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August 14, 2008
Just finished a very interesting interview with Michael Lombardi of the National Football Post and Sports Illustrated. Lombardi worked with the Broncos last year, has good sources with the team and offered these insights on the Cowboys/Broncos workouts:
– the Cowboys are a physically impressive team that is pushing Denver around. He said it would take “an impressive effort” for the Broncos to beat Dallas in a regular season game.
– fans should curb their enthusiasm about Adam Jones. He wrote a critical piece on Jones’ woofing yesterday, when he told Broncos WR Brandon Marshall he “was no T.O.” and then watched Marshall beat him repeatedly.
I told him that the Jones I saw in Oxnard was hyper-aggressive, trying to jump every route and being beaten by double moves a lot. He said this was Jones’ game and that fans should disabuse themselves of seeing Deion Sanders Jr. and think of Jones more as a nickel corner. Jones’ real value, Lombardi claimed, would be as a punt returner.
– He said the Cowboys biggest defensive weakness was two minute pass coverage; the Cowboys were one of the worst teams last year in stopping opponents at the end of halves. (Cue Giants flashback here.) Dallas needs a bigger pass rush, in his opinion, to avoid a repeat.
– The biggest offensive question, in Lombardi’s opinion, is the offensive line’s condition. He wants to see if the line can avoid late fades, of the type we saw in the playoff loss to New York.
You can hear the full inteview by clicking on “The Sports Doctors” tab just below the names on the masthead. That will take you to our podcast archive page.
Written by Rafael Vela · Filed Under News
Just finished a very interesting interview with Michael Lombardi of the National Football Post and Sports Illustrated. Lombardi worked with the Broncos last year, has good sources with the team and offered these insights on the Cowboys/Broncos workouts:
– the Cowboys are a physically impressive team that is pushing Denver around. He said it would take “an impressive effort” for the Broncos to beat Dallas in a regular season game.
– fans should curb their enthusiasm about Adam Jones. He wrote a critical piece on Jones’ woofing yesterday, when he told Broncos WR Brandon Marshall he “was no T.O.” and then watched Marshall beat him repeatedly.
I told him that the Jones I saw in Oxnard was hyper-aggressive, trying to jump every route and being beaten by double moves a lot. He said this was Jones’ game and that fans should disabuse themselves of seeing Deion Sanders Jr. and think of Jones more as a nickel corner. Jones’ real value, Lombardi claimed, would be as a punt returner.
– He said the Cowboys biggest defensive weakness was two minute pass coverage; the Cowboys were one of the worst teams last year in stopping opponents at the end of halves. (Cue Giants flashback here.) Dallas needs a bigger pass rush, in his opinion, to avoid a repeat.
– The biggest offensive question, in Lombardi’s opinion, is the offensive line’s condition. He wants to see if the line can avoid late fades, of the type we saw in the playoff loss to New York.
You can hear the full inteview by clicking on “The Sports Doctors” tab just below the names on the masthead. That will take you to our podcast archive page.
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