News: The reason Cowboys are favorite to win East

[Flamma]

I knew Dalton would be terrible. Our line was decimated. He cant handle pressure. It was sad to watch the team let him get punked.

Dalton and Fitz are still playable backups. QBs that can play 2-4 games if need be. They are not suitable replacements for your QB. Think of 2015. Unlike the QBs Dallas used to replace Romo, Dalton and or Fitz could probably win a few of those games.

 

[Motorola]

It’s been pretty much confirmed that the NFC East is a dumpster fire. When a team wins the division with a 7-9 record as Washington did in 2020, that’s about as weak as it comes. The hope is that the 2021 season will be a little more competitive; the fact that the Dallas Cowboys were competitive until the final weeks after playing four different quarterbacks is a clear signal that the East is no longer a Beast. The Least is more accurate.

Still, someone has to win it, and with that win comes a playoff berth. The early favorites for the 2021 NFC East title are the Cowboys. That certainly will bring much skepticism and scoffing from different parts of the fanbase, and the media. But the fact remains that the betting houses favor the Cowboys.

Again, someone has to win it. And the Cowboys should be the favorites for one simple reason. Dak Prescott. The Cowboys clearly have the best quarterback in the division and it’s really not that close.


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I should have responded to this narrative when this QB comment started appearing more and more here at CZ during the latter half of the Cowboys season.
Washington's QB carousel was equal to Dallas in terms of being muddled due to to injury, ineffectivenes, and somewhat indecision in 2020.
Dallas: Prescott 5, Dalton 9, Dinucci 1, Gilbert 1
Washington: Haskins 6, Allen 4, Smith 6
With that stated, I concur Prescott is the best starting NFC East QB slated to begin the 2021 season.

 

[CowboyRoy]

Dalton and Fitz are still playable backups. QBs that can play 2-4 games if need be. They are not suitable replacements for your QB. Think of 2015. Unlike the QBs Dallas used to replace Romo, Dalton and or Fitz could probably win a few of those games.

I like Dalton as a backup. Love Fitz. But no way Dalton was doing anything our poor protection.

 

[Califan007]

WFT, still is a QB away, but are they. They have no one but McLaurin on offense, unless they added some players. Guice will be back at RB, but he is really unproven. Their defense is really good. However I think many think they are great. Well they look great against our depleted offense. I seen them give up yards and points against better offenses.

The hell? lol....

McLaurin isn't the only weapon. Guice was cut a year ago and is out of the league.

 

[DandyDon52]

At their best I'd agree. But I think those players really like Taylor. He's the underdog. It just depends on what Fitz they get. What do they do when Fitz has that 150 yard and 2 interception game? How many of those games is he allowed to have?

I think Taylor earned the chance to start in that playoff game. I would start him and then have fitz to go to, if taylor fizzled.

 

[jnday]

We were apart of the dumpster fire in 2019 with all those same players relatively healthy and were right there stinking up the joint with the rest of the nfce teams.

You make a great point. Some of these fans have very short memories and they seem to forget that the team was stinking when those players were healthy in the previous season. From reading some of these comments, you would think that the injured players was the one and only reason why the team was so bad last year. I don’t know what the excuse was for stinking it up in 2019, but injuries was the reason for last year’s debacle, no doubt. LMAO

 

[jnday]

I like Dalton as a backup. Love Fitz. But no way Dalton was doing anything our poor protection.

No QB would look good with the protection that Dalton suffered through.

 

[ICP]

Well, the Eagles and Giants should stink and WFT, well who knows what's going on there

 

[black label]

favorite? haha jerrys junk spills bra

 

[jazzcat22]

The hell? lol....

McLaurin isn't the only weapon. Guice was cut a year ago and is out of the league.

I thought he was still on IR.

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

I think Taylor earned the chance to start in that playoff game. I would start him and then have fitz to go to, if taylor fizzled.

As would I. If you wanted to replace Taylor with Stafford or someone I’d get it but to do what he did and now have to earn his job over Fitz?

 

[McKDaddy]

I like Dalton as a backup. Love Fitz. But no way Dalton was doing anything our poor protection.

Don't understand the narrative. Extrapolate Dalton's 2170 yards over essentially 8 games & he would surpass any Prescott year except for 2019. He averaged over 10 yds per completion. Not to mention he had to deal with a concussion and Covid. QB play wasn't the primary reason for the team results so I don't understand why anyone would be throwing shade at the guy who kept them from being 1-15.

 

[CouchCoach]

Exactly. The betting lines have little to do with how good the team is. The betting lines are based on who is betting on who. The more people that bet on a team, the higher the line goes. Vegas doesn't care who wins the game. The keep the line in the middle so that the house cut makes them the winner regardless. The Cowboys have so many people betting for them that it skews the line.

The real definition of gambler is one who bets for the Cowboys.

 

[quickccc]

Honestly ... Cowboys are so vastly popular, they are not only picked to win the NFC East,.. but win the entire Super bowl,... just about every single year ...

 

[CowboyRoy]

No QB would look good with the protection that Dalton suffered through.

Are you joking? Dak ran the NFL's more prolific offense when he was in there. 37 points a game and outpaced the "greatest show on turf" Rams offense. Statistically anyway.

 

[CowboyRoy]

Don't understand the narrative. Extrapolate Dalton's 2170 yards over essentially 8 games & he would surpass any Prescott year except for 2019. He averaged over 10 yds per completion. Not to mention he had to deal with a concussion and Covid. QB play wasn't the primary reason for the team results so I don't understand why anyone would be throwing shade at the guy who kept them from being 1-15.

Your numbers are waaaay off. It took Dalton nearly the ENTIRE season to catch up to what Dak did in 4.5 games. 1800 yards.

Dalton sucked and does suck. Fact is we went from the best offense in NFL history to one of the worst in the NFL by going from Dak to Dalton. 32 points a game to 21 points a game.

 

[CoachD]

I've seen that movie before and until they actually do something besides being paper champions I'm not putting them first in anything!

 

[DandyDon52]

Are you joking? Dak ran the NFL's more prolific offense when he was in there. 37 points a game and outpaced the "greatest show on turf" Rams offense. Statistically anyway.

Wow Roy ,so many flaws in your perspective it is unreal as your view of dak and offense last year.

For one thing you cant compare dak to dalton ,Dak only played 4 games, and he had what seemed to be great passing stats,
but it is flawed to use that to extrapolate an entire season of him doing that for rest of season.
Dak played early on, and had less bkups to play with, and some team mates played hard for him, and coasted with dalton.

Also where was the 37 point a game best nfl offense in the first game with rams ?? They only scored 3 points in 2nd half , 0 in 4th qrt. 17 total.
And in that game he had smith and martin williams, and lael was out whole season, but he had the top replacement for lael for at least part of that game.
I just watched that game few days ago, and dallas offense was avg at best.

 

[CowboyRoy]

Wow Roy ,so many flaws in your perspective it is unreal as your view of dak and offense last year.

For one thing you cant compare dak to dalton ,Dak only played 4 games, and he had what seemed to be great passing stats,
but it is flawed to use that to extrapolate an entire season of him doing that for rest of season.
Dak played early on, and had less bkups to play with, and some team mates played hard for him, and coasted with dalton.

Also where was the 37 point a game best nfl offense in the first game with rams ?? They only scored 3 points in 2nd half , 0 in 4th qrt. 17 total.
And in that game he had smith and martin williams, and lael was out whole season, but he had the top replacement for lael for at least part of that game.
I just watched that game few days ago, and dallas offense was avg at best.

Nothing flawed about the stats Dak and the offense put up buddy. Especially with the banged up line. Try as you might to discount them.

If you want to nit pick, we can do so with the defense. Plenty to go around there.

FACT: Dallas had the #1 offense in NFL history through the first 4 games of the year.

 

[McKDaddy]

Dalton sucked and does suck.

There is the root of the problem. You want that to be true regardless of reality.