But, you need competent guard play to make this work. So, when the Cowboys went and signed Nate Livings and Mackenzy Bernadeau, they hope they found two physical players who could pull in space and get them back to what they enjoyed doing. Bill Callahan will now work with their abilities and see if he can mold them to play their best football. A few days ago, I offered reviews of both players and was certainly pessimistic about Livings in particular being able to handle this. In the interest of fairness, I watched more of his action since then, in particular his game from Christmas Eve against the Arizona Cardinals, and feel a bit better about his performance. He blocked Calais Campbell all day without a whole lot of trouble and certainly was a film the Cowboys studied before they made their purchase. It was the best of the five games that I have looked at, and hope that he can be an improvement over what was at guard last season. Can he pull in space like Leonard Davis, circa 2009? That remains to be seen.
