The Dallas Cowboys are in a rebuilding year on defense

[CCBoy]

The Dallas Cowboys are in a rebuilding year on defense
http://thelandryhat.com/2017/05/19/dallas-cowboys-rebuilding-year-defense/




The reality is that the Dallas Cowboys are in a rebuilding year on defense and high scoring games should be expected.

The 2016 Dallas Cowboys won or lost more than half of their regular season games by a touchdown or less. Toss in the divisional round playoff loss by three points to the Green Bay Packers with :02 seconds left on the clock, and the Cowboys season died in the same anxiety riddled fashion in which it unfolded.

Fast forward to September 10, 2017. Imagine a squad of young defensive backs taking positions against Odell Beckham, Brandon Marshall, and Sterling Shepard. Two-time Super Bowl champion quarterback Eli Manning walks up to the line and begins the snap count…

...If the Dallas Cowboys final second wins and losses makes you nervous, start your deep breathing exercises early. We are likely in for another one of “those seasons.” However, true blue fans wouldn’t have it any other way. And last second victories have a thrill all their own.

 

[CCBoy]

The Dallas Cowboys will not be slowed by a secondary full of youth and inexperience in 2017.
http://thelandryhat.com/2017/05/19/dallas-cowboys-young-secondary-no-problem/

If you’ve been a fan of the Dallas Cowboys for at least 25 years, you’ll likely remember names like Larry Brown and Kevin Smith, two cornerbacks from the now-defunct Southwest Conference who made a big impact in 1992. The name Darren Woodson also should ring a bell, he that undersized linebacker from Arizona State who came to the Cowboys in 1992 and immediately commanded playing time.Brown was a 12th-round selection in the ’91 NFL Draft and Smith arrived a year later as a first-round selection in the ’92 player selection meeting, which also included Woods on as a second-round pick chosen just 20 slots after Smith.

The August acquisition of defensive end Charles Haley is generally remembered as the final piece of the puzzle to a Dallas dynasty in the early-to-mid 1990s. After all, the team was lousy at getting pressure on the quarterback in 1991, just a year before this franchise would win its third Super Bowl. Haley changed the culture up front, for sure.

But perhaps overlooked – and highly applicable to what the Cowboys are doing today – is all of those ‘young guns’ in the Dallas secondary that exploded onto the seen for that ’92 season that now rings historic on just about every level...In the early 90s, former head coach Jimmy Johnson didn’t just make bold moves in order to get the Dallas roster much younger than it had been, but he also created a culture of competitiveness for playing time...

 

[CCBoy]

...Now, know exactly what you’re thinking: Opponents didn’t run all that much against the Cowboys. You’re right, just 340 attempts, the fewest in the franchise’s history during a 16-game season and the third fewest all-time, no matter if it’s the 12-game 1960 season or those 14-game seasons between 1961-1977.

Got two good reasons for that low number. First, with the Cowboys averaging 26.3 points a game, teams knew they couldn’t dilly-dally around on offense. They had to go, since 10 times the Cowboys scored at least 27 points in a game, and that over the first 15 games since Prescott played little more than a quarter in the final game of the season.

Also, the Cowboys were good against the run, giving up just 3.9 yards per carry, nearly a yard less than they averaged themselves (4.8). You have to go back to 2003 to find the last time the Cowboys gave up less than 3.9 yards per carry...

http://www.dallascowboys.com/news/2...sternation-surrounding-cowboys-oddly-familiar

 

[ShiningStar]

If Dallas wins games, fine, if not, no big deal, Play the defense you want for next year as much as you. I would give Garrett this year as a free year as long as that defense improves. To not improve the defense and go 9 wins is for nothing. Get the defense ready for next year. Make your mistakes and let the youth learn this year.

For myself, i went on record, this year is for a very young defense, i m not worried about the vets, let those rookies play when you can and let them learn. IF Garrett lets the defense mature this year, thats fine, whatever record is good enough.

The first time in a long time Dallas is implementing a really good plan. They stuck by it, they believe in it, let the season go and play it, You win, fine, you lose just make sure they learn.

 

[Teague31]

Disagree. We have upgraded at every single spot we turned over on defense. I'm sure they will need time to gel so not saying they will be light years better right away but they certainly won't be worse.

 

[Bullflop]

With the dramatic influx of exceptional WRs that Dallas' NFL East rivals have welcomed lately, the secondary was a certainty to become a hapless target this year. Something drastic had to be done to turn the tide of vulnerability that threatened our secondary. Something drastic was done.

 

[xwalker]

The Dallas Cowboys are in a rebuilding year on defense
http://thelandryhat.com/2017/05/19/dallas-cowboys-rebuilding-year-defense/




The reality is that the Dallas Cowboys are in a rebuilding year on defense and high scoring games should be expected.

The 2016 Dallas Cowboys won or lost more than half of their regular season games by a touchdown or less. Toss in the divisional round playoff loss by three points to the Green Bay Packers with :02 seconds left on the clock, and the Cowboys season died in the same anxiety riddled fashion in which it unfolded.

Fast forward to September 10, 2017. Imagine a squad of young defensive backs taking positions against Odell Beckham, Brandon Marshall, and Sterling Shepard. Two-time Super Bowl champion quarterback Eli Manning walks up to the line and begins the snap count…

...If the Dallas Cowboys final second wins and losses makes you nervous, start your deep breathing exercises early. We are likely in for another one of “those seasons.” However, true blue fans wouldn’t have it any other way. And last second victories have a thrill all their own.

You don't get better by staying the same.

 

[Screw The Hall]

I think people are going to be surprised when this ends up being a rebuilt year instead of a rebuilding year.

 

[CCBoy]

You don't get better by staying the same.

Uh, that is why coaching and player development has a strong foothold in the NFL...

 

[fredp22]

If Dallas wins games, fine, if not, no big deal, Play the defense you want for next year as much as you. I would give Garrett this year as a free year as long as that defense improves. To not improve the defense and go 9 wins is for nothing. Get the defense ready for next year. Make your mistakes and let the youth learn this year.

For myself, i went on record, this year is for a very young defense, i m not worried about the vets, let those rookies play when you can and let them learn. IF Garrett lets the defense mature this year, thats fine, whatever record is good enough.

The first time in a long time Dallas is implementing a really good plan. They stuck by it, they believe in it, let the season go and play it, You win, fine, you lose just make sure they learn.

so you would be comfortable with Garrett in his 8th year again showing nothing? How many excuses/years does he need.Wow is this a 180 from Landry having 1 relatively poor year in 20. Good coaches dont need stars at every position or 8 years to rebuild a team. Garretts got to take what hes got and start winning in the post season. Hes got more than enough on both sides. This team needs nothing more than a good head coach right now. Hopefully Garrett can become one.

 

[Howboutdemcowboys31]

DT is the only position I think we got worse but I liked McClain. However if Collins shows even more growth this year, that position could end up being pretty strong

 

[CATCH17]

Nope... The only high scoring I expect is us.


We play a bend don't break style.

Our defense was terrible on paper a year ago and we managed to finish top 5 in points allowed because of TOP and a bend don't break formula.


It will be more of the same with hopefully a better pass rush.

 

[CATCH17]

so you would be comfortable with Garrett in his 8th year again showing nothing? How many excuses/years does he need.Wow is this a 180 from Landry having 1 relatively poor year in 20. Good coaches dont need stars at every position or 8 years to rebuild a team. Garretts got to take what hes got and start winning in the post season. Hes got more than enough on both sides. This team needs nothing more than a good head coach right now. Hopefully Garrett can become one.

Garrett sucks but there is nothing that will ever be done about it. The amount of losing seasons we would have to have is just not worth it. He has Belichick type coaching safety.


We will just line up and play fundamental football and hope that a coach that knows how to scheme is just off against us in the playoffs.

 

[StarBoyz83]

Most teams they play have weak offenses. I don't see a lot of high scoring games.

 

[fredp22]

Garrett sucks but there is nothing that will ever be done about it. The amount of losing seasons we would have to have is just not worth it. He has Belichick type coaching safety.


We will just line up and play fundamental football and hope that a coach that knows how to scheme is just off against us in the playoffs.

agree since any good coach (Belichick, Parcells, Jimmy J) will want to control the team and Jerry more than ever now will never allow that. The light at end of tunnel is Jerry cant go to much longer.
My head is still spinning from Garretts 1st half vs GB

 

[CheapietheCheapskate]

We should be better this year.

 

[calico]

I fully expect a lot of growing pains on D if we start a lot of rookies. By the end of the year, I expect to see improvement over last year's squad. I just hope half the rookies turn out to be the locks that so many do here.

 

[StarBoyz83]

How about rewind to last year when the giants offense was trash?

 

[BAT]

Author is comparing Dallas 2016-2017 young secondary to Jimmy's 1991-1992 young secondary. Similarities are strikingly similar (Woodson and Woods), (Brown/Pup to Chido/Lewis) but biggest difference was the leadership Jimmy had at safety (Everett, Horton, Washington) and a War Daddy in form of Charles Haley.

Scandrick and Byron may not be at same leadership levels but more athletically talented. It's that guy who strikes fear into QBs that Cowboys must acquire to make this comparison as successful.

 

[JoeKing]

You don't get better by staying the same.

I completely agree. The last time I watch that clip of Odell's one handed TD catch as Carr interferes and falls to the turf, can't come soon enough, Goodbye Brandon. The mass exodus and draft reload that occurred this off season was a welcomed sight, IMO. These young talented players will do a fine job once they get coached up and for the lack of a better word, "gel". I like that the cantankerous Oscan and General Sean Lee will still be around to give these guys some veteran leadership but the influx of youth is good for this team.