Cowboys Lead The League In Penalties

[Buzzbait]

The Cowboys were the most penalized team in the league with 127 penalties in 2021. We had 14 penalties twice this year.
In the SF game we were flagged 14 times for 89 yards. Seven of those 14 were against the offense. Those 7 penalties wiped out 53 yards of gains. 89 + 53 = 142 yards lost to penalties against SF.

I didn’t count how many drives were killed by penalties in the SF game, but it was too many. It’d be interesting if one could convert the loss of those 142 yards into points lost as a result of penalties.
Some teams typically get more penalties and some teams tend to get less. Obviously the biggest difference is coaching and discipline.

Where was Kellen Moore? He doesn’t control the defense of course, but he’s in full charge of the offense. How did we become the league’s leader in penalties without KM taking notice? Or if he did take notice, then he failed to gain control of the issue.
Is that acceptable?

 

[black label]

they lead the nfl in bad qb contracts too rofl

 

[America's Cowboy]

they lead the nfl in bad qb contracts too rofl

 

[America's Cowboy]

The Cowboys were the most penalized team in the league with 127 penalties in 2021. We had 14 penalties twice this year.
In the SF game we were flagged 14 times for 89 yards. Seven of those 14 were against the offense. Those 7 penalties wiped out 53 yards of gains. 89 + 53 = 142 yards lost to penalties against SF.

I didn’t count how many drives were killed by penalties in the SF game, but it was too many. It’d be interesting if one could convert the loss of those 142 yards into points lost as a result of penalties.
Some teams typically get more penalties and some teams tend to get less. Obviously the biggest difference is coaching and discipline.

Where was Kellen Moore? He doesn’t control the defense of course, but he’s in full charge of the offense. How did we become the league’s leader in penalties without KM taking notice? Or if he did take notice, then he failed to gain control of the issue.
Is that acceptable?

I bet a majority of those penalties were committed by our Oline.

Surprised no one is calling out our Oline coach.

 

[nobody]

To be fair, it is a bad QB contract. So was Romo's 100 million one at the time. The Cowboys excel at bad contracts.

I bet a majority of those penalties were committed by our Oline.

Surprised no one is calling out our Oline coach.

Lots of people are calling out the O-line coach. He needs to be fired...but also these players need to be hit upside the head and have their jobs threatened because they keep making the same bonehead mistakes. Mostly, Pre-snap penalties are on the players and lack of focus. They're adults. They should put on their big boy pants and do their jobs.

A new coach, same O-line and you're still going to have those penalties because Jerry doesn't let the coaches bring the hammer down on these soft players.

 

[Haimerej]

Hope they can get that fixed. Could bite them come playoff time.

 

[Buzzbait]

Lots of people are calling out the O-line coach. He needs to be fired...but also these players need to be hit upside the head and have their jobs threatened because they keep making the same bonehead mistakes. Mostly, Pre-snap penalties are on the players and lack of focus. They're adults. They should put on their big boy pants and do their jobs.
A new coach, same O-line and you're still going to have those penalties because Jerry doesn't let the coaches bring the hammer down on these soft players.

Right on DM, I think a lot of it starts right there. Like you said, coaches can't bring the hammer down because of Jerry.

 

[exciter]

I bet a majority of those penalties were committed by our Oline.

Surprised no one is calling out our Oline coach.

4 OL, 2 wr, 1 on goofy after fake punt, 7 on defense!

 

[Blackrain]

Teams with good coaches like the Patriots the buccaneers the Steelers The Ravens have roughly 30 less penalties than we do.

Some other good coaches around the league seem to be able to stress keeping the penalties down not sure why our coach lets these players get away with this with no accountability

 

[CowboyoWales]

The Cowboys were the most penalized team in the league with 127 penalties in 2021. We had 14 penalties twice this year.
In the SF game we were flagged 14 times for 89 yards. Seven of those 14 were against the offense. Those 7 penalties wiped out 53 yards of gains. 89 + 53 = 142 yards lost to penalties against SF.

I didn’t count how many drives were killed by penalties in the SF game, but it was too many. It’d be interesting if one could convert the loss of those 142 yards into points lost as a result of penalties.
Some teams typically get more penalties and some teams tend to get less. Obviously the biggest difference is coaching and discipline.

Where was Kellen Moore? He doesn’t control the defense of course, but he’s in full charge of the offense. How did we become the league’s leader in penalties without KM taking notice? Or if he did take notice, then he failed to gain control of the issue.
Is that acceptable?

At some point you have to blame the personnel on the field.....we have Connor Williams most holds in the league, so who do we replace him with....McGovern?

Biadasz, Collins and Steele (even Smith) all appear in the upper levels. One weak element of the line is bad enough as it pressures the rest of the unit.

We are weak at LG (targeted by the league), who's relied upon to give assistance, Biadasz, who is a work in progress at best and can struggle on one on one at C let alone assist.

A unit is only as good as the weakest link, when we have a number of weaknesses what do you expect?

I would remove KM, but the reason being is that he can't devise a game plan/plays that suits Dak and his more limited abilities. That I would blame on him.

 

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At some point you have to blame the personnel on the field.....we have Connor Williams most holds in the league, so who do we replace him with....McGovern? Biadasz, Collins and Steele (even Smith) all appear in the upper levels. One weak element of the line is bad enough as it pressures the rest of the unit. We are weak at LG (targeted by the league), who's relied upon to give assistance, Biadasz, who is a work in progress at best and can struggle on one on one at C let alone assist. A unit is only as good as the weakest link, when we have a number of weaknesses what do you expect?
I would remove KM, but the reason being is that he can't devise a game plan/plays that suits Dak and his more limited abilities. That I would blame on him.

I agree, Williams is the weakest link. I'd move Collins to LG and Steele to RT. That would make Biadasz the new weakest link. I'd be looking for an upgrade to C.
Remember when Collins played LG for the Cowboys? He was a powerhouse at LG.
Leaving Williams at LG was and is stupid of the Cowboys.

 

[Bob-Lillys-War]

Kellen has no control in the offense, because nobody respects him . Nobody cares, . his trash playbook speaks for itself .

 

[gimmesix]

I bet a majority of those penalties were committed by our Oline.

Surprised no one is calling out our Oline coach.

And most of the ones on the offensive line were against Williams, who thankfully will not be here next year. This was definitely his worst year since he compounded his problems by committing all the holding penalties. I was hopeful he might be on his way to being serviceable after his second season, but he made no progress from there and actually went backward (in so many ways).

 

[gimmesix]

I agree, Williams is the weakest link. I'd move Collins to LG and Steele to RT. That would make Biadasz the new weakest link. I'd be looking for an upgrade to C.
Remember when Collins played LG for the Cowboys? He was a powerhouse at LG.
Leaving Williams at LG was and is stupid of the Cowboys.

I think this needs to be the plan for next year. I don't remember Collins being a powerhouse at left guard, but he's developed as a player since then and I think he can definitely be an upgrade over what we saw this year from Williams and McGovern.

If we're not going to move Collins, then we need to get a legit guard to be the starter.

 

[gimmesix]

Hopefully, Ball and Farniok will develop, but I don't think we can count on either yet. Be nice if Farniok could challenge Biadasz for the center job and Ball at least becomes an adequate backup, especially if we elevate Steele to starter.

 

[big dog cowboy]

Kellen has no control in the offense, because nobody respects him . Nobody cares, . his trash playbook speaks for itself .

Agreed. How the hell did they have the #1 scoring offense again?

 

[BAT]

The head coach matters.

Penalties, discipline, accountability are HIS responsibilities.

And most of the penalties are coming from the DL and OL, especially OL.

That would be on MM's boy, Philbin.

The Cowboys were the most penalized team in the league with 127 penalties in 2021. We had 14 penalties twice this year.
In the SF game we were flagged 14 times for 89 yards. Seven of those 14 were against the offense. Those 7 penalties wiped out 53 yards of gains. 89 + 53 = 142 yards lost to penalties against SF.

I didn’t count how many drives were killed by penalties in the SF game, but it was too many. It’d be interesting if one could convert the loss of those 142 yards into points lost as a result of penalties.
Some teams typically get more penalties and some teams tend to get less. Obviously the biggest difference is coaching and discipline.

Where was Kellen Moore? He doesn’t control the defense of course, but he’s in full charge of the offense. How did we become the league’s leader in penalties without KM taking notice? Or if he did take notice, then he failed to gain control of the issue.
Is that acceptable?

 

[Bob-Lillys-War]

Agreed. How the hell did they have the #1 scoring offense again?

Did you see we played the NFCE teams twice this season ?

 

[Dre11]

Teams with good coaches like the Patriots the buccaneers the Steelers The Ravens have roughly 30 less penalties than we do.

Some other good coaches around the league seem to be able to stress keeping the penalties down not sure why our coach lets these players get away with this with no accountability

Penalties fluctuate year to year, even perceived good coaches team have high penalties, 2019 Tampa lead the league with 133 which was more than the 127 we had this year, Payton team had 120 in 2019 even Belichek had a team in the top 5 in penalties with 120 one year so are we adding Belichek to the list?
Last season we 96 which put us behind Baltimore,New Orleans,and Kansas City


Buffalo only had 14 less, Kansas city 16 less, Pittsburg 21

Last season Tampa had only 12 less, Pittsburgh, 15

 

[KJJ]

they lead the nfl in bad qb contracts too rofl

The topic has nothing to do with the QB. Some of you just can’t help yourselves.