Seven Things We're Thinking About The Cowboys Play In The Trenches

[waving monkey]

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After spending a good deal of time the last two weeks watching the Dallas Cowboys line play. on both sides of the ball, here are a number of observations that, on their own, are not worthy of a column. After a while, they sort of pile up, though, so here they are, shared with the world.

Crawford’s movem

Tyrone Crawford’s move is not merely about the lack of DE depth. He performed well there. In fact when they drafted him, I thought they might be thinking of him as an elephant-type OLB, like how they used Greg Ellis.

But after a disappointing first game, Crawford was much worse in the Washington game, inside. There were rumors he was not right and I wonder if he is lacking some functional strength from some sort of lingering issue. His comments on being moved outside were about not getting beaten up and feeling good... and that made me go "hmmmm".
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[noshame]

That was a good read but I'm telling you Linehan's trying to put a square peg in a round hole this is not the offense to run with this kind of line

hopefully we'll figure that out sooner or later

 

[Doomsay]

Yes, good read, hopefully this position alchemy will make the lemons into something other than lemons. Looks like they are figuring out the middle at least - moving Crawford outside and Collins' unexpectedly quick ascendancy seem to be a big part of it. Somewhat hopeful going forward.

 

[StarOfGlory]

I'm thinking that Thornton's good play in Philly was more because of Cox and Logan eating up opposing linemen.

 

[ElGatoGrande]

Not sure how much trust I should put in this guy's observations. Surely the team isn't asking the OL to make that many reach blocks, which I can attest to being very difficult. I can only imagine how hard that would be on the NFL level.