ESPN Mosley: The gap between Philly and Dallas

[Angus]

I caught Florio on Fox Sports last night, and he was actually pretty decent... Much better than on his stupid blog. But he said he hears that they are getting closer and closer to pulling the trigger on going to Kolb. He said the recent claims that they're happy with McNabb are only to keep his trade value up.

It might not be true, but I wouldn't doubt it, either.

BTW, he also said he wouldn't be surprised if they gave that Ed Block courage award to Vick to help increase his trade value. Only the Eagles.

I wouldn't be surprised if Kolb were a much better quarterback for them. He handled himself well when McNabb was hurt.

 

[lkelly]

I'm amazed that everyone isn't aghast at the thought of refreshing your screen every 10 minutes in order to view Sal Paolantonio's package.

Forget all that other stuff.

 

[ThreeandOut]

I am one who believes gaps can be closed quickly, but they can also be widened quickly.

IMO Dallas needs to do 3 things to widen the gap. These are in no particular order, and they are not the only things that can improve, just the 3 biggest deficiencies.

1. Fix the Return games, especially Kick Returns.

2. Fix the Kicking game. We left anywhere from 18 to 30 points on the field just on missed FGs and we avoided going for FGs at times because we were so erratic.

3. Create turnovers. Quite simply, if our Defense lacks anything at all it is larceny of the football. We start taking the ball away and there is no stopping this team.

Garrett often gets the blame for the disparity between Dallas having the 2nd ranked offense in yards and the 14 ranked offense in scoring, but if you correct # 2 then Dallas probably has a top 10 scoring offense.

 

[CCBoy]

With the return of Westbrook to a full time status, and even more experience in Jackson in the receiver group there now. The ability to march the ball down the field, will improve quite a bit this next season.

On a team that relied on homerun power to win, that is a major improvement there. That homerun power was still lacking on this year's version of the team in the defensive side. With a change of D coordinators, the dial a victim approach was contained somewhat, but pointedly in the defensive line and especially the linebacker groups. Upgrade at linebacker, and they again change end of season desparity shown this past season...

 

[CCBoy]

I could live without the first two if you give me #3. Can't call yourself an elite defense if you aren't taking the ball away consistently.

Now, I don't have a single problem in forcing a team to punt, and winning a field position and time of position type of battle with the best of teams.