Machota: ‘People are not supposed to run wide open’ - Can the Cowboys’ secondary be fixed?

[Genghis Khan]

You don’t want Poe pressuring the passer?

100% of the time? I don't think that's necessary (he's not exactly a good pass rusher anyway).

I think it's more important to keep defenses guessing. Especially if you rush a LB instead and drop a guy like Poe into the vacated gap. That's the sort of thing that creates turnovers because a QB will read a LB rushing and might dump it to the linebacker's spot.

Poe specifically won't be in on all that many passing situations anyway.

 

[Cowboysrock55]

100% of the time? I don't think that's necessary (he's not exactly a good pass rusher anyway).

I think it's more important to keep defenses guessing. Especially if you rush a LB instead and drop a guy like Poe into the vacated gap. That's the sort of thing that creates turnovers because a QB will read a LB rushing and might dump it to the linebacker's spot.

Poe specifically won't be in on all that many passing situations anyway.

Yeah zone blitzes are meant to confuse the QB, I'm good with it.

 

[boozeman]

Yeah zone blitzes are meant to confuse the QB, I'm good with it.

Thing is, you can't just pick and choose it like a grab bag.

That is what I think Nolan is doing. Trying to patch a bunch of shit together. When you do that, you have a D that doesn't know what their identity is.

Honestly, I think he was a poor choice for DC. It is not like he had a proven record anywhere to suggest he's that guy.

 

[p1_]

Thing is, you can't just pick and choose it like a grab bag.

That is what I think Nolan is doing. Trying to patch a bunch of shit together. When you do that, you have a D that doesn't know what their identity is.

Honestly, I think he was a poor choice for DC. It is not like he had a proven record anywhere to suggest he's that guy.

What’s the book on him?

 

[boozeman]

What’s the book on him?

The book is that he is lifer who has cred because of his father. Classic nepotism.

 

[Cowboysrock55]

Thing is, you can't just pick and choose it like a grab bag.

That is what I think Nolan is doing. Trying to patch a bunch of shit together. When you do that, you have a D that doesn't know what their identity is.

Honestly, I think he was a poor choice for DC. It is not like he had a proven record anywhere to suggest he's that guy.

I agree to an extent. I mean the Patriots do a lot of stuff on defense and it works because of great coaching. We either need time to develop the players into being able to do that or better coaching. Right now we seem to confuse ourselves too often.

 

[boozeman]

I agree to an extent. I mean the Patriots do a lot of stuff on defense and it works because of great coaching. We either need time to develop the players into being able to do that or better coaching. Right now we seem to confuse ourselves too often.

Nolan is trying to stitch a ton of shit together. When you hear a new DC is "multiple" that just tells me he is not established and is trying to reinvent themselves.

In a way that is what McCarthy is doing. He keeps saying he took a step back and has a new outlook.

In Nolan's case, he doesn't know what he wants. No wonder his D looks confused.

 

[Cowboysrock55]

Nolan is trying to stitch a ton of shit together. When you hear a new DC is "multiple" that just tells me he is not established and is trying to reinvent themselves.

In a way that is what McCarthy is doing. He keeps saying he took a step back and has a new outlook.

In Nolan's case, he doesn't know what he wants. No wonder his D looks confused.

We went from one extreme to the other. It's a difficult transition. Marinelli and Richard literally ran the same basic shit over and over with the thought that player would perfect what they do. It was annoying as shit because it made it really easy on QBs. Now we do a ton of stuff in the hopes of confusing QBs but we don't know how to run the plays right.

 

[Cotton]

We went from one extreme to the other. It's a difficult transition. Marinelli and Richard literally ran the same basic shit over and over with the thought that player would perfect what they do. It was annoying as shit because it made it really easy on QBs. Now we do a ton of stuff in the hopes of confusing QBs but we don't know how to run the plays right.

This tells me we just need to give the coaches time to develop what they want to build.

 

[Cotton]

It's a process.

 

[L.T. Fan]

What it appears to me ,at least in part, is that the LBs aren’t quick enough to get back on a pass pattern from a run first alignment. They are in a shallow pass protect mode and the secondary can’t drop back soon enough because they are covering the backers drop back mode. They then get beat because they can’t get up to speed quick enough. The Dallas backers are dependent on the secondary in too many alignments.

 

[p1_]

This tells me we just need to give the coaches time to develop what they want to build.

and this offseason didn't provide that. The defense was the biggest question mark coming in, and its just gonna be transitional for a time. Some good stuff, alot of bad stuff.