2005 Season in Move – Change in the wind
It’s starting to settle in Camp Oxnard. This is a new team, its year 3 for Team Parcells. Not only are 3rd year players getting that long hard look, so is coach Parcells. Fretting long and hard he took charge. Coaching changes abound. Units not producing and coaches full of excuses sent packing. Defense was not making plays, undersized and overrated and key players on down side of career? 4-3 Scrapped and the 3-4 was installed. No excuses, no complaining as this was a Parcells mandate.
As we have now pushed off from shore on this season and the sea coast is no longer in view. It is real apparent the 3-4 defense will be a success ultimately. More players will be in the box, more deceptions. More ways to attack, confuse and rattle a QB. When was the last time our D has done that in a decade without max blitzes that left the underside of our bellies routinely gutted?
In is a new class of playmakers. They are bigger, stronger and faster than those who have let the Cowboy star down of recent memory. There are new names like Ware, Spears, Canty, Rat, Burnett, Shanle, Coleman that will be building blocks.
Who will be the biggest winner in the 3-4 move? Amazingly overlooked in all this will be Drew Bledsoe. He has had his issues of late figuring out the Bellicheck and Parcells strain 3-4. Now he gets daily reps attacking, reacting to this scheme. He must Harkin back to his early days with Parcells who made the same transition a decade ago. This will make our Oline better to think on the fly and adapt as a unit. Something Rivera will continue to impart on the next generation of Parcells guys like Peterman, Rogers, Johnson.
Bledsoe running an offense with weapons is a recipe for success. He’s won two AFC Championship games so far. With weapons like Witten, Jones, Glenn, Key and a cohesive Line with leadership in Rivera, the sky is bright, and the wind is at our backs. Optimism abounds all that this will be the 2005 season of seasons. For the first time in a long time I feel this journey has a chance. We have a Captain, we have the crew and the ship. Mother nature must smile on us but maybe she already showed her hand on the Spears injury.
As one sizes up the season there is a lot of reason for hope. Heck I’d even say expectations within the Dallas organization must be brimming with confidence. Since 1995 era there has not been a team better prepared to make it to the ultimate destination. Playing football on a Sunday evening on February 5th 2006. We will be prepared that day for the best the AFC can offer.
I’ve left my calendar open.
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