if we get Lee and Hitchens healthy enough to play it will be huge
Hitchens is good enough to make plays, Lee is the brain. he tells the defense what will happen and you have to be good enough to execute your assignment
Hitchens IS a player that will thump but he does not have Lees elite football iq and communication skill
i do agree linebacker should be ok as long as Lee and Hitchens or Durant are healthy
1 tech is still going to hurt, i wonder if we see Collins slide and Irving play more 3 tech till they figure it out
until we get elite safety play the defense will suffer
maybe Woods can keep taking it to new levels with experience or maybe they have to draft a legit pro bowl caliber safety
people blaming Marinelli
Dallas isnt running some 30 year old tampa 2 system that is antiquated
they run pretty much the same as Seattle
and YOU KNOW that works
so i read Marinelli is great with 3 hof players hehehe
well yeah
but so is Seattle
Seattle has a top 3 safety in Earl
another elite strong safety in Chancellor
a top 5? DE in Bennett
top 3 linebacker in Wagner plus elite help around him like KJ Wright
did i mention the corner who can shut down 1 side of the field in Sherman?
whats your point dude? Marinelli is garbage Seattle is great!
my point is we have maybe 2 very good DE
we have 1 elite linebacker
we may have something in Lewis, maybe others as well like Chido and Woods plus healthy Scandrick always played well from slot
with these guys Seattle would not be elite
neither would Denver
we have some pieces but not enough
so i think blame the FO and scouts not Marinelli
we missed on Gregory
Taco isnt there
Collins isnt playing like Sapp as we know, but that was the hope Marinelli had you can bet
with Gregory the pass rush could be unstoppable but hes a headcase unfortunately
Claiborne was supposed to be Sherman like in his ability to cover a #1 receiver
that was a huge miss
they desperately need that Bobby Wagner 4.4 speed to run and kill anything outside
so Jaylon was a big calculated risk in that building of the defense
sadly another miss so far
i personally have hope. i dont bash the players, but sometimes a bad play sure. of course
we still need the elite safety
i think 1 tech is not nearly as important or say difficult to find
the others yeah
but dont blame Marinelli.
people say his scheme is to simple and old and thats why teams easily run up and down
but it isnt the coach. thats why even a rookie QB is having success against it
he isnt figure it out! hes just going with the play and guys are either not good enough or fail to execute their job.
a guy once said this
“We play man-to-man or Cover-3 — not much more than that. It’s not a secret.”
that guy was Kam Chancellor
but Dallas doesnt have the pieces for Marinelli
one more quote
Because of Marinelli’s lineage, and Kiffin’s time as the defensive chief, many assume that the Cowboys now major in the same Cover 2 that those Tampa Bay teams did 20 years ago.
The truth however, is that Dallas plays much more single high coverage, both man and zone, than Cover 2. In fact, the Cowboys spend approximately 70 percent of the time in single high coverage, and play Cover 2 only situationally, primarily in the red zone and in two-minute situations.
When Kiffin and Marinelli took over the Cowboys defense in 2013, Kiffin stated that for an example of what the defense would look like schematically, fans should look to Seattle.
