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My pet cat Jermey Parnell played well at RT in place of Free. He wasn't perfect, but overall looked good. He abuses DLinmen on many running plays. He's not fine tuned like the other 4 guys on the line, but he has great raw physical ability. I've never seen Doug Free drive a DLineman multiple yards down-field.
http://cowboysblog.***BANNED-URL***/2014/10/the-morning-after-cowboys-31-giants-21.html/
They also had to play the game without their offensive line completely intact, as attrition has taken Doug Free away for several weeks. In steps veteran reserve Jermey Parnell and on the first snap of the game he rides Mathias Kiwanuka 10 yards into the secondary with ease. From there, especially on running downs, he generally looked comfortable and capable. Next man up? 78 was staying ready for his chance and the Cowboys kept their physical posture.
That is notable as we try to identify who these Cowboys really are. We are not familiar with a team that imposes its physical will on its foes with routine and purpose. The Cowboys from around these parts in recent years have never sustained this identity from week to week, so please forgive the many cynics who have been waiting (and maybe still are) for the “old Cowboys” to reemerge. Those old Cowboys had an identity, but it was of the undesirable variety. It was the identity that said that if you smack them in the face, they will flinch and duck for cover.
But, Parnell jumps in with Martin, Frederick, Leary, and Smith and the power kept coming. By the end of the day, the Giants were just another brick in the path to the playoffs. The Cowboys running game – with the talented DeMarco Murray rolling up the stats – has now shown its face in 7 out of 7, with every game comfortably over 100 yards (the low game this season was 123 yards at St Louis) and every carry comfortably averaging over 4 yards (the low game for average yards per carry has been 4.24). They started against San Francisco with 23 carries in the opener, but since that first forgettable game, they have averaged 35.3 carries per game.
My pet cat Jermey Parnell played well at RT in place of Free. He wasn't perfect, but overall looked good. He abuses DLinmen on many running plays. He's not fine tuned like the other 4 guys on the line, but he has great raw physical ability. I've never seen Doug Free drive a DLineman multiple yards down-field.
http://cowboysblog.***BANNED-URL***/2014/10/the-morning-after-cowboys-31-giants-21.html/
They also had to play the game without their offensive line completely intact, as attrition has taken Doug Free away for several weeks. In steps veteran reserve Jermey Parnell and on the first snap of the game he rides Mathias Kiwanuka 10 yards into the secondary with ease. From there, especially on running downs, he generally looked comfortable and capable. Next man up? 78 was staying ready for his chance and the Cowboys kept their physical posture.
That is notable as we try to identify who these Cowboys really are. We are not familiar with a team that imposes its physical will on its foes with routine and purpose. The Cowboys from around these parts in recent years have never sustained this identity from week to week, so please forgive the many cynics who have been waiting (and maybe still are) for the “old Cowboys” to reemerge. Those old Cowboys had an identity, but it was of the undesirable variety. It was the identity that said that if you smack them in the face, they will flinch and duck for cover.
But, Parnell jumps in with Martin, Frederick, Leary, and Smith and the power kept coming. By the end of the day, the Giants were just another brick in the path to the playoffs. The Cowboys running game – with the talented DeMarco Murray rolling up the stats – has now shown its face in 7 out of 7, with every game comfortably over 100 yards (the low game this season was 123 yards at St Louis) and every carry comfortably averaging over 4 yards (the low game for average yards per carry has been 4.24). They started against San Francisco with 23 carries in the opener, but since that first forgettable game, they have averaged 35.3 carries per game.
