Megatron96 |
01-18-2024 07:13 PM |
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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
(Post 17345122)
But we missed a stud in Mazi Smith!!!!
It is a little strange that a team with Hankins and Smith on the line should get pushed around in the run game. I almost wonder if their issue isn't on the edges. The DTs get blamed for bad run defense sometimes when the DEs are getting pushed off the edge to create holes in the B-Gaps. The LBs on Dallas are a bit undersized as well.
I'm not sure DT is really their biggest problem in the run game.
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Tbf, I'm not certain it's the DT's either. Not like I watch a ton of DAL games. However, many times when a team isn't defending the run well, it starts with the DL and the DTs, imo.
And I did see the DAL/ARI tilt this year, and though I didn't spend a lot of time watching their DL, the fact that ARI was gashing them on the ground was surprising. And the Cowboys were getting pushed right off the LoS repeatedly all game.
Maybe that was just that game, I don't know for sure. But it happened to them again vs. GB the other day, and Aikman mentioned it early, and how the DAL DL was too undersized to adequately defend the run during the game, iirc. So, I'd guess that their DL/DTs are at least part of the problem down there.
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