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Originally Posted by Dirtbag359
I just hope this defense doesn't go through the Zorn effect. Remember back in 2008 no one had seen our offense so after that first week against the G-Men we were able to take advantage of a lack of film. Unfortunately once film got built up we were rendered useless.
The Cowboys talked a lot about how their biggest concern in going up against us was the lack of film on our defense. For a good portion of the week they were watching Jim Haslets 4-3 D with the Rams. In fact thats why I thought they were using so many screens to begin the game, I thought more then anything it was an attempt to get a better feel for how our defense was going after them. Of course as Collinsworth kept bringing up, the coaches didn't trust that O-Line enough to call the more typical 5 and 7 step drops.
Now fortunately Haslet knows what he's doing and at this point I think he's just scratching the surface of a huge playbook that to be honest is probably the most creative I've ever seen. From playing two OLB's on one side to playing Carter at ILB, it seems like this is just the start.
The offense obviously needs more time to catch up, and it's not that uncommon for McNabb to have a 60 game in terms of passer rating (He had 2 last year). The running game will actually get better as the year goes on and I think once that happens everything else will open up. For whatever reason O-Lines in any system usually have trouble getting their run blocking assignments down early in the season. I've heard that from everyone from my high school coaches all the way up to NFL analyst.
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I would think because of our relative inexperience with the new systems, we would improve faster than other teams with more established time in their systems. SOooo, we may substancially better in a few weeks than we are now and so on.
AND D McNabb should grow more comfortable quick as he spent little time playing in preseason