Twitter: Chido: "Last year, everyone knew what we were running."

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I remember when Parcells retired and zimmer moved on to Atlanta. One of the big stories was defensive players complaining that it was too vanilla and two gapping up front and playing zone behind it was not working.

Then wade came in and was going to bring an "exotic" defense with all this disguising and "blitzing" Parcells did an offseason interview with Babe Laufenberg and said there was not a dime's worth of defense in the defense they will play in under wade and he chuckled about the vanilla part.

Then the numbers proved it out to be about the same.

Then in 2008 Wade had to pull back and make the defense a little more vanilla. Then he had to fire his DC Brian Stewart.

Then in 09 it was about being more basic because the defense was struggling.

its just the natural ebb and flow. last year at this time these same guys were talking about how everyone knew this system so well and how good they were going to be on defense and now just like in the camp of 07 the players are passing the buck. It's just what happens.
 
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dwreck27 said:
This is pretty pathetic that players are ecstatic to not be running such a vanilla defense that the opponent knew exactly how to counter
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the truth is outside of a few places traditionally in this league (New England & Baltimore) most teams run similar vanilla schemes.

the play that the jets and darnold were referring to was the big touchdown to robby anderson. It was a coverage...if I remember correctly a cover three they ran vs certain looks for a while here. in 18 it worked....it did not last year. Babe mentioned it every week last year during the radio broadcasts, he would see the look and go look out....he called it vs the eagles at home last year. The eagles got the same look and ran the same play and wentz overthrew the nelson agholor. It would have been a td again that day.
 
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Good input here from Chidobe Awuzie. It's a significantly different defense that opposing offenses will be seeing in 2020. The Cowboys chances of leading the opposition to mistaken ideas of what this defense's intentions are should be in doubt, if things turn out as expected. I think he should rightly be heard.
 
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MikeB80 said:
I remember when Parcells retired and zimmer moved on to Atlanta. One of the big stories was defensive players complaining that it was too vanilla and two gapping up front and playing zone behind it was not working.

Then wade came in and was going to bring an "exotic" defense with all this disguising and "blitzing" Parcells did an offseason interview with Babe Laufenberg and said there was not a dime's worth of defense in the defense they will play in under wade and he chuckled about the vanilla part.

Then the numbers proved it out to be about the same.

Then in 2008 Wade had to pull back and make the defense a little more vanilla. Then he had to fire his DC Brian Stewart.

Then in 09 it was about being more basic because the defense was struggling.

its just the natural ebb and flow. last year at this time these same guys were talking about how everyone knew this system so well and how good they were going to be on defense and now just like in the camp of 07 the players are passing the buck. It's just what happens.
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I actually agree with the premise of what you're saying. However, based upon the comments ( mostly implicit) you can tell that change was absolutely needed this off-season, if just for the sake of change.

Garrett seems to be a good leader overall, however he seemed to truly lack the knowledge and abilities to coach the details of football. It wore thin on the players and thus 2019 happened and here we are.
 
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