EGTuna
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a couple of them, if I remember correctly, were on third and longs, meaning he took the underneath. We definitely didn’t challenge deep and even Harrison pointed out at half that if he was Dak he’d throw deep a couple of times to get the defense to open up a little bit. I’m not sure if he said it was because of the man coverage that he said the deep would force the hand.
Not sure what game Harrison was watching, but on 3rd and long, NO went with 3-man rush and dropped 8 in coverage (often referred to as clog and cover). Hard to take deep shots when both safeties are not letting anyone get 1on1 deep and the extra DBs and LBs are clogging the middle. Dak beat this twice - once with Jarwin (lead to a TD), and once to Witten (fumble). Lattimore shut Cooper down knowing he had S help deep, and Cobb and Smith had little success getting open on anything beyond 0-5 yards..
It didn't help that Dallas couldn't run vs. 7 and 6 man boxes (2nd 1 on 2nd to last drive of the game was a 6 man box, and Zeke lost a yard thanks to Travis and Zach getting worked).
Saints had 36 TOP advantage so their DL (and the rest of the D) was fresh.
Sometimes the other team whips your "you know what".