{"id":3766,"date":"2013-05-25T16:13:24","date_gmt":"2013-05-25T20:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=3766"},"modified":"2013-05-25T16:23:27","modified_gmt":"2013-05-25T20:23:27","slug":"brandon-carr-says-the-cowboys-are-buying-into-new-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2013\/05\/25\/brandon-carr-says-the-cowboys-are-buying-into-new-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"Brandon Carr says the Cowboys are buying into new defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3767\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3767\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3767\" alt=\"brandoncarr\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/05\/brandoncarr.jpg\" width=\"675\" height=\"518\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/05\/brandoncarr.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/05\/brandoncarr-300x230.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/05\/brandoncarr-50x38.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3767\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">credit: getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Dallas Cowboys are making a change on defense. Monte Kiffin has been installed as the Cowboys defensive coordinator and the team is transitioning to a 4-3 defense.<\/p>\n<p>While talking to Ben &amp; Skin on 105.3 Cowboys cornerback Brandon Carr said that his teammates are responding well the to change.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGuys are definitely buying. We\u2019re just trying to create a different mentality around there. It\u2019s all about just everybody hustling and being committed, all 11 out there on the field meeting at one time. If we\u2019re forcing the issue, we\u2019re talking about turnovers. That was a major problem for us last year. But this year, I feel we\u2019ve got the guys that kind of believe and now that we see it, the proof is in the pudding with this defense that we can go out there and make the same plays.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Carr was supportive of Kiffin&#8217;s defense a weeks ago saying it allowed him to be the corner he wanted to be. He did not back down from those comments on the radio show.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s going to be fun. It allows us to dictate the flow of the game. It allows (Morris) Claiborne and I to get up there and challenge receivers each play. We have a front four that can get after the quarterback, and this defense is going to allow them to put some pressure on them, and that\u2019s going to help us on the back end.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Overall the Cowboys were a middle of the pack defense last season but at-least part of that can be attributed to a revolving door of players that took the field, especially at the linebacker position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dallas Cowboys are making a change on defense. Monte Kiffin has been installed as the Cowboys defensive coordinator and the team is transitioning to a 4-3 defense. While talking to Ben &amp; Skin on 105.3 Cowboys cornerback Brandon Carr said that his teammates are responding well the to change. \u201cGuys are definitely buying. We\u2019re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[238,35],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-3766","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-brandon-carr","9":"tag-dallas-cowboys"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3766"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}