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00:00 Do you feel like the Cowboys have enough at running back without Ezekiel Elliott?
00:05 Ezekiel Elliott, as we speak, spent the weekend in Boston, Foxboro, with the Patriots.
00:11 Our sources tell us, by the way, that after he left without a contract, not a workout
00:16 by the way, but a meeting, he was taken to dinner by Matt Jones to a place called Moo
00:22 with a bunch of O's restaurant.
00:24 And there may have been, Bailey Zappi may have been there, there may have been some
00:27 other guys there, but it was kind of a recruiting hang.
00:30 Now, there was also tornadoes in Boston.
00:34 So it's been suggested to me that, well, maybe it was about, "Hey, hang out and let's see
00:38 if we can keep you."
00:39 But maybe it was about, "There's no use going to the airport anyway."
00:42 But the Ezekiel Elliott plan that so many have speculated about as it relates to the
00:47 Cowboys just isn't in existence.
00:50 It's just not what they're thinking here.
00:52 Get the pads on here this week, and let's maybe get through a couple of them.
00:56 And let's see how Tony Pollard and company look running inside the tackles and in pass
01:01 protection and all the rest.
01:03 What you don't want is to have a different guy for each job.
01:07 So, okay, Tony Pollard, you're the starting running back.
01:10 But when it comes time to get the tough yards, Ronald Jones goes in.
01:12 When it's third down and we need a scat back, Deuce, you go in.
01:16 Then it's too obvious.
01:17 So the ideal thing would be to have one guy who can do it all.
01:20 And that starts with Tony Pollard.
01:22 The idea isn't, "Let's see if Malik Davis can run between the tackles and pass pro."
01:28 The test, and I don't know if you're going to see it in games, but if I'm the Cowboys,
01:33 I want to get comfortable in practice.
01:34 Can Tony Pollard be that guy?
01:36 We know that he can carry the load as a running back who runs.
01:42 Can he carry the load doing all the things that Ezekiel Elliott did so well with subtlety
01:47 in some cases?
01:48 Good point.
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