I hope Marinelli is watching

[MichaelWinicki]

I'm a little hopeful for this week because Marinelli is now calling Mincey Jiffy Lube.

It couldn't have come at a better time.

If they beat the Eagles, he can be called whatever he wants.

 

[Zimmy Lives]

We can't play bend-don't-break zone against this team.

We have to line up and pop them in the freaking mouth.

SF did.

AZ did.

Seattle is.

Their offense is all misdirection and finesse and if you get physical they fold.

The Eagles respond (negatively) to physicality. Simple but effective.

Dallas may not match their d-line stars defensively but they can certainly play more physical on both sides of the line.

 

[Doomsday101]

I think the main thing for Dallas defense is stop McCoy, As for what the seahawks did they prevented the eagles hitting the big plays down field using man at times as well as zone coverages. Eagles had 1 big play on the night. I think bend but don't break is a key forcing Philly to have to go 10 plays instead of 3 to 4 plays to put points up

 

[cowboys2233]

I don't think it's so much our horses. We didn't know our assignments. That was the big problem the first time against Philly.


All of that misdirection had our players heads spinning.

Really, I think our defensive struggles were more about the offensive ineptitude that left them on the field too long, with was directly due to Romo's poor performance, which was directly caused by the incredibly short week and his inability to properly recover physically. Now we have a mini-bye, which will give Romo plenty of time to recover physically, which will directly help his personal performance, which will help to sustain drives and put more points on the board, which will help this defense.

Really, this game could look completely different and it all has to do with Romo's ability to recover. I think the Eagles are about to get a rude surprise.

 

[xwalker]

Really, I think our defensive struggles were more about the offensive ineptitude that left them on the field too long, with was directly due to Romo's poor performance, which was directly caused by the incredibly short week and his inability to properly recover physically. Now we have a mini-bye, which will give Romo plenty of time to recover physically, which will directly help his personal performance, which will help to sustain drives and put more points on the board, which will help this defense.

Really, this game could look completely different and it all has to do with Romo's ability to recover. I think the Eagles are about to get a rude surprise.

Yes, the Cowboys offense gave them no chance to win that game. The defense might have looked ugly, but they've looked ugly in many of the wins this season. The offense was the biggest problem against Philly.

 

[superonyx]

I will give the eagles defense credit. They did a great job shutting down our offense 2 weeks ago. We were beaten on both sides of the ball.
The offense needs to realize that you cant always just run over everyone. It puts your team in 3rd downs way too often which is when the eagles get after the QB. They also have physical corners (too physical in the first game if the referee crew wasn't the one known for letting defenders interfere all day). So by being predictable and running on every first down we are playing into their hands and telling them to get after Romo and jam our receivers at the line of 3rd downs. I hope we don't fall back into this trap.

 

[cowboys2233]

I will give the eagles defense credit. They did a great job shutting down our offense 2 weeks ago. We were beaten on both sides of the ball.
The offense needs to realize that you cant always just run over everyone. It puts your team in 3rd downs way too often which is when the eagles get after the QB. They also have physical corners (too physical in the first game if the referee crew wasn't the one known for letting defenders interfere all day). So by being predictable and running on every first down we are playing into their hands and telling them to get after Romo and jam our receivers at the line of 3rd downs. I hope we don't fall back into this trap.

This is precisely why you should be much more optimistic heading into this week's game. The offense stalled because of one guy, Tony Romo. This was his second game of the year where he basically lost the game for us because he was so ineffective, week 1 against the 49ers being the first. And I'll take that any day of the week. Why? Because I know Romo will bounce back, he is the least of my concerns. I'm just so happy that we get this mini-bye, Romo is going to look like an entirely different QB next Sunday.

 

[Crown Royal]

1. Shut down the crossing route. Allowing Matthews to knife through your zones and gain 12-20 yards with ease just because you can't get pressure is absurd. I would rather cheat my zone to stop this and force 1-on-1 to the outside and make Sanchez make great throws. That crossing route cannot be given easily. I suggest Scandrick shadowing the slot + playing man.
2. Cover the flats and tackle. Too much worry was spent on Sproles last game, and the Eagles capitalized. Yes, you need to be worried about him, but he can be stopped with good assignment.
3. Don't overpursue the run EVER. Believe that your teammates will hold their assignment and keep contain. Too many runs were given up because the safety or LB cheated inside the tackle box and allowed for the runner to get out.

If you can find a way to do these three things, Philly's offense comes down to earth. The offense is designed to make it easy for sanchez by making a choice between the crossing route or a quick throw to the flat. If you make those choices harder, it plays out of his skillset.

 

[Seven]

How the heck did the worst defense in the history stop that offense last year? Especially when Shady was having a career year last year.

Sean Lee. He feasted on 'ol Shady.

EDIT:
Saw this was already answered............

 

[CATCH17]

Really, I think our defensive struggles were more about the offensive ineptitude that left them on the field too long, with was directly due to Romo's poor performance, which was directly caused by the incredibly short week and his inability to properly recover physically. Now we have a mini-bye, which will give Romo plenty of time to recover physically, which will directly help his personal performance, which will help to sustain drives and put more points on the board, which will help this defense.

Really, this game could look completely different and it all has to do with Romo's ability to recover. I think the Eagles are about to get a rude surprise.

Dallas hasn't been good this year when we have been made one dimensional and going down 14-0 early kinda put us in that situation.

 

[DogFace]

The Cowboys defense is not on par with Seattle's defense. No way we keep up with Philly next week.

We beat Seattle. Our D outplayed theirs.

 

[Fmart322]

Right now. Not 2 months ago.

 

[CowboysFaninHouston]

We can't play bend-don't-break zone against this team.

We have to line up and pop them in the freaking mouth.

SF did.

AZ did.

Seattle is.

Their offense is all misdirection and finesse and if you get physical they fold.

marinelli doesn't quite have the same personnel. you can put a pile of shiet on a plate, put parsley and potatoes next to it and call it filet mignon. until you take the first bite. you have to have at least some meat to pass it off as filet. we got a couple of pieces on the defense, but we also have a lot of crap.

 

[blindzebra]

marinelli doesn't quite have the same personnel. you can put a pile of shiet on a plate, put parsley and potatoes next to it and call it filet mignon. until you take the first bite. you have to have at least some meat to pass it off as filet. we got a couple of pieces on the defense, but we also have a lot of crap.

And yet this defense minus Ware held that offense to 3 points last year in Philly, playing man...hmmm.

 

[CowboysFaninHouston]

And yet this defense minus Ware held that offense to 3 points last year in Philly, playing man...hmmm.

yeah, and that was on their way to one of the worst all time defenses in NFL history... HMMMM

even a blind squirl find a nut now and then...but that doesn't make it a rule!!!

 

[Blackspider214]

We beat this very SEA team in their house. We're capable of hanging with Philly.

It's dangerous to do the transitive property in sports. Just because Team A beats Team B (Seattle over Eagles) and Team C beats Team A (Dallas over Seattle) does not mean Team C will beat Team B (Dallas vs Philly). It's all about matchups. We matched up well with Seattle because their offense is nowhere near as uptempo as Philly. Nor do they have the weapons in the backfield and the WRS they do.

We already showed last week this defense has huge issues with Philly. Now we will see in a week if that was due to the lack of preparation and rest.

Teams have already shown with a good defense, you can lock that offense down. Especially physical defenses like Seattle and Arizona. And SF.

Eagles never even crossed the 50 against SF until the 4th qtr. They only had 100 some odd yards of offense in 4th I believe against Seattle.

We don't have the personnel to shut them down in that manner.

 

[DeaconMoss]

Carr, is having a bad stretch lately. I say line him up on Cooper or Matthews (the off receiver) all game and let him play press man coverage. Try not to let him get singled on Maclin. Have Hitchens or Carter spy McCoy. Bracket Maclin with Oscan and Safety. Moore gets 3rd WR or Ertz.

 

[JBell]

There's a lot of talk on what this defense can do to improve.

But I think a lot of people are overlooking how bad the OFFENSE was in the first meeting.

Maybe my expectations are too high, but this O is capable of scoring tit for tat against any team in the league.

10 points ain't gonna cut it.

 

[Idgit]

It's dangerous to do the transitive property in sports. Just because Team A beats Team B (Seattle over Eagles) and Team C beats Team A (Dallas over Seattle) does not mean Team C will beat Team B (Dallas vs Philly). It's all about matchups. We matched up well with Seattle because their offense is nowhere near as uptempo as Philly. Nor do they have the weapons in the backfield and the WRS they do.

We already showed last week this defense has huge issues with Philly. Now we will see in a week if that was due to the lack of preparation and rest.

Teams have already shown with a good defense, you can lock that offense down. Especially physical defenses like Seattle and Arizona. And SF.

Eagles never even crossed the 50 against SF until the 4th qtr. They only had 100 some odd yards of offense in 4th I believe against Seattle.

We don't have the personnel to shut them down in that manner.

I agree with what you're saying about transitive properties, as my follow up post on the topic would indicate. I don't believe we have a particular matchup problem with the PHI offense, though. If we contain the run like we did the two times we faced them last season, that's a very different game. I also think we got bad Romo/tired Romo and not good Romo on Thanksgiving.

My original point, though was that the way PHI played SEA early wasn't an indication that we couldn't beat them. For mostly the same reasons you're pointing out here.

 

[DeaconMoss]

Here is a good read:

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap30...gles-offense-whats-curbing-chip-kellys-attack