Reply With Quote
Those were great passes and even greater catches, not a whole lot you can do sometimes.
Our slot corners are ty, though. Especially Brown. Awuzie is a good cover guy but needs to start playing the ball, kept giving up tough catches.
Those were great passes and even greater catches, not a whole lot you can do sometimes.
Oops, wrong thread.
Great news, let them battle each other for team captain
Stupid.. Awuzie played some great defense today.. the receivers just made some amazing catches on some really tight throws from Stafford
On the Awuzie catches allowed, yes
& Byron Jones is an elite corner
But that doesn't take away from the fact the slot corners are garbage. Both Golden Taint long touchdowns were given up by ty slot corners. Lewis stumbled on the first one and ty Anthony Brown just lost him on the second one near the end of the game. Anthony Brown needs to get ing cut, he's a no-coverage useless penalty machine.
Doesn't take away from the fact that the ty ass slot corners gave up wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiide open long TD catch and runs to ass Golden Taint twice including one that nearly killed us...
LB corps are elite, DeMarcus Lawrence is the GOAT, the next two DEs and Irving (who returns next week) are good, the other DTs are average, Dorance Armstrong has zero bend/agility and shouldn't play, Jeff Heath sucks ass and can't tackle properly, Frazier is the only safety who can tackle consistently well, we need Earl Thomas, Byron Jones is becoming elite at corner, Awuzie is good but unlucky so far this year, the slot corners are ass.
Summary of the 2018 cowboys defense
LB are in good hands without Lee. Why not hire Lee as head linebackers coach at the end of the season. Re-sign Joe Thomas, he's not expensive and I like him. Don't keep Wilson, he sucks. So the LBs will revolve around JS & LVE going forward, that's soon to be one of the best ILB duo's in the league.
Brown has played well every game until this one. Didn't you see Richard throwing that Surface on the sideline sitting next to him right after? Lewis fell, but he has barely played maybe they should use him in a trade who knows.
Brown is way worse than Lewis. Did you watch last year? This preseason. Lewis is generally a good anticipator and tackler. All Brown does is grab and make soft tackles after giving up catches in soft coverage. Today, he didn't even tackle. Brown sucks.
Lewis slipped when he should have made a tackle. No excuse to give up two 40+ yard TDs to the same guy though. It's not like Taint is Julio or Antonio Brown or something. Seattle let him walk for free.
Lewis is more talented than Brown. Brown played well this season until today. Lewis hasn't earned any snaps from the DB coach this season, yet. I will trust Richard for the moment, the D wasn't great today but he is calling good plays this season.
UNT and his typical "everybody sucks" rant
I trust Richard, but Lewis seems like a Seattle style slot corner... don't have to be big or 4.4 fast, just smart, sticky in coverage and able to diagnose and tackle, occasionally blitz. All of which Lewis does better than Brown.
The outside corners in Richard's scheme should be bigger.... hence why Byron Jones is almost impossible to throw against in that scheme, and Awuzie tries his best but gets beat in tight coverage too often because he's just not quite big enough.
Maybe grab Rasul Douglas from the Eagles to play outside corner? Douglas is a good player, a Richard/Seattle prototype big outside press corner who the Eagles have recently demoted to 5th corner (Jim Schwartz prefers smaller speed corners like Darby, Maddox, Mills), should be able to be traded for a late round pick.
Anthony Brown hasn't played well in 3 years. He (and Jeff Heath) were forced to play cornerback in 2016 after all our (mediocre) starting corners not named Carr went down injured for long stretches that year. He was a penalty machine in 2016 and last year he was a penalty machine and bad in coverage. In this year's preseason, I recall the SF game where he was beat or committed a flag on just about every pass play he was in the game. He's an OK special teamer because of his speed, but he's not an NFL caliber corner.
Byron Jones is coming off an all pro first quarter of the regular season. DeMarcus Lawrence is the GOAT, as I predicted 2-3 years ago when nobody wanted to talk about him. Also, we finally have good linebackers who can play well when Sean Lee doesn't play.
Everybody doesn't suck. Just the safeties, the DTs not named Irving (who we get back this week), and the slot corners... oh and the WRs and TEs and OC.
Crawford and Gregory both had solid bull rushes pushing the OL back into Stafford's space.. D-Law may have racked up the stats, but his fellow lineman definitely helped him by limiting their ability to double team. Byron Jones has played really well, forcing teams to think they can pick on Awuzie. Aside from a couple passes, their receivers made some extremely difficult catches on Awuzie. I ran some of those plays back 3-4 times and couldn't believe how tight the coverage was on the catch
Stafford was threading the needle too, he always plays well against Dallas.
cowboys D did just enough, and they fed zeke early and often. that will be their only recipe for success. dak looks good when he's able to take advantage of the run thread with RPO stuff or play fakes
coverage was tight, but the safeties still can't pursue and get trucked when they need to make a tackle. Especially Heath, he's trash.
Thank goodness ET's injury was only a clean break of the smaller leg bone and he'll be 100% by February. We'll probably get him for 3 years at about 10 million per. Doesn't help us this year, unfortunately. Next year might be the year we go all in for the championship.
Pay DeMarcus Lawrence 5 years/95 million
Extend Byron Jones 5 years/47 million
Tag David Irving - he's a DT so the cost will be a lot less than if he were a DE/OLB
Sign Earl Thomas 3 years/30 million
Possibly rent an elite player for 1-2 years if the goal is to win a SB in 2019 and/or 2020. And consider extending Zeke, he's the best RB and WR on the team right now, he's almost the whole offense.
I think every WR but Beasley had a drop..Beasley ran some great routes though.
That fade pass to Rico was pretty weird typical Garrett bull in the red zone tbh
Can't wait to get Frederick and Lee back
I'm against Dallas signing anybody to more than a 3 year deal tbh.. it NEVER works out for them. Other than that I agree on the safeties, Dallas has been trying to groom safeties since Roy Williams, their last true investment in the position. It's sad that Barry Church has been our best safety in the last ten years+.
Not to mention it was an awful pass. Dak has never been able to throw up a good fade, tbh.
He threw a perfect one to Butler in the preseason before his rookie year, for a score against the Dolphins, so that's odd.
I always hated it the last couple years when we tried to force it to Dez three times in a row on goal-to-go situations and ended up kicking a ty field goal every damn time.
smh 8-8 team at best
Loved LVH, Jaylen Dlaw and Byron ...
The difference.
Houston has a premier receiver.
sure but watson also airs it out more too not just to DHop
There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)
Posting Permissions