All American: The Dat Nguyen Story

[TheDuke]

I REMEMBER ONE OF THE STORIES ON HERE WHEN HE WAS FIRST DRAFTED it said "Now Dats a Cowboy!" Lol

Cowboyszone came into being 5 years after he was drafted.

 

[Dallasfann]

Parcell's first season as HC was a transition year for the Cowboys defense. Parcells did not have the time or the right manpower to use the 3-4 defense that was his preference. However, he did install some 3-4 concepts into the 4-3 that he used that season.

The irony is that this lame duck 4-3 defense, with Coakley and Nguyen, produced the highest ranking stats in the history of the Cowboys. They were ranked #1 in yardage and #2 in scoring. No other defense had ever produced a higher combination.

This team had coaches like Tom Landry and Jimmy Johnson, both producing legendary defenses. And, yet, neither ever produced a defense that was ranked as highly as the one in Parcells first season. Again, this was a temporary defense. Two seasons later Parcells switched to a 3-4.

Now just imagine if he didn't also inherit that offense. Jerry should have paid the fans who watched the offensive drives during those years.

 

[gtb1943]

Parcell's first season as HC was a transition year for the Cowboys defense. Parcells did not have the time or the right manpower to use the 3-4 defense that was his preference. However, he did install some 3-4 concepts into the 4-3 that he used that season.

The irony is that this lame duck 4-3 defense, with Coakley and Nguyen, produced the highest ranking stats in the history of the Cowboys. They were ranked #1 in yardage and #2 in scoring. No other defense had ever produced a higher combination.

This team had coaches like Tom Landry and Jimmy Johnson, both producing legendary defenses. And, yet, neither ever produced a defense that was ranked as highly as the one in Parcells first season. Again, this was a temporary defense. Two seasons later Parcells switched to a 3-4.

Those stats were misleading as stats often are. You go back to that year and look who we played; very few offenses that were truly explosive. And sadly as seems to happen all too often when they HAD to shut down the other sides offense when it mattered they failed. I have personally thought that 2003 might have been the best coaching year of BP's career when you look at what he had to work with on offense.Q, Hambone, An O line that really only had two top starters and a receiving core that outside of Witten was not all that much either.
Two years later, almost half the offensive starters were not only gone from this team; they were on the bench or out of football. On D almost the same. Look at 2004; virtually the same D but nowhere near as good.

In some ways it was like the 2007 team; so many on that team had career years that it looked much better then it actually was.

 

[Einstein]

Cool! I have his book, this is probably going to be similar, which should be really good.

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

The last time I enjoyed watching any defensive player before Parsons was Dexter Coakley. He was just always making winning plays. I mean I'm always in shock when I think a team led by Quincy Carter and Troy Hambrick made the playoffs. Then I remember we had players like these 2 all over that defense.

It was a well coached team. They got the most out of everyone that played. It was the culture shift that Bill brought.

 

[Cowboys5217]

He was one of the few bright spots of the early 2000s Cowboys.

 

[plasticman]

Those stats were misleading as stats often are. You go back to that year and look who we played; very few offenses that were truly explosive. And sadly as seems to happen all too often when they HAD to shut down the other sides offense when it mattered they failed. I have personally thought that 2003 might have been the best coaching year of BP's career when you look at what he had to work with on offense.Q, Hambone, An O line that really only had two top starters and a receiving core that outside of Witten was not all that much either.
Two years later, almost half the offensive starters were not only gone from this team; they were on the bench or out of football. On D almost the same. Look at 2004; virtually the same D but nowhere near as good.

In some ways it was like the 2007 team; so many on that team had career years that it looked much better then it actually was.

Stats are not misleading, only the way in which they are sometimes interpreted.

In 2003 it didn't matter if their opponents were lousy, the Cowboys had been lousy. They had back to back to back 5-11 seasons.

However, the Cowboys defense in 2003 had been excellent and part of that was the wrinkles that Parcells threw in. Despite being a 4-3 defense, there was only one starter that didn't record a sack.

They played against both eventual Super Bowl teams. They beat the NFC champion Panthers and they held the Super bowl champion Patriots to 12 total points. They beat the division champion Eagles.

There is no such thing as an easy victory in the NFL. Both The Chiefs and Seahawks had the same number of games as the Cowboys against teams with a winning record. the NFC champion Panthers played against less that season.

 

[Pass2Run]

#StopAsianHate

Asians are some of my favorite people. When I went back to college, I was late 20s, didn't really fit in. But the Koreans took me in and I hung with them for a few years..

 

[gtb1943]

Stats are not misleading, only the way in which they are sometimes interpreted.

In 2003 it didn't matter if their opponents were lousy, the Cowboys had been lousy. They had back to back to back 5-11 seasons.

However, the Cowboys defense in 2003 had been excellent and part of that was the wrinkles that Parcells threw in. Despite being a 4-3 defense, there was only one starter that didn't record a sack.

They played against both eventual Super Bowl teams. They beat the NFC champion Panthers and they held the Super bowl champion Patriots to 12 total points. They beat the division champion Eagles.

There is no such thing as an easy victory in the NFL. Both The Chiefs and Seahawks had the same number of games as the Cowboys against teams with a winning record. the NFC champion Panthers played against less that season.

As I said we did not run into many really good offenses. That is more to the point as why the stats looked as good as they did. When crunch time came they did not act like a top D.

 

[eromeopolk]

Now Dat's a Cowboy. Too bad he had Jerry Dumbo GM Jones and Campo the Clown in his career.

 

[zrinkill]

#StopAsianHate

 

[zrinkill]

Now Dat's a Cowboy. Too bad he had Jerry Dumbo GM Jones and Campo the Clown in his career.

Don't forget Big Top Stephen

 

[ChronicCowboy]

We drafted Dat near the end of the 3rd round and it was an obvious steal. Dude dominated at A&M. He was never going to have longevity at his size but he put up 5 or 6 really good seasons.

 

[Teague31]

Shovel!