DMN Blog: Strength vs. Strength
Perhaps the most pivotal matchup of Sunday's game will come when the Cowboys offense goes into long yardage against the Giants defense.
That's when New York rolls out its four-end line, with Mathias Kiwanuka (a natural end who starts as an on-the-line strong-side linebacker), Michael Strahan, Justin Tuck, and Osi Umenyiora take the field together. And those four have done plenty to pull new coordinator Steve Spagnuolo from his blitz-happy roots, born under Jim Johnson in Philly, because the quartet creates more than enough pressure on its own.
The four above have combined for 23.5 of the Giants' 30 sacks, and the team total is five more than any other defense's.
"You put people in position where the matchups are in their favor," Giants coach Tom Couglin said earlier in the week. "Everyone tries to do it. With us, it’s been something we believed we could accomplish with those four ends."
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That's when New York rolls out its four-end line, with Mathias Kiwanuka (a natural end who starts as an on-the-line strong-side linebacker), Michael Strahan, Justin Tuck, and Osi Umenyiora take the field together. And those four have done plenty to pull new coordinator Steve Spagnuolo from his blitz-happy roots, born under Jim Johnson in Philly, because the quartet creates more than enough pressure on its own.
The four above have combined for 23.5 of the Giants' 30 sacks, and the team total is five more than any other defense's.
"You put people in position where the matchups are in their favor," Giants coach Tom Couglin said earlier in the week. "Everyone tries to do it. With us, it’s been something we believed we could accomplish with those four ends."
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