Cowboys Defense

[ConstantReboot]

Lawrence looks like a natural when rushing the passer I'm not worried about him at all, him and gregory coming off the edges would be our best option..still need to see Irving play a couple more games before making a judgement.

Your being sarcastic right? Go watch the Tampa game and you'll see what type of impact Irving had on that game.

 

[DallasCowboys2080]

Losing Church hurt us because we were no longer playing as much zone and became more 1-dimensional in coverage. In Wilcox's last game as a starter we started to play more zone with him and we played more zone against the Lions with Wilcox in the lineup. So, I think that is a positive because it means that the coaching staff is getting more comfortable with Wilcox, particularly in zone schemes.

They looked like they found something with the Lions as they played a lot of 3-2-6 with 4 safeties (Heath, Wilcox, Byron and Church). They would show blitz and then either blitz or fake the blitz or zone blitz. The Lions typically don't run the ball well, but while this is a dime package, it has 4 safeties so the run isn't as big of a factor. I wonder if Marinelli really had this package in mind or if they used it out of necessity due to Anthony Brown getting injured. If the latter, we may have stumbled onto something great by accident.

I'd love to see what this defense could do with a really good MIKE or a more athletic version of Church as SS.

I think this league as a whole has shifted the paradigm where you better be darn good in coverage if you want to get the pressure on the QB. Teams design plays to get the ball out of the hand of the QB so quickly that you have to take away that 1st read either by disguising coverage or just defending the 1st read well enough. That gives your pass rushers time to get to the QB.




YR

This. I wonder too. What the hale happened? Complete 360. I want to know more.

 

[xwalker]

They looked like they found something with the Lions as they played a lot of 3-2-6 with 4 safeties (Heath, Wilcox, Byron and Church). They would show blitz and then either blitz or fake the blitz or zone blitz. The Lions typically don't run the ball well, but while this is a dime package, it has 4 safeties so the run isn't as big of a factor. I wonder if Marinelli really had this package in mind or if they used it out of necessity due to Anthony Brown getting injured. If the latter, we may have stumbled onto something great by accident.

So you think losing a DB (Brown) caused them to go to a package with 6 DBs...

 

[CCBoy]

Irving, Mayowa, and Collins have me excited. Get Gregory into the playoff picture and get Claiborne back on the field at his previous levels. Lawrence has some good in his future as well. That is a chunk of no names that can create a name.

 

[Jstopper]

Irving, Mayowa, and Collins have me excited. Get Gregory into the playoff picture and get Claiborne back on the field at his previous levels. Lawrence has some good in his future as well. That is a chunk of no names that can create a name.

That defense firing on all cylinders along with our offense is gonna be a deadly combination

 

[Bluefin]

#95

OBH

My pick for breakout player of the year the first week of training camp has finally put back-to-back performances together and appears headed for stardom. In the last two weeks, he has 16 QB pressures, eight QB hits and three sacks.

 

[dallasdave]

OBH