Ted Nguyen on if Robert Saleh, Kellen Moore could succeed in Dallas

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The Athletic's Ted Nguyen joined the K&C Masterpiece to talk about the Cowboys' coaching search, if he thinks Robert Saleh or Kellen Moore could succeed in Dallas with their coaching styles, and more.

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00:00We're here thinking about the head coaching situation here, of course, and hearing all

00:19these names being floated around.

00:21And I know you have, you have a lot of respect for what D'Amico Ryan has done and we do too.

00:26Like his defense has been so much fun to watch.

00:29He was, him and Robert Sala, they went through San Francisco and Sala's name is popping up

00:36around Dallas.

00:37What, what is, what are the similarities?

00:39What are the ideas that Sala brings specifically?

00:42Yeah, well, they're both from the Seattle Cover Three, Pete Carroll family.

00:50And really Robert Sala was one of the first guys to really kind of advance that system

00:56after they lost the Super Bowl to the Chiefs.

00:59The following year, they kind of started mixing in some quarters coverage, some of

01:03those Fangio ideas as far as disguising.

01:06And that really took the defense to the next level.

01:09And D'Amico Ryan was on his staff as a linebacker coach at that time.

01:13And then when Robert Sala left, D'Amico kind of furthered that idea.

01:17He, you know, they still play with that four down, super aggressive, those aggressive principles

01:24as far as getting upfield.

01:25But then, you know, you add some different type of coverages.

01:29He does some really interesting things with disguises.

01:31And he just seems to always call, they're not a heavy blitzing team.

01:36But D'Amico has a really, he's a great knack for calling the blitzes at the right time.

01:41And he just always seems to get quarterbacks with it.

01:45So I think, you know, that Cover Three tree has kind of passed on the league, but there's

01:50still those coaches around the league, like Sala and D'Amico, like we talked about.

01:56But to me, D'Amico is the guy that's really modernized it and made it more viable to play

02:03against these modern offenses.

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