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IRVING, Texas – Let us petition the cliché czar for a slight amendment to one of those verbal crutches used time and again in the game of football:
You can never have enough corners.
Because when it comes to the Dallas Cowboys after the first five games of this 2013 season we need to expand the breadth of this expression to …
You can never have enough defensive backs … on the field.
Adhering to this amended truism might be just what the Cowboys need if they are going to save themselves from themselves in this ever-evolving video-game world of the NFL, where the tight end is more than just some lumbering dude with trusty enough hands to catch you a bunch of five-yard passes, and the running back is more than a guy who simply totes the mail.
He now dabbles in air mail, too.
The amending evidence has been unquestionably provided in the past two games by opponents combining to score 81 points – 68 of those in the last six quarters – and total an ungodly 1,023 yards and 61 first downs in consecutive wins over the humbled 2-3 Cowboys, a team incredibly still clinging to a share of first place in the NFC Least nearly a third of the way through the season.
Now, an objecting view might suggest a combination of savvy quarterbacks, San Diego’s Philip Rivers and Denver’s Peyton Manning, along with new-age hybrid tight ends, the Chargers’ Antonio Gates and Denver’s Julius Thomas, have taken a significant toll. That these last two games provide but a unique set of circumstances bombarding a suddenly reeling Cowboys defense.
Why, the tight ends in the past two games have become royal pains, combining for 20 receptions, 265 receiving yards and three touchdowns, Gates and Thomas for all but one of those catches for just seven of those yards. That’s glaring, especially since both tight ends were their team’s leading receivers in each of those games, and so was Giants tight end Brandon Myers in the season opener, leading with seven catches that went for 65 yards and accounting for that fourth tight end touchdown against the Cowboys.
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You can never have enough corners.
Because when it comes to the Dallas Cowboys after the first five games of this 2013 season we need to expand the breadth of this expression to …
You can never have enough defensive backs … on the field.
Adhering to this amended truism might be just what the Cowboys need if they are going to save themselves from themselves in this ever-evolving video-game world of the NFL, where the tight end is more than just some lumbering dude with trusty enough hands to catch you a bunch of five-yard passes, and the running back is more than a guy who simply totes the mail.
He now dabbles in air mail, too.
The amending evidence has been unquestionably provided in the past two games by opponents combining to score 81 points – 68 of those in the last six quarters – and total an ungodly 1,023 yards and 61 first downs in consecutive wins over the humbled 2-3 Cowboys, a team incredibly still clinging to a share of first place in the NFC Least nearly a third of the way through the season.
Now, an objecting view might suggest a combination of savvy quarterbacks, San Diego’s Philip Rivers and Denver’s Peyton Manning, along with new-age hybrid tight ends, the Chargers’ Antonio Gates and Denver’s Julius Thomas, have taken a significant toll. That these last two games provide but a unique set of circumstances bombarding a suddenly reeling Cowboys defense.
Why, the tight ends in the past two games have become royal pains, combining for 20 receptions, 265 receiving yards and three touchdowns, Gates and Thomas for all but one of those catches for just seven of those yards. That’s glaring, especially since both tight ends were their team’s leading receivers in each of those games, and so was Giants tight end Brandon Myers in the season opener, leading with seven catches that went for 65 yards and accounting for that fourth tight end touchdown against the Cowboys.
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