Cowboys news: Dan Quinn gives his view on the defensive collapse versus Buffalo
Dan Quinn points at tackling issues in run defense woes – Nick Harris, DallasCowboys.com
Dan Quinn tries to explain the terrible defensive performance.
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Fresh off giving up 266 yards on the ground on Sunday in the 31-10 loss to the Buffalo Bills – the most rushing yards allowed by the Cowboys since 2012 – defensive coordinator Dan Quinn took the podium at The Star in Frisco on Monday to recap what went wrong for his defensive unit in the big loss.
Buffalo running back James Cook accounted for 179 of those yards as he was able to break contain on a number of occasions and get around the edges for big gains. Added in, the Cowboys defense missed 12 tackles in the running game alone which allowed for the Bills’ big day.
“The biggest impact on this game was our tackling and our ball-hawking,” Quinn said. “We’re excellent at those two things, and we had a poor performance in both. Our tackling wasn’t up to the standard we’ve set. That is our secret sauce, our tackling and our ball-hawking, and we didn’t have it.”
“I would say it’s more in the concentration piece,” he said. “The other is maybe you’re too aggressive. You’re flying past and not taking the right angle. Usually the truth is somewhere in the middle. In this case, we needed to take the extra step. We weren’t going to lunge and miss because we didn’t have the right angle in taking the next step.
