Cowboys "O-Line" Story: Bigger Than You Think

[T-RO]

Are you suggesting we will be running plays with 5 O-Line + 4 T/E = 9 potential blockers?
Or are you suggesting we will rotate O-linemen the whole game using 9 different players?
If neither of those, then I do not know what you are hinting at.

You were the closest to guess. Was worried you'd spoil my fun.

 

[BAT]

I love having Noah Brown on this team. Dude blows people up, does his assignments. He helps us win.

He's under-appreciated because he's a "long range" bomber...doing his nasty on the perimeter and downfield.

Oh...and the three-headed monster at tight end.... we likey.

Say it with me brothers: There be NINE.

There actually be TEN when Dak joins in the fun.

 

[T-RO]

The fact that today is the 9th is not insignificant.

No doubt. Planned it out. (maybe)
Good thing it's not December 7th, the day that will live in infamy. Those bombers weren't playing around. No Christmas cheer.

 

[T-RO]

There actually be TEN when Dak joins in the fun.

Got this bizarre premonition that Dak is going to throw a key block in a big game sometime in the next month or two. Dak coulda been a hella fullback.

 

[AsthmaField]

Was that the variant with Rolls Royce Merlin engine?

It did have the Merlin. It was a supercharged Merlin 66. British engineering at its best. It brought the American P51 to life.

 

[Cebrin]

Just use your imagination. I did, and I'm liking it.

 

[T-RO]

This was funny.

 

[T-RO]

Wide Receivers blocking? Bigger numbers (88 and 85) making key blocks on outside runs?

Danny nailed it. Don't know how I didn't see this earlier.

 

[AsthmaField]

Our WR’s have been killing it in the run game. They turn 8 yard runs into 28 yard runs.

 

[T-RO]

Ceedee actually blocked his guy twice in this one play. About a second apart.

The second block was completed "behind my back" style. It worked. The Colt in question, #44, Zaire Franklin had 10 tackles during the game, but nada here. Cowboy TD.

block 1

block 2

 

[Londonboy]

My take from this thread (via some transcendental mathematics and a swerve through WW2 avionics).

Blocking is good, only the Bloke with the ball is exempt from blocking.

Did I miss anything?

 

[buybuydandavis]

I'm hoping for some Jumbo Jumbo, with Peters and McGovern.

Tyron to LT, Peters to LG, Tyler to FB. Tyler just doesn't move like and olineman.

 

[T-RO]

My take from this thread (via some transcendental mathematics and a swerve through WW2 avionics).

Blocking is good, only the Bloke with the ball is exempt from blocking.

Did I miss anything?

Just fed this whole thread into the new scary AI system, ChatGPT...(Check it out, it can draft essays, write out computer code, craft marketing letters, crack jokes) It's a bot you issue sophisticated commands or just "talk to". Here the dialog.

Me: "What is your summation of the data?"
ChatGPT: "If building an NFL offense--or evaluating one, it's vital to consider the blocking of all players as an inter-connected organism."

Me: "What did you think of the participants and nature of the discussion?"
ChatGPT: "You have funny, if somewhat eccentric friends. The input data would classify you, T-RO, as borderline in the context of a functioning society."

Me: "How does the information discussed impact Dallas-Philly prospects?"
ChatGPT: "Our analysis, based on comprehensive data, shows Dallas ultimately besting Philadelphia in 64% of 48,001 simulations. Superior defensive playmakers, a diversified offense with wholistic blocking provides the difference.There are nine. There are nine. There are nine. There are nine...."

I had to exit the system. It kept repeating. kept repeating. kept repeating.

 

[lukin2006]

Day drinking can be bad…

 

[T-RO]

I joke, but this AI stuff is getting...real. ChatGPT, all the AI art stuff. Creeping me out.

Open the door Hal. Hal!?

Day drinking can be bad…

Agree 100%. Don't do that. Or drugs in general. My craziness is mostly just natural.

 

[Londonboy]

Day drinking can be bad…

It can also be good, depends on the day, depends on the drink.

 

[T-RO]

I'm in no position to judge another. One big pile of screw-ups sits in this seat.

Do sometimes drink too much at night. And that's probably 10th in the list of my failings.

 

[Shane612]

 

[T-RO]

This is hopelessly off-topic, but fwiw...One of my top 5 sins?

Letting my ex get the dog. That border-collie was born to run and while married I made a point to give Rox every opportunity to do so. Would take her to the best park in Denver after midnight. No leash. Never seen man or animal with such exhilaration in sprinting. Endlessly, effortlessly sprinting, with pure joy. I shudder to think of Rox getting at most a short single leash-walk a day, and zero stimulation encased in a Houston apartment with a caretaker without a clue....starting from the day I screwed up.

Had "reasons" at the time...but gawd I'm garbage.

 

[Londonboy]

This is hopelessly off-topic, but fwiw...One of my top 5 sins?

Letting my ex get the dog. That border-collie was born to run and while married I made a point to give Rox every opportunity to do so. Would take her to the best park in Denver after midnight. No leash. Never seen man or animal with such exhilaration in sprinting. Endlessly, effortlessly sprinting, with pure joy. I shudder to think of Rox getting at most a short single leash-walk a day, and zero stimulation encased in a Houston apartment with a caretaker without a clue....starting from the day I screwed up.

Had "reasons" at the time...but gawd I'm garbage.

And when the moon was full, You'd strip to Your skin and join Rox, running furiously, heart racing, blood pumping, baying joyously at the moon, pausing only to enjoy raw dripping meat from freshly caught woodchucks, with delicious all-butter croissants purchased from a local artesian bakery, all washed down with a reasonably priced but surprisingly good Californian Zinfandel?