Can we really stop the eagles run game?

[blueblood70]

I don’t see it. We can still win but we have to score a lot.

can we stop the titans, Indy, and Washington run game??

trust me they will bring it all 60mins, not give up like MN or be shorthanded like NY. Teams know our kryptonite and won't abandon it. get ready to find your answers.

 

[cowboyec]

yes.

 

[BleedSilverandBlue]

Over 300 yards on the ground! That’s not easy to stop.

Where was that against the Colts, Commanders, heck, even Dallas? This is a week to week league. No need to panic.

 

[Bagman]

Stopping a run option team is about discipline. Dan Quinn has 4 weeks to hammer that into the heads of his defenders. "Do your job and trust that your teammate will do his.." If the DTs hold up in the middle and the ends set the edge and the linebackers fill where they're supposed to there is nowhere for them to run. Guys getting out of their lanes trying to go hero is what leads to a defense being gashed in the run game. Or of course just getting put on their backs. I don't think a lot of our guys get put on their backs but at times a lot of them fail to maintain their responsible gaps. Do that and the Eagles will stomp you. If everyone plays his responsibility, you keep the run in check and force the Eagles to beat you through the air and it's game over..

Another excellent post. I gave you props to be the OC. You could be the DC too. It is all about discipline and not playing hero ball. Hell, might as well be the Head Coach. Lol

 

[SiCk_DiAbLo]

Hurts is the one to stop, period.

 

[calicowboy54]

I don’t see it. We can still win but we have to score a lot.

No because its going to take 2 guys to spy Hurts and the RBs and i dont know if we can do that and win.

 

[Nova]

I'm pretty confident in past-his-prime Jonathan Hankins

 

[Cowboys1966]

I don’t see it. We can still win but we have to score a lot.

Football is week to week… I can pretty much guarantee they won’t rush for over 300 against us LOL

 

[Strykerscm]

This would not surprise me at all

The cowboys in the Super Bowl doesn’t bring more eyeballs. The game is massive regardless. But having hr cows in the nfc champ game and the league taking a win away makes roger and his refs very excited. Look no further than the types of penalties we get. They are subjective and something a ref could call every single play every single game.

It’s only a matter of time.

 

[RonnieT24]

Another excellent post. I gave you props to be the OC. You could be the DC too. It is all about discipline and not playing hero ball. Hell, might as well be the Head Coach. Lol

Thanks.. I would gladly take the paycheck any of these coaches take home.. (Well I probably make more than those interns and quality control guys.) But their hours would kill me (or my wife would) in less than a year. In all seriousness anyone who has ever stood on a sideline and experienced the 500 different things that are going on at any given time can appreciate how difficult their jobs are on game day. I have only done it at the high school level but I coached with guys who had coached at the major college level (but stepped down to coach their sons) and they assured me that the chaos on the high school sideline goes up 10 times for college and another 10 times from that for the pros. It takes a very sharp and quick mind to be able to process everything that is going on and make the correct decisions in the midst of all that. And not everybody has that kind of mind. There is no shame in that.. Those guys can be position coaches or passing game coordinators or "quality control" and be just fine. Hell I'm not even sure my mind could do it.

But at risk of sounding self serving, I absolutely could stare at film and identify keys and weaknesses of an opponent and favorable matchups and devise a plan to attack it. Moore's unwillingness to just eat teams alive where we KNOW they are weak heading into the game. If they have a corner who I know sucks I would put three receivers on one side and my best receiver on the other side matched up with that sorry corner and eat him for lunch. I would have CD Lamb in the slot 90% of the game.. Make somebody's third corner cover that dude without the benefit of being able to get a jam on him. I would quit using Pollard just as an outlet receiver. I would line him up in the backfield and isolate him on a linebacker 5-6 times a game on a wheel route. Target him in that matchup.. that should be good for 2-3 huge plays a game. I could go on and on but the bottom line is Moore needs to quit coming into every game trying to figure the opponent out. What the hell were you doing all week?

 

[nhcowboysfan]

Yes including the part where you can't throw the ball if a lineman is more than 1-2 yards downfield. If you do it's a penalty. If they don't go downfield and you don't throw the ball back to the line scrimmage it's intentional grounding which carries a spot penalty and a loss of down. So no.. let's not go drilling that into anybody's head. However there is one scenario when a ballcarrier SHOULD try to ..er.. fumble the ball out of bounds. Late in a game when the clock is running down and you have no timeouts and the defenders have you corralled fumble the ball out of bounds. Just make damn sure it gets there and make it look good.. Drop the inside shoulder into the defender and have the ball somehow jump out of your hands and 5-6 yards out of bounds.

Thanks for pointing out the flaw in my post. I forgot about the rule regarding the OL being downfield which would likely occur in these type of run plays, and yes would draw a flag if the ball was thrown.

 

[plasticman]

Can they stop the Cowboys running game?

 

[plasticman]

The Cowboys would have beat the Eagles earlier this season with Dak. The Eagles scored 26 points to win. The Cowboys have doubled their points output since Dak came back.

 

[Doomsday101]

Last time Dallas played Philly what killed us were the turnovers Rush had 3 ints in the game and penalties 10 in the game. Rushing yards about even 136 for Philly and 134 for Dallas.