The faulty premise that a slightly upgraded or average D will take us to the playoffs

[Doomsday101]

To think that our Boys, with a good offence led by the Bus Driver Dak, needs only to have a slightly better D to succeed is ludicrous.

Yes, let us match up with a team with a great offence and a good D. Guess what happens.

Meanwhile, we are happy just to wish for an upgrade on D so we can compete,

I am not saying don't be optimistic, me fellow workaday fans. What I do caution against is believing that 6 defencive picks in the draft and several in FA will take us far or anywhere.

Hope for the best, me dewey-eyed fans, but don't just yet start planning yer Super Bowl party with banners that proclaim we are better than the 49ers, Green Bay, the Cards or Washington in the NFC or KC or 5 other AFC teams.

An almost-there D wont do it.

Hollah and brings me a dollah!

I guess if you view Dak as a bus driver then maybe you come to that conclusion. I don't, I saw Dak putting up monster numbers and vast improvement as he has developed and matured. How others view Dak that is on them and if you want to down play him that is fine but nothing faulty about thinking if this defense stops giving up 29.5 points a game and actually plays decent football this team can win.

 

[Jake]

Defense wins Championships. And if you can dominate in the trenches you are 1 step closer to the Playoffs me maty

Top 10 scoring defenses, in particular. Nine SB champs in a row and all 5 Cowboys champions had one.

There's some false hope floating around this place that "average" defense is all the Cowboys need. "Average" defense might get you to the playoffs, but it will also get you defeated there.

 

[johneric8]

To think that our Boys, with a good offence led by the Bus Driver Dak, needs only to have a slightly better D to succeed is ludicrous.

Yes, let us match up with a team with a great offence and a good D. Guess what happens.

Meanwhile, we are happy just to wish for an upgrade on D so we can compete,

I am not saying don't be optimistic, me fellow workaday fans. What I do caution against is believing that 6 defencive picks in the draft and several in FA will take us far or anywhere.

Hope for the best, me dewey-eyed fans, but don't just yet start planning yer Super Bowl party with banners that proclaim we are better than the 49ers, Green Bay, the Cards or Washington in the NFC or KC or 5 other AFC teams.

An almost-there D wont do it.

Hollah and brings me a dollah!

To think that our Boys, with a good offence led by the Bus Driver Dak, needs only to have a slightly better D to succeed is ludicrous.

Yes, let us match up with a team with a great offence and a good D. Guess what happens.

Meanwhile, we are happy just to wish for an upgrade on D so we can compete,

I am not saying don't be optimistic, me fellow workaday fans. What I do caution against is believing that 6 defencive picks in the draft and several in FA will take us far or anywhere.

Hope for the best, me dewey-eyed fans, but don't just yet start planning yer Super Bowl party with banners that proclaim we are better than the 49ers, Green Bay, the Cards or Washington in the NFC or KC or 5 other AFC teams.

An almost-there D wont do it.

Hollah and brings me a dollah!

You're not very bright. The cowboys were missing their entire online and starting QB! They come healthy with some new blood on defense and attitude they have a great year!
San Fran went from worst to best defense a few years ago in one off season so anything can happen. Quit being so derogatory you might add some years to your life

 

[Rockport]

To think that our Boys, with a good offence led by the Bus Driver Dak, needs only to have a slightly better D to succeed is ludicrous.

Yes, let us match up with a team with a great offence and a good D. Guess what happens.

Meanwhile, we are happy just to wish for an upgrade on D so we can compete,

I am not saying don't be optimistic, me fellow workaday fans. What I do caution against is believing that 6 defencive picks in the draft and several in FA will take us far or anywhere.

Hope for the best, me dewey-eyed fans, but don't just yet start planning yer Super Bowl party with banners that proclaim we are better than the 49ers, Green Bay, the Cards or Washington in the NFC or KC or 5 other AFC teams.

An almost-there D wont do it.

Hollah and brings me a dollah!

The only thing ludicrous is this thread.

 

[Jarntt]

If we define an "average defense" as 16th or 17th out of 32...With an "average D" and health this is easily an 10 plus win team and likely wins the East by a landslide. With an average D last year we would have been in the playoffs as crazy as that sounds. Heck with just a not completely ****** defense last year we would have been in the playoffs and likely will be again this year. It's not like some super team is going to develop in the NFC East in the next few months.

Now if the discussion is will we have an average defense this year, that's a completely different topic. IMO, no we won't.

 

[Frozen700]

Yes we have a bus driver

But maybe our D will surprise.

All our Bus Driver needs to do is not create turnovers and execute the play given.

Dak isn't the type to go out there and consistently read a defense and make the proper adjustments.

He goes with the play called with maybe 1 audible, and will dink and dunk most of the time.

Which we all have to learn to live with as we extended him.

Maybe if he fails, in a year or 2, we will draft a qb to replace him, so I'm not worried.

 

[Section446]

Dak needs to stop waiting until we're down by 20 points before he starts playing well, that will help a lot.

 

[Ekspozed]

To think that our Boys, with a good offence led by the Bus Driver Dak, needs only to have a slightly better D to succeed is ludicrous.

Yes, let us match up with a team with a great offence and a good D. Guess what happens.

Meanwhile, we are happy just to wish for an upgrade on D so we can compete,

I am not saying don't be optimistic, me fellow workaday fans. What I do caution against is believing that 6 defencive picks in the draft and several in FA will take us far or anywhere.

Hope for the best, me dewey-eyed fans, but don't just yet start planning yer Super Bowl party with banners that proclaim we are better than the 49ers, Green Bay, the Cards or Washington in the NFC or KC or 5 other AFC teams.

An almost-there D wont do it.

Hollah and brings me a dollah!

Simp.

We lost the division that was there for the taking without our starting qb and half of our oline and defense.

We get those players back plus a new dcord plus fa and draft picks.

Win the division and you're in.

We can do that.

 

[ABQCOWBOY]

A slightly better D is what, exactly? The Cowboys were like 28th in the NFL last year. So what qualifies as "Slightly"?

Is that 20th or what is that? If it is, that means that we are giving up just over 26 points a game. But last year, we only averaged 24.7 points per contest scored so how does that get you to the playoffs? If you say we will be better because Dak will be back, well, how do you know? How do you know Dak will be back or will be available the entire year or will be better? It's possible that they might be able to improve upon last years performance but how much better? If they match 2019 output, that means that they are scoring just over a point more then they are giving up on average, at 27 plus. Does that one point, if they are able to match that league leading average, win you enough games to win the NFC?

 

[aikemirv]

To make the playoffs - all other things being equal in the NFC East - yes, that will be all it takes - slightly improved D.

All other things won't be equal more than likely though so decent D and Tackles back and Dak back would mean playoffs I think.

 

[kskboys]

Not anymore

Great passing offenses with competent defenses win championships these days. Passing efficiency offense and net difference in passing efficiency compared to your opponent are the stats that most strongly correlate with winning over the last decade.

Defensive performances have been the deciding factor in the last 3 super bowls.

 

[EndGame]

Hope for the best, me dewey-eyed fans, but don't just yet start planning yer Super Bowl party with banners that proclaim we are better than the 49ers, Green Bay, the Cards or Washington in the NFC or KC or 5 other AFC teams.

Washington? You mean the team coming off a 7-9 performance in a historically bad NFC East last year and has done nothing significant to improve its quarterback play? You mean that Washington? What about Green Bay? You mean the one that has its QB clawing to get off the team? What about the Cards? You mean the okay but only slightly above average Cards? What about the 49ers? You mean the team that took a QB at #3 that is nowhere near ready for the NFL?

 

[jazzcat22]

I wouldn't call Dak a bus driver. He's a playmaker. He's not Mahomes but he's not a bus driver. But in our division Dak and an improved D will get us to the playoffs. A healthy Dak and a defense that is not historically bad and we win the division. I think with Parsons, Diggs, Joseph and some of the FAs our defense can be average, which will be a big improvement over last year.

He lost me right after I seen "bus driver" and to the responses.

 

[jazzcat22]

If people think Dak is a bus driver, well, then he is the BEST bus driver in the NFL.

However if they think bus driver, then their thought process needs rewired.

 

[charron]

Every year is a bit different. We know that strong defenses will go a long way to making and winning in the playoffs. We also know that a really good run game can hide our bad defense.

 

[Bullflop]

I can't fault the Cowboys' staff for asserting this level of concentration on the defense, just to conclude it's insignificant. Picking seven out of eleven picks for the defense shows a heavy leaning to improve the awful defense that we fielded in 2020.

Should that be sufficient enough to be highly competitive with the likes of Tampa, LA and Kansas City? Well, that's anything but likely. It may take another 2, maybe even 3 years for us to arrive at that level of highly competitive play. That'd be an extremely proud accomplishment for this FO.

Dak is also better than a bus driver, imho. It remains to be seen if he's able to sustain what he was before his injury. Nevertheless, having a decent defense to offer him help should support our cause. In another year or two, it could actually be quite good. Maybe we'd even be a true contender, by then.

 

[ABQCOWBOY]

Washington? You mean the team coming off a 7-9 performance in a historically bad NFC East last year and has done nothing significant to improve its quarterback play? You mean that Washington? What about Green Bay? You mean the one that has its QB clawing to get off the team? What about the Cards? You mean the okay but only slightly above average Cards? What about the 49ers? You mean the team that took a QB at #3 that is nowhere near ready for the NFL?

Washington could easily be better then we are. They are much better defensively then we are, IMO. Their QB situation is much improved IMO. The Giants are going to be better simply because there QB has more experience and they have improved on both sides of the ball. GB and their QB "clawing to get off the team"? Yeah, I don't think so. That's a play for money and now he has it. Rodgers isn't going anywhere so I don't think you can point to that as getting worse. I don't understand what the Cardinals have to do with any of this but doesn't matter. The Rams are going to be better and Seattle will be tough as long as they have Wilson so the Cards are not what anybody should be concerned about in that division, in my view. The 49ers, same deal as the Cards. But has Garoppolo gone somewhere, honest question I really don't know.

 

[CouchCoach]

Your headline speaks to playoffs but your post mentions SB.

If Prescott is healthy all year in 2020, do you not think this team makes the playoffs? They missed it by one game with fill in QB's and a bad D.

They, most likely, would not have gone any further than WFT did but I think they win the East by the 14th game.

If the offense is in the ballpark of where Prescott's has had them, they will make the playoffs this season because the improvement in the NFC, across the board, is marginal.

Their D in 14 was not really good but it was opportunistic and they had the best NFC record and then again in 16 with just an barely average D.

I am neither a Dakster nor Dakater, but your understanding of a bus driver is different from mine. Prescott started off the Dale Earnhardt of bus drivers last year.

 

[Future]

To think that our Boys, with a good offence led by the Bus Driver Dak, needs only to have a slightly better D to succeed is ludicrous.

Yes, let us match up with a team with a great offence and a good D. Guess what happens.

Meanwhile, we are happy just to wish for an upgrade on D so we can compete,

I am not saying don't be optimistic, me fellow workaday fans. What I do caution against is believing that 6 defencive picks in the draft and several in FA will take us far or anywhere.

Hope for the best, me dewey-eyed fans, but don't just yet start planning yer Super Bowl party with banners that proclaim we are better than the 49ers, Green Bay, the Cards or Washington in the NFC or KC or 5 other AFC teams.

An almost-there D wont do it.

Hollah and brings me a dollah!

The problem with your whole schtick is that it really hides the fact that you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.

 

[CowboysFaninHouston]

To think that our Boys, with a good offence led by the Bus Driver Dak, needs only to have a slightly better D to succeed is ludicrous.

Yes, let us match up with a team with a great offence and a good D. Guess what happens.

Meanwhile, we are happy just to wish for an upgrade on D so we can compete,

I am not saying don't be optimistic, me fellow workaday fans. What I do caution against is believing that 6 defencive picks in the draft and several in FA will take us far or anywhere.

Hope for the best, me dewey-eyed fans, but don't just yet start planning yer Super Bowl party with banners that proclaim we are better than the 49ers, Green Bay, the Cards or Washington in the NFC or KC or 5 other AFC teams.

An almost-there D wont do it.

Hollah and brings me a dollah!

we needed another Dak thread.... fantastic...I guess you are not getting enough attention.

geez dude. take a break...