Oz-of-Cowboy-Country
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There is a saying. "If you spend all of your time pointing the finger you'll never solve the problem."More teams now run 1-gap scheme than not.
The Cowboys still 2-gap with the LDE on many plays. The 1-tech also 2-gaps at times.
The Seahawks won a Super Bowl playing a 1-gap scheme.
Even the Rams and Wade Phillips play a 1-gap 3-4 scheme.
The days of the pure 2-gap like Parcells tried to implement when the was here are gone.
Barkley only had 61 yards on all other runs in this game.
The Patriots played primarily 1-gap last year. They changed the defensive alignment for the Super Bowl specifically because of the blocking changes the Rams rolled out against the Cowboys. They moved the OLB to the outside of the RDE and had the RDE play the inside gap instead of having outside contain.
This play by the Cowboys had the RDE close the inside gap instead of playing outside contain like they did against the Rams. It's a good sign that they are mixing things up but they have young players that made mistakes. Vander Esch was not the only one that made a mistake. Either Safety Woods or CB Brown should have moved to the inside instead of both staying outside of the block on Woods. Heath in the clean-up role should have moved to the outside to entice Barkley back to the inside where there were other defenders.
We are getting hurt in the run game because our linebackers are blindly running up to take their predetermined one gap responsibilities. That's what caused LVE to run directly into the back of Crawford.
So when the RB is lined up directly behind the QB there so many different gaps he can take that our one gap system doesn't work. Especially when you add in the fact that double teams will push our defensive linemen into spots that the linebackers are suppose to be covering.
Most can agree that there is a problem in our run defense. I'm just trying to give a solution. I would love to hear how other posters on this board would solve that problem without changing personal. So in my opinion...
When ever they see the RB lined up directly behind the QB they should switch to a two gap system.
Cause it ain't about who ran this system or who ran that system, it's about solving the problem we have. If we solve the problem we can all write letters to The Star if need be. So if anyone else has a way to solve our problem without making changes in personnel I'd like to hear it.