News: Dallas Cowboys defense still another year away from relevance

[percyhoward]

Top 12 is far from dominant

That's kinda the point. The only teams that haven't had a top 12 defense in this decade are Detroit, Washington, and Dallas.

 

[percyhoward]

Show the 10 best defenses in nfl history

To cut to the chase, there are more elite defenses with championships than elite offenses. But that was never the point, because we don't need an elite defense to win a championship. The point is, we do need to be significantly better than we have been so far this decade.

Or we need to be very lucky. I'll take either one.

 

[CCBoy]

When a player moves up from the college rank, he quickly learns that talent alone won't insure greatness or even a roster place. Here is where I start to draw the line for Rolando McClain. He is a talented player with a blue collar work habit. He just won't fill the bill needed in the very middle of a defense. He is becoming a liability, because due to his lean work habits, he just isn't the center of the Dallas defense. He is steadily becoming more dysfunctional, due to his not being the glue that cements the defense. He can fill a positional need...but with directions now a concern, how much longer can he be passed around as a problem?