aikemirv
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If you watched the games you can see that Jaylon does not move laterally well at all, is out of position and overruns plays regularly. No matter what the Dlineman are doing it is easy to see his flaws every game.First of all let me say I NEVER look at stats alone.. I watch every second of every Cowboys game.. at least once and if it was a good game I watch it twice.. Jaylon led the Cowboys in solo and combined tackles and in fact was among the league leaders in both categories. I can't fault him for the relative dearth of TFLs because the down linemen in front of him were SO god-awful most of the season. You can't make tackles behind the line of scrimmage when the opposing o-line is consistently moving the line of scrimmage 2-3 yards forward every snap. Sorry if that doesn't jibe with people's perception but it's the plain truth. The only rational explanation for why ALL of the linebackers on the roster regressed so badly from 2019 to 2020 is that Nolan's scheme and crappy play by the down linemen simply hung them out to dry too often. When I watched our defense play in 2020 (between barfing) I didn't see a lot of people standing out.. I saw a LOT of blown assignments.. I saw interior down linemen getting almost no penetration for the first half of the season (until we jettisoned the dead weight) and I saw guys looking lost most of the year. I saw Crawford playing on two surgically repaired hips getting rag-dolled at the 3-tech and I saw Poe essentially playing the part of a human blocking sled. I cannot accept that the 20 or so guys we brought back on defense from 2019 all forgot how to play football.. But the proof will be on the field.. Either they will all get back to the 2018-2019 form or they will all sit for the younger guys. The youngsters like Hill, Gallimore and the draftees give me hope that we will get some interior push this year.. which in turn should give us a far better output from the backers..