The veteran Clark, who was acquired from the Green Bay Packers in the Micah Parsons trade, said he\u2019s been a part of some poor defensive showing against the run, but not a unit that\u2019s been giving up yards like this.<\/p>\n
Last year was the first time that Clark played in a 4-3 front under new Packers defensive coordinator Jeff Hafley. Matt Eberflus is deploying the same base look now in Dallas, who is working with their third defensive coordinator in as many years. Does that make it a difficult scheme to understand?<\/p>\n
\u201cNo, it\u2019s a four-down front, attack front,\u201d Clark said. \u201cEverybody pretty much, in a four-three defense, everybody\u2019s got one gap to fill.\u201d<\/p>\n
That was part of the teaching point and message that Eberflus relayed to his team on Monday when they met to break down the Panthers game.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust the details of the defense,\u201d Clark said of what Eberflus\u2019 message was to his unit. \u201cWe went through everything. Holding each other accountable and focusing on the details of what we need to do. Everybody\u2019s just looking in the mirror and figuring that stuff out.\u201d<\/p>\n
So, with most of the defensive personnel having been around since minicamp in the offseason to now six weeks into the regular season, why are some of the details still not down for the Cowboys?<\/p>\n
\u201cHonestly, I\u2019m not sure. That\u2019s a good question. That\u2019s the biggest question of them all,\u201d Clark said. \u201cIt\u2019s just us holding each other accountable and just getting to the bottom of that. We can\u2019t go all year playing defense like this, especially with how our offense is playing. If we can match that, we\u2019re going to be a really tough team to beat.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The veteran Clark, who was acquired from the Green Bay Packers in the Micah Parsons trade, said he\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,932,104,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-8040","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-dallas","9":"tag-dallas-cowboys-news","10":"tag-dallas-headlines","11":"tag-dallas-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}