01:04You can.
01:05Now just ask the Chiefs.
01:06They had through seven weeks of the season their top three leading receivers were Jeff
01:10Swain Ezekiel Elliott and Cole Beasley who combined were averaging nine yards per reception.
01:14Pretty brutal.
01:15Yeah.
01:16They make the decision we got to go out and get a Murray Cooper.
01:18I think they're going to end up doing the same thing here with the running back position.
01:20They're going to have to midseason.
01:22Maybe they come to that realization during training camp.
01:24But they're going to have to say we've got to make a deal.
01:27It doesn't have to be in a Murray Cooper deal but we've got to go out there and look for
01:30who has a surplus and who might be willing to deal us a running back that can contribute
01:35here.