Hindsight on the decisions on defense

[Blackspider214]

Ummmm no. You had to move on from those guys. It was stale.

The real issue is Marinelli though. His scheme is so played out its not even funny.

 

[Doomsay]

Carroll was a waste of money.

The fact they spent multiple offseasons trying to land him makes me question their scouting abilities at defensive back. Throw in the Jones selection in the first round and hmmmmmm..............

Their defensive FA' scouting has been mostly laughable for years. Carroll is the unfortunate punchline.

 

[lockster]

Can't believe we actually pay Carroll to run around without a clue out there. McFadden is better than carroll

 

[sweetness0986]

Stop with last years DBs. Everyone of em was an over paid, non play making, stiff. Score would have been no different if they were here. Just more strain on the cap.

Have you looked at the scores of our games last year?

 

[MRV52]

One game and they looked totally and complete out classed. It wont get better trust me, get ready for 5-11

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

When did the defense look THIS terrible last season? There was one game in the regular season that the opposing team scored 30 points. One game. People here seriously undervalue what that group did last year.

When did the offense look this bad last season?

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

Just call it what it is - a rebuilding year.

Well the defense definitely is. You can't get rid of a whole secondary and replace them with rookies and expect for it to get better ASAP. Just wasn't going to happen.

 

[reddyuta]

To me its the Scheme,whoever we play will be limited because of Marinellis scheme..

 

[sweetness0986]

When did the offense look this bad last season?

I'm not talking about the offense. I'm talking about getting rid of 4 starters in a secondary that held most teams to under 20 points and not having viable, ready replacements.

 

[Sydla]

If you look at our FA scouting on defense............... its not pretty. Thornton? We cut him. Carroll? Total waste. Mayowa? He's a backup DE at best. Irving is a decent pick up if he can stay off the PEDs.

 

[big dog cowboy]

Letting Carr, Claiborne, Church and Wilcox go. I get that these guys weren't all pros but that's a lot of key players to lose at once in the secondary.

They weren't key players. They didn't fit the defense and needed to go especially at their overpaid salary.

 

[kevm3]

When did the offense look this bad last season?

Against new york

 

[lwehlers]

I think that letting the secondary guys go in free agency was the best move. good defenses start up front. we do not have a good up front defense right now so no sense in spending a lot of money on corners.

 

[Sydla]

They weren't key players. They didn't fit the defense and needed to go especially at their overpaid salary.

And we brought in guys who fit the defense supposedly, like Carroll.

That was a waste of money.

In reality, we shouldn't have expected much............. when you shop in the defensive garbage bin and pull out guys like Carroll, how can you seriously expect improvement on defense? Essentially, I guess they were counting on the rookies to make an impact.

 

[lwehlers]

Just call it what it is - a rebuilding year.

don't tell the jones family that this is a rebuilding year because they think that this a great young defense and a superbowl contender.

 

[Nova]

Dallas has to invest in real Safety talent, the roster is full of guys from Louisiana Tech, Central Michigan, Saginaw Valley State and Connecticut! Why no SEC, ACC or other big school Safeties on this roster.....

Absolutely.

There's a really strong correlation between great safety play and post season success.

And there's actually a lack of good safeties in the league, so having one is a bigger edge than people seem to realize.

When one becomes available, you take him.

 

[kevm3]

We can say these rookies have a ceiling as high as the clouds, but the problem is they are still rookies and the corner position takes a while to play. You also need cohesion on the back end with guys working together. You cannot have that cohesion if the majority of your secondary are rookies and new guys. Unless some miracle happens where these guys just gel like never before, I fully expect them to get super spanked against some of the better offensive teams in the league, at no fault of their own. Trevor Siemian did this to them, so imagine what rodgers, brady, ryan or carr could do.

The FO got cocky with their drafts and felt like we could staff the secondary with newbies and not get newbie results.

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

Against new york

Well that's the exception because Giants offense is bad. Broncos actually have a good offense and defense. Cowboys offense took part in them scoring 30+ points.

 

[ChronicCowboy]

On the bright side, the Giants must really suck this year.

 

[Bluestang]

We need a quality safety i.e. Landon Collins. This scheme relies on that type of player and neither Byron Jones or Jeff Heath fit that mold.