Good post.
I was very pleased with the defense and how they played Tampa. That is a really good offense, led by an offensive genius as the head coach and one of the best QB’s to ever play. They should and will score points by the boatload.
The young Dallas defense played their first game ever under Quinn and did so with a rookie at DT and a rookie at LB. They played one hell of a game, despite allowing a good bit of points. Grind and Brady know every trick in the book and they broke them out in game 1.
Once the Cowboys defense gets a couple of games with Quinn under their belt and the young guys get their feet wet… they are going to be a real problem for offenses, IMO. They are very clearly going to be light years ahead of last year’s defense. They played sound football, everybody ran to the ball, and they were like a bunch of crazed dogs going after turnovers.
Frankly, if you watched that game and you aren’t really excited about the Dallas defense going forward… then I question how much you really understand football. They are going to be good. How good? We can’t know yet… but they will be a formidable unit very, very soon.
The same goes for the offense. They played one of the best defenses in the league and they moved the ball up and down the field all night. They are going to score in bunches this season. When the opposing defense isn’t the top rated run stopping unit, they should be able to run the ball and they are going to be among the very best passing offenses.
The Dallas offense is going to be very dangerous.
You put those two together and you have a team that should win a lot of games this season. Again, if you are down on the team after this first game… then you’re either perpetually down on the team, or you didn’t really understand what you were seeing Thursday night.
The team looked sharp, prepared and well coached, the offensive line performed extremely well against a very good defense, and that was without their best lineman.
This ain’t 2020.
This should be a very fun season if they can just get special teams settled.