You got 9 defenders and 6 blockers, I dont give a dam if they ripped their freaking jerseys off they were holding so bad, there is no way in hell that should have been a TD play.Yeah that looks bad but....
Our left side of the D line all get held bad. All 3 players get hooked/ grabbed by the outside left shoulder pads ( not the inside of the pads) and are twisted away from the play. Watch the players feet, you can see by their foot placement and off balance from those holds that causes them not being able to disengage.
No one is covering up the view of all 3 holds but as usual, the zebras have their blinders on.
How was that play Nolan's fault. These type of plays have affected the Cowboys all year long. It's Ground Hog Day every time the Cowboys hit the field! I can see a player getting burned a couple of times during the year on gap coverage, but this is a s#$%t show. Jaylon Smith is constantly getting block by lineman and he can't get off the block. Why is this, the dude looks like he can bench press a bus but he can't shed a block?????? Maybe it's time they sit his *** and throw a rookie out there who because Smith isn't doing his job.
Jaylon Smith is WEAK! He's not strong enough to shed blocks. Play after play, game after game he's getting his *** handed to him by mid level linemen. It's not he's facing the Dallas Cowboy O-Line of a couple of years back, no he's getting b@#$%h slapped by 2nd & 3rd string linemen. To be honest with Forumers out there I didn't follow ND when Smith was a "SUPER STAR" in college and I bought into all the hype when he was drafted. Everyone was saying if he could get past his injuries he was going to be a STUD in the NFL. The only thing I'm witnessing is he's turned into a SMART DUD. Reason being there is no other team in the NFL who would gave him the kind of money that JJ signed him for.
Well we're all special to someone. I bet our defensive guys knew his mom would watch the game and they wanted her to see her special guy get the score. Or all of our guys are special and we have an owner who really likes his special guys. Hard to say which one it is.
I would argue that because is fairly basic as you say and we are consistently making these same mistakes that something is clearly wrong. Mind you that most of these players were on this team just a year ago and while we had moments we were never this bad. What the heck are the players thinking about that they are missing these types of plays? To me that is coaching and I refuse to give Nolan a pass on that.
That's the same way I saw it.
