The Cbz40 Memorial Game Day Thread...Dallas @ Oakland

I'm liking Alan Ball, haven't noticed DeAngelo Smith one way or the other. Courtney Brown is awful, and all reports have said he's been that way in camp. Mike Mickens is meh.

By and large, I don't particularly like our defensive depth. Our backup linebackers, save Carpenter, are mostly rookies (the two Williamses and Butler). We have a handful of unproven backups in the secondary. Hatcher, Bowen and Siavi (sp?) aren't world beaters up front.

I like our starting defense, but we're incredibly thin imo. As we are up front on offense.
 
zeroburrito;2883268 said:
oakland looks like an 11-5 possibly 12-4 team. what an incredible improvement.
Scoring against what looks like a 1-15 defense.
 
#58 williams was just watching...Who the hell was he covering?

I could of ran a route on those guys.
 
parcells316;2883273 said:
Jason Williams completely lost on this drive

Completely lost the whole game, except for that blitz up the gut. He's got a looooong way to go.

And Butler got run on some. But that's totally to be expected from a college 43 DE playing his first game as a linebacker.

And I'm still not sold on Mickens. Yes, he's a rookie and no matter how talented, he's going to look bad his first game. I just don't know if he's all that athletically.
 
zeroburrito;2883268 said:
oakland looks like an 11-5 possibly 12-4 team. what an incredible improvement.
there's another possibility...

backups are as bad as last year.
 
Well our second unit, at least the secondary, has been pretty terrible.
 
I realize the players currently on defense are backups, but the Cowboys need some of these backups to play well. Unfortunately, thus far, none of them are.
 

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