Masking the 2012 defense

[erod]

There's a brewing, but short-lived, advantage for the Cowboys on Sept. 5 for the NY Giants.

The Giants know our offense front and back, although the zone blocking schemes Callahan is adding will give us a different wrinkle.

However, the defense is essentially rebuilt both in personnel and scheme. Rob Ryan's defense never took hold last year, and he had to scale it back because of communication issues between the front 7 and secondary. Not to mention the sheer limitations of the personnel he had.

Now he has Carr, Claiborne, Church, Carter, Connor, Crawford, Lissimore, and perhaps Jenkins (in a different role), and the Giants are very much in the dark right now about the Cowboys defense. That could mean a subtle advantage against Eli and company in a few weeks.

So that begs the question: how vanilla should Ryan keep it during the preseason.

Understand, I know that teams pretty much know everything about other teams do because they ALL pretty much do the same things. Some just do certain things better so they playcall more that direction.

But the blitz frequency and combinations, coverage schemes, etc, don't really have an established trend right now for Dallas.

Here's hoping Rob dials it back quite a bit during the preseason, then unleashes the hounds in New York.

 

[Doomsday101]

There's a brewing, but short-lived, advantage for the Cowboys on Sept. 5 for the NY Giants.

The Giants know our offense front and back, although the zone blocking schemes Callahan is adding will give us a different wrinkle.

However, the defense is essentially rebuilt both in personnel and scheme. Rob Ryan's defense never took hold last year, and he had to scale it back because of communication issues between the front 7 and secondary. Not to mention the sheer limitations of the personnel he had.

Now he has Carr, Claiborne, Church, Carter, Connor, Crawford, Lissimore, and perhaps Jenkins (in a different role), and the Giants are very much in the dark right now about the Cowboys defense. That could mean a subtle advantage against Eli and company in a few weeks.

So that begs the question: how vanilla should Ryan keep it during the preseason.

Understand, I know that teams pretty much know everything about other teams do because they ALL pretty much do the same things. Some just do certain things better so they playcall more that direction.

But the blitz frequency and combinations, coverage schemes, etc, don't really have an established trend right now for Dallas.

Here's hoping Rob dials it back quite a bit during the preseason, then unleashes the hounds in New York.

I think tonight and the next game will be fairly vanilla but like most teams by the 3rd pre season game that is a bit of a dress rehearsal for the upcoming season so I expect a lot more to be shown in that game. By the 4th pre season most of the starters will not play much as they need to see younger guys to make the final cuts.

 

[Cowboy4ever]

I think tonight and the next game will be fairly vanilla but like most teams by the 3rd pre season game that is a bit of a dress rehearsal for the upcoming season so I expect a lot more to be shown in that game. By the 4th pre season most of the starters will not play much as they need to see younger guys to make the final cuts.

I don't expect Rob to be vanilla tonight. We won't game plan, sure but I think he will come with the blitz and come often with it. He needs to get this team thinking attack from the go, so he will use tonight as a starting point. Also, we need to see the young CB's in actual game situations, so I expect to see a lot of man coverage, how else can he see if they can hold up under real circumstances.

I expect this D will be flying all over the place, might not be exotic (whatever that means) but I think you will see a lot of 5 and 6 man pressures tonight.

 

[jazzcat22]

I don't think Rob will show any new blitz packages, just the ones people know of.
If he does show anything new, it will be a watered down version to throw people off.

Just my opinion and guess though.

 

[Doomsday101]

I don't expect Rob to be vanilla tonight. We won't game plan, sure but I think he will come with the blitz and come often with it. He needs to get this team thinking attack from the go, so he will use tonight as a starting point. Also, we need to see the young CB's in actual game situations, so I expect to see a lot of man coverage, how else can he see if they can hold up under real circumstances.

I expect this D will be flying all over the place, might not be exotic (whatever that means) but I think you will see a lot of 5 and 6 man pressures tonight.

I did not say we would not blitz I'm sure we will, I don't think we will see a lot of the packages in place tonight. We may see more of it in week 3 of the pre season in large part because that is the last substantial work the 1st unit will get leading up to the season.

 

[viman96]

I doubt the Giants attack us differently than before.