News: DMN: Sturm: The Morning After: Cowboys 31, Jaguars 17 (7-3)

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[WoodysGirl]

Sturm's take...

 

[Dodger12]

Nice write up and two things caught my eye.

With 7:14 left in the 2nd Quarter on a 2nd and 8 from the Jacksonville 35-yard line – was an interesting tight formation with “12″ personnel balanced up with a tight end and a wide receiver both tightly bunched together off the outside shoulder of each tackle. The idea here is to beat any man-coverage with the tight end (James Hanna) breaking outside and then running Dez Bryant back inside in a rub route that then drags Bryant across the defense at the line of scrimmage.

I remember seeing Hanna in the "12" and wondering where Escobar was. He's bigger than Hanna and you'd think he'd be a better blocker, not to mention a receiving threat.

In fact, after just 7 sacks in the first 7 games, the defense now has 9 sacks in their last 3 games as the reinforcements of Anthony Spencer and DeMarcus Lawrence have certainly not hurt the cause at all.

Being able to get pressure and sack the QB would be huge down the stretch. Hopefully, the trend continues.

 

[Idgit]

Yeah. I don't agree that we'd necessarily have taken a knee in that game with 30+ seconds left from that field position in prior years. It was right on the borderline. Moose said it too, when we took possession - that it would be 'interesting to see what Jason Garrett does here.' I was thinking the same thing. I'd just decided that you take the two downs to see how close you might get to FG range for Bailey...JAX I think had one time out left, so that lets you run it out on 3rd and 4th down if you're not able to pick up some yardage. And then they made the inexplicable decision to single Gratz up on Dez Bryant. I don't know what they were thinking, but I'd have been pretty ticked at that if I were a JAX fan. (Lol, at the idea of there being JAX fans).

 

[HoustonSucks]

Risk aversion was the new theme of the Garrett-regime for years to follow and growing a lead was generally ignored for protecting the lead.

We don’t know exactly who to thank for the newly found aggressiveness (my best guess: thank you, Scott Linehan, for your influence on Jason Garrett),

Love.