We have too many safeties in the game!

[big dog cowboy]

What is our main struggle on defense?? Stopping the run, so to combat that we have multiple guys from the safety position at no more than 220+lbs to stop the run.

I hope things change in the playoffs, please give your thoughts

This defense was built to play with the lead. Have athletes who can run and make plays.

Brace for disappointment because it isn't changing any time soon. Especially not now as we enter the playoffs in a couple of weeks. That's Dan Quinn's defense.

Replace a CB with a S to help with the run. .

 

[BHendri5]

Teams are not running down or up the middle they are running off tackle outside. Our big in the middle of the defense clogs the middle up

 

[Chuck 54]

When LVE is back, that will be one less safety on the field, but you don’t take guys like Kearse and Wilson off the field for bums like Gifford and Cox.

 

[rambo2]

Conventional 4-3 : Sam LB 225-250lb plays against the sweep that is run to the strong side on run downs 1 and 2
Sam pulled for Nickel CB 190-220lb on third down who is a coverage guy.

Quinn has modified the role to a hybrid 3 down Sam/Nickel CB that can play both the run and the pass. Cool when you have the personnel.

Kearse being 215 is light for the SAM and actually a little heavy for the Nickel CB. Being able to swap with DWilson is a huge bonus.

Quinn's love for CB's is actually quite cool as well -- tall with long arms, so they have to be thrown over, and if they have the speed to keep up with WR's then it make that throw to drop it in deep, quite hard. I get why he likes the N Wright types...... I just don't see that Wright specifically has the lateral quickness to play outside CB like Quinn wants.

If Quinn stays another year, and Dallas gets the right LB and DT.........watch out with the D he has built. They could be dominant.

I like Wright too. I like the way he tackles and qbs are going to have a problem getting the ball over him in zone when they try to drop it in the window. It will be interesting to see what happens with him.

 

[Traye1]

This teams overall concept is to gain the lead then get after the QB. This team has been built around that concept and it's not going to change anytime soon. They expect teams to get pass happy after they've fallen behind. And that's why we play three safeties at once.

Not to mention, some teams are always pass happy. And tightends are becoming lighter and more athletic every minute.

That part!

 

[Pass2Run]

Dallas does not have that guy, IMO, to do what you are wanting. You have 5 receiving threats on an offense on any given play, plus a QB to keep track of.

The Kearse/Wilson are hybrid SS/Sam guys who are undersized a bit, and yes this means that your 7th in the box is undersized. If you change either out for a bigger Sam, then he better be a covering fool because the OC is going to scheme him to be covering either the TE or the back all game long.

With the league going to hyper athletic TE's that are more WR than blockers, I suspect Dallas will keep the Kearse\Wilson duo as long as they keep Dan's Quinn's defense.

The only way they could do what you are wanting is to get that Mike that stacks and shed, have the strength of linemen, and the speed of DB's. Then they could stop the run without having to remove either of them, IMO. Either that or Cox is going to have to cover like a db, and be stout against the run.

They do.. but they'd have to use Parsons where he'd be used best: stopping the runs on those early downs.

 

[tunahelper]

Dallas does not have that guy, IMO, to do what you are wanting. You have 5 receiving threats on an offense on any given play, plus a QB to keep track of.

The Kearse/Wilson are hybrid SS/Sam guys who are undersized a bit, and yes this means that your 7th in the box is undersized. If you change either out for a bigger Sam, then he better be a covering fool because the OC is going to scheme him to be covering either the TE or the back all game long.

With the league going to hyper athletic TE's that are more WR than blockers, I suspect Dallas will keep the Kearse\Wilson duo as long as they keep Dan's Quinn's defense.

The only way they could do what you are wanting is to get that Mike that stacks and shed, have the strength of linemen, and the speed of DB's. Then they could stop the run without having to remove either of them, IMO. Either that or Cox is going to have to cover like a db, and be stout against the run.

Parsons needs to go back to MLB. He can help the run, cover the hash marks and intermediate middle. His skill on the edge is being neutralized by running game and short, quick passing.