I think the D was beat up. Lawrence, Collins, Crawford, Woods, LVE, Brown, were all well below 100% and LA was coming off a bye. The offense was beat up too. I think what we saw Saturday night was what happens when you dig a 3-5 hole and basically have to win out in order to take the division. Plus this team essentially had to take every game during that stretch right down to the wire when they should have put many of those games away much earlier.
Bottom line, there’s a reason most of the team the 1’s and 2’s make it to conference championship weekend. What happens in the reg season is just so critical. Dallas is stuck in a bad spot of not getting a top 2 seed, yet having to play a first place schedule where they will see NO and LA next year no matter what. So odds are they won’t get a 1 or 2 seed next year and probably won’t make the playoffs either if history is any indication.
Completely agree.
It's easy to criticise the defense but every team that played during the first week of the post season struggled at some point this weekend - the Colts and Cowboys looked drained, the Chargers were just embarrassing and the Eagles played well and took advantage of the Saints being off their game in the first half only to tire and look drained in the second half which was in line with the other teams that played the week before.
The guys playing are not robots.
I do also agree with the other post that the play calling on offense was again poor and I HATE playing zone defense. Our cornerbacks are good enough for us to play man.
I still have hope for next season. We will surely draft a safety or a tight end in the second round.
We will need an elite offense to win with Prescott though and that's the concern going forwards. Prescott played as well as he can in his own style but I just don't like it! It has nothing to do with #9 more that I remain unconvinced that it can win us a Superbowl which is all I care about.
Against the Rams we were 1/10 on third down, the quarterback down.
Elliott rushed for 47 yards from 20 carries so the Rams went all out to stop our running game - there must have been countless opportunities to punish them through the air...yet we only put up 14 points until what was effectively a garbage time TD late on in which the Rams were pretty happy to give up as it chewed up the clock.
Prescott threw a lovely ball to Gallup for the TD (also a tremendous catch) but a lot of the throws he completed were to receivers who were completely wide open. He missed some important, fairly regulation throws and was fortunate to avoid a pick six on a poor throw. Further, I still question his ability to throw the ball to receivers who are not already open. But he does have his strengths, his wheels, durability and he is pretty solid with his easy throws. At times he gets away with turning the ball over but he is generally good in that regard as well.
Whereas whilst Goff didn't have amazing numbers (he didn't need to as the running game worked wonders for them) he threw several excellent balls into tight windows and moved the chains with clutch third down throws and even had the token rushing play on third down to ice the game.
I will be accused of being a Dak hater etc but just stating what I saw and I do appreciate it's a case of who else is out there...if it was me I would go for Joe Flacco. He gets a lot of criticism but I genuinely think he would give us a better chance of winning a Superbowl, especially as he is fantastic in the post season and would punish teams that load the box through the air.
It was a good season but disappointing to a certain extent as I think we have a pretty loaded roster. Hopefully the O-Line can get healthy for the start of next season.
