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Dallas Cowboys running back Marion Barber (24) could regain his Pro Bowl edge by surrendering his starting role.

I’m back with another edition of my Felix Jones-is-Tiki Barber-redux campaign.  Using K.C. Joyner’s run metrics from Scientific Football ’09 and from the new Maple Street Press Cowboys Annual 2009, I’m going to present more evidence why Dallas should return to the running back platoon it used so effectively in 2007 with Julius Jones and Marion Barber.  What’s more, I’m going to demonstrate why I believe Felix should get Julius old starters job and push Barber back into the closer’s spot.

Joyner’s “Dallas by the Numbers” piece in the Cowboys Annual records running back performance by run type.  He lists seven types of running plays — counters, draws, drives, isolations, off-tackles, slants/stretches and tosses/sweeps.  I’m not going to present Joyner’s breakdowns here (sorry folks, you’ll have to buy the magazine) but I am going to repackage his stats in two categories.

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I’m going to catalog two types of runs.  “Between the tackles” runs are the isos, dives, draws and counters. Outside runs are off tackles, stretch plays and tosses and sweeps.

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