Dallas Cowboys must be better at the basics to win

The Dallas Cowboys would become a much better team instantly if everyone just did their own individual jobs a little better. That’s all.

Do Your Job To The Best Of Your Ability

This sounds general because it is. There could have been a plethora of different things listed and listed here, but to simply pull a Bill Belichick and to say “Do your job” makes sense.

Here’s why. When you think about each position or player on the football field and every role or scenario they are placed in, there is a clear and distinct role to it.

Quarterbacks run the offense, which may include passing, handing off, and more. Defensive Backs man the defensive backfield, which may include tackling, defending passes, and more.

This goes on and on, as every position, role, or placement has a duty. Now, take that and extrapolate across a myriad of different scenarios from the first three weeks and yesterday’s game.

The safety at the backend of the defense is a member of the aforementioned defensive backfield, so as mentioned, his job may be to defend passing plays or come up in run support, at times. However, the number one job of a “safety” is just as the name of the position implies.

They are the “safety”, or the safety valve for the defense. As a safety, you absolutely cannot let a man run pass you, get behind you, or let a play get over the top of you.

That is absolutely unacceptable. That has happened in every game this season on at least one occasion, while it absolutely mauled the Cowboys on Sunday.

Thank the football gods for rookie cornerback Trevon Diggs‘ punchout on the loafing Seahawk receiver D.K. Metcalf, but he still shouldn’t have ever got that open and alone in the defensive secondary. They aren’t the only ones who need to do their jobs though.

The safety early on in the game was caused by tunning back Tony Pollard’s muffed kickoff return attempt, which left the Cowboys at the one-yard line, subsequently causing that safety. Let me not bury my own lead though, as I like to think of it as a segue.