Lot of off-season debate about replacing Armstrong and Fowler sack production. Then the loss of Williams seemed to be another blow. How were the Cowboys going to generate a complimentary pass rush?
It was great to see Lawrence get home twice, but Sunday was a reminder that Zims D will bring pressure from many different spots. In 1 game the Cowboys got twice the sack production from a non-dlinemen not named Parsons vs all of the 2023 regular season. Kearse led the other positional groups with 1.5 last year. That seems almost unbelievable, but true. Kendricks and Overshown combined for 3 on Sunday.
Bottom line, a healthy pass rush comes from multiple positional groups and keeps an offense guessing. If you're too predictable on where your rush is coming from its easier to neutralize. Let's keep it rolling!
I said this before the season started everyone was worried about defensive ends where's our pass rush it's called outside linebackers for one technically Micah Parsons and Overshown are outside linebackers who can do a lot of the same thing, and in Mike zimmer's defense this is not Dan Quinn's relying on outside speed and NASCAR packages to get pass rush...
He brings it from everyone, so we got 3 sacks from Overshown and Kendricks ,2 new players added to this defense that weren't here last year on the team... That's how you bring pressure from everywhere not just relying on the 2 outside guys to get all the pressures and sacks... And by the way the two guys you mentioned I find it hilarious that so many people said they were going to be hard to replace how so not one of them got a sack with Washington not one of them by the way they were our backups right we're worried about our pass rush when we return our starters and Washington goes and plucks our backups and makes them starters and somehow nobody sees irony and that that they're using backups but everyone was worrying about irony in that that they're using backups but everyone was worrying about us..
So if you look at my old post and I said everyone is overreacting to calling this off season historically bad they're also overreacting to our running back room because I think they'll be effective enough and they were and I think it'll even get better once Mike McCarthy gets a good rhythm on who to use and who to bring off the bench pretty much starting three rookies playing two other rookies I know this is just for one game but we tried to tell people that this offseason was not as bad as people are gonna put the tag on it again it'd be wrong again...
Yes our front office goes in the bargain basements and bring in guys like Phillips and Joseph but they say kendricks was a bargain bin no he wasn't he was wanted by San Francisco for a reason if he stays healthy he's basically replacing Sean Lee he's better that LVE.. So all that negativity for months that we had to hear leading up to the game one most of those narratives were all wrong and yes there's gonna be games where we probably not going to have a lot of sacks but I'm going to tell you this Mike Zimmer his defense also covers up when you lose 1 corner you know like we couldn't do with Dan Quinn and the Green Bay game we had to change our whole defense and it got slaughtered he can play 2 deep and he can get help from both safeties and he uses the safeties to help his corners and plays more zone when needed.
So I'm glad that most of us in here just says calm down don't worry that Mike Zimmer will figure out a way to create defense and he will create pressure and he will find a way to help the weak spots on this defense it won't look as great it might not be like super pretty all the time and playing hero ball but he'll find a way to get them lined up right are they're gonna get kicked in the balls on the sideline until they get it right... And I also like the fact that he's on the sideline in these guys ears and running over to him and talking to him and he's not up there with his headset on with all the communication going through two other people before it got to Quinn and then back down to the players..
Havoc means creating widespread destruction. I didn't say Parsons was the only person who had a good game. Parsons was in Watson's head just about all game long. Kept forcing him out of the pocket and that let his teammates eat. He drew a false start. NOWHERE did I say that it was a Micah Parson's show. 