D still wins championships

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While watching the game, Jerry realized the Chiefs, didn't know how to utilize their speed. Dallas will pick up a 5'0, 150lb speedster in the draft.
 
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Furboy said:
The biggest takeaways that I got from this game was that defence still wins championships and you have to be balanced on offense. The Bucs won the Super Bowl because they played elite defence from basically start to finish, and because the Chiefs didn't run the football. Jason Pierre-Paul, Vita Vea, and Lamonte David were in Mahomes' face pretty much the entire time. They took away Tyreek Hill and basically told the Chiefs to try to beat them without Hill. The end result was 9 points. Meanwhile, the Chiefs couldn't stop the run at all, and Brady was able to rip them apart as a result. Morale of the story: play balanced offense and build this defence. If you want to have a chance, make the defence afraid of both the run and pass. On the other side of the ball, play good defence, and you'll typically win. Jerry Jones needs to build this defence this off-season so we can have a chance to compete next season.
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It’s one of the reasons our 90’s teams were so dominant. We could throw and run with good balance and our defense was good and fast.
 

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SlammedZero said:
I'm sure the FO will address defense this off-season. Now, whether or not they go about it the right way is anybody's guess, but I feel like they know they have a major problem on that side of the ball. Started with the firing of coaches.
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Yup, 6th round injured LB coming up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
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Furboy said:
The biggest takeaways that I got from this game was that defence still wins championships and you have to be balanced on offense. The Bucs won the Super Bowl because they played elite defence from basically start to finish, and because the Chiefs didn't run the football. Jason Pierre-Paul, Vita Vea, and Lamonte David were in Mahomes' face pretty much the entire time. They took away Tyreek Hill and basically told the Chiefs to try to beat them without Hill. The end result was 9 points. Meanwhile, the Chiefs couldn't stop the run at all, and Brady was able to rip them apart as a result. Morale of the story: play balanced offense and build this defence. If you want to have a chance, make the defence afraid of both the run and pass. On the other side of the ball, play good defence, and you'll typically win. Jerry Jones needs to build this defence this off-season so we can have a chance to compete next season.
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Ingredients to compete consistently at a high level and win a SB:

(caveat: most important is competent GM and HC but ignore for purposes of this discussion:

Great QB
Good OL
Great front 7
Good MLB
Great TEs
Good safety play
 
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You need everything...there is no singular focus on a team. Last year the 49ers had a great defense and the game was right there for them to win had their QB made the winning throw. The Eagles had a good defense in 2017 but ended up getting into a shootout vs. the Pats and needed Foles to play like a superstar (and he did).
 
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Furboy said:
Gallimore did look great. Now we need someone to complement him. And better Lb play.
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Can Hill FINALLY step up and contribute? IMHO, if we draft a stud and add a decent FA, a rotation of Gallimore, FA, stud, Hill and Woods would change the weakness to a strength! Then use the rest of the draft/FA for S,CB, LB, S, CB, LB, OT...
 
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when you finish 6-10 like we did, jobs across the board on D are on the line. No one is penciled in outside of DLAW. That is the reality. We need all hands on deck on defense. WHEREVER we may find them.
 
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one thing I feel really good about is WILSON AND DIGGS. Those 2 have huge upside and showed improvement with each snap. Wilson just has that dawg in him..swag. He expects to make plays. Reminds me of James Washington back in the day. Same type of skillset.
 
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Can Hill FINALLY step up and contribute? IMHO, if we draft a stud and add a decent FA, a rotation of Gallimore, FA, stud, Hill and Woods would change the weakness to a strength! Then use the rest of the draft/FA for S,CB, LB, S, CB, LB, OT...
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Hill was looking improved before his injury, but I'd still draft a DT.
 
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Majic said:
Agree, but that's not Jerry's philosophy. The narrative around here is that you only need a competent DEF to complement your offense. Todd Bowles should never have been let go by the Cowboys. Again poor evaluaton by us.
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Tat is total BS. Bowles was a secondary coach for just a single year in the NFL before he came to Dallas back in 2005. He was the secondary coach for 3 years before leaving for a promotion as assistance head coach/secondary coach for the dolphins which lasted just 2 seasons and then he was back to secondary coach for the eagles who they also made him not the DC but an INTERIM DC because they fired their DC. That lasted for only 2012 and was allowed to leave and he went to the cardinals as their DC for 2 years and then the jets head coach for 3 years until finally the bucs DC. the last 2 years. So tell me what secondary coach stays with the same team for SEVEN years with the hope that he will get a chance to be a DC also only having a couple of NFL coaching experience before coming to that team. You're trying to equate what he turned into after 14 years of coaching experience to what he was when he was with the Cowboys. Ya there have been coaches with little experience that turn out to be big time coaches like McVay but they don't come around that often and many coaches have tried their hand at DC or head coaches but weren't that good at that. Example Wade Phillips is a good DC but a terrible head coach.
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Tat is total BS. Bowles was a secondary coach for just a single year in the NFL before he came to Dallas back in 2005. He was the secondary coach for 3 years before leaving for a promotion as assistance head coach/secondary coach for the dolphins which lasted just 2 seasons and then he was back to secondary coach for the eagles who they also made him not the DC but an INTERIM DC because they fired their DC. That lasted for only 2012 and was allowed to leave and he went to the cardinals as their DC for 2 years and then the jets head coach for 3 years until finally the bucs DC. the last 2 years. So tell me what secondary coach stays with the same team for SEVEN years with the hope that he will get a chance to be a DC also only having a couple of NFL coaching experience before coming to that team. You're trying to equate what he turned into after 14 years of coaching experience to what he was when he was with the Cowboys. Ya there have been coaches with little experience that turn out to be big time coaches like McVay but they don't come around that often and many coaches have tried their hand at DC or head coaches but weren't that good at that. Example Wade Phillips is a good DC but a terrible head coach.
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He was with us for 3 years and we interviewed him for head coach, a good organisation should have been able to extrapolate what ceiling he could reach down the line. He is now one of the best DEF Co-ordinators in the league. At the very least he should have been promoted to assistant head defensive coordinator or given some other title to keep him from leaving.

We missed badly.
 
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