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Bob Sturm: A closer look at Cowboys’ defensive line, positional flex of some players
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Bob Sturm
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Each week of camp, I want to grab a particular spot that that is on my mind and continue to try to figure out how this roster is coming together and where the Cowboys will have some difficult decisions to make. Last week it was the Linebacker crew, and today, I want to browse over the defensive line.
Rod Marinelli really values some basic core principles when he puts together the defensive line, and if you are a Cowboys’ fan you likely know all of those by heart: out-work on every play, offer versatility to play many roles, and always go for the ball. He keeps it simple in many respects because he wants his men to play fast. But, one of the other items I really admire about his scheme is that it attempts to place less of a premium on that one guy you cannot afford to lose.
Now, that only goes to a point, of course.
There are some players in this league that if you do lose them, you do feel it. If Marinelli lost Warren Sapp or Lance Briggs, he felt it. But, the premise is to have enough interchangeable parts that you simply call for the “next man up” and proceed with your duties. It is really the only way to survive in the NFL, where players get hurt constantly...
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Bob Sturm
http://cowboysblog.***BANNED-URL***/2015/08/bob-sturms-issues-in-oxnard-defensive-line.html/
Each week of camp, I want to grab a particular spot that that is on my mind and continue to try to figure out how this roster is coming together and where the Cowboys will have some difficult decisions to make. Last week it was the Linebacker crew, and today, I want to browse over the defensive line.
Rod Marinelli really values some basic core principles when he puts together the defensive line, and if you are a Cowboys’ fan you likely know all of those by heart: out-work on every play, offer versatility to play many roles, and always go for the ball. He keeps it simple in many respects because he wants his men to play fast. But, one of the other items I really admire about his scheme is that it attempts to place less of a premium on that one guy you cannot afford to lose.
Now, that only goes to a point, of course.
There are some players in this league that if you do lose them, you do feel it. If Marinelli lost Warren Sapp or Lance Briggs, he felt it. But, the premise is to have enough interchangeable parts that you simply call for the “next man up” and proceed with your duties. It is really the only way to survive in the NFL, where players get hurt constantly...
