Cowboys legend DeMarcus Ware agrees with Mike Evans

[buybuydandavis]

Don't worry they are saving their best plays

Just like we've been saving deep passes to Pollard his entire rookie contract. Just tested it out against the Vikes.
Now we're going to unleash it again and again until teams show they can stop it.
In my dreams.
In my expectations, we don't use it again this year.

 

[deerhunter11]

dallas has to get back to rushing the passer and getting pressure or they are not advancing in the tournament this secondary is suspect to say the least

 

[DCBoysfan]

The man knows what he’s talking about.

 

[JayFord]

Injuries for other teams are viable reasons. For the Cowboys, they’re irrelevant excuses.

sounds about right...

 

[xwalker]

Beyond that answer: Donald gets there 6 times faster if the NT is bulldozing the OC into the QB. Need both.

Having said that, Vita Vea does get good pressure but it's not because he bull rushes the OC on every pass play...

 

[Verdict]

Don't worry they are saving their best plays

If this were the Garrett regime I might be giggling right along with you. But I think MM is underrated and we are going to beat the brakes off of Tampa Bay.

 

[CWR]

I do think some of it has been because of the run defense and Cowboys have made adjustments to slow down the run game. I also think issue with CB after Brown went down has played a part. No doubt Cowboys need to come up with ways to get that pass rush going

Yeah they were flying to the qb with reckless abandon early in the season. Then they got burnt in the run game and started to worry more about sticking to their assignments etc. My question is why not open it back up on third downs at least?

 

[America's Cowboy]

I trust in Ware. Also facts don't like. We have not been getting near the pressure we got in the first half the of the season. We all suspected our guys are worn down. Maybe what it is has a lot to do with coaching. Seems to me if you have a bad corner that has zero coverage skills you would have to play zone and put as much pressure on the passer as possible. If we don't hassle Brady he will carve up the weak link in our secondary.

I've been saying the last 5+ weeks how Dan Quinn has been exposed and why possibly he was let go by the Falcons.

No excuses for him this Monday night. Dan Quinn needs to step up and execute with full force. The playoffs is the time the best D-Coordinators show up and perform best.

 

[Cowboy_svt]

The odd part of shifting to stop the run has made us seemingly give up a lot more points. Injuries play their role too, but just find it interesting earlier on in the season how we got gashed on runs, but our ppg were dominantly low.

 

[Sully]

 

[Sydla]

“The [pass rush] package has been watered down. I don’t see a lot of the plays that they ran early,” said Ware to Sports Seriously. “When you first start the season, you start doing all these NASCAR, crazy packages and you see it become really effective and then you get comfortable.


You get comfortable with ‘alright, well then we’re just going to put guys here and say we’re going to beat you.’ Yes, we can do that. But that’s when the offenses can scheme and say ‘we’re going to double team Micah and slide to DeMarcus Lawrence.”

The numbers back that up, through their first 12 games of the season Dallas was averaging four sacks a game, which was tops in the NFL. In the last 5, that average has dipped to just over one sack a game.


“I think we gotta get back to being dynamic. You got a lot of dynamic players on that defense. Don’t water it down, let those guys go out and do what they need to do,” said Ware. “Yes, big plays will be given up, but the big plays will happen [on defense too], so Dak can score those points.”

https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/20...them&utm_medium=trueanthem&utm_source=twitter

They took a lot of criticism early for their run D so now I wonder if they've gone more vanilla at rushing the passer in order to not get gashed running the ball.

 

[BleedSilverandBlue]

“The [pass rush] package has been watered down. I don’t see a lot of the plays that they ran early,” said Ware to Sports Seriously. “When you first start the season, you start doing all these NASCAR, crazy packages and you see it become really effective and then you get comfortable.


You get comfortable with ‘alright, well then we’re just going to put guys here and say we’re going to beat you.’ Yes, we can do that. But that’s when the offenses can scheme and say ‘we’re going to double team Micah and slide to DeMarcus Lawrence.”

The numbers back that up, through their first 12 games of the season Dallas was averaging four sacks a game, which was tops in the NFL. In the last 5, that average has dipped to just over one sack a game.


“I think we gotta get back to being dynamic. You got a lot of dynamic players on that defense. Don’t water it down, let those guys go out and do what they need to do,” said Ware. “Yes, big plays will be given up, but the big plays will happen [on defense too], so Dak can score those points.”

https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/20...them&utm_medium=trueanthem&utm_source=twitter

There is a lot less stunting/disguised blitz looks than we had going the first 12 games. It seems DQ is content to line 4 guys straight up and expect them to beat you. The fact is that you need to help your players with scheme and it is hard to overwhelm NFL opponents with talent alone. Here is to hoping DQ brings his A-game.

 

[SiCk_DiAbLo]

Surely teams watch tape, you gotta adjust, guess Quinn hasn't figured that part out yet...

 

[DCreppinBoysfan]

If teams can run, it just exposes this defense. You can’t bring pressure consistently with 4 over a season, if you got guys like ours. The offense needs to put up points so the opposing offense is forced into known passing situations.

Team were running on us early in the season but we still had a pash rush…

 

[Aliencowboy]

“The [pass rush] package has been watered down. I don’t see a lot of the plays that they ran early,” said Ware to Sports Seriously. “When you first start the season, you start doing all these NASCAR, crazy packages and you see it become really effective and then you get comfortable.


You get comfortable with ‘alright, well then we’re just going to put guys here and say we’re going to beat you.’ Yes, we can do that. But that’s when the offenses can scheme and say ‘we’re going to double team Micah and slide to DeMarcus Lawrence.”

The numbers back that up, through their first 12 games of the season Dallas was averaging four sacks a game, which was tops in the NFL. In the last 5, that average has dipped to just over one sack a game.


“I think we gotta get back to being dynamic. You got a lot of dynamic players on that defense. Don’t water it down, let those guys go out and do what they need to do,” said Ware. “Yes, big plays will be given up, but the big plays will happen [on defense too], so Dak can score those points.”

https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/20...them&utm_medium=trueanthem&utm_source=twitter

This change also happened when it was becoming evident that they were not stopping the run. There could be a correlation with the idea that the blitzes were also opening up wholes that offenses started to key on.

 

[reddyuta]

dont let Brady beat you,get in his face everytime.