TwistedHusky":qmly0u65 said:
Not sure why this is not being brought up....but Aldon Smith was a terror for the first 3-4 games of the season, but then his production tailed off significantly.
It sounds like we signed him. Happy to have him. But curious.
What was the reason for the almost falling off a cliff loss of production?
Everything I look at talking about it from the Cowboys side seems to allude to mysterious 'problems' that it never gets deeper into. Just indicating that those problems (off field? on field? in the locker room? what?) led to him being used less.
It always makes me nervous when we think that guys with problems in one place won't have the same problems here.
But at this point, if he can help our pass rush I almost wouldn't care.
Confused on this because it makes no sense. Usually big problems tend to leak, seeing nothing on that front. But the giant drop in production has to come from somewhere.
I would prefer they use him a situational pass rusher and maybe only every other game in the event this was just his endurance being the factor. If we use him sparingly, even with less tread on the tires, he should still have a bit left for the playoffs (if we make them).
1. I’m thinking after Seahawks game, he was now one of about three Cowboys front 7 defenders teams had to really game-plan for.
2. The fact he was even a starter for them says a lot about their talent. Hence, he had to play a lot for a first season back after 4 years (bc no rotation) and he likely got gassed in the 2nd half of the season.
3. And in that 2nd half of the season, his team despite being in the NFC Easiest, pretty much checked out when Prescott went down.
2020 Aldon Smith seems rather 2019 Jadeveon Clowney... Except instead of missing just an off-season/pre-season, Smith was gone for 4 whole years and re-entered the league in one of the oddest, perhaps one of the hardest years to be pro-athlete while losing the star QB 6-7games in.
I don’t think Smith will start unless he’s going to be a giga SAM. As a rotational piece and spot-starter Smith might have the potential to do significant damage. In my head I kind of envision this move like Kendall Graveman... an average starting pitcher kind of re-inventing himself into a great relief pitcher. For Smith, I just want to see him pin his ears back and just throw fireballs with everything thing he’s got for 20-30 snaps a game.