FRISCO, Texas – Keep it simple, play fast.
Boiled down as basically as possible, that’s the gist of Rod Marinelli’s defensive scheme and how he approaches his duties as the Cowboys’ defensive coordinator. The idea is that the less a player has to think, the faster he can react. The faster he can react, the more likely he is to make a play.
It’s pretty straightforward, and that’s fortuitous for a guy like Bené Benwikere, who needs to have it all figured out by Sunday night – just seven days after he arrived in Dallas.
“You just have to really get on the fly with everything,” Benwikere said on Thursday.