My hot takes half way thru Camp

[Wood]

My views so far:

1. Gathers in space with his elite hands are nightmare for Db. They want no parts of him...he is too big. However he gets caught up when someone gets hands on him early. As he learns to find soft spots he will be major threat in red-zone. Hard to say if he is long term starter but at very least he can be niche red-zone player.

2. Jaylon Smith is a striker. Even with him not totally trusting his left leg players go to ground quickly when he hits them. Violence at the ball hitter. I have gone back and forth if I think he can be starter with foot drop limiting him but comments from Terrance Williams get you excited.

3. Something tells me Byron Bell is starting LG for most of season. Cooper could start the season as starter but I am far from being convinced he keeps it.

4. Malik Collins is on verge of being top DT.

5. Byron Jones will lead team in turnovers. Playing fast with elite athleticism. I expect entire DB group to start slow this season but when they get cookin Jones will be all-pro consideration by end of season.

6. By mid-season Tyron Smith will be on the Tony Romo practice schedule. Even though he is 26 years old this will be his 7th NFL season. Bad backs rarely get better. Dallas will manage his back with reduced workload and even if he only plays 4 more years...thats a 10 year career playing at high level. Back might cut short hopes of HOF.

 

[Setackin]

My views so far:

1. Gathers in space with his elite hands are nightmare for Db. They want no parts of him...he is too big. However he gets caught up when someone gets hands on him early. As he learns to find soft spots he will be major threat in red-zone. Hard to say if he is long term starter but at very least he can be niche red-zone player.

2. Jaylon Smith is a striker. Even with him not totally trusting his left leg players go to ground quickly when he hits them. Violence at the ball hitter. I have gone back and forth if I think he can be starter with foot drop limiting him but comments from Terrance Williams get you excited.

3. Something tells me Byron Bell is starting LG for most of season. Cooper could start the season as starter but I am far from being convinced he keeps it.

4. Malik Collins is on verge of being top DT.

5. Byron Jones will lead team in turnovers. Playing fast with elite athleticism. I expect entire DB group to start slow this season but when they get cookin Jones will be all-pro consideration by end of season.

6. By mid-season Tyron Smith will be on the Tony Romo practice schedule. Even though he is 26 years old this will be his 7th NFL season. Bad backs rarely get better. Dallas will manage his back with reduced workload and even if he only plays 4 more years...thats a 10 year career playing at high level. Back might cut short hopes of HOF.

I agree with #6 the most.

 

[Seven]

Hasn't Malik been out?

 

[waving monkey]

you hit on most my good vibe players
Rico has gone from pet cat to viable starting TE +
JSmith has every bodies interest .He'll be good this year and better in 18
Iam not convinced with any of our LG candidates
MCollins might really become a top 3D in the country.
Liking BJones more.
Even with TSmith's back if he can play we're better.

 

[Alexander]

Most of these are not hot takes.

 

[Risen Star]

I agree with #6 the most.

 

[JBell]

5. Byron Jones will lead team in turnovers. Playing fast with elite athleticism. I expect entire DB group to start slow this season but when they get cookin Jones will be all-pro consideration by end of season.

You mean the guy who would rather get a pass deflection than make a play on the ball?

Good player, but he is what he is....he's not a ballhawk.

 

[Risen Star]

You mean the guy who would rather get a pass deflection than make a play on the ball?

Good player, but he is what he is....he's not a ballhawk.

Still too early for me to say that definitively. If this year is like the others I'll agree.

Keep in mind how comfortable QBs are against this defense. Comfortable QBs don't make many mistakes. The lack of turnovers falls on the front seven.

 

[Wood]

Hasn't Malik been out?

He is back in practice today.

 

[diefree666]

T Smith was still a Pro Bowl player last year missing a couple of games. If he can keep going to the Pro Bowl for 4 more years he will get into the HOF sooner or later.

 

[Kaiser]

Good player, but he is what he is....he's not a ballhawk.

But he is extremely smart. With a full season at the position now and an offseason studying tape to get better on this issue, he will definitily make more plays than last year.

 

[Wood]

You mean the guy who would rather get a pass deflection than make a play on the ball?

Good player, but he is what he is....he's not a ballhawk.

he has been ball-hawk so far in practices. Very athletic plays on ball. Still needs to do it in games.

 

[Aven8]

I've been saying for 2 years that Byron Jones is a stud. The dude is all over the place. He's gotten better every year. People pay way too much attention to ints only......

 

[windjc]

I've been saying for 2 years that Byron Jones is a stud. The dude is all over the place. He's gotten better every year. People pay way too much attention to ints only......

He needs to anticipate better and create more turnovers. He plays a bit like a robot, relying on his mind and athleticism and not his instincts. He needs to add that instinctual component to take his game to the next level.

 

[mattjames2010]

he has been ball-hawk so far in practices. Very athletic plays on ball. Still needs to do it in games.

Just read yesterday, he had a chance to get a nice INT on Prescott

...dropped the freakin' ball. I'm sorry, this guy does not have the awareness nor the hands to be a ballhawk. I'm not even sure he is able to strip the ball all that often. Really, he's just an good or okay cover guy at this point.

I won't even go into that it looks like he's in his head way too much while on the field.

 

[lockster]

I've been saying for 2 years that Byron Jones is a stud. The dude is all over the place. He's gotten better every year. People pay way too much attention to ints only......

I've seen way too many guys in the nfl and the cowboys that can't even defend a pass. How does someone not get credit for defending passes. How many safeties ate better?

 

[Deep_Freeze]

Jones is hard to figure out. One int on a hail mary at the end of the half in his entire career is kinda horrible, especially for a first rounder. We are middle of the pack in sacks, but way down on the list of pressures in the league.

It's easy to make the excuse that we didn't have enough pressure to help Jones, but then you have to look at why did the Raiders, Ravens, and Bucs have less pressures than us (depending on the site you like)......yet have wayyy more INTs.

It ain't just the front seven, the secondary sucked too....which is why most have been replaced, and Jones could be next.

 

[Bullflop]

I'm expecting both the QB pressure and the INTs to be accelerated this season. One enhances the other. Even if the pass rush merely improves incrementally, the turnovers should improve accordingly as well. Byron Jones wasn't getting picks last year in TC anywhere near the rate that he is this year in camp. I'm hoping that improvement continues and will be in evidence during the regular season in 2017. The signs are encouraging.

 

[Alexander]

Just read yesterday, he had a chance to get a nice INT on Prescott

...dropped the freakin' ball. I'm sorry, this guy does not have the awareness nor the hands to be a ballhawk. I'm not even sure he is able to strip the ball all that often. Really, he's just an good or okay cover guy at this point.

I won't even go into that it looks like he's in his head way too much while on the field.

Doing it again today. Maybe shagging baseballs has paid off for him.

 

[gimmesix]

1. Gathers in space with his elite hands are nightmare for Db. They want no parts of him...he is too big. However he gets caught up when someone gets hands on him early. As he learns to find soft spots he will be major threat in red-zone. Hard to say if he is long term starter but at very least he can be niche red-zone player.

He does need to learn to find the soft spots. Too often in the first game, he just ran his route even if it took him into coverage. That's OK to some extent because he might be running off a linebacker or safety. But after he did that, I didn't really notice an attempt to drift into an opening or take his route in a different direction. Granted, the cameras were not focused on him when the ball didn't go his way, so it's possible he was doing that and it just wasn't caught on film.