The Cowboys suck against the run because they are undersized along the front 7 that includes Osa, Mazi, and Hankins. It’s a pick your poison league on defense. I remember when we were big and couldn’t cover anyone. Romo’s defenses was huge along the front seven but slow as molasses. The problem with Cowboys is we cannot run the football on offense. You have to have balance. Green Bay exposed all are weaknesses at once.
Ok. I won't argue it. All I will repeat is get Dawgs that know what they are doing. First and foremost
Our problem is a dumb interior D philosophy and an equally stupid approach at LB. If they're/we're serious about fielding a dominant D, they'd have added another proven Hankins type NT & a real MLB (lve sucks) last off-season plus Gilmore. In addition to Pierce, Baltimore has 2 more solid DT's that are 315 & 338 lbs, their interior D ain't banana pudding like DQ. The FO is always late to the party and most of the time it's intentional.
It’s such an offensive league nowadays but the Ravens have Dawgs. Living here in Baltimore Patrick Queen was considered a bust before this season and the local media wanted him traded. His 5th year option was not picked up either.
Because of very poor drafting.
And because our DT's are not very good.
Glad you see it.
Oh I see it alright.
I like Frankie Luvu from Panthers as a FA Target 6'3 235 can blitz and provides decent rum support and doesn't break the bank.
If we are bad at evaluating DT's in the draft, then get one in free agency. Stick to what you're good at.
They want low on lb count this year. Not sure the reasoning behind that rational.
It's exactly the kind of defense that I wondered would end up getting trashed by the run. As the league keeps getting more and more pass happy, teams might sell out to stop the pass, betting that they'll face teams that have sold out to be good at passing, even if it means they stink against the run. So along comes a team that goes old school, hammer them with the run, a great OL, and a great RB, and they can just run it down people's throats to set up the pass. Back in 2014 and 2016, two years when we had an exceptional O-line and an excellent runner in '14 and a juggernaut one in '16, I was thinking we would be that team. We could be the hard-nosed running team that would trash all those defenses designed to stop the pass. I didn't figure on it happening TO us. This is what I wanted to do to other teams.
Poor planning or unbalanced Cap allocation?
Both!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well it is hard, damn near impossible to have talent and depth at every position. However, when you over allocate cap space to a player or position group, then you are intentionally deciding to have a deficit in another position. Is that poor planning or intentional planning.
He liked dual skill tight ends as well...
Not at all, the point is to be correct not emotional.
