LarryCanadian
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I think one thing we can pretty much all agree on, with the "Newspaper" Terrance Newman, improved and covering tightly, with Henry jamming guys at the line and being able to muscle for the ball, and with Glenn as a super 3rd corner, as well as a few young guys getting more experience........
please please please let the Cowboys stop playing that terrible zone pass defense in most situations. Man to Man is the way to go with the improved talent and depth plus some pass rush potential up front. Now I know, Parcells wasn't gonna show anything to Seattle, in terms of formations, so it is unlikely the first quarter will go like it did in Seattle during preseason, BUT, every time this team goes into a zone pass defense we get slaughtered.
I can't count the number of times where over the last few years I felt our defense played really very well early or for a few series, got into a rhythm and more importantly had another team's QB and offense totally off balance, when all of a sudden we would stop blitzing and go into some sorta soft zone or prevent defense where the oppossing team would play catch without the slightest pressure from front or any type of coverage on receivers. All of a sudden the oppossing QB's confidence would slowly grow until they were zinging touchdowns left and right.
I feel we lost 3 or 4 winnable games last year for this very reason of conservative defensive calling. The team was limited by very little talent and depth last year all round on defense, but lets not do it any more please!!! Remember we were ahead or very tight going into the 2nd half and often the 4th quarter in a ton of games last year that we ended up losing. In those games if you went back and checked 1st half stats our defense was doing very well and the other teams passing games were often very inconsistent. Eventually the soft coverage would cost us almost every time though! I would sincerely hope to see far more man to man coverage this year. Dallas hasn't been good at being instinctive and quick to close in that soft type of coverage for years. I remember watching Tampa play a zone and free for all type of pass coverage a couple of years ago and they were amazing and tough to predict at it, because they had a ton of smart, quick, instinctive, and experienced players. With a team like Dallas had, and until it proves otherwise, I'd much prefer to live and die by the sword of an aggressive tight man to man type coverage for the most part.
Over the last few years way to many streaks by quarterbacks like Hasselback had of 10/10. Kills your teams confidence, hugely ups the other teams. This happened in bursts and fits all of last year and cost us big.
Larry
please please please let the Cowboys stop playing that terrible zone pass defense in most situations. Man to Man is the way to go with the improved talent and depth plus some pass rush potential up front. Now I know, Parcells wasn't gonna show anything to Seattle, in terms of formations, so it is unlikely the first quarter will go like it did in Seattle during preseason, BUT, every time this team goes into a zone pass defense we get slaughtered.
I can't count the number of times where over the last few years I felt our defense played really very well early or for a few series, got into a rhythm and more importantly had another team's QB and offense totally off balance, when all of a sudden we would stop blitzing and go into some sorta soft zone or prevent defense where the oppossing team would play catch without the slightest pressure from front or any type of coverage on receivers. All of a sudden the oppossing QB's confidence would slowly grow until they were zinging touchdowns left and right.
I feel we lost 3 or 4 winnable games last year for this very reason of conservative defensive calling. The team was limited by very little talent and depth last year all round on defense, but lets not do it any more please!!! Remember we were ahead or very tight going into the 2nd half and often the 4th quarter in a ton of games last year that we ended up losing. In those games if you went back and checked 1st half stats our defense was doing very well and the other teams passing games were often very inconsistent. Eventually the soft coverage would cost us almost every time though! I would sincerely hope to see far more man to man coverage this year. Dallas hasn't been good at being instinctive and quick to close in that soft type of coverage for years. I remember watching Tampa play a zone and free for all type of pass coverage a couple of years ago and they were amazing and tough to predict at it, because they had a ton of smart, quick, instinctive, and experienced players. With a team like Dallas had, and until it proves otherwise, I'd much prefer to live and die by the sword of an aggressive tight man to man type coverage for the most part.
Over the last few years way to many streaks by quarterbacks like Hasselback had of 10/10. Kills your teams confidence, hugely ups the other teams. This happened in bursts and fits all of last year and cost us big.
Larry
