How many times will the Cowboys sack Eli?

pugilist said:
and while the sacks are nice, what I'm really going to be watching for is overall pressure on the QB and backfield penetration on passing downs..
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Yup, Eli is smart enough to not take a bunch of sacks. That's not the important part -- I want to see our defensive line consistently collapse that pocket and hurry him into a bunch of bad throws. A nice blindside or two would be fine with me. LOL.
 
CyberB0b said:
It seems like Eli has been hard to sack over the years. He prefers to throw up prayers that his wide outs seem to always grab.
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That, and they'll run a ton of quick drop passes and short routes that protect the QB.

Every year, we have the "we are going to kill Eli threads" and every year, he does the same thing.
 
If the Cowboys can't sack Eli at least 4 times against that line, we have a lot to be worried about this season.
 
3, I would predict more but 1, Opiegump is a lucky sonofagun and 2, I suspect their OC will call for a lot of screens and 3 step drops. However, if we get up big late the aforementioned 3 sacks could easily double.
 
FuzzyLumpkins said:
One of my favorite lines is Mincey saying how he loves the Rubber Ducky sound Manning makes when you sack him.

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Flowers is a rookie and our rookie Gregory owned him in college. Pugh was too weak to play tackle. I look forward to seeing him deal with 98. Richburg has some talent but the two on the right side are best described as journeymen. I particularly look forward to the DLaw Newhouse matchup.

I see a long night for Manning to the tune of about 4 sacks and several errant throws.
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4 sacks. two Ints. 10 pressures
 
I want to see a dominant DL. Whether or not that's 4 sacks or 2 I want to see Eli have fits. That would be great from what we saw last year.
 
Just once, and it ends his career.
Im bad that way.
Bad Karma,, get in line.
 
FuzzyLumpkins said:
One of my favorite lines is Mincey saying how he loves the Rubber Ducky sound Manning makes when you sack him.

Flowers Pugh Richburg Schwartz Newhouse

Flowers is a rookie and our rookie Gregory owned him in college. Pugh was too weak to play tackle. I look forward to seeing him deal with 98. Richburg has some talent but the two on the right side are best described as journeymen. I particularly look forward to the DLaw Newhouse matchup.

I see a long night for Manning to the tune of about 4 sacks and several errant throws.
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I hate to be a wet blanket, but I'm going to have to take the "under" on 4. Here's why - The Giants will be looking to get rid of the ball fast all night. That's how teams will be attacking Dallas all year unless they want to lose.
 
jday said:
I hate to be a wet blanket, but I'm going to have to take the "under" on 4. Here's why - The Giants will be looking to get rid of the ball fast all night. That's how teams will be attacking Dallas all year unless they want to lose.
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Thats fine because Rod plays a swarm to the ball, limit RAC defense. If teams want to dink and dunk all year, they play right in to that. You need big plays to win in this league. If a team wants to consistently try to score TDs on 15 play drives, let them.
 
I get what you guys are saying. Coughlin used to run games at Spencer and Ware plus run the ball a lot. Run short underneath stuff to WR like Smith and Cruz and run after the catch. They also had Snee, O'Hara, McKenzie, and Diehl.

This is not those Giants though. The OL has a rookie LT, a bust, a pretty good but undersized C, and two scrapheap replacement level types. If Cruz plays then they can pull that oldschool style but OBJ is a downfield guy. Mincey and Crawford plus some stunting and A-gap sugar could wreck that interior line on passing downs. Force total 1v1s on the edge and give all kinds of inside lanes to rush. Their C can likely handle Hayden so maybe they can run in the middle with Hitchens on the mend, but if we can stop the run we can make life very difficult for Eli. Ratliff used to have big games against the Giants. I am expecting similar things from 98.

Our guys are also doing a much better job executing line games. Richburg is only 300 lbs. Coleman can likely benchpress him. I'm excited to see what Coach Marinelli has cooked up.
 
FuzzyLumpkins said:
One of my favorite lines is Mincey saying how he loves the Rubber Ducky sound Manning makes when you sack him.

Flowers Pugh Richburg Schwartz Newhouse

Flowers is a rookie and our rookie Gregory owned him in college. Pugh was too weak to play tackle. I look forward to seeing him deal with 98. Richburg has some talent but the two on the right side are best described as journeymen. I particularly look forward to the DLaw Newhouse matchup.

I see a long night for Manning to the tune of about 4 sacks and several errant throws.
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I'll be a optomitrist on this: I say 3 sacks.
 
cowboys2233 said:
Yup, Eli is smart enough to not take a bunch of sacks. That's not the important part -- I want to see our defensive line consistently collapse that pocket and hurry him into a bunch of bad throws. A nice blindside or two would be fine with me. LOL.
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Just as long as we get to him the instant he releases the ball and make his neck snap back at least once.
 
If It's a relatively close game throughout as I expect, I'll say 2 sacks.
 
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