Most Improved Player - Defense

[CouchCoach]

Me..

I was going to pick you but how do you improve on perfection?

 

[glimmerman]

I was going to pick you but how do you improve on perfection?

Lol. I am working hard to be able to get that one more chicken wing down. Ya know in some ways I miss football season not just for football but also the decision on what to cook for the game Sunday.

 

[OmerV]

Lets please stop with the Taco thing.

1. Jeff Heath
2. Taco

The all, get rid of team.

It would be ridiculous to get rid of Heath. At the very least he would be a quality backup who can step in as an average starter if needed, and a strong special teams player.

 

[Fastpitch Dad]

Woods. I think he made dramatic improvement last year but he could still have more upside. Team him with Earl Thomas and watch him grow.

Taco could make a couple of plays and be considered a huge improvement so there is that.

Great choice

As the year went on I thought his play to improved dramatically.

 

[glimmerman]

It would be ridiculous to get rid of Heath. At the very least he would be a quality backup and strong special teams player. He's not even the bottom of the barrel starter some portray him to be. He's certainly not special as a starter, but he is at least average in that role.

He is always around the ball and for the most part plays well. It’s the every once in a while he falls on his face or takes a bad angle.

 

[kskboys]

hope so.
Im pullin' for him.

Taco was raw. He was going to take 2-4 years to develop. If we didn't realize that when we drafted him, we are dumb.

If Taco is going to come out, this is the year.

 

[glimmerman]

Taco was raw. He was going to take 2-4 years to develop. If we didn't realize that when we drafted him, we are dumb.

If Taco is going to come out, this is the year.

This better be the year. And it don’t need to be a night and day difference. Just consistent and seemed like he had a little attitude problem that got him benched. For JG to bench you it must be bad. However I do like Taco’s celebration when he gets a sack.

 

[kskboys]

Lets please stop with the Taco thing.

1. Jeff Heath
2. Taco

The all, get rid of team.

Why? Why would you be against hoping/thinking that a very raw player would break out in year three? That makes no sense.

 

[northerncowboynation]

Which player on the defense do you think will make the most improvement this season?

What I like about this is, for a change, we have multiple choices with a standout DE, another one that could be emerging, two stout LBs and a PB CB. Not to mention Awuzie, Collins and Woods as possible's.

My candidate is Byron Jones. Second year under Richard, second year as the CB and I do not think we've seen how aggressive Richard wants to be and I think Lord Byron will enable him to do that more.

One thing I do not get about how he's regarded here. He had an outstanding year and got a lot more respect form opposing coaches than he seemed to get here. These cover corners are not easy to find and I think he's the best CB we've had since Sanders and believe he's going to get even better.

I am predicting that this is one time the "Freak of the Combine" comes through as a great player and I think we've just scratched the surface of his understanding of that position.

OK, who's your guy? And please just one guy, not everyone but poor Jeff Heath.

OK I'm going with my stomach on this one. Not my head or heart. Taco is my pick because I like tacos, refried beans, hot sauce, guacamole and pico de gallo. I put that s h I t on everything. I think Taco has the cargo to deliver the beans, hot sauce, guac and pico! Yep, Taco got the cargo just like Margo

 

[northerncowboynation]

Sean Lee-hands down

 

[northerncowboynation]

Jeff Heath is an acceptable starter at safety and an asset in ST.

Obviously it's a position that could use an upgrade but I don't blame Heath for being on a roster that needs him to be a starter instead of a depth piece.

With any luck, a safety is acquired in the offseason, Woods continues to develop, and Heath moves from being an acceptable starter to a pretty good 3rd string safety.

Heath's strength was always as a safety in the dime and STs. When we decided he was a starting SS I shook my head. He has reached his level of incompetence as a SS, in other words it was never a high ceiling. Still "he plays the game the way it should be played" "practices the way he should practice" "shows up for every game" and those are just some of the accolades

 

[northerncowboynation]

I say it will be a huge surprise when Rico is moved to DE and walks the runway with the sash "most improved on the D"

 

[LatinMind]

If folding big time down the stretch still results in only 34 catches for zero TDS against you all season, is that really bad?

Yes, it’s a big problem if he’s going to get top CB money. He provides nothing in turnovers. He can’t cover speed. I hope they keep him but I just hope they do t pay him as a top CB because he isn’t. Teams at the end of the yr started targeting him and they had high completion rates on him.

 

[kskboys]

Heath's strength was always as a safety in the dime and STs. When we decided he was a starting SS I shook my head. He has reached his level of incompetence as a SS, in other words it was never a high ceiling. Still "he plays the game the way it should be played" "practices the way he should practice" "shows up for every game" and those are just some of the accolades

Absolutely. However, as w/ Hayden, we ignored his physical limitations. This isn't the first time we tried to make a physically limited player a starter just because he tried hard. Ahem...Alan Ball......

Goes to poor player evaluation.

 

[kskboys]

Yes, it’s a big problem if he’s going to get top CB money. He provides nothing in turnovers. He can’t cover speed. I hope they keep him but I just hope they do t pay him as a top CB because he isn’t. Teams at the end of the yr started targeting him and they had high completion rates on him.

Byron has poor burst out of the breaks. Which means when he has to turn to cover his man, he loses a step. Which equals an open receiver.

That's why he was best as a downhill S. He's fast, so he needs to keep everything in front of him. Physical limitation + lack of instincts = limited player.

I'm going to be interested in his progress going forward. He was already better at Cb than I thought he'd be.

 

[xwalker]

Which player on the defense do you think will make the most improvement this season?

What I like about this is, for a change, we have multiple choices with a standout DE, another one that could be emerging, two stout LBs and a PB CB. Not to mention Awuzie, Collins and Woods as possible's.

My candidate is Byron Jones. Second year under Richard, second year as the CB and I do not think we've seen how aggressive Richard wants to be and I think Lord Byron will enable him to do that more.

One thing I do not get about how he's regarded here. He had an outstanding year and got a lot more respect form opposing coaches than he seemed to get here. These cover corners are not easy to find and I think he's the best CB we've had since Sanders and believe he's going to get even better.

I am predicting that this is one time the "Freak of the Combine" comes through as a great player and I think we've just scratched the surface of his understanding of that position.

OK, who's your guy? And please just one guy, not everyone but poor Jeff Heath.

I picked Byron Jones last offseason.

I'll go with Randy Gregory.

I expect improvement from Taco also, but the bar is low.

 

[ShiningStar]

its hard to say Gregory was good, refind his game for sure. but what Bloom and Richard brought wow. LVE was good, Jaylon broke out, Across the boards the D did well and even carried some games. Who improved, most of the D.

 

[glimmerman]

I picked Byron Jones last offseason.

I'll go with Randy Gregory.

I expect improvement from Taco also, but the bar is low.

Good choice. Gregory if he stays clean will have a outstanding year. He was really figuring it out, he just needs to work on some of the silly penalties. If we sign D-Law then look out. Bookends. A real shame Irving has his head in his butt. With Collins and Crawford and the others rotating it would be improved.

 

[glimmerman]

its hard to say Gregory was good, refind his game for sure. but what Bloom and Richard brought wow. LVE was good, Jaylon broke out, Across the boards the D did well and even carried some games. Who improved, most of the D.

That’s what shocked me about the rams game. What a let down. Guessing it was Marinelli scheme for that game. We decided to let them run the ball. I had read that teams that had the most success against the rams let them run and play the pass. What a mistake. We stuffed the run all year. And watching them run the ball down our throats killed me.

 

[ShiningStar]

That’s what shocked me about the rams game. What a let down. Guessing it was Marinelli scheme for that game. We decided to let them run the ball. I had read that teams that had the most success against the rams let them run and play the pass. What a mistake. We stuffed the run all year. And watching them run the ball down our throats killed me.

same to me but it was wierd McVay didnt use it vs the Saints, but he had the Cowboys all figured out.