Last year's offseason the team's priority was fixing the rush defense, now it looks like the other side of the football:
-Teams are daring the Cowboys to beat them on the ground and they just cannot do so.
-Yes, Zeke is hurt and unproductive, but Pollard also has had his struggles.
-OL is a penalty machine
-Starting TE is a terrible inline blocker
-Playcaller gets away from the run and does little to scheme for it.
- How much of our problems is player personnel? … how much is it coaches play call/run scheme ?
Imo, that's what needs to be determined in offseason.
- What is going on to where we are either getting stalemated up front, or our RBs are constantly stoned stopped in the backfield ?
Our guys are constantly getting penetration in our backfield.
- We had a good stretch between Chargers, Philly, Carolina ..but really dropped off since.
It’s not just zeke, ..Pollard has had his difficulties too.
- We may have the worst blocking TEs in the NFL. Difficult to capture the edge, off tackle runs when penetration allowed.
This is why I’m not sold on going all out to re-signing Schultz at any cost. Tough, clever underneath but major liability blocking wise and doesn't have elite separation. .
- Is our OL more suited for man power blocking scheme than McCarthy’s zone block scheme ?
It's a problem because we let go an OL coach better suited for man scheme, for sake of adding MM's preferred coach/scheme.