Am I the only one concerned with all of the media love now? Just seems like the kiss of death to me. I have even heard/seen Super Bowl comments since Sunday. Tap on the brakes some, we still have a bad defense and the injuries haven't stopped. Yes, the offense might be SB caliber but there is still another side of the ball to work on.
I was used to getting beat on from the media and fans, hard to get used to the other side of it now. I prefer them(Cowboys) to lay low and under the radar until they prove to be unstoppable, then let it fly!
I understand, but this year's team is different from other year's.
In previous seasons, if the Dallas offense was going to do something good, it was going to be Romo playing great and the offensive coordinator outsmarting the other team's defense. In other words, they would have to surprise the defense... do something they weren't expecting, AND Romo and Co. would have to score enough to overcome the Dallas defense. If the other team's defensive coaches guessed the game plan correctly, Dallas was in for a long day.
This year though, Dallas can basically point and say to the defense:
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We are about to run that guy (Murray) through this gap right here.
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These 5 OL and my TE are going to push your guys out of the way, and make a hole right there for him.
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If you don't want us to do that, then get your athletes to stop our's from doing it. Are you ready? Because here we come.
*And the other team can't stop it from happening.
In an effort to stem the flow of blood, the defense then has to bring one, sometimes 2 extra guys up in the box trying to stop the running game. They tell their pass rushers to slow their rush so Murray won't gash them on every play. As they're getting pushed around like a pop warner team, the LB's and SS are constantly creeping forward in order to slow that OL and Murray down, and as they cheat up towards the line of scrimmage, they are evacuating the passing lanes more each time.
Then, when the defense is doing everything in their power to slow the inexorable tide, Romo runs a play action fake and drops a pass over their heads to a wide open receiver. The windows are huge. The margin for error is enormous. The OL is giving Tony a huge pocket to work wiht. Suddenly it is Romo that's killing them.
Once the defensive coordinator drops guy back to do what they
have to do in order to slow the passing game down, Romo gives it back to Murray and watches from the best seat in the house.
That's what is different about this team. In past years defenses could take away the running game easily with seven guys, make the Dallas offense one dimensional, and simply flood the passing lanes to make life difficult for Tony. Plus, they could send blitzes when they wanted and tell the DL/OLB to pin their ears back and make Romo uncomfortable. It all depended on the defenses ability to stop the run with minimal resources. When they could do that, everything else would click into place for the defense.
In other words, in the past in order to slow the Dallas offense down, defenses merely had to figure out what the Cowboys were doing in the pass game to ruin their day. Their offensive success was predicated on
surprising the defense somehow.
However, in 2014 the defense can correctly know what Dallas wants to do and it is still incredibly difficult for them to stop us... and when they finally commit the resources up to stop the run, they are gashed by Romo and the passing game. Think the second Williams TD or the Dez TD this past Sunday or Bryant's long TD against the Rams.
No, the Cowboys offense is infinitely more difficult to defend this year because of that terrific OL and DeMarco Murray, in conjunction with a healthy Romo and his receiving weapons.
