Serious question regarding the defense.

[StanleySpadowski]

I think there might be something to what you say but in truth, this time of year, everybody is banged. Nobody is completely healthy. Essentially, every team we play is in the same boat. The one thing I think is applicable is the age of our team. Might be as simple as young players not as strong as they will be in a few years. It's a difficult thing to play a 16 game season. Players, especially younger players, typically hit the wall at some point. Could be this is what is happening. Only the team knows this for sure.

BTW, Happy New Year Stan.

I agree that all teams are banged up but I do think that Parcells doesn't look at injuries like most other coaches. I'd be willing to bet that Henry's been practicing every day.

Read the listings some time. Tons of players sit until friday every week. Some multiple weeks in a row. A player sits out practice in Dallas and Parcells' doghouse needs to add another wing.

Happy New Year to you also.

 

[Haley94]

I agree that all teams are banged up but I do think that Parcells doesn't look at injuries like most other coaches. I'd be willing to bet that Henry's been practicing every day.

Read the listings some time. Tons of players sit until friday every week. Some multiple weeks in a row. A player sits out practice in Dallas and Parcells' doghouse needs to add another wing.

Happy New Year to you also.

Good point.

 

[Juke99]

This isnt Zimmers scheme its Parcells'. Thats part of the problem I think.

BINGO!

 

[ABQCOWBOY]

I agree that all teams are banged up but I do think that Parcells doesn't look at injuries like most other coaches. I'd be willing to bet that Henry's been practicing every day.

Read the listings some time. Tons of players sit until friday every week. Some multiple weeks in a row. A player sits out practice in Dallas and Parcells' doghouse needs to add another wing.

Happy New Year to you also.

Well, I can't deny that. BP does seem to go hard all the time. No matter, it is what it is. Too late to change anything now. Just hope we can bring it against Seattle.

 

[TexasAce]

I'll tell you what happened:

Our defensive coaches are bafoons, and our players are not as good as we thought.

I like Terrence Newman ALOT, and I'm glad he is on our team, but I have said to some fans that he might just be a little overrated.

Think about it, today was a perfect example, how often do we actually line up Newman on the other teams best receiver ? Hardly never.

You would think this would be common sense, being as it is something most teams practice, your best corner goes on their best receiver...except in Dallas.

We don't really see Newman consistently going up against the best, game in and game out, not to mention one of the reasons is because we play so much zone as well.

The point is, we dno't see him get beat much because he's rarely in a position that truly challenges him.

Newman has gotten beat for TD's against a scrub like Ashlie Lelie in Atlanta, and today got embarassed by a super scrub in Mike Williams.

Now this is not a bash Newman, I'm simply saying that he is one of many on our defense that is overrated.

Roy Williams can't cover anyone. and it appears he doesn't amke anymore plays hitting and tackling anymore either, at least not this year anyway.

Someone needs to check if Roy is on drugs, SERIOUSLY, because he has done some tremendously idiotic things this year.

He's hitting our own men more than he's hitting the oppositions, and today he got away with a late hit which was exactly like the play that he hurt Anthony Henry with in Atlanta.

Both times the ball had hit the ground a good 2 to 3 seconds before he got over to the receiver, yet for some dumbarse reason he throws his shoulder into the guy.

When he did it in Atlanta he missed their receiver and hit Henry instead.

Ware is about the only guy that doesn't deserve much criticism, and maybe even Ferguson, everyone else however has had their poor moments, and they deserve alot of the blame as well.

Good coaching can fix alot of this, so I can't wait till we bring in someone competent next year.

Hopefully, he gets Roy to lose 15 pounds.

 

[big dog cowboy]

Our defensive coaches are bafoons

You could have just stopped right there. Dang it.

 

[GimmeTheBall!]

Great question. How bout some real hard analysis instead of "Zimmer sucks " ,etc. I didnt tape the game but does Marcus Spears still play on this team?

Spears really has become invisible. Canty aint far behind.

 

[burmafrd]

Newman needs to be LEFT on their top guy and just follow him all over. he has shut down Steve Smith and other top WRs before. BUT we refuse most of the time to do that. Just plain dumb. If you take, one on one, the other teams best WR out of the game you have a BIG advantage. Instead we play around and switch coverages and that is a recipe for disaster. PUt your #1 on his #1; your #2 on his #2 and fight it out. If you can get pressure you will be fine; if you cannot then it does not matter. Tight one on one pressure today would have worked since we got to Kitna all day.