Archer: Bill Nagy to Start at LG Week 1 vs. NYJ

[dgr81]

 

[Gaede]

Wow! Like the sounds of that

 

[alancdc]

Love competition. Go win a job!

 

[TheCount]

Sounds like?

I'd like to solve the puzzle.

 

[YosemiteSam]

Costa the starting center too?

Three first or second year players starting for the Cowboys oline! :laugh2:

A little scary, but I love what Jason is doing here. Faster, younger, pitbulls on the offensive line and letting everyone else know you earn your position or you get cut / lose it.

 

[ThreeSportStar80]

Dallas is clearly moving towards a more athletic versatile line, I like the idea... I hope it works.

 

[theogt]

He earned it. That's pretty amazing. I thought this guy was a 2-3 year project at first.

 

[Gaede]

edit: nm

 

[JohnsKey19]

The offense will sink or swim with essentially 3 rookies on the O-Line. May be a little rocky early but hopefully by Thanksgiving, we'll start to see noticeable improvement.

If the plan goes forward w/out any major setbacks, you gotta think our O-Line is set for a while. If Arkin is as good as we all hope, he should be ready to take over for Kosier next season.

 

[dgr81]

 

[gimmesix]

I think if we're going with Costa at center, we might as well go all in and put Nagy out there, too. Why stick one pure power player in Holland out there when we've gone with quickness everywhere else on the line?

Holland no longer makes any sense without Gurode out there.

 

[burmafrd]

I always had my doubts that Arkin was strong enough yet and coming from a small school really could get it done this year. nagy clearly shows the benefit of coming from a Div 1 school and especially Wisconsin. They and Iowa seem to really be able to crank out the O linemen.

 

[juck]

wow. I hope it works.

 

[YosemiteSam]

This is what I figured. Holland doesn't move very well. He is better suited to pass protect and not the running game. Especially pulling and screens. Nagy makes more sense providing he can play at a high enough level.

 

[Champsheart]

I love it!! I like what I have seen from Nagy a lot. He is not overbearing physically, but keeps getting the job done in the reps he has gotten. He actually reminds me a lot of a young Kosier.

 

[Doomsday]

Dallas is clearly moving towards a more athletic versatile line, I like the idea... I hope it works.

I like it as well. I was getting tired of watching these big slow guys whiff on blocks. We spent enough time trying to re-create the 90s offensive line, it wasnt working. We have some big play RBs in Felix and Murray, this line should be able to them into space where they can use their speed to break some long runs.

 

[AZ_Cowboys_Fan]

Dallas is clearly moving towards a more athletic versatile line, I like the idea... I hope it works.

Yup, get ready to see lots of screen passes with Felix. I like it.

 

[YosemiteSam]

Good thing Nagy was a backup last year at Wisconsin.. If this works out, we got an absolute steal to get a first year player to win a starting job at guard out of the 7th round!

 

[JeffInDC]

The offense will sink or swim with essentially 3 rookies on the O-Line. May be a little rocky early but hopefully by Thanksgiving, we'll start to see noticeable improvement.

If the plan goes forward w/out any major setbacks, you gotta think our O-Line is set for a while. If Arkin is as good as we all hope, he should be ready to take over for Kosier next season.

I look at like this - YES, these guys are young and growing up to do. HOWEVER, with their athleticism, they could mess up and make more plays by mistake than the slow dinosaurs they are replacing. The perfect example is that play versus San Diego when Smith let his guy get inside on him only to have Nagy bail him out with his pulling prowess. Oh, and Felix has seemed to run pretty damn good behind the youngins.

 

[AbeBeta]

Wow.

Folks can say "wow, what a great pick, what great inside info Garrett has" etc.

But we really just got super lucky on this one.