The Myth of the greatest O'Line to ever play the game

[anava]

The stale offense we run plays a big part in the OL. Hard to block when your team is predictable as heck

 

[AmericanCowboy]

Blame can be placed squarely on the two tackles. I am not sure if I have been more disappointed in a player this year than I am with Tyron Smith- I was expecting even more improvement from him and instead all we've seen is regression.

 

[Hawkeye19]

They ate the cheese.... The FO, the coaches, and the players. They stood pat and thought they could sit back and the wins would just roll in this year. Over-valued themselves at almost every position on the roster.

In essence-- they grew fat and happy off the success last year, and the brass were arrogant in their approach to this offseason.

HUGE helping of humble pie this year. Hopefully they take a big bite of it and come back to the table next year with a better plan.

 

[canters]

This OL was never close to being the best ever. It was above average overall. Very good at run blocking and average at pas blocking, something Romo made them look better at. Romo is a year older and more brittle.
The year the OL is strange. One good week followed by a poor effort. If this holds true, we will run over the Commanders.

Smith has looked mortal and Free looks old. Martin started slow but has shown better play as of late, per Broadus. Fredbeard read seems to be having a quiet year. I wonder if some of this is related to poor TE blocking.

 

[JohnsKey19]

Doug Free kills any talk of best of all time..

It's still the most talented group in the league imo.

I agree. From RG to LT, you couldn't ask for more talent-wise. Those guys individually are among the elite at their respective positions.

 

[Hardline]

This is why I will not raise a single objection if the Cowboys draft Tunsil or Stanley if they are BPA in our draft slot.

 

[vaturkey]

I think good QB play last year, coupled with a running back playing in a contract year made this line appear better then it actually is. Its a good not great line, minus Free of course. I do think we have enough talent available that someone we have (Collins perhaps) should be able to slide out to the Tackle to replace Free. That coupled with a running back who can actually make someone miss with a healthy Romo and you might be ok. I think McFadden while playing well this year, is still suited more as playing a reserve role.

 

[Common Sense]

Does anyone feel like the blocking scheme this year asks its blockers to do too much? One thing Callahan seemed to do well was mask his players' deficiencies rather than taking more of an idealogical approach, i.e., "This would work if only you'd execute it properly."

 

[knightrider94]

This OL was never close to being the best ever. It was above average overall. Very good at run blocking and average at pas blocking, something Romo made them look better at. Romo is a year older and more brittle.
The year the OL is strange. One good week followed by a poor effort. If this holds true, we will run over the Commanders.

Smith has looked mortal and Free looks old. Martin started slow but has shown better play as of late, per Broadus. Fredbeard read seems to be having a quiet year. I wonder if some of this is related to poor TE blocking.

I believe that stinger Martin had early on impacted him longer than expected. Smith's play this season has surprised me. Not surprised by Free's poor play at all.

 

[percyhoward]

They ate the cheese.... The FO, the coaches, and the players. They stood pat and thought they could sit back and the wins would just roll in this year. Over-valued themselves at almost every position on the roster.

In essence-- they grew fat and happy off the success last year, and the brass were arrogant in their approach to this offseason.

HUGE helping of humble pie this year. Hopefully they take a big bite of it and come back to the table next year with a better plan.

They may have thought that the OL and defense would be so good, we could win with Weeden. That underestimated the role of Romo and Dez as much as it overestimated the worth of the OL and defense.

 

[knightrider94]

They may have thought that the OL and defense would be so good, we could win with Weeden. That underestimated the role of Romo and Dez as much as it overestimated the worth of the OL and defense.

Agree 100%, but all they needed to do was look at the 2014 Arizona game to know that Weeden was not a viable backup.

 

[BigD5]

Bad offensive scheme. Routes that take too long for our wrs to run. Terrible line coach. Nothing but average at best RBs reading holes. Reading too many press clippings. Add it all up and you get a mediocre offensive line in Dallas

 

[TonyRomo17]

Lol, They were great yesterday in pass protection, not very good in the running game

 

[Dave_in-NC]

They were the best O line in 2014

 

[TommyBoy21]

Lol, They were great yesterday in pass protection, not very good in the running came

Yeah... If only it wasn't for that 3 man rush that took out Romo.

 

[Doomsday]

Having a predictable offense hasnt done this offensive line any favors.

 

[Craig]

I agree on the bad offensive scheme. They should have just kept a starting calibre qb in there instead of using backups.

 

[Beast_from_East]

I don't understand how basically 4 first round picks on the offensive line get dominated week in and week out................maybe Callahan was that good

 

[coach steele]

Guys must be picking up bad habits. Played much better last year. We need a proven offensive line coach.

 

[canters]

We will never know at this point, but I wonder what if,,,,,,if Romo and Dez had never been injured, would we even be having this discussion? I belive the entire O would have been different and the OL positively impacted. The NFL don't give mulligans.