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August 19, 2009, 3:36 pm
Giants Evoking Cowboys’ Model for Success?
By Justin Sablich
With the offensive star power of Troy Aikman, Emmitt Smith and Michael Irvin powering those dominant Dallas Cowboys teams of the early 1990s, it’s easy to forget just how good the Cowboys’ defense was.
A big part of that was Dallas’s depth on the defensive line. The Dallas Morning News’s Rick Gosselin sees similarities in how the Cowboys constructed those teams and what the Giants did this off-season by adding Chris Canty and Rocky Bernard to last season’s starting four and the now-healthy Osi Umenyiora.
Gosselin writes:
Tony Casillas and Russell Maryland were the starting tackles and the backbone of a unit that led the NFL in both defense and run defense. Jimmie Jones and Leon Lett were the backups, but when they hit the field, chaos ensued. Both were big, mobile pass rushers who lived in the offensive backfield. … But stockpiling defensive linemen like the Cowboys did back then is difficult to do. Those quality big guys are tough to find. The New York Giants, though, appear to have done so in 2009.
The Giants’ Super Bowl team of 2007 built its defense around Umenyiora and the now-retired Michael Strahan, but now seem to be banking on depth as much as talent.
Giants Evoking Cowboys’ Model for Success?
By Justin Sablich
With the offensive star power of Troy Aikman, Emmitt Smith and Michael Irvin powering those dominant Dallas Cowboys teams of the early 1990s, it’s easy to forget just how good the Cowboys’ defense was.
A big part of that was Dallas’s depth on the defensive line. The Dallas Morning News’s Rick Gosselin sees similarities in how the Cowboys constructed those teams and what the Giants did this off-season by adding Chris Canty and Rocky Bernard to last season’s starting four and the now-healthy Osi Umenyiora.
Gosselin writes:
Tony Casillas and Russell Maryland were the starting tackles and the backbone of a unit that led the NFL in both defense and run defense. Jimmie Jones and Leon Lett were the backups, but when they hit the field, chaos ensued. Both were big, mobile pass rushers who lived in the offensive backfield. … But stockpiling defensive linemen like the Cowboys did back then is difficult to do. Those quality big guys are tough to find. The New York Giants, though, appear to have done so in 2009.
The Giants’ Super Bowl team of 2007 built its defense around Umenyiora and the now-retired Michael Strahan, but now seem to be banking on depth as much as talent.
