After draft party hangover, reality of our thin DE corps hits

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From Marinelli via DMN article:

On Cowboys defensive lineman David Irving:

"I like him. You know the key measurable with him? His ability to bend is off the charts. I usually don't like tall guys because they can't bend. This guy bends. He bends like Big Cat [Leon Lett]. Big Cat is tall, but he bends. Watch a guy get in his stance, that tells you everything. I'm going to look at [Irving] at left end also."

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On not having DeMarcus Lawrence and Randy Gregory to start the season:

"It's disappointing. It's disappointing because I really felt those guys, especially D-Law, were really [taking off]. Now we've just got to wait until they get back. Now you're shuffling a little bit. We drafted Ryan Russell last year. Good measurable. He's got to kick it in gear now. We got a guy like Tyrone Crawford, we can always go back to him to help us [on the edge], especially the first four games. We got Ben Mayowa. He's got the movement. He hasn't done it enough. So these are guys, it's my job. I got to develop these guys and we got to make some hay in those first four games. Some of our five-man rushes look good because both our backers in a five-man rush, I like them."

So... I'll agree with others now that maybe my original post was maybe a bit of an over-reaction... if we played NYG tomorrow, it's a decent patch-job to plug in Irving and Crawford on the ends. Decent.

But geezLouise, that admission made, I still would feel so much more settled if we got a shot at signing someone who's started a lot of games and made a name for himself at the DE position.