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<blockquote data-quote="HardRightEdge" data-source="post: 703233"><p>I've been making this point for years. Winners close. Little possums walk early, big possums walk late. Yada, yada. </p><p></p><p>Now, in the free agency / salary cap era even great teams have have exploitable weaknesses on one side of the ball or the other. I pointed out pre-game that the Dallas pressure point was their slow linebackers. We got an early illustration of that fact with our #2 TE who runs 4.75 on a good day getting behind Dallas' "All Pro" LB. Also, Cook's productivity in this game was at least partially attributable to this fact.</p><p></p><p>Having an exploitable weakness that a coach can't mitigate in some way amounts to average performance. Such is the case with our perimeter corners. If your perimeter corners are known to be vulnerable, you'd like to think there'd be a zone answer to this problem, but Capers does not have that in his tool kit, at least not when he doesn't have All Pros like Woodson and Collins and a near-Pro Bowler in Williams to make it work. Again, if your best answer to a shortcoming is having All Pros, you have not proved yourself to be better than average.</p><p></p><p>And that's pretty much the state of affairs in the first 3 quarters.</p><p></p><p>Then we get to the 4th. quarter. At what point since 2010 have we every seen the defense step up late to close out a win in a big game? Rarely? Never? You can't win 'em all, and maybe you can't win half, but you'd expect that defense to win one.</p><p></p><p>As it stand, just outscore 'em, baby!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HardRightEdge, post: 703233"] I've been making this point for years. Winners close. Little possums walk early, big possums walk late. Yada, yada. Now, in the free agency / salary cap era even great teams have have exploitable weaknesses on one side of the ball or the other. I pointed out pre-game that the Dallas pressure point was their slow linebackers. We got an early illustration of that fact with our #2 TE who runs 4.75 on a good day getting behind Dallas' "All Pro" LB. Also, Cook's productivity in this game was at least partially attributable to this fact. Having an exploitable weakness that a coach can't mitigate in some way amounts to average performance. Such is the case with our perimeter corners. If your perimeter corners are known to be vulnerable, you'd like to think there'd be a zone answer to this problem, but Capers does not have that in his tool kit, at least not when he doesn't have All Pros like Woodson and Collins and a near-Pro Bowler in Williams to make it work. Again, if your best answer to a shortcoming is having All Pros, you have not proved yourself to be better than average. And that's pretty much the state of affairs in the first 3 quarters. Then we get to the 4th. quarter. At what point since 2010 have we every seen the defense step up late to close out a win in a big game? Rarely? Never? You can't win 'em all, and maybe you can't win half, but you'd expect that defense to win one. As it stand, just outscore 'em, baby! [/QUOTE]
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