Lunda Wells: We want to be more physical at the line of scrimmage

TE coach Lunda Wells on changes to O: "There’ll be some similarity but one of the biggest things that we’re really focusing on offensively is being a little bit more physical up front, really on both sides of the ball, as a team being physical. Dominating the line of scrimmage."

So Lunda...... what is different this year from previous years? Shouldn't you been preaching this already? What were you focusing on last year? You've had your chance, why should we feel this time will be different?
 
AstroPilota said:
TE coach Lunda Wells on changes to O: "There’ll be some similarity but one of the biggest things that we’re really focusing on offensively is being a little bit more physical up front, really on both sides of the ball, as a team being physical. Dominating the line of scrimmage."

So Lunda...... what is different this year from previous years? Shouldn't you been preaching this already? What were you focusing on last year? You've had your chance, why should we feel this time will be different?
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Actually, there are many coaches and schemes that don’t preach being physical, which doesn’t mean all of football isn’t physical. But over the years, we have seen Cowboys teams that emphasized movement, smaller guards that can pull and run, tackles that are more athletic and can reach and get to the second level, small DEs that use speed to rush outside, smaller 3 techs that are expected to penetrate by being quicker than the OGs. Dan Quinn, for all his excellence in rushing the QB and causing turnovers did not value big DTs nor did he emphasize DEs setting the edge. He wanted everyone to stop the run on the way to the QB rather than stop the run so you can pin your ears back on passing downs. LVE was the first big LB we had playing in years, and he didn’t play like a big LB. We valued small LBs who could run, cover, and tackle, and most were often hurt at some point.

What Clayton and Lunda are saying is not new, but it is definitely a new emphasis by our coaches in the last several years, but I don’t think that transition can occur in one offseason. It’s not like you can tell guys like Overshown, Parsons, Osa, and guys like Guyton, Richards, and Martin to get physical and whup butt in front of them. Maybe Guyton if he gets a lot stronger this offseason.
 
I like that the message is coming from everyone, the HC, the OC, the OL coach, and now the TEs coach. There is a focus.

Before it was just McCarthy saying there would be more emphasis on the running game. But then the schemes didn't mesh with the rerhetic. The team was more finesse than power.

I thought the OL would be the surprise unit last year, and I was wrong. Maybe this year that statement will prove to be correct.
 
So the other side of this is we haven't been physical enough, draft picks, veterans, coaches, no one has been physical enough not even the coaches. Great!! that explains everything. We have been coaching these guys to be complacent, reactive, soft. Makes sense. Hard not to be positive with these comments.
 
Doomsday77 said:
So the other side of this is we haven't been physical enough, draft picks, veterans, coaches, no one has been physical enough not even the coaches. Great!! that explains everything. We have been coaching these guys to be complacent, reactive, soft. Makes sense. Hard not to be positive with these comments.
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I thought they addressed physicality with the 2nd and first 3rd round pick last year. Just have to do more of it and I'm not sure Kneeland is a player yet. Beebe certainly is.

If Mazi would have been the player they thought he was it would have made a big difference.
 
12+88=7 said:
I like that the message is coming from everyone, the HC, the OC, the OL coach, and now the TEs coach. There is a focus.

Before it was just McCarthy saying there would be more emphasis on the running game. But then the schemes didn't mesh with the rerhetic. The team was more finesse than power.

I thought the OL would be the surprise unit last year, and I was wrong. Maybe this year that statement will prove to be correct.
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It still takes players that are willing and able. Not sure we have enough of either.
 
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