Scout's Eye: Cowboys' Discipline & Ability To Run Will Decide This Game

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The more I study, the more I come the realization that this game is going to hinge on one simple word: discipline.

Do the Cowboys have the discipline to face Aaron Rodgers and get enough stops in this game to allow their offense to go to work on this Packers defense? Player for player, the Cowboys are just as good or better than the Packers. Where the Packers have an advantage -- and this is no disrespect to Dak Prescott -- but Aaron Rodgers elevates the level of his teammates, and that’s the biggest difference.

To defeat Rodgers you need to play with discipline, which means you can’t drop a coverage in the secondary, miss an assignment or be caught on the field with 12 men switching personnel. Rodgers forces you to play a perfect game with his ability and quarterback savvy. He’s at his absolute best playing the chess game. He’s thinking plays ahead while you’re trying to keep up.

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I think these soft zones will just get eaten up by a great QB like Rodgers and allow the CBs to at least press the line or hover near the LOS; our corners don't even try to camouflage by being set in their pre snap stance 8 yards deep. Let Lewis play some press man and maybe hide Jaylon on 3rd downs by rushing him as opposed to allowing teams to take advantage of the lack of lateral speed w/Durant covering the RBs/TEs?

Instead of going with 2/3TE packages (attracting Defenders into the box by formation alone) to get Zeke going where one missed block ends in a loss, we spread the D out with 3/4 WRs and run the read option or a draw.
 
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Scout's Eye: Cowboys' Discipline & Ability To Run Will Decide This Game
It would be foolish to believe the refs won't have something to say about the outcome of this game.
 
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