Cowboys sign OT La'el Collins

[dallen]

Let's just call the best OL ever The Yardage Crew.

I chuckled at GLOAT - Greatest Line Of All Time

 

[Cotton]

I chuckled at GLOAT - Greatest Line Of All Time

So, can we call them GLOATed?

 

[L.T. Fan]

I chuckled at GLOAT - Greatest Line Of All Time

Would you go for Yard Birds?

 

[L.T. Fan]

Uh. The Longest Yarders?

 

[Genghis Khan]

I don't think they need a name.

 

[Smitty]

I don't think they need a name.

Or if they get one, it should come organically down the road.

 

[Cotton]

I don't think they need a name.

Fuddy duddy.

 

[townsend]

Or if they get one, it should come organically down the road.

As long as Chris God Damned Bermann has no hand in it.

 

[dallen]

I don't think they need a name.

They don't

 

[Genghis Khan]

Or if they get one, it should come organically down the road.

Yep.

 

[Cowboysrock55]

They don't

IF a secondary gets nickname like the Legion of Boom (The least important position on a football team) certainly an offensive line this good must have a nickname.

 

[Clay_Allison]

And yet according to broadcast crews, the empty backfield was the most successful alignment.

Lies, damned lies and statistics. Trick plays average a lot of yardage and scores per use because they are big plays when they work, but nobody's going to start running a flea flicker based offense. Empty backfield is a gimmick. Great when it works but dangerous to the QB's health and unreliable.

 

[VA Cowboy]

I don't think they need a name.

I agree. We had the Doomsday Defense in the '70's/early 80's. But even in the SB years of the '90s I don't recall any name for our great OL or DL. Same way with people trying to force a nickname on players using their first initial and part of their last name. Not everybody or position needs a contrived name.

 

[Cowboysrock55]

Lies, damned lies and statistics. Trick plays average a lot of yardage and scores per use because they are big plays when they work, but nobody's going to start running a flea flicker based offense. Empty backfield is a gimmick. Great when it works but dangerous to the QB's health and unreliable.

Small sample size is why. I don't mind the empty backfield situationally but I absolutely hate it in any short yardage situation.

 

[Cotton]

I want a damn nickname simply so we have a goto in the gameday threads.

Pretty much kiss my ass.

 

[p1_]

And yet according to broadcast crews, the empty backfield was the most successful alignment.

Sturm provided hard data illustrating the major success of the formation .

 

[boozeman]

I agree. We had the Doomsday Defense in the '70's/early 80's. But even in the SB years of the '90s I don't recall any name for our great OL or DL. Same way with people trying to force a nickname on players using their first initial and part of their last name. Not everybody or position needs a contrived name.

Either I lost my mind, but the "Great Wall" thing was never a deal in 1990s. It seems like it only got coined with the recent thing on NFLN.

 

[Rev]

Either I lost my mind, but the "Great Wall" thing was never a deal in 1990s. It seems like it only got coined with the recent thing on NFLN.

I never heard it before the NFLN thing as well but you still could be losing your mind.

 

[NoDak]

Even when he's supposedly upset about his contract situation, and outside people are praying he blows up, he is still looking out for the best interest of the team. Pay the man.

 

[VA Cowboy]

Either I lost my mind, but the "Great Wall" thing was never a deal in 1990s. It seems like it only got coined with the recent thing on NFLN.

I've never heard it back then.