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Played a lot of 2-deep safeties, and the giants only had one running play of over 10 yards. Other than the TFL I saw Dix pick up on the blitz, the safeties were doing their work limiting YAC while not letting the giants get anything deep. It's something Dallas can exploit in the fact that they can actually run the ball. It'll be a good week to get Pennel back.
We actually didn't play two deep safeties despite what they said. When they each had 6 tackles, most near the line of scrimmage, it shows that we were actually dropping a nickel or dime back into the deep slot. It's actually more of a play on words, because it was actually two-deep. I think the announcers missed how they were playing it. In fact, if you watch the replay of the game, you'll even see one of our safeties covering down into the under 10 yard zone for middle passes. I honestly thought it was great seeing a complete departure from what we have done constantly.