With the 28th overall pick in the 2017 NFL Draft
Tyrone Crawford Jersey , the Dallas Cowboys select... Taco Charlton, defensive end, University of Michigan. of Arts after the pick was announced. Some of that is due to the draft being held in Filthadelphia, and part of it was due to the fact that a lot of Cowboys fans weren’t huge fans of the pick.Through a season and a half of the Taco Charlton experience, there has been little to be excited about. So far in his career, Charlton has recorded four sacks, nine QB hits, and just seven tackles for loss in seven starts. Charlton finished his rookie season on a high-note and left Cowboys fans feeling good about his development moving forward. When training camp kicked off just four months ago, Charlton was showing signs of making strides as one of the teams best pass rushers, instead he has fallen off the map through nine weeks of the Cowboys season.To make matters worse for the former Michigan edge rusher, Charlton’s production has regressed heavily from the start of the season to now.In the first two games of the season, Charlton had recorded a sack, two tackles for loss, two QB hits, and a fumble recovery. Since week two, Charlton has recorded zero sacks, zero QB hits, and just two tackles for loss (week four & week six). This is coming with the second-year pass rusher playing the fourth-most snaps among all defensive lineman on the team, and the second most snaps among the defensive ends on the roster.Taco’s lack of production has not gone unnoticed which is something we should all give credit to Rod Marinelli for noticing. In weeks one through five, Charlton was playing in more than 50% of the defensive snaps, in weeks six through eight, Charlton has played in 50% or less of the defensive snaps, with Dorance Armstrong taking on a larger role in the defense. The lack of production from the defensive end unit (outside of Lawrence), is part of the reason that the defense has struggled to sack the quarterback in the last few weeks, after an extremely hot start. Film RoomTaco’s lack of a plan when rushing the passer is one of his biggest weaknesses. In preseason and in 2017, we saw him use a spin move on a lot of his rushes, while it wasn’t the cleanest spin move in the NFL, he started to figure it out towards the end of the season. Here he allows Taylor Lewan to take away his length by allowing Lewan to get inside his breastplate due to a missed hand swipe. Once Taco misses with his initial jab, Lewan is able to gain control of Charlton’s hands, and upper body and drives him straight into the ground.First off, before we get to Taco I have no idea how you miss this hold on Leighton Vander Esch. Charlton has to set the edge here with Jaylon Smith lined up next to him on the line of scrimmage. Smith is expecting Charlton to fill his gap and plug the hole that Lewis runs through. Charlton again ends up on the ground and is in no position to make a play on the ball carrier. As you can see
Authentic Jaylon Smith Jersey , Taco Charlton starts the play clearly in the picture. Washington runs this football right at Taco Charlton and before Adrian Peterson touches the football, Charlton is completely out of the picture and nowhere close to the ball. The most concerning thing about this play is that Taco shows no awareness on this play. Out of the offensive formation, either Peterson is coming right at you, Alex Smith is pulling this and taking it off the right edge, or throwing an RPO and getting the football out quick. Rushing wide and up the field is a recipe for disaster against this look.Charlton has time to turn it around, and the Cowboys are by no means giving up on the second-year pass rusher, but it seems as if they are starting to play the more consistent player instead of playing the guy with the higher draft status. Charlton isn’t the fastest or strongest defensive end on the field, so he needs to work on playing smarter, and developing more of a plan. He needs to learn how to use his hands better to win his battles. Until that happens, he will struggle to play with any kind of consistency. In case you missed it, Amari Cooper is a Dallas Cowboy now. The former standout wide receiver from Alabama was taken fourth overall in the 2015 NFL draft by the Oakland Raiders. He quickly became their best receiver, topping 1,000 yards receiving in his first two years. However, Cooper’s production has fallen off in the last two seasons, leading some to make assumptions that he’s not a good receiver anymore. Let’s take a look at what exactly happened in order to try and determine if Cooper can be successful again in Dallas. Cooper’s first year in Oakland was also the first year for newly hired head coach Jack Del Rio. He took over a team that went 3-13 the year before and had averaged just 15.8 points per game. They had their franchise quarterback in Derek Carr, but nobody to throw to, so they took Cooper. He entered the draft from Alabama, where he had been an All-American and Heisman finalist in addition to winning the Biletnikoff Award and SEC Offensive Player of the Year. There was a lot of excitement around him, and former NFL GM Phil Savage compared him to Marvin Harrison. In his rookie year, Cooper was installed as the top receiving target from the start. New offensive coordinator Bill Musgrave quickly developed the connection between Carr and Cooper, and took advantage of his rookie receiver’s talents. Cooper was targeted 130 times that year, and he caught 72 of them for 1,070 yards and six touchdowns. He averaged nearly 15 yards per reception. In his second season, Cooper sought to become more efficient, and did so. He upped his catch percentage from 55.4% to 62.9% with only two more targets than his rookie year. He put up 83 receptions for 1,153 yards and five touchdowns. His yards per catch dropped to 13.9, which was to be expected after his impressive rookie mark. Cooper’s growth in his second season helped power the Raiders to a 12-4 record and their first playoff appearance since 2002, but an injury to Carr led to their loss in the Wild Card game. Still, Cooper was selected to the Pro Bowl for his efforts. After the season, though, the Raiders made a head scratching decision in letting Musgrave go and promoting quarterbacks coach Todd Downing to offensive coordinator
Youth Ezekiel Elliott Jersey , his first time calling plays. As a result, the Raiders’ offense stagnated and Cooper’s involvement in the game plan was specifically diminished. Carr was also slow to return from his injury, and a number of his passing stats were down from the previous year, most notably that his quarterback rating was the worst since his rookie year. As a result of all of this, Cooper’s targets dropped to 96, a 27% decrease in his targets from his first two years. Cooper was also less efficient, catching 50% of his passes for 680 yards, but he did increase his average yards per catch to 14.2. Cooper also set a career high in touchdowns with seven. Three of those touchdowns came in the red zone despite Cooper only being targeted on 18.9% of red zone pass plays. By comparison, the Miami Dolphins targeted Jarvis Landry on 30.3% of their red zone pass plays and he came up with nine touchdowns that year. Despite his decrease in usage, Cooper was still one of the best after the catch. According to Football Outsiders’ YAC + ratings, Cooper was fifth in the league in YAC +, which seeks to estimate how many yards after the catch each receiver gained compared to the average receiver’s expected output. Now in 2018, Cooper has another new offensive coordinator in Greg Olson, though head coach Jon Gruden calls the plays. And through six games, Cooper wasn’t used much at all. He only had three targets in the season opener, and only two total targets in his last two games. There were two games where he received double-digit targets: against Denver, where he was targeted 10 times and caught all 10 passes for 116 yards, and against Cleveland when he was targeted 12 times and caught eight of them for 128 yards and his lone touchdown of the year so far. On the whole, Cooper is catching 68.8% of passes thrown his way this season, which is higher than any of his previous seasons. The Raiders have many other problems right now as well, particularly on offense. They’re only averaging 18.3 points per game and their rushing attack is 25th in the league. In 2016, Cooper’s best season, the Raiders had the sixth best ground game. That seemed to open things up more in the passing game, and an offense that prioritized Cooper as the top receiving threat allowed him to flourish. Now in Dallas, he’ll find an offense that currently boasts the third best rushing offense despite being manhandled in that aspect of the game on Sunday. Cooper may not get as many targets as he did his first two years in Oakland - in fact, he almost certainly won’t - but he can become the go-to guy for an offense that lacks any such player. At the very least, Cooper’s presence can draw attention from defensive backs and open things up for the likes of Cole Beasley and Michael Gallup. A lot of this depends on Dak Prescott’s chemistry with Cooper, but he has the route running ability to thrive in this offense and set the team back on track. As for his low numbers in Oakland, it seems that this was mostly due to coaches who decided to use their number one receiver significantly less than normal. It would seem that the Cowboys’ best bet to make this work is to do what Bill Musgrave did in 2015 and 2016: feed Amari Cooper.
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