CouchCoach
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I've been noticing this trend for the last 10 years or so but there seems to be this growing chasm between defensive and offensive players.
When you think of the stars in the NFL, in the top 10, how many are on the D side?
There just aren't enough strong D players to go around.
Look at this draft and the D players, even the CB's. Horn, Surtain and Farley all get picked in the 1st but isn't that by default? Pick of a homely litter?
The picking is slim so if a team finds one, they've got to hold onto him and when they let him walk, does that really make a real difference on either team?
Look at Byron Jones. He isn't great but I was concerned about losing him because of what they didn't have to replace him. His absence and presence on either team went unnoticed.
Aren't most of the teams composed of JAG's on defense? Some player will show up one week and then what? There's the exception of Aaron Donald and who else? The inconsistent play is the most consistent element.
I think building a defense in the NFL is the toughest challenge and if they build it, keeping it together poses the next problem. Let's watch the WFT try and do that without sacrificing a real QB.
I am in no way excusing the poor job of building Cowboys defenses for so long but the margin for error is ever so thin when they pick just two wrong players.
The other side of the ball is just better. The OL's are better than the DL's and the receivers are better than the secondary's and we've got a lot of QB's making it look easy because it is.
The WFT has built a nice defense, now lets see them keep it together because this isn't 2000 or 2003 where a team can take a shut down D to a ring, one ring. If a team doesn't have the offense, the QB, they're not winning a ring. And the majority of talent is on the O side because that's where the money is.
I do not see this changing, only getting more inequitable to the D side because the growth in money has been going to the O side and it's not even close.
The rules changed to favor the offense and the money followed and players follow the money.
When you think of the stars in the NFL, in the top 10, how many are on the D side?
There just aren't enough strong D players to go around.
Look at this draft and the D players, even the CB's. Horn, Surtain and Farley all get picked in the 1st but isn't that by default? Pick of a homely litter?
The picking is slim so if a team finds one, they've got to hold onto him and when they let him walk, does that really make a real difference on either team?
Look at Byron Jones. He isn't great but I was concerned about losing him because of what they didn't have to replace him. His absence and presence on either team went unnoticed.
Aren't most of the teams composed of JAG's on defense? Some player will show up one week and then what? There's the exception of Aaron Donald and who else? The inconsistent play is the most consistent element.
I think building a defense in the NFL is the toughest challenge and if they build it, keeping it together poses the next problem. Let's watch the WFT try and do that without sacrificing a real QB.
I am in no way excusing the poor job of building Cowboys defenses for so long but the margin for error is ever so thin when they pick just two wrong players.
The other side of the ball is just better. The OL's are better than the DL's and the receivers are better than the secondary's and we've got a lot of QB's making it look easy because it is.
The WFT has built a nice defense, now lets see them keep it together because this isn't 2000 or 2003 where a team can take a shut down D to a ring, one ring. If a team doesn't have the offense, the QB, they're not winning a ring. And the majority of talent is on the O side because that's where the money is.
I do not see this changing, only getting more inequitable to the D side because the growth in money has been going to the O side and it's not even close.
The rules changed to favor the offense and the money followed and players follow the money.