Will the Cowboys struggle in the trenches even after signing Linval Joseph?

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The Cowboys have made multiple moves during training camp to shore up their defensive line, but does that show the team isn't confident in their ability to stop the run? Shan & Bobby discuss the idea that the team is putting tape on a massive hole on their defense.

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00:00If football is a game played in the trenches, just how screwed might the Cowboys be? Let's

00:23talk about it. So the Cowboys made an addition yesterday. They signed Linvald Joseph, uh,

00:29to a deal that's worth up to $4 million defensive tackle veteran who's been around the league

00:33for a dozen years. Uh, and a guy who the Cowboys have been hesitant on in the past because

00:41of his limited scope, the things that he can do to really affect the game. He is a, a big

00:49space filler, a one technique defensive tackle who his entire job is to take on blockers

00:57and free up linebackers. He's not going to make a bunch of splash plays. He's not going

01:00to knife through the line of scrimmage and make a big play. That is not Linvald Joseph's

01:04game 35 years old. And the PFF ranking last year was not good at a 38.8. I don't think

01:14Mike Zimmer cares about that very much. 14th NFL season. Cowboys are his 17, six, four,

01:21330 pounds. This is a big boy. And you would ask me last year before the season, like how,

01:28how are we going to, what, what will progress look like for Mozzie Smith? And I'd said at

01:33the time progress for Mozzie Smith, you're not, you're probably not going to notice because

01:37when you notice him, it'll probably be bad. And when you don't notice him, it's, it's

01:42probably better. And you're going to notice what you're going to see is if you see the

01:46linebackers playing better than you expected, that's evidence that Mozzie Smith is doing

01:51his job. And that's going to be the same situation with Linvald Joseph here. If the linebackers

01:54play better, if you see the linebackers getting free runs, where they're able to just shoot

01:59through the line of scrimmage and make a play, that means Linvald Joseph probably did his

02:02job and kept things under wraps. That's still a little bit of a concerning issue though,

02:09that Linvald Joseph, they felt the need to add him and Jordan Phillips and sign Al-Qadeem

02:14Mohammed and Carl Loss. You've signed several defensive linemen in the last two, three weeks

02:21that that would seem to signal some level of panic about what you are in the trenches

02:26on the defensive side of the ball.

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