It appears it was more Golston and poor tackling

[CowboyRoy]

Yeah Gholston is playing well. He is a solid/versatile front 7 player.

Solid is nothing to brag about. Solid is JAG

 

[Cowboyny]

- I don't mind keeping and returning Neal as a decent vet backup -so long as we continue to simulate this Quinn defense,
or the heir apparent runs a similar scheme with this same ideal size players.
He can be depth. and he won't appear to cost much. Dunno if Cowboys are good with another 4 million rental year again.

- Cox's time will come in strengthening and healing himself in offseason, and getting more accumulate in this defense.

- But he'll still be short on game experience, and if there's a regarded LB on board, according to the round, i'm not for passing him up for sake of Cox.
Enrich the LB depth and competition as possible.

- Gifford is more a special teamer, and we've seen his contributions there with that blocked punt vs NE.

You would think either Lve or Neal are brought back on a 1yr deal to give time for Cox and or another prospect to get ready. Don't think we need to use another 1st rd pick at the position, but after that could be a good investment.

 

[Cowboyny]

Marinelli may have like to use the term "swarm" from the Tony Dungy tree, but the principle was already present within the better known defenses. such as the
past Bears, Ravens, LT Giants Steelers, etc.

Individual and gang tackling was already a fundamental intake.

Yes, that's what a good team defense does.

 

[Whirlwin]

I don’t remember the last time we were able to stop the run consistently. I think it was with. net win . Middle linebacker I forgot his name just before Dexter Coakley

 

[CowboyFrog]

I don’t remember the last time we were able to stop the run consistently. I think it was with. net win . Middle linebacker I forgot his name just before Dexter Coakley

Dat?

 

[Whirlwin]

Dat?

I’ve been a fan before Roger Staubach played so many games so many seasons it’s easy to forget lol thanks

 

[Big_D]

I understand trying to punch the ball out, but secure the dam tackle. They’re slapping at the ball while getting dragged for another 10 yards.

 

[Whirlwin]

I understand trying to punch the ball out, but secure the dam tackle. They’re slapping at the ball while getting dragged for another 10 yards.

Although I agree with what you’re saying. But it’s not what they were doing. They were just getting drag.

 

[Ranched]

I don’t remember the last time we were able to stop the run consistently. I think it was with. net win . Middle linebacker I forgot his name just before Dexter Coakley

Dat Nguyen

I’ve been a fan before Roger Staubach played so many games so many seasons it’s easy to forget lol thanks

Ya sure don't look a day over 30 -------> runs

 

[Brooksey]

Golston got killed last week, he was the worst and Armstrong wasn't much better

 

[conner01]

are we still trying to blame 1-2 players for that loss? sorry i saw 90% of there team have an off day..weren't many bright spots so these threads with single name in them is just nonsense.

this pace doesn't have enough bandwidth to point tout all the players to blame..best to say TEAM LOSS..

With the exception of parsons they all played uninspired football
It was like they thought the Broncos were gonna forfeit after the opening kick off

 

[Zekeats]

Basham also lacked containment, and failed to set the edge.

They are all JAGS. Golston, Armstrong and Basham.

 

[baltcowboy]

Solid is nothing to brag about. Solid is JAG

For a 3rd round pick, we will be lucky he will be a JAG. You are probably one of those fans that think Armstrong and Lewis are busts because they are rotational players. We need all pros at every position.

 

[Clove]

Who failed against the run? The edge rushers, and the LBs. Gotta be better in both aspects.

 

[Dak_Attack_09]

Golston has been messing up since early in the season when Dan Quinn started letting him play on Defense, yet Quinn never let Cox play at LB until 3 or 4 plays that he did against the Giants. The same goes for Wright and Mukuamu.

Clearly, Quinn is making particular player choices, and those decisions are not turning out so well.

Why are they are forcing certain players to start and play more than they should? Like you said one reason could be favoritism trying to prove that their l draft choice & FA were the right decision.

 

[Dak_Attack_09]

Just watched a Voch u-tube video in which he was breaking down what went wrong with our run defense against the Broncos. Many of the big run plays actually were due to lack of outside containment from Golston not within the interior. Perhaps, this was the game in which we sorely missed DLaw. Golston is a rookie and this very correctable and a good teaching moment.

As for lack of tackling, this is something to watch. We heard this same issue with our secondary coach a few weeks ago as well. Poor tackling leads to big plays no matter if it's against the run or the pass. This is the biggest area of weakness and concern.

Bradlee Anae is much better in pass rushing & run defense. He should be starting over Basham & Golston.

 

[plasticman]

If a rookie is being blamed for contributing to a loss then it's not on the rookie, it's on the coaches for placing him in a position to where he could impact a game to that degree. Golston is a rookie 3rd round draft pick.

However, the truth is the Cowboys would have lost this game anyway. It was a total team loss from the undrafted rookie free agents to the GM.

 

[Risen Star]

I don’t remember the last time we were able to stop the run consistently. I think it was with. net win . Middle linebacker I forgot his name just before Dexter Coakley

I have a Net Win jersey.

 

[America's Cowboy]

Bradlee Anae is much better in pass rushing & run defense. He should be starting over Basham & Golston.

It's a shame Anae was cut but luckily found his way back to the Practice Squad. I'm disappointed in Dan Quinn with the players he is choosing to play over other talents at certain positions after repeated costly mistakes on the field, especially after giving up so many 3rd & longs for costly 1st downs as this season has gone along. We have seen this Defense regress the past several weeks.

 

[SSoup]

Golston has been messing up since early in the season when Dan Quinn started letting him play on Defense, yet Quinn never let Cox play at LB until 3 or 4 plays that he did against the Giants. The same goes for Wright and Mukuamu.

Clearly, Quinn is making particular player choices, and those decisions are not turning out so well.

His hand was kind of forced at DE, so I get it. I mean, defensive ends go hard so they don't play 100% of the snaps. You basically have to play the bench guys.

Lawrence has been gone.

Gregory is taking on a workload he's never seen before (and if you dig into it, we've increased his snap count in the last few weeks compared to the first 4 games -- so it seems like the team is already asking Gregory to stretch himself thinner to cover more snaps than he was back in September and early October).

The backup DE situation has been flighty. Some days it's been fine and didn't hurt us at all. Other days, it really felt like we were sending 3rd stringer types out there.

And they're trying to walk a fine line with treating Parsons as an option. On one hand, he's probably our best DE option. On the other hand, we spent the entire offseason building the defense around the things he'd do at LB and they don't want to totally pivot away from all those plans. The team seems to think moving him full-time to DE to fix the DE situation is a deal-breaker, maybe because they want him on the field something like 100% of the plays instead of only getting 50-60% out of him with a starting DE workload, or maybe because the cupboard is also bare at LB and they fear what would happen if the LB group is asked to manage without him. The best Non-Parsons LB options are likely the guys who are basically just safeties. Which feels increasingly unlikely to be considered an option now that opponents are remembering they can just run the ball against us (and if we're getting cute with lighter personnel, with LB's playing DE, and S's playing LB, we're just gonna be more vulnerable to the run).

If Lawrence comes back and is a solid starter, I think the ecosystem of our defense returns to normal a little bit.

So far this year, we've been like a baseball team that is desperately leaning on its bullpen to an insane degree to make up for having shaky starters. That can work as a band-aid in shorter bursts. It's not a season-long strategy. Eventually, you need the starters to step up and carry the starting workload, freeing up the backups to be deployed in ways where they're thriving because they're systematically being used in the best scenarios for them.