Paper Tiger Defense

[cowboys5xsbs]

Looks great on paper. Beats up on the bottom feeders QB's. When we really need them to show up they are MIA. Hurts leads the league in turnovers and somehow we can't force one.

 

[This is Our Year]

We’ll wax the Giants next week. 5 plus sacks. TOs all day, maybe even a defensive TD

But… agreed, in a big spot they’ll fold

 

[BIGS87]

Yeah completely agree! Dak is overrated too! He had 2 chances at game drives and choked!

 

[Cowboy_svt]

Well, i think we played ok but we need a corner to replace lewis, thinknthey converted 3 3rd and longs on him.

We stuffed their run for the most part and hurts didnt light us up. But two special teams blunders didnt help.

We did force a few fumbles but of course none went our way. But i didnt see many contested catches, one int wouldve sealed it

 

[raven55]

most of the time the secondary looks lost and the defensive coach can go to another team he's only good againist lower tier offenses

 

[CowboyStar88]

Unpopular opinion Dan Quinn is overrated.

 

[cowboys5xsbs]

Unpopular opinion Dan Quinn is overrated.

I called for his head. I am sick of watching this defense against good teams. I really don't care that they stat pad against bad QB's now.

 

[Cowboy_svt]

Whats crazy is

We held aj brown to 60 yards
Their run game to barely 3.0 ypc

You tell me we do that and dak throws no ints i assume we beat the rails off them

 

[Doomsday]

The defense forced 3 fumbles and somehow they all bounced right back to Philly players.

The pass rush was a bit absent and they picked on Lewis a few times on 3rd down but the defense was solid vs a good offense.

 

[baltcowboy]

Looks great on paper. Beats up on the bottom feeders QB's. When we really need them to show up they are MIA. Hurts leads the league in turnovers and somehow we can't force one.

3 fumbles but no recoveries. We will see them again and it will be for the East lead
In Dallas.

 

[Runwildboys]

The hc/oc and qb **** the bed yet again and it’s the defenses fault. Lmao

Well, the defense didn't spot the offense 14 points, so they could play with a lead and just run whatever play they wanted to all game.

 

[nightrain]

Philly made more big plays on both sides of the ball.

The Cowboys secondary is not good when they have to cover for more than a few seconds.

 

[ArtClink]

The hc/oc and qb **** the bed yet again and it’s the defenses fault. Lmao

Uh, did you see the game or hear it on the radio?

 

[nate dizzle]

Whats crazy is

We held aj brown to 60 yards
Their run game to barely 3.0 ypc

You tell me we do that and dak throws no ints i assume we beat the rails off them

It was a weird loss. Defense got burned by some calls like the Gilmore PI that killed us. I felt they stiffened up and gave us a chance to catch up but they were shaky in the first half.

 

[Floatyworm]

Looks great on paper. Beats up on the bottom feeders QB's. When we really need them to show up they are MIA. Hurts leads the league in turnovers and somehow we can't force one.

All on Quinn....and the soft zone defense...CBs playing off 12yrds. What a freaking joke. No blitzes...

Couldn't have had a worse game plan.

 

[Cowboy_svt]

It was a weird loss. Defense got burned by some calls like the Gilmore PI that killed us. I felt they stiffened up and gave us a chance to catch up but they were shaky in the first half.

Yeah it was weird

Felt they had a good chance stopping them, and on some they did, whenever they initially took the ball, but once they got that first 1st down on any drive, they couldnt stop them

 

[jhj7098]

3 fumbles but no recoveries. We will see them again and it will be for the East lead
In Dallas.

Nah. Eagles will have division wrapped up by then

 

[nate dizzle]

Yeah it was weird

Felt they had a good chance stopping them, and on some they did, whenever they initially took the ball, but once they got that first 1st down on any drive, they couldnt stop them

Eagles tush push is a devastating and demoralizing play. How many times did we have them 3rd and short or 4th and short and they broke our backs with it. There's no way to stop it, or at least none that any defensive coordinator has figured out yet. If they even get to 3rd and 4 you are in trouble. You have to stop them from getting 2 yards on 3rd down to prevent losing the tush push on 4th

 

[stiletto]

They play great when they have a lead and can T-off. They really struggle against teams that can keep it close. Basically Front-Runners.

 

[Cowboy_svt]

Eagles tush push is a devastating and demoralizing play. How many times did we have them 3rd and short or 4th and short and they broke our backs with it. There's no way to stop it, or at least none that any defensive coordinator has figured out yet. If they even get to 3rd and 4 you are in trouble. You have to stop them from getting 2 yards on 3rd down to prevent losing the tush push on 4th

Yeah, they were getting almost 2+ yards each time.
Crazy advantage, not unfair though, but damn it sucks to be on the receiving end