David Irving
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I watch nearly all of their games and they rarely talk about a Dallas Defensive lineman unless his name is Randy Gregory or Demarcus Lawrence and its for the wrong reason. Irving has been playing situational snaps - as such he's only getting about 1/3 of the snaps of the other defensive starters and Marinelli preaches line rotations to keep them fresh. When he entered on Sunday Night, he was obviously fresh and knew they were in passing situations. That said, he totally dominated their last two-three drives. Although they ran a screen behind him, that had Byron Jones not made a great play may have gone to the house....Glad to see him developing and the bigger threat he poses, the better that Defense can be....
Ok. I guess I was thinking that he played more. I just caught the last little bit of the game yesterday and he absolutely looked like he belonged.
I think the Cowboys signed him off the Chiefs practice squad. Guess Chiefs could have put him on the active roster instead of losing him at that point but I guess they didn't think he was ready yet.
He's in their pass rush package. I'd bet on the role increasing quite a bit next year, he's gotten strong enough to defend the run. If he keeps improving he could be a star player, Collinsworth said he reminding of Bruce Smith at times.
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Agreed - i wasn't downplaying him at all.... He rotates into the DT spots too so he has a lot of flexibility. Hopefully same thing that happened to George Selvie don't happen with David Irving... Had a great season with Dallas signed a big contract elsewhere - haven't heard from him since....
Davids ceiling is so high, he's just developing into a force. Those arms are just a weapon, he can get up on those OT quick and then the club was obviously vicious. I've never seen a OT benched in the fourth quarter over a 5 play butt whopping... probably right choice though...
Hope he continues to develop - we have desperately needed a pass rush end since Ware left....
Agreed - i wasn't downplaying him at all.... He rotates into the DT spots too so he has a lot of flexibility. Hopefully same thing that happened to George Selvie don't happen with David Irving... Had a great season with Dallas signed a big contract elsewhere - haven't heard from him since....
Davids ceiling is so high, he's just developing into a force. Those arms are just a weapon, he can get up on those OT quick and then the club was obviously vicious. I've never seen a OT benched in the fourth quarter over a 5 play butt whopping... probably right choice though...
Hope he continues to develop - we have desperately needed a pass rush end since Ware left....
I think I posted this last time but he's 10x faster and more explosive than he ever was at ISU. Off the field stuff aside the improvement in just a few years is impressive. He's coming along at the perfect time too, who knows if Gregory ever gets his act together. They need a good young DE.
And he's an ERFA after the season, so we can basically get to keep him for next year. That'll give him time to prove he's worth a decent contract.
No doubt - although there were signs even in his Junior year that he could be special. The play against TCU and had he and Coe not gotten into trouble off the field - they would have improved our DL tremendously that year!!!!
Love to reach out to my hawk friends that are Cowboys fans about his play. Even had one say last night that he's his favorite Clone of all time!!!!
Local media doesnt seem to know where he went to school. Ive never heard anyone mention him and Iowa State together since he signed here.
Collinsworth LOVES DI. He's mentioned him in three games Dallas has played.
Have you guys not seen the Tweet DI made clowning ISU? When asked about Dallas's record he said (paraphrasing) "Winning is new to me...I went to Iowa State". He tweeted that out about three weeks ago...Zeke retweeted, said it made him laugh. Me too!
Here's a good article on him... sounds super humble and glad just to be in the league....
http://www.dallascowboys.com/news/2...ame-right-when-cowboys-needed-it?sf47323007=1
http://www.dallascowboys.com/news/2...ame-right-when-cowboys-needed-it?sf47323007=1
Saw the 230lbs in the article and shat, he looks three bills and like some sort of manbeast. Looks like he is officially listed between 270 and 280.
It's too bad he and Coe couldn't get their **** together.
It's too bad he and Coe couldn't get their **** together.
Joe mixon punches a female and plays. Irving carries a stop sign and is kicked off the team.
Yeah, could have been a totally different D-Line that year. While I'm glad David Irving seems to have gotten his act together and is doing well in the NFL, I totally agree with the decision to kick him off the team when CPR did.
Stop sign was just the last straw. He had other issues here.
Glad to see he's taking advantage of his opportunity in the NFL
