{"id":661253,"date":"2026-05-23T22:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T22:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/661253\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T22:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T22:44:08","slug":"dallas-cowboys-otito-ogbonnia-explains-the-new-look-defense-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/661253\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Cowboys Otito Ogbonnia explains the new-look defense and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">\u201cMy opinion is always going to surround a bunch of space and vertical seams. If you look at the Cowboys tape from last year, they got a ton of penetration, but it\u2019s tough when you create a bunch of seams because the running back has a lot of options. Versus condensing space and being able to rally guys to the football. It\u2019s tough when you have a lot of space, because you might have won your gap, one-gap, one-man type of stuff, you might have done your job, but those type of defenses really, really drag on that particular player who want to make that play.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">But a lot of teams would scheme themselves to not run towards Kenny (Clark), their not running towards Quinnen (Williams), it\u2019s all access to another vertical scheme that was created by someone else. It\u2019s a high-risk-high-reward type of defense that Dallas used to play, but the defense we\u2019re going to play is a lot more condensed space. We\u2019re eating up blocks, we\u2019re eating up space. We\u2019re getting penetration of course &#8211; that\u2019s how the Fangio defense has actually evolved, there\u2019s a lot more penetration that\u2019s happening. It\u2019s getting penetration but reducing space.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Whether it be my body, someone else\u2019s body, or an offensive lineman\u2019s body, somebody\u2019s going to take up those gaps, to where the ball has to bounce and our secondary run support will come in and be able to finish those plays.\u201c<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cMy opinion is always going to surround a bunch of space and vertical seams. If you look at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[21151,349,99],"class_list":["post-661253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-dallas-cowboys-roster","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}