CFZ I want this team to greatly reduce its penalties

Reverend Conehead

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Repeat -- is not something a team should want for leading the league in penalties. This team had better have a quality plan in place for reducing its amount of penalties. The Cowboys didn't just have a lot of penalties. They lead the @#$%ing league in them! No team is ever devoid of penalties. The game is too complex for that. However, one of this team's goals should be to be in the bottom 20% of penalized teams. It's totally unacceptable for a team to be in the top-ten most penalized, but to be #1 is absurd.

I understand the Tyson Smith draft pick is all about strengthening our O-line so that this team can have a quality running game and can protect our quarterback when we pass. However, I have some concern over this player's problem with penalties.

If this team leads the league again in penalties, and Tyson Smith is a significant part of that, I'm going to be extremely peeved. On the other hand, if the team gets its penalties way down, and Smith plays great, not making too many penalties, then I'm good.

I want an offense that can chew up the clock with a high quality running game that makes few penalties. The team overall should be in the bottom 20% of penalties. Let some other team have the dubious distinction of most penalized in the league.
 

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Repeat -- is not something a team should want for leading the league in penalties. This team had better have a quality plan in place for reducing its amount of penalties. The Cowboys didn't just have a lot of penalties. They lead the @#$%ing league in them! No team is ever devoid of penalties. The game is too complex for that. However, one of this team's goals should be to be in the bottom 20% of penalized teams. It's totally unacceptable for a team to be in the top-ten most penalized, but to be #1 is absurd.

I understand the Tyson Smith draft pick is all about strengthening our O-line so that this team can have a quality running game and can protect our quarterback when we pass. However, I have some concern over this player's problem with penalties.

If this team leads the league again in penalties, and Tyson Smith is a significant part of that, I'm going to be extremely peeved. On the other hand, if the team gets its penalties way down, and Smith plays great, not making too many penalties, then I'm good.

I want an offense that can chew up the clock with a high quality running game that makes few penalties. The team overall should be in the bottom 20% of penalties. Let some other team have the dubious distinction of most penalized in the league.
Who's Tyson Smith?
 

KJJ

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We just drafted a player that according to Mel Kiper grabs a lot and is a penalty waiting to happen. His penalty issues came up during the Cowboys post draft press conference. McCarthy tried to blow it off as not a concern. Not sure using our first pick on a player that’s known for grabbing and hooking is a good way to reduce penalties.
 

Grenic

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Maybe we can finally be number one in something lol
 

Typhus

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the only way to get that boy to stop getting caught is to put a Patriots, Packers, or Steelers uniform on him

short of that, I just don’t know
Wouldnt matter either way.
WM could have graded higher on his board the least penalized OL available, but once you dawn the star, your getting hit with flag, Irregardless.
Now is that bias officials, bad coaching, one of the other or both?
Betting its a bit of both.
 

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I watch a borderline-unhealthy amount of NFL football on Sundays in the fall.

I don’t buy for one second that we got a fair shake from the refs last year, and that the penalties were simply our own doing.

“The Cowboys aren’t disciplined”, they’d have you believe.

The entire sport of football is all about discipline. It takes discipline for all 11 guys on offense, defense or ST to be on the same page and execute.

We were “disciplined“ enough to be the #1 offense in terms of both yards and points.

We were “disciplined” enough to be #1 in takeaways.

Yet somehow, these same groups of players were SO WILDLY UNDISCIPLINED when it came to penalties???

Even though McCarthy’s Packers teams were routinely among the LEAST penalized teams in football???

Yeah, sell that garbage to someone else. It’s not “discipline”, we just got hosed.

Compare what they called OPI for vs Michael Gallup in our 2020 opener.... vs what they DIDN’T call OPI for vs Chris Godwin in our 2021 opener.

Game-deciding calls in both cases, and in both cases we get screwed. Not a coincidence.
 

Praxit

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..well, we axed 2 blunder penalty players.( OL )

So we should significantly see improvement this year.
 

CowboysFaninHouston

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Repeat -- is not something a team should want for leading the league in penalties. This team had better have a quality plan in place for reducing its amount of penalties. The Cowboys didn't just have a lot of penalties. They lead the @#$%ing league in them! No team is ever devoid of penalties. The game is too complex for that. However, one of this team's goals should be to be in the bottom 20% of penalized teams. It's totally unacceptable for a team to be in the top-ten most penalized, but to be #1 is absurd.

I understand the Tyson Smith draft pick is all about strengthening our O-line so that this team can have a quality running game and can protect our quarterback when we pass. However, I have some concern over this player's problem with penalties.

If this team leads the league again in penalties, and Tyson Smith is a significant part of that, I'm going to be extremely peeved. On the other hand, if the team gets its penalties way down, and Smith plays great, not making too many penalties, then I'm good.

I want an offense that can chew up the clock with a high quality running game that makes few penalties. The team overall should be in the bottom 20% of penalties. Let some other team have the dubious distinction of most penalized in the league.
well, we might just have to wait another year or two....we just drafted a penalty machine in the first round
 
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