Root Cause: We're Never Good On Both Sides Of the Ball

[Vinnie2u]

Dallas is like Cereal No Milk, Peanut Butter no Jelly and Kool-Aid no Sugar. Going back to the beginning of Romo years the Oline Sucked and The Defense was good. Then resources were spent on the Offensive side of the ball and the Defense suffered. Now its flopped again the offense sucks and the defense is good and young.

 

[JohnnyTheFox]

Was thinking about this the other day and agree. We were always good on one side of the ball but never both.

 

[percyhoward]

Not in this decade, no.

 

[CPanther95]

Hamburger Helper without the hamburger.

 

[glimmerman]

Our O-Line is still very young. We have a rookie being pushed back and a center out. Looney is doing ok. Williams needs help. They didn’t play much during preseason. Game 1 of the regular season was like game 3 of preseason for us. We will improve from here on the line. Dak is another story.

 

[OmerV]

Dallas is like Cereal No Milk, Peanut Butter no Jelly and Kool-Aid no Sugar. Going back to the beginning of Romo years the Oline Sucked and The Defense was good. Then resources were spent on the Offensive side of the ball and the Defense suffered. Now its flopped again the offense sucks and the defense is good and young.

Waffles no tuna fish ...

 

[Batman1980]

Not entirely sold on this defense yet, other than Supah Scam and McAffrey, Carolina is lacking in offensive skill. NY will be a stiffer test.

 

[Future]

Welcome to the salary cap era.

 

[CWR]

Waffles no tuna fish ...

Great combo

 

[Clove]

One common, Garrett sucks.

 

[OmerV]

Not entirely sold on this defense yet, other than Supah Scam and McAffrey, Carolina is lacking in offensive skill. NY will be a stiffer test.

You shouldn't be entirely sold on this defense. One game does not a season make. But it's okay to be encouraged by the one game.

 

[OmerV]

Great combo

It's under appreciated

 

[ufcrules1]

Not entirely sold on this defense yet, other than Supah Scam and McAffrey, Carolina is lacking in offensive skill. NY will be a stiffer test.

Exactly. I’m not sold on the defense either. Especially the D line. Caroline has a bad oline and we didn’t do a whole lot to take advantage of that. We haven’t had a legit awesome defense in forever.

 

[Batman1980]

You shouldn't be entirely sold on this defense. One game does not a season make. But it's okay to be encouraged by the one game.

They didn't win us or lose us the game, we need them to make more game-changing plays going forward. Need more help at LB and FS. Tank is basically our entire pass rush, which is a problem, reminiscent of the DeMarcus Ware years. I thought Frazer exceeded expectations but didn't really make any head-turning plays.

 

[OmerV]

They didn't win us or lose us the game, we need them to make more game-changing plays going forward. Need more help at LB and FS. Tank is basically our entire pass rush, which is a problem, reminiscent of the DeMarcus Ware years.

A defense can't win a game all by itself - the offense has to score a little. The game the defense played easily was good enough for the team to win with any semblance of an offense.

You saw something different than I did with the pass rush. Tank is the best pass rusher, no question, but Cam was pressured the entire game, and not just by one player. Of course there are always places a team can be better - that's true of any defense - but there were no glaring deficiencies, and overall the defense played well.

It doesn't take throwing a shutout to be encouraged.

 

[Daillest88]

Yea , I was saying this during the panther game, hopefully this darn offense can get better

 

[CWR]

Exactly. I’m not sold on the defense either. Especially the D line. Caroline has a bad oline and we didn’t do a whole lot to take advantage of that. We haven’t had a legit awesome defense in forever.

I wonder how much of that was trying to stay home so Cam didnt gash us though. This week Eli is a dead man walking. Lol

 

[ufcrules1]

I wonder how much of that was trying to stay home so Cam didnt gash us though. This week Eli is a dead man walking. Lol

I doubt that honestly. I hope the D line shows up but they should against a horrible oline. We will see.

 

[rnr_honeybadger]

Largely because we experiment with high draft picks.

 

[jwitten82]

Cheese no burger