Field position wasn't the problem of the defense. Offenses had no problem going 90 yards on our defense. It didn't matter where the field position was at for the defense. THey were getting scored on. You can pretend to be naive to that to ttry and make a point that Dak is a problem but its a point falling on deaf ears.
And for the record i'm one of the people that thought the team was a issue collectively. From the top to the bottom. SO if you want to run with the narrative that the offense held this team back then go with it but its not entirely true. No one aspect of this game caused this team to struggle last year.
yes but particularly this game cant be blamed on the defense
lets recap Dak INT on our side of the field led to a TD , then next possession a fumble inside the phreaking 10yard line ours led to 7 points, after that next possession punt so while the game was tight nearly a tie the entire first half until, those 3 possessions did what? put us down by 15 thats what..
add the ST missed XP. after one score then the offense misses a 2pnt conversion
lets add that up
a missed 16-17 points all on offense and ST
add in false starts, zeke dropped few passes some hard ones but still...
so we scored 31 an lost by one score..well would the offense had needed more then 31 if they had not been the root cause of the loss..
this is just one but there are more where the defense is blamed for given up 28-31 points game and OMG if only they held the score down the offense wouldn't have needed to get over 30..welp the offense is one of the issue last season in needing those plus 30 games..
and yes Dak was part of some of them..
while zeke is fried essentially for two bad games where he had lost those 4 fumbles b2b this game and other Daks off the hook..
thats the point.
last year mostly blamed the defense , keep heralding Daks stats pre injury but really it was just a bad team that led to 6-10 and all of the players and coaches contributed to it..
we know it mostly was Injury yet Zeke and the defense get the most hate..yet we need reminder dak and that offense made plenty of their own mistakes..
we win this game without daks mistakes..would have been big for the divisions not that it matters but this is just one example..