"My first time as a coordinator was in Pittsburgh with Kordell Stewart, and we were very good with him running the football," Mularkey told NBC Sports Radio, via Pro Football Talk. "Designed runs for the quarterback, and my feelings are he can protect himself much better running the football than he can standing in the pocket, and you've seen it over time. We're not going to run him like they run Cam Newton with some of these designed counter plays and things up the middle that are gonna expose him by any means, but I think he's such a threat in the run game for defenses. It just gives you an advantage. The playing surface is evened; they don't have an extra guy in the box. There is no extra guy when you have a quarterback like Marcus who can, and we saw it last year, go eighty yards if he has to, to be effective in the run game."