cowboysfan31
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Tomsula was always a highly regarded 3-4 D-Line coach with the 49ers. How does his firing make us more likely to run a 3 man line?
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Parcells4Life
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Dallas will run a 4-2-5 like every other team in the league is doing. Nickel is 80% of snaps.
jblaze2004
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I think Jalen and Vander Esch (if he ever stays healthy). Would be beast in a 3-4 as the MLB's. But not sure where lawrence would fit and he is a highly paid person. I think we would need to find a NT too. Aldon played in the 3-4 as a 49er. So we are closer than people think to a 3-4.
3-4 defenses tend to be better vs the run at least when we ran it with Bill Parcells.
But with the way the nfl game has changed you will spend a lot of time in nickle defense and in the 4-3 you can tend to have smaller faster linebackers who are better in coverage then 3-4 OLB's that are basically DE's in a 4-3.
BTW I never knew the rams ran a 3-4. I always thought they where a 4-3 team.
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No more excuses?? It's ALWAYS excuses with this team. Has been for decades.
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I don't think the WRs require a win NOW mentality. Gallup is in a contract year next year. We're not signing him. He'll leave in 2022, and we'll happily take the comp pick and cruise along with Cooper and Lamb as our top 2 WRs.
If Jarwin pans out as a receiving TE, we could have a more balanced run/pass offense, with Pollard as the WR/RB, Zeke between the tackles, and Cooper and Lamb wide. We don't have to go 3 wide as our base. I'd rather go with a RB/WR tweener like Pollard as the 5th man. Multi run threat offense.
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That’s primarily what we ran here with Nolan this season.
buybuydandavis
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I'd be much happier if fragility were LVE's main problem. He's just playing poorly.
If we had 2018 Jaylon and LVE to go with Gregory and Lawrence, we'd have a strong core to build a defense around. But they both tanked. Now we're talking about whether we even want to pick up the 5th year option on LVE, and most want to cut Jaylon outright this offseason.
Our LBs are bad, and we just played the old bad ones this year instead of developing young ones who *might* give us something in the future, like Gifford and Bernard. They were our two highest rated LBs, per PFF.
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Does the board have a policy against linking to ESPN dirxflg?
genuinely curious because it seema like more work to link the tweet but quote from the ESPN article
Parcells4Life
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Exactly. A new DC isn’t going to affect what’s out there 80% of the time. The days of 3-4 zone blitz all day except for 3rd and long are over
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20 Million Dollar Man playing 60%. And that's a true game average as well; he never missed a game. He *is* our best defender. We are so dumb.
Meanwhile, we played Aldon 73%. The 31 year old who hadn't played in 5 years. Tough row to hoe.
And Gregory, the younger of the 3, averaged around 40% snaps when he was finally available to play.
Dorance Armstrong got 63%. The 4th got more snaps than Gregory or Lawrence.
We are so dumb.
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No.......only Dallas Morning News ( can't post any of their articles, tweets, etc. )