Yakuza Rich
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- I’m not so sure how much the Crayton injury will impact the team this year. Granted, he’s a good player and makes for another tough possession receiver. But, that could have us focus on Witten more and I like Witten catching passes more than Crayton. The problem is that Price isn’t really a possession receiver and if they feature Witten more, that takes him out of the pass protection. Perhaps they could use Pierce and Campbell as extra blockers and line up Witten out wide where Crayton usually plays. I have no idea what they are going to do at punt returner.
- 20 sacks through 6 games. That’s on pace for 53.3 sacks this year. You want to know why sacks are the greatest correlation to winning in the NFL? Because they lose yards for the offense and in this case, help force turnovers. You typically don’t win a football game when you’re -4 in the turnover ratio in the first half. You CAN win in this scenario if you are good at sacking the quarterback because it takes the opponent out of field goal position and creates turnovers for yourself.
- The key to this team IMHO is to get them playing aggressively. When they play aggressive, for some reason or another, they execute better and make less mental mistakes.
- I’m not going to bash Sean Payton too much. Without Julius our running game and passing game takes a hit. Nobody mentions this, but Julius is actually an excellent blocker. A-Train is decent at blocking, and the rookies are too inconsistent. Thus, they had to be conservative with their passing game, which I understand. It also didn’t help that the Giants looked well coached on defense and disguise their blitz well. That being said, once again Payton gets predictable and conservative in the red zone. I honestly thought I was watching the Commanders game again.
- I see a coward like Bill Romonowski cry on 60 Minutes and I just beam with joy thinking about the 1992 NFC Championship game. For one, it was the stepping stone to 3 Cowboys Super Bowls. But just as important for me, Moose Johnston kicked his arse up and down the field for the entire game.
- I dunno, but if I was an opposing O-Coordinator I might try the no huddle shotgun against Dallas for stretches in the game.
- I’ll say this, Al Johnson had a bad 1st quarter or so. After that he looked fine to me.
- I see why Drew has the tendency to come up short on passing plays late in the game. It’s because he’s so conscious of being sacked, he throws off his back foot to get rid of the ball quicker. Thus, he loses the velocity to get it to the receiver.
- Give our CB’s a lot of credit. Newman has been All-World so far. Henry may have played better than Newman today (4 passes defensed, 1 INT, almost had another INT) and Glenn is solid. The defense still doesn’t disguise the blitz as well as I would like, but the scheme is confusing opposing QB’s and when it doesn’t, the CB’s seem to have great coverage.
- Give Zimmer some credit, the CB’s did not bite once on the Giants WR double moves.
- I don’t like Cortez as a kicker. In fact, I’m SHOCKED he made that 45 yarder. But, what keeps him in the NFL is that he is a good/great kickoff guy. Out of all of the games I’ve charted so far, he’s yet to lose the kickoff battle to an opposing kicker/punter. (I *think* Janikowski would’ve beaten him, but there was a strong wind and both guys were booting them into the end zone with ease).
Anyway, today his kicks were pretty deep, had nice hangtime, and were angled towards the sideline and gave the best kick returner in the league fits.
- The long snapper had another nice day, only one snap was mediocre and that was on a punt (tad low). Good job by the scouting dept. on finding this guy so quickly.
- I’d like for those who say Roy is overrated to look at his stats and look at the fumble he forced at the one foot line. Do us all a favor and never talk about football again.
- That being said, watching the Cowboys on their own 1, I couldn’t help but think about “All the Right Moves” and then worrying about Keith Davis getting drunk and trashing Parcells’ house after the game with a bunch of locals.
- I wasn’t very high on Marion Barber until this game. I think he’ll be an okay starter, but a good 3rd down back. Reminds me a bit of Duce Staley.
- How ‘bout them NFC East LEADERS Dallas Cowboys!
Rich……..
- 20 sacks through 6 games. That’s on pace for 53.3 sacks this year. You want to know why sacks are the greatest correlation to winning in the NFL? Because they lose yards for the offense and in this case, help force turnovers. You typically don’t win a football game when you’re -4 in the turnover ratio in the first half. You CAN win in this scenario if you are good at sacking the quarterback because it takes the opponent out of field goal position and creates turnovers for yourself.
- The key to this team IMHO is to get them playing aggressively. When they play aggressive, for some reason or another, they execute better and make less mental mistakes.
- I’m not going to bash Sean Payton too much. Without Julius our running game and passing game takes a hit. Nobody mentions this, but Julius is actually an excellent blocker. A-Train is decent at blocking, and the rookies are too inconsistent. Thus, they had to be conservative with their passing game, which I understand. It also didn’t help that the Giants looked well coached on defense and disguise their blitz well. That being said, once again Payton gets predictable and conservative in the red zone. I honestly thought I was watching the Commanders game again.
- I see a coward like Bill Romonowski cry on 60 Minutes and I just beam with joy thinking about the 1992 NFC Championship game. For one, it was the stepping stone to 3 Cowboys Super Bowls. But just as important for me, Moose Johnston kicked his arse up and down the field for the entire game.
- I dunno, but if I was an opposing O-Coordinator I might try the no huddle shotgun against Dallas for stretches in the game.
- I’ll say this, Al Johnson had a bad 1st quarter or so. After that he looked fine to me.
- I see why Drew has the tendency to come up short on passing plays late in the game. It’s because he’s so conscious of being sacked, he throws off his back foot to get rid of the ball quicker. Thus, he loses the velocity to get it to the receiver.
- Give our CB’s a lot of credit. Newman has been All-World so far. Henry may have played better than Newman today (4 passes defensed, 1 INT, almost had another INT) and Glenn is solid. The defense still doesn’t disguise the blitz as well as I would like, but the scheme is confusing opposing QB’s and when it doesn’t, the CB’s seem to have great coverage.
- Give Zimmer some credit, the CB’s did not bite once on the Giants WR double moves.
- I don’t like Cortez as a kicker. In fact, I’m SHOCKED he made that 45 yarder. But, what keeps him in the NFL is that he is a good/great kickoff guy. Out of all of the games I’ve charted so far, he’s yet to lose the kickoff battle to an opposing kicker/punter. (I *think* Janikowski would’ve beaten him, but there was a strong wind and both guys were booting them into the end zone with ease).
Anyway, today his kicks were pretty deep, had nice hangtime, and were angled towards the sideline and gave the best kick returner in the league fits.
- The long snapper had another nice day, only one snap was mediocre and that was on a punt (tad low). Good job by the scouting dept. on finding this guy so quickly.
- I’d like for those who say Roy is overrated to look at his stats and look at the fumble he forced at the one foot line. Do us all a favor and never talk about football again.
- That being said, watching the Cowboys on their own 1, I couldn’t help but think about “All the Right Moves” and then worrying about Keith Davis getting drunk and trashing Parcells’ house after the game with a bunch of locals.
- I wasn’t very high on Marion Barber until this game. I think he’ll be an okay starter, but a good 3rd down back. Reminds me a bit of Duce Staley.
- How ‘bout them NFC East LEADERS Dallas Cowboys!
Rich……..
