FRISCO, Texas -- Mike McCarthy said “second-year jump” so often in 2021 that it could have become a doozy of a drinking game, especially with the way NFL interception leader Trevon Diggs played in his second season.
There is a different kind of “second-year jump” the Dallas Cowboys are thinking of in 2022, and that’s what it can do in the second year of Dan Quinn’s defense.
In order to facilitate the “second-year jump,” the Cowboys wanted to keep as many players from their 2021 defense as possible for the sake of continuity.