Cowboys great Emmitt Smith isn’t pleased with how Dallas head coach Mike McCarthy is using tailback Tony Pollard this season, and he made that point abundantly clear during an interview on the Up and Adams show Friday.
Many NFL fans and observers expected a breakout campaign for Pollard this season following the departure of Ezekiel Elliott. But that hasn’t exactly been the case through seven games, and Smith believes McCarthy is to blame.
“Tony Pollard, given the right opportunities can be a great back,” said Smith. “Right now, defenses are gearing up to stop one person, Tony Pollard, in the run game. Therefore, they focus in on him week in and week out like they did with Ezekiel Elliott, and that’s slowing down his running game, and McCarthy is only enhancing [the problem] by not creating opportunities for Pollard to get the ball in certain spaces. That’s McCarthy.”
