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Good point. They got a good look at all the LBs from everyone getting decent reps and a chance to pick the system up early. Seems like they have a better grasp for things this year, even Bruce Carter before the injury. Marinelli had whoever they called up from the practice squad, or brought off the street, playing decent on the D-line, but the rest of those dudes were so discombobulated last year. It was like they were in the middle of playing games while ducking machine gun fire the way dudes was dropping from injuries.This.
Now I'm not going to sit here and act like I expected 4-1 and a defense that would ranked 8th in points allowed through 5 weeks.
But anyone who wasn't doing basic ESPN analysis or just hating could see the Cowboys wouldn't be as bad on D as last year nor would they be a bottom 6 team like people were predicting.
Dudes in the NFL predictions thread were talm bout we were going to give up 500 points, contend for the #1 pick, dudes were saying we were so desperate we had to sign Rolondo McClain, dudes been clowning us picking Olinemen for so long, especially the Fredrick pick(what center is better than him right now?). Look at us now.
Last year we were in a completely new scheme, 9/10 that is always shaky for teams their first year, 70% of the D was hurt, Sean Lee went down middle of the season as always, just so many things went wrong. And we still finished 8-8.
This year, Sean went down before camp and they were able to plan accordingly, and right now our Linebackers have been beasting no matter who's on the field because they've all put in that work from day one instead of us scrambling to prepare someone because Lee went down. The Line is imposing their will because of all those first round investments and helping mask the D's problems also. The offensive line alone should've hushed all those doom and gloom Predictions. Anyone who watches football knows just how much having a good line helps all phases of the game.