Twitter: Tyrone Crawford on playing DT

[John813]

I would love to see a solid rotation of Melton and Crawford at the 3-tech for the rest of the year.

Think long term Crawford definitely belongs at the 3, and has a future here.

 

[honyock]

Here's hoping that Crawford never gets another snap at DE.

I bet he will, as soon as TMcClain gets back. As good as he looked last night, what we gained in inside pressure from him, we lost in pressure from the outside by not having him there. Jack Crawford got overexposed and Selvie didn't do a whole lot.

But I agree, with a fully healthy Spencer and when Lawrence finally gets on the field, I'd love to see Crawford get a majority of his snaps inside. Nickel fronts with Spencer-Melton-Crawford-Lawrence would be fun to watch.

 

[JohnnyHopkins]

He does the same thing at DT as DE, only his bullrushing style is more suited to coming up the middle. He's looked really good.

As an aside, having two Crawfords who both have a jersey ending in 8 on the DLine is super confusing lol

Maybe someone can convince one of them to change to Crawford Sr. like Steve Smith did when he went to Baltimore.

 

[21Savage]

If he's not getting sacks, or called out by name by a telecaster, then it goes unnoticed. Just like Jason Hatcher's play did for years. But, yes, Crawford's played well all season. You can usually tell when his teammates are talking about a guy in camp that he's doing something right, and Tyrone seems to be no exception so far. His power is a bit more noticeable when he's closer to the QB, too. He was fun to watch last night, going up against a pretty good NO interior OL.

Exactly! He actually played better against the Titans as he had 4 or 5 pressures against Oher in that game. But because he gets one pressure that gets called out in the broadcast some people wanna act like he just had a coming out party.

 

[MichaelWinicki]

I bet he will, as soon as TMcClain gets back. As good as he looked last night, what we gained in inside pressure from him, we lost in pressure from the outside by not having him there. Jack Crawford got overexposed and Selvie didn't do a whole lot.

But I agree, with a fully healthy Spencer and when Lawrence finally gets on the field, I'd love to see Crawford get a majority of his snaps inside. Nickel fronts with Spencer-Melton-Crawford-Lawrence would be fun to watch.

And I would think the team will add another pass rushing DE come the offseason which will further "cement" Crawford to the inside.

 

[Idgit]

I bet he will, as soon as TMcClain gets back. As good as he looked last night, what we gained in inside pressure from him, we lost in pressure from the outside by not having him there. Jack Crawford got overexposed and Selvie didn't do a whole lot.

But I agree, with a fully healthy Spencer and when Lawrence finally gets on the field, I'd love to see Crawford get a majority of his snaps inside. Nickel fronts with Spencer-Melton-Crawford-Lawrence would be fun to watch.

I'll have to look more closely at the line play later, but I had the impression Selvie played one of his most active games of the season last night. I think we'll see Spencer's snaps outside increase, too, over the coming weeks. I bet that pushes Crawford inside more. It'll be interesting, too, to see what happens to the snaps if/when Brent is on the roster.

 

[casmith07]

He's much better at DT than DE IMO.

He actually was a lot better.

 

[honyock]

I'll have to look more closely at the line play later, but I had the impression Selvie played one of his most active games of the season last night. I think we'll see Spencer's snaps outside increase, too, over the coming weeks. I bet that pushes Crawford inside more. It'll be interesting, too, to see what happens to the snaps if/when Brent is on the roster.

Here's a post I made last night that has the snap counts for all the d-linemen in the game. I posted it way too late in the early hours...Selvie and Jack Crawford both had a lot of snaps and I didn't think either did too much with them. Spencer looked good for his first game back.

http://cowboyszone.com/threads/defensive-line-rotation-snaps-and-some-observations.301117/

 

[Idgit]

Here's a post I made last night that has the snap counts for all the d-linemen in the game. I posted it way too late in the early hours...Selvie and Jack Crawford both had a lot of snaps and I didn't think either did too much with them. Spencer looked good for his first game back.

http://cowboyszone.com/threads/defensive-line-rotation-snaps-and-some-observations.301117/

Great post, btw.

As I said, I'll have to look at the DL snaps again in more detail. I know Selvie didn't show much on the stat sheet, but I do recall a couple of plays thinking 'who was that' and it turned out to be Selvie. Knifing through the line or playing with some aggression and enthusiasm. But, no doubt, he's not showing up on the stat sheet as having made impact plays, and our DE pressure is definitely wanting, overall.

 

[sbark]

I'll have to look more closely at the line play later, but I had the impression Selvie played one of his most active games of the season last night. I think we'll see Spencer's snaps outside increase, too, over the coming weeks. I bet that pushes Crawford inside more. It'll be interesting, too, to see what happens to the snaps if/when Brent is on the roster.

.........all of a sudden the DLine meeting room will be too full again

 

[sbark]

I bet he will, as soon as TMcClain gets back. As good as he looked last night, what we gained in inside pressure from him, we lost in pressure from the outside by not having him there. Jack Crawford got overexposed and Selvie didn't do a whole lot.

But I agree, with a fully healthy Spencer and when Lawrence finally gets on the field, I'd love to see Crawford get a majority of his snaps inside. Nickel fronts with Spencer-Melton-Crawford-Lawrence would be fun to watch.

Be interesting to see if they rotate Crawford in for both Melton/Coleman and Hayden/TMcClain...........

 

[honyock]

Great post, btw.

As I said, I'll have to look at the DL snaps again in more detail. I know Selvie didn't show much on the stat sheet, but I do recall a couple of plays thinking 'who was that' and it turned out to be Selvie. Knifing through the line or playing with some aggression and enthusiasm. But, no doubt, he's not showing up on the stat sheet as having made impact plays, and our DE pressure is definitely wanting, overall.

Admittedly I may have missed some plus plays on his part. Watching replays and looking for who is on the field, you miss some of the actual performance sometimes. I was watcching the inside guys and Spencer more closely. I need to go back and watch Selvie's snaps again.

 

[honyock]

Be interesting to see if they rotate Crawford in for both Melton/Coleman and Hayden/TMcClain...........

Crawford right now looks a mile better than Coleman at causing problems on the inside. I guess it comes down to which spots along the line need help the most, because he's the most versatile linemen we have and he may keep getting moved around where he's needed the most. I counted Crawford and Melton playing inside together for five snaps in the first half and one in the second. I think those were all on obvious passing downs.

 

[Seven]

He does the same thing at DT as DE, only his bullrushing style is more suited to coming up the middle. He's looked really good.

As an aside, having two Crawfords who both have a jersey ending in 8 on the DLine is super confusing lol

Word.........

 

[CowboyManDan]

I thought he looked far better as a DT and feel like they found his position and should have just tried him there sooner.

The problem is Selvie has seemingly regressed at DE to compensate.

 

[Seven]

Here's hoping that Crawford never gets another snap at DE.

Amen, brother..........Amen!

 

[Idgit]

Admittedly I may have missed some plus plays on his part. Watching replays and looking for who is on the field, you miss some of the actual performance sometimes. I was watcching the inside guys and Spencer more closely. I need to go back and watch Selvie's snaps again.

Well, we're kind of splitting hairs. I do agree that Selvie's play has regressed from last season, overall, too.

 

[sbark]

Crawford right now looks a mile better than Coleman at causing problems on the inside. I guess it comes down to which spots along the line need help the most, because he's the most versatile linemen we have and he may keep getting moved around where he's needed the most. I counted Crawford and Melton playing inside together for five snaps in the first half and one in the second. I think those were all on obvious passing downs.

If I were Marinelli........I'd give a go or two with Melton at LDE, Crawford at the 3 tech and T.McClain at the 1 tech/ or even Coleman---all in the quest for pressure until D.Law comes back and see if he can contribute.

 

[CF74]

Crawford has played pretty well all season. He isn't on pace for 20 sacks or anything like that but having him on the field has certainly been a plus.

Yeah but he's on pace for about 20 pressures, I'll take that all day.. Man you can just feel his frustration being so close game after game, maybe he needs to do some sprints to shave that 1/10 of a second off his rush...