To heck with Earl Thomas, get David Irving please

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If there's one thing David Irving proved with his last stint with the Cowboys, it's that he can't be depended on from one week to the next. I'd much prefer to see Neville Gallimore get accustomed to playing DT in Crawford's spot. At least, he has a chance to improve through natural development.
 
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xwalker said:
That won't help with with run defense which has been their biggest problem...
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I don't know if I agree with that. Certainly their run defense has been a problem, but it was better last week. But the pass defense, while having positive moments, still ends up undermining whatever positive moments the run or pass defense has by several times a game leaving receivers completely uncovered - not just poorly covered, but uncovered. And often that happens at times it seems the defense has the opponent in a bad situation, and then this bails them out. It seems those several times a game people just don't know their assignments and nobody notices the uncovered receiver.

Of course, a defensive lineman won't help much with that, and even if he could I wouldn't be too excited about one that hasn't played since 2017.
 
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OmerV said:
I don't know if I agree with that. Certainly their run defense has been a problem, but it was better last week. But the pass defense, while having positive moments, still ends up undermining whatever positive moments the run or pass defense has by several times a game leaving receivers completely uncovered - not just poorly covered, but uncovered. And often that happens at times it seems the defense has the opponent in a bad situation, and then this bails them out. It seems those several times a game people just don't know their assignments and nobody notices the uncovered receiver.

Of course, a defensive lineman won't help much with that, and even if he could I wouldn't be too excited about one that hasn't played since 2017.
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The problems in run defense lead to problems in pass defense.

On many of the big pass plays, the Safeties stayed up concerned about the run instead of dropping deep.

I said before the season that Mike Nolan's defense requires the front 7 to stop the run with the DBs just being last line of defense defenders vs the run.
- My contention was that if the front 7 struggled vs the run that the defense would struggle or that he would have to alter his base scheme.

They have altered the scheme the past 2 weeks and they did have less gaffs in pass defense.
- They played much more single-high Safety instead of Nolan's preferred 2-deep alignment.
- That prevents the possibility of both Safety staying up when they think that it will be a run and then having no deep Safeties when it ends up being a pass.
- The 2-deep alignment is better in pass defense than single-high if the Safeties don't have to start cheating up vs the run.
 
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Jay Ratliff is somewhere saying what the heck do I gotta do to get re-signed.
 
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