Turnovers are caused by pass rush without blitzing, great coverage guys and really big hitters. We don't have a lot of any of that. We've got a few good young pieces, but we need a couple of more good drafts to be really good personnel wise, IMO. If you start comparing our defensive talent man for man against a Seattle or Carolina, it's ugly. Lee might start for either team, though not in the middle. I guess Hardy would start. Jones might see the field in a year or two. Other than that, who would play for either of those D's?
Talent has nothing to do with it. The team is dead last in football in turnovers. You mean to tell me the Jags, Titans, Browns etc have more talent? Yet they double the Cowboys in turnovers forced. This team has been unlucky on a historical level with turnovers. The 49ers practically lost all their key defensive players last offseason, yet still have more turnovers than we do. The Saints have the worst defense in the NFL, yet they have forced 10 more turnovers than us. The Giants defense is 31st, yet they have more than tripled our turnovers forced. If this team even forced half of the amount of turnovers the Giants have forced, they are probably leading the division right now despite not having Romo for 7 games. Our luck with turnovers this year has been actually worse than our injury luck. This is why we didn't win a game without Romo. People think we are just bad. No, we are just unlucky. Even in the Seattle game, when we actually force a turnover, Greg Hardy can't even return it to the endzone for a TD because Wilson shoelace tackled him. That is our luck this year in a nutshell. If this is a game of inches, we've lost almost all of our games by an inch.
Completely disagree with you there. Talent has everything to do with it. If you put just one player, Richard Sherman, on this defense, you'd get more turnovers, because you'd either have to throw to your #1 receiver covered by Sherman or the #2 receiver who can now 've straight double teamed. Put a Clay Matthews or JJ Watt out there, and the QB has to rush more throws. Rod plays it conservative because it's the hand he's dealt
Talent has nothing to do with our turnover luck this year. We have talent. Have more talent on defense than many teams in the NFL, yet we have 7 turnovers to show for it. Yet worse defenses like the Saints and Giants double and triple our turnovers.
Yeah, but that is because of their aggressive schemes. The Saints had blitz happy Rob Ryan at DC, so they forced some turnovers, but they also got burnt for more big plays than Dallas does and they get shelled every week
