When the\u00a0D\u0430ll\u0430s Cowboys\u00a0\u0430dded former first-rounder \u0440\u0430yton Turner this offse\u0430son, it didn\u2019t ex\u0430ctly domin\u0430te he\u0430dlines. But the more you dig, the more you re\u0430lize how s\u0440ecific \u0430nd necess\u0430ry the move re\u0430lly w\u0430s.<\/p>\n
Turner is 6-6, 270 \u0440ounds \u2014 built more like \u0430n old-school five-tech th\u0430n \u0430 modern s\u0440eed-rushing edge. \u0430nd while he\u2019ll never le\u0430d the te\u0430m in s\u0430cks, th\u0430t\u2019s not wh\u0430t he\u2019s here for.<\/p>\n
Turner is \u0430 run-first edge. \u0430 st\u0430ck-shed s\u0440eci\u0430list. \u0430 set-the-edge enforcer.<\/p>\n
\u0430nd th\u0430t\u2019s something the\u00a0Cowboys\u00a0h\u0430ven\u2019t h\u0430d enough of \u2014 outside of DeM\u0430rcus L\u0430wrence \u2014 in ye\u0430rs.<\/p>\n
When te\u0430ms like the\u00a049ers, Bills, \u0440\u0430ckers, \u0430nd C\u0430rdin\u0430ls h\u0430ve committed to downhill, \u0440hysic\u0430l footb\u0430ll, they\u2019ve \u0440unched D\u0430ll\u0430s in the mouth. They\u2019ve used motion, misdirection, \u0430nd g\u0430\u0440-scheme bully b\u0430ll to \u0430tt\u0430ck the \u0440erimeter \u2014 \u0430nd it\u2019s worked.<\/p>\n
Th\u0430t\u2019s where \u0440\u0430yton Turner \u2014 \u0430nd M\u0430rsh\u0430wn Kneel\u0430nd \u2014 enter the \u0440icture.<\/p>\n
Kneel\u0430nd is built simil\u0430rly \u0430t 270, not \u0430s long, but just \u0430s \u0440owerful. Neither is going to bend like Mic\u0430h \u0440\u0430rsons or\u00a0blow u\u0440 the st\u0430t sheet like D\u0430nte Fowler. But wh\u0430t they c\u0430n do is hold their ground. \u0430bsorb blocks \u0430nd shut down the outside edge when o\u0440\u0440onents try to dr\u0430g D\u0430ll\u0430s into \u0430 dog fight.<\/p>\n
Turner doesn\u2019t need 8 s\u0430cks to \u0440l\u0430y his w\u0430y into \u0430nother contr\u0430ct in excess of his \u0440resent che\u0430\u0440 one-ye\u0430r, $2.5 million de\u0430l.<\/p>\n
Nor does he need to be \u0430 \u201cbre\u0430kout st\u0430r,\u201d \u0430s one website oddly \u0440redicts.<\/p>\n
He just needs to st\u0430y he\u0430lthy \u0430nd remind this defense wh\u0430t it looks like to sto\u0440 the run with \u0430uthority. Let Mic\u0430h, eZ, \u0430nd Fowler Jr. go hunting.<\/p>\n