Five Fishtips from Blue/White Scrimmage

[noshame]

Well that's it then ,. our backups throw the second and third prettiest balls Jerry's ever seen.

 

[Idgit]

The DE trade makes sense but seems unlikely

A legit pass rushing DE is going to likely be overvalued in any trade negotiation unless they have serious red flags ( Chandler Jones). I dont see the Cowboys giving up premium picks it would take to land a rusher, Leary wont get that trade done and you have to question why a team is trading something as valuable as a pass rusher. Its not like HB's last year

I think it will be one of those things where calls will be made at some point but I dont see any trade being made

I really think the plan for this defense is to have a heavy rotation of young players with high motors and to rely on man coverage more on the back end and to just hope we put enough pressure on opposing teams with the aggressive 90's style Cowboys offense.

Conceptually, I actually like that. I just worry about the heavy rotation of good young DLs part. I like all of the individual pieces. It's just so rare that you hit on as many as we'd have to hit on here to make it work. So many question marks up there. Even guys like Crawford and Lawrence who should be shoe-ins for what we need have issues they're coming back from.

 

[darthseinfeld]

I really think the plan for this defense is to have a heavy rotation of young players with high motors and to rely on man coverage more on the back end and to just hope we put enough pressure on opposing teams with the aggressive 90's style Cowboys offense.

Conceptually, I actually like that. I just worry about the heavy rotation of good young DLs part. I like all of the individual pieces. It's just so rare that you hit on as many as we'd have to hit on here to make it work. So many question marks up there. Even guys like Crawford and Lawrence who should be shoe-ins for what we need have issues they're coming back from.

Right now at this stage we dont have a bankable #2 edge rusher on the roster . And we wont have a bankable #1 for 4 games. I actually think we are very deep at DE, and Tapper could even become a bankable starter. But we dont have much if anything right now to dictate an offenses gameplan.

The only thing that makes sense to me trade wise is if we package Leary and a young DE like maybe Russell for a bankable starter. But trades like that are rare and rather Maddenish

 

[Idgit]

Right now at this stage we dont have a bankable #2 edge rusher on the roster . And we wont have a bankable #1 for 4 games. I actually think we are very deep at DE, and Tapper could even become a bankable starter. But we dont have much if anything right now to dictate an offenses gameplan.

The only thing that makes sense to me trade wise is if we package Leary and a young DE like maybe Russell for a bankable starter. But trades like that are rare and rather Maddenish

Did you just listen to Marinelli's interview on DC.com? He said basically the same thing. That you need two impact rush players on the front. That Lawrence was a legit rush threat. Crawford might qualify for another. And he said he liked Mayowa in OTA's *without pads.* He liked our ability to play man in the secondary to give us some options, but it was predicated on getting pressure. Otherwise, he didn't say it but the implication was more mixed coverages and 'doing whatever he had to do to help the team' (which I presume means blitzing the WIL and the DBs).

I don't know. So may question marks. At least, though, we've got some options that could pan out. He didn't even mention Irving or Tapper or Russel, for example. We need a lot of light bulbs to turn on, but at least we've got a lot of light bulbs lying around.

 

[darthseinfeld]

Did you just listen to Marinelli's interview on DC.com? He said basically the same thing. That Lawrence was a legit rush thread. Crawford might qualify for another. And he said he liked Mayowa in OTA's *without pads.* He liked our ability to play man in the secondary to give us some options, but it was predicated on getting pressure. Otherwise, he didn't say it but the implication was more mixed coverages and 'doing whatever he had to do to help the team' (which I presume means blitzing the WIL and the DBs).

I don't know. So may question marks. At least, though, we've got some options that could pan out. He didn't even mention Irving or Tapper or Russel, for example. We need a lot of light bulbs to turn on, but at least we've got a lot of light bulbs lying around.

I didnt actually.

Lawrence coming back will help alot. And hopefully Collins can get enough work in camp to become a pressure player. But the first for weeks are going to be patch work. What they have on hand right are players capable of at least being role players at this stage. Players like Irving who should be a stout run DE and Tapper who looked good rushing the QB against good lineman. I think like those two cases, the roles should be able to balance each other out