Revisiting The First Giants Drive

A lot of people are citing that the Cowboys run D problems are still around by referencing that first Giants drive. I went back and watched again today and noticed the following:

1. There wasn’t a 1T on the field until they got in our redzone. It was Gholston and Osa pretty much the whole way until they got to the redzone. In fact, the first play with Hankins in there was a rush for 0 yards for Barkley.

2. Jones had more success than Saquan. I don’t even think Saquan rushed for 20 yds that first drive. He had one 9-yarder, and two 5-yarders. It was really Jones scrambling that hurt us. I think he scrambled over 30 yards.

3. The unnecessary roughness penalty on Jayron Kearse made it seem artificially worse. The defense actually played pretty well

Bonus: The more I watch that game the more I’m amazed we didn’t get 10 sacks. So many times we were right in Jones face or we tackled him and he fell forward over the LOS. Also Gholston had a sack called back due to a downfield penalty. This defense is insane.

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