The Young Wonder Boy Offensive Genius

Fire407

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McVay comes in and immediately turns them around. Gets to a Super Bowl in his 3rd year.

And here we are with our putrid HC fist pumping about 2 wild card wins in his almost decade career as a HC. But if it makes you feel better and calling him a fad, then go for it.
He actually got the Rams to the Super Bowl in his second year.
 

JoeKing

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The young wonder boy offensive genius... is Kellen Moore. Watch out NFL, the Cowboys will conquer the world next season.
 

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McVay has done a great job but was out coached bad in the SB. He is gaining valuable experience and will learn from it. People forget that Gurley was the key to that offense early on and hasnt been the same since he was injured. They also didnt have Cooper Kupp but they made it to the SB.
Dallas without Amari Cooper wouldnt even make the playoffs.
 

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... manages a whole 3 points?

Against that vaunted NE defense?

So much for the latest fad.

You can't claim experience trumps youth based just on the fact that McVay got spanked last night. Just wait until McVay has 10-15 more seasons under his belt. I bet he'll prove that youth is far more important.
 

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He was coaching against the all time great with two weeks of preparation. Not the Garrett led Cowboys eating the cheese, expecting extensions for a wildcard win.

The all time great got torched for 41 points by Nick Foles a year ago.

Surely "genius" McVay and his "franchise QB" they traded up to get could've managed a bit more than 3.
 

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Dak's done that too....against the Rams in the playoffs. It is what it is. I'm sure Rams fans are hoping Goff will improve in the off-season just like we hope Dak will fix that accuracy issue.
Dak is light years ahead of Goff in ability to read a defense and I do not think Dak is great at reading defenses.
 

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Everything with the Rams is predicated on the run. Clearly TG wasn’t right and that hurt them.
So, he came back after a MONTH lay off due to injury against us, so whats Garrett's excuse for NOT being able to control their run game? Hell, what did Gurly have against our great vaunted defense? No, I'd put more stock in Bill took him out of the scheme with HIS version of defense and made Goff beat them, which he didn't. Just face the facts here, Garrett is a DA, and should NOT be HC of the Dallas Cowboys. I don't care that he has peon coaches assigned to whatever groups, as HC YOU have to know when to walk over and take their scalp off and ADJUST! Bill Belichek damn well does it. And with lesser play makers supposedly. I am no Pat's fan, but 9 appearance's and 6 wins is a telling story to that team. Bill is the only HC to sport 8 SB rings, Garrett, well unless he hits one out of a gumball machine won't ever know what it is to wear one. Kudos to a team who hasn't had a low draft pick in as many seasons, but yet shows up EVERY year to the big dance. And yes I place 99% of that blame right at the feet of this arrogant scotch drunken fool we have as an owner, who ain't smart enough to get out of his own damn way.
 

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How many weeks did McVay have to prepare?
The same but don't act like we all don't know Belichick is one of the best football coaches in history when it comes to preparation. I feel the same about his mentor Bill Parcells. The biggest difference is Parcells (at the end) wasn't so great at mid-game or halftime adjustments. Beliichick specializes in prep/scouting and is pretty good adjusting as well.
 

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sideline to sideline? I felt like the Rams just gashed Dallas right up the gut with their running game. No trickery... just blew Dallas off the ball.

Maybe I'm mis-remembering the game.

The Rams did gash us, yes.

They gashed us for a number of reasons, including being able to determine our defense before each snap due to an alignment tell.

But overall they were able to negate our pretty good run defense because they could easily direct our single gap down lineman and they were able to consistently beat our linebackers to the lane.

The reason their blockers were able to beat Jaylon/LVE/Lee to the running lanes is because of a lot of that movement behind the line of scrimmage (plus a slippery field, and again, McVay's offense knowing what our defense was trying to do on upwards of 90% of plays).
 

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The same but don't act like we all don't know Belichick is one of the best football coaches in history when it comes to preparation. I feel the same about his mentor Bill Parcells. The biggest difference is Parcells (at the end) wasn't so great at mid-game or halftime adjustments. Beliichick specializes in prep/scouting and is pretty good adjusting as well.

Okay, followup question. How many weeks did the Eagles' coach have to prepare last year?

I don't understand your point about weeks of preparation. Every coach gets two weeks to prepare for a Super Bowl. The Patriots have lost multiple Super Bowls before. I don't see how weeks of preparation is a valid excuse for McVay.
 

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Okay, followup question. How many weeks did the Eagles' coach have to prepare last year?

I don't understand your point about weeks of preparation. Every coach gets two weeks to prepare for a Super Bowl. The Patriots have lost multiple Super Bowls before. I don't see how weeks of preparation is a valid excuse for McVay.
It's not. He sucked in this super bowl. If he learned from it, well OK. If he didn't then he's not the genius he's been made out to be. To be seen.
 

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True but he had two weeks to prepare and did jack squat.

....and Belichick barely did anything offensively as well. I mean, this game was pretty much just one big play away from us talking about Goff and McVay being the next dynasty.

Cook makes that play in the end zone and it's an entirely different ball game.

It was simply a great defensive game, on both sides. The more experienced coach won. Not really that surprising.
 

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So, he came back after a MONTH lay off due to injury against us, so whats Garrett's excuse for NOT being able to control their run game? Hell, what did Gurly have against our great vaunted defense? No, I'd put more stock in Bill took him out of the scheme with HIS version of defense and made Goff beat them, which he didn't. Just face the facts here, Garrett is a DA, and should NOT be HC of the Dallas Cowboys. I don't care that he has peon coaches assigned to whatever groups, as HC YOU have to know when to walk over and take their scalp off and ADJUST! Bill Belichek damn well does it. And with lesser play makers supposedly. I am no Pat's fan, but 9 appearance's and 6 wins is a telling story to that team. Bill is the only HC to sport 8 SB rings, Garrett, well unless he hits one out of a gumball machine won't ever know what it is to wear one. Kudos to a team who hasn't had a low draft pick in as many seasons, but yet shows up EVERY year to the big dance. And yes I place 99% of that blame right at the feet of this arrogant scotch drunken fool we have as an owner, who ain't smart enough to get out of his own damn way.
I thought Gurley looked bad against us. He put up numbers because the holes were huge. But he wasn’t right. Anderson was nothing special either but again, huge holes. And McVay clearly thought Anderson was the better option which should tell us all we need to know about TG’s health.

As far as Dallas getting gashed. I would say it was a bad game plan, lack of adjustments, injured guys on the DL, a fatigued defense overall. We could go on and on.
 

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A pass was dropped in the endzone on the play before Goff's INT. Is the coach to blame for that as well?
Granted, Goff had a pretty terrible game, there were a few plays there where the game could have been closer & maybe even taken it into overtime.
It's not like the Pats blew them away or anything.
 
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