We are leaning on the OL and running game. Remember what McCarthy said? The Cowboys were 8th in the league last year and will be about the same this year if not higher.
I believe he was flagged. Not only that he wasn't a scheme fit. That's why he fell.
Ya so was TJ Watt which means he’ll be an all pro
Even in the regular season you need to look at his games in terms of strength of competition. Weaker opponents or catching a team at a time when they are bitten by the injury bug he shines. Then you hit the playoffs and eventually run into a semi-healthy 49-er team and well you saw what happened the last two seasons. Their problem is not recognizing that Dak can win against teams that are bottom of the barrel or struggling. He isn't the guy who is going to lead you against the better defenses and that makes it important to have weapons galore.
Not buying into the mirage that we all witnessed last season. Dakota "WENTZ 2.0" Prescot was on course for probably another losing season when Rush stepped in for him and saved WENTZ 2.0 from another embarrassing finish. Had WENTZ 2.0 not been injured he would have finished with a 8-9 or maybe a 9-8 season at best. The Boys found out that they could win without their over hyped & overpaid QB when Rush took the reins. Unfortunately for the Boys, when WENTZ 2.0 returned he got picked like a booger in most of the games he played in. To make matters worse, when it came to the 9er game, WENTZ 2.0 couldn't even pull his weight and show up and play JUST an average game. Nope, he couldn't even do that........ Parsons didn't hold back when they asked him why the Cowboys lost to the 9ers, he put it squarely on his QB.
That's not what Mike Martz said about Dak after reviewing his season long tape, including playoffs. You're saying you know more than Mike Martz???
At least not without an amazing defense that can score 14 points a game propping up a comatose offense.
Yeah, that's part of the importance of understanding it's a team game. Defenses can look worse if the offense can't sustain drives. We tend to understand that when we are looking at the big picture. But then we tend to not look at QBs in the context of the big picture.
Our running game was ineffective in last year's playoff game, especially after we lost Pollard. If the run game works, maybe the outcome is different. It's fair to blame Dak for his failures, and he had them in both of those games, but that doesn't mean we couldn't have won anyway if some other area of team play had come through.
Wow, I watched that and you hit that nail square on the head! Shultz was WIDE open! He would've been an EASY TD. It looked like Dak had time to find him, but simply didn't look in that direction.
'gimmesix'... just went back to watch that game. The really bad lateral play by Wilson happened in the 1st quarter, 3 minutes plus left ---- inside of the Cowboys 25-yard line. It appeared to me that it would have been a first down gain around the 30-35 yard line - but nothing further.
That was the general trend in all the losses last year. People keep blaming everyone else to protect the one guy who is supposedly the "leader" of the offense.
Mike Martz..................LOL! Dam, if you're using his knowledge as your expert opinion then you've got more issues than being a WENTZ 2.0 backer............LOL- LOL- LOL- LOL!!!!!!That's not what Mike Martz said about Dak after reviewing his season long tape, including playoffs. You're saying you know more than Mike Martz???
As for Micah Parsons, you mean you're going to take the word of a 2nd year player who had 0 sacks and only a handful of pressures BOTH TIMES in back-to-back playoffs against the very same team in the 49ers?
Talk about you being so desperate to find some kind of support to hate and blame Dak, you have to cling to a 2nd year talented player who 2 playoffs in a row has been non-existent against the very same opponent the Cowboys lost to?
Those stats are impressive, no doubt, but how many of those yards were in garbage time vs. prevent D.Most QB’s can accumulate those type of stats when you’re losing big and facing prevent type D.Where were those stats when it counted the most in the playoffs the last 2 yrs?This is funny. One doesn't know if Dak can carry the team or be more than a bus driver? What games/seasons have y'all been watching the past 7 seasons?
In 7 seasons played (it's actually 7 seasons in total due to Dak's season ending injury early in 2020, plus missing 5 games with another injury last year in 2022), Dak has passed for over 4k yards TWICE with one season being 98 yards from being a 5k passing season. Dak has passed for over 3k yards in every season except his rookie season (2016) and the early season ending leg injury in 2020. In 2020, Dak only plated for 4.25 games due to his early season ending leg injury, but he was averaging 436 yards passing/game. Do the math. During that 16 game season, Dak would have easily shattered Peyton Manning's NFL record single season record of 5,400 since Dak was on pace to pass for almost 7k yards that season. Yet, all of that is not enough to make some realize Dak is more than a bus driver?
I agree that it was a microcosm, but feel that play had a much better chance of turning into something big if Wilson had hit Pollard in stride with the lateral. There was room for him to operate and we know now how good Pollard can be with room to operate. Maybe it would have turned into nothing further, but it's really hard to judge that. If Pollard breaks loose and scores on that play, maybe some things go differently.
This was already proven how most of Dak's stats have happened during the 2nd and 3rd quarters, pretty much destroying the "garbage time" stats fallacy.
Cough, cough.....Dak's rating >2mins and trailing, plus the discrepancy, especially in the last two seasons between Dak's Rating and QBR. Now there's an argument that all QB's face the same disparity, however, checking/comparing the >2 min stats with: Allen, Stafford and even Cousins you'll find Dak's stats are dramatically inferior....it does appear the issue is clutch time. Not insurmountable, but we have to accept that Dak/We have a problem executing late on and chasing.
Yes, the foundation of both game (and why we succeeded in the Bucc's game) is the inability to run the ball (Game1 - penalties, Game 2 - Tony), but that doesnt excuse the fact that sometimes things are going to go wrong....and the ball is in the QB's hands every down. We make give reasons/excuses, but those that succeed overcome difficulties, not surrender to them.
