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The Cowboys Camp Orlando Scandrick Conundrum
Rafael Vela
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Let”s file this issue under the heading “good problems.” To the casual observer, any 2014 improvement by the maligned Cowboys defense would have to come from the back. The team’s biggest investments are in the secondary, where high 1st rounder Morris Claiborne and high-ticket free agent Brandon Carr play.
Between them should be nickel corner Orlando Scandrick. These three provide the best potential to lead by example.
Scandrick has upset this plan a bit, but in a good way. He has outplayed his bigger name counterparts in the last year and has continued his strong play into this year’s camp. With Carr absent, due to family matter, Scandrick has established himself at left corner. This a year after locking down the right corner spot while Claiborne battled a chronic shoulder injury.
Scandrick has created the kind of problem coaching staffs love. When Carr returns, where will Scandrick play? It’s clear he needs to be somewhere, but if the team leaves him at left corner, it’s parking one of its biggest contracts on the bench when the Cowboys are in their base defense. That’s a poor return on the Carr investment.
They would not want to shoe-horn Scandrick back into the right corner slot when Carr returns, not when Claiborne appears to be making a push in this critical third year...
Rafael Vela
http://cowboyszone.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2014/07/176.jpg
http://cowboyszone.com/2014/07/the-cowboys-camp-orlando-scandrick-conundrum.html
Let”s file this issue under the heading “good problems.” To the casual observer, any 2014 improvement by the maligned Cowboys defense would have to come from the back. The team’s biggest investments are in the secondary, where high 1st rounder Morris Claiborne and high-ticket free agent Brandon Carr play.
Between them should be nickel corner Orlando Scandrick. These three provide the best potential to lead by example.
Scandrick has upset this plan a bit, but in a good way. He has outplayed his bigger name counterparts in the last year and has continued his strong play into this year’s camp. With Carr absent, due to family matter, Scandrick has established himself at left corner. This a year after locking down the right corner spot while Claiborne battled a chronic shoulder injury.
Scandrick has created the kind of problem coaching staffs love. When Carr returns, where will Scandrick play? It’s clear he needs to be somewhere, but if the team leaves him at left corner, it’s parking one of its biggest contracts on the bench when the Cowboys are in their base defense. That’s a poor return on the Carr investment.
They would not want to shoe-horn Scandrick back into the right corner slot when Carr returns, not when Claiborne appears to be making a push in this critical third year...
