I usually only watch Cowboys games but other teams' players seem faster

[MysteryIceGuro]

Probably doesn’t help that this team literally eats Wingstop after practice and Popeyes, Jersey Mikes, and Smoothie King before the flights. Our team has to be one of the slowest in the league. From the QB, to the RB, to the WR, to the CB’s. Just terrible. They need to get Usain bolt in here.

 

[yimyammer]

I watched two games yesterday featuring non-Dallas teams and dude...what the hell are we DOING?

It seems like other players are faster. Not just footspeed (which they are) but their reaction time. Players get actual jumps on the ball when it's in the air, RBs EXPLODE thru the hole and get going very quickly (like Pollard does), and the safeties giddyup closing on receivers to make the tackle. Which brings me to:

Tackling. Holy Hannah, I'd forgotten what actual hitting to impose your will on other players looked like! I do not know about you guys, but I am sick and tired of seeing guys wearing the star being dragged while holding onto other players and needing 3 and 4 guys to help out to bring a single man down. Someone somewhere is not doing their job, be it the coaches, the players or both. It is bordering on inept and it is shameful. Have some pride! Sack up and hit someone, ferchrissakes!

Do any of you all agree or is it just me?

thats the vibe I get but I'm so beaten down over the last 25 years I'm afraid I'm watching through turd stained glasses and may not have the best view of things

 

[DallasInDC]

I do agree. I often say that I wish our players were as fast as the other teams players... And then. Wonder if it was my bias against my team

 

[HotDog37]

It's because the Dallas Cowboys are an horribly (and I'm being nice) coached team. They don't practice right. They don't play right (for any level). They do not have a leader at the head coaching level. They are not motivated properly to play and enjoy football. They don't hit gaps right. They do not explode off the ball. They do not tackle well at all. The culture and tone set by the owner and the head coach is not a good one. Example with the Patriots it 99% about football 1% money. They are coached up to win and they play like it. Dallas is coached like they couldn't and shouldn't win a Texas State 5A Championship. No motivation. No fear of doing it wrong (from the HC), and no fear of doing it wrong (because it's not good football).

The entire and I do mean the ENTIRE way that the Dallas Cowboys go about the business of pro football needs a drastic change. That is … if Jerry actually cares about being on top again or ever getting to a superbowl again. For 20 years we have watched an utter mess and a once great and proud professional football organization go downhill. I'm tired of a weak team that cant' hit cant tackle can't run can't get takeaways. I WANT SOME GOOD COACHING IN HERE FOR A CHANGE. It would be nice

 

[StuckMojo]

Is there anything with our strength and conditioning program that causes our players to bulk up but lose quickness?

 

[noshame]

We play at practice speed...…..really. Half the team doesn't give a damn.

 

[Hadenough]

When you watched the Dallas games, did you notice the players in the different uniforms on the other side of the ball?

In that Chicago game MIller looked quicker than any WR we have. Trubisky was easily faster than Dak. He threw the ball harder too.

 

[Hadenough]

We play at practice speed...…..really. Half the team doesn't give a damn.

I think your really onto something here.

 

[CalPolyTechnique]

I watched two games yesterday featuring non-Dallas teams and dude...what the hell are we DOING?

It seems like other players are faster. Not just footspeed (which they are) but their reaction time. Players get actual jumps on the ball when it's in the air, RBs EXPLODE thru the hole and get going very quickly (like Pollard does), and the safeties giddyup closing on receivers to make the tackle. Which brings me to:

Tackling. Holy Hannah, I'd forgotten what actual hitting to impose your will on other players looked like! I do not know about you guys, but I am sick and tired of seeing guys wearing the star being dragged while holding onto other players and needing 3 and 4 guys to help out to bring a single man down. Someone somewhere is not doing their job, be it the coaches, the players or both. It is bordering on inept and it is shameful. Have some pride! Sack up and hit someone, ferchrissakes!

Do any of you all agree or is it just me?

Sometime after his rookie year it seemed Zeke started trying to be more patient at the LOS ala Leveon Bell’s style. The problem is he doesn’t have the burst to accelerate and exploit a fast developing lane like he used to.

His foot speed (or lack thereof) should be obvious to everyone. He lacks a dynamic play-making ability. He is running at a different speed.

 

[Hadenough]

I watched two games yesterday featuring non-Dallas teams and dude...what the hell are we DOING?

It seems like other players are faster. Not just footspeed (which they are) but their reaction time. Players get actual jumps on the ball when it's in the air, RBs EXPLODE thru the hole and get going very quickly (like Pollard does), and the safeties giddyup closing on receivers to make the tackle. Which brings me to:

Tackling. Holy Hannah, I'd forgotten what actual hitting to impose your will on other players looked like! I do not know about you guys, but I am sick and tired of seeing guys wearing the star being dragged while holding onto other players and needing 3 and 4 guys to help out to bring a single man down. Someone somewhere is not doing their job, be it the coaches, the players or both. It is bordering on inept and it is shameful. Have some pride! Sack up and hit someone, ferchrissakes!

Do any of you all agree or is it just me?

I totally agree with you. The Cowboys tend to use the same players over and over again all season while other teams rotate more of their roster in and out of the game. The Cowboys tend to slow down about the 8th game of the season. One of the reasons is guys like Gallup and Cooper are getting worn down along with Zeke but Dak cant win without these guys. Dak also keeps talking about how they have to work harder and Garrett preaches working harder but maybe the players need time off from working harder.

 

[Hadenough]

Sometime after his rookie year it seemed Zeke started trying to be more patient at the LOS ala Leveon Bell’s style. The problem is he doesn’t have the burst to accelerate and exploit a fast developing lane like he used to.

His foot speed (or lack thereof) should be obvious to everyone. He lacks a dynamic play-making ability. He is running at a different speed.

How many times have we seem him hit the hole and he cant outrun anyone so he turns into the tackle instead of making it a foot race. Its times like this that you wish Dallas had a complement of RBs like the 49rs because a guy like Breida or Mostert would take it to the house or at least a 50 yd run.

 

[Tass]

I do agree. I often say that I wish our players were as fast as the other teams players... And then. Wonder if it was my bias against my team

I don't think it is. The team may have as much raw speed as other teams but they don't point that speed in the right direction in a short enough amount of time.

So speed, yes. Reaction time, no.

 

[chicago JK]

Watching the 49ers and Ravens is a shock to the system if you have watched mostly Cowboy games. The Niners just seem faster, the holes bigger, the players more physical.

I live outside Baltimore so I know the team ok, but they have guys who just fill spots when players leave, players get hurt, or when guys get a chance who just look much better than our reserves. They may lack the sizzle of a lot of our high paid guys, but the type of Raven player is always consistent. Usually tough and nasty. Their defense end Judon is a perfect example. 5th round pick who has turned into a really good player. The Ravens appear to have guys like that every year.

 

[MysteryIceGuro]

Watching the 49ers and Ravens is a shock to the system if you have watched mostly Cowboy games. The Niners just seem faster, the holes bigger, the players more physical.

I live outside Baltimore so I know the team ok, but they have guys who just fill spots when players leave, players get hurt, or when guys get a chance who just look much better than our reserves. They may lack the sizzle of a lot of our high paid guys, but the type of Raven player is always consistent. Usually tough and nasty. Their defense end Judon is a perfect example. 5th round pick who has turned into a really good player. The Ravens appear to have guys like that every year.

Because they are properly coached. Also, Baltimore nor SF have a country club culture that treats their players like celebrities. What a joke .

 

[Proof]

I 100% agree with you which is why I also say that this teams “talent” is extremely over rated. There are some things that just aren’t coachable or shouldn’t have to be coached at this point in a players career and several of our players fall under that category.

you're confusing talent with execution. the talent is clearly there, and has shown previously. they've just completely fallen off the rails. there's a reason 50% of the nfl fandom despises the boys, and yet they were still universally lauded coming into the season

 

[Creeper]

Tackling is about technique. The Cowboys DBs, for the most part, all tackle high like at the shoulders. So does Jaylon Smith a lot of times. Poor technique leads to missed tackles. The Cowboys have terrible technique.

I have also noticed the lack of speed on the part of the Cowboys. Dak looks slow. Zeke looks slow. Even Cooper looks slow. Witten is slow. Our safeties are terrible and one of the reason why is that do not have good football instincts. Their range is limited. Notice how on deep passes out safeties are almost always nowhere in sight. They are about 5 yards late getting to the play. Its another reason they do not intercept many passes. They are not in position to pick off those errant deep balls.

I think the tackling problems can be corrected but drilling them on techniques and demanding it in the film rooms. I wonder when they watch film if the defensive coaches are calling them out over those missed tackles. And if they do, then why are they still so bad at tackling?

 

[MysteryIceGuro]

Tackling is about technique. The Cowboys DBs, for the most part, all tackle high like at the shoulders. So does Jaylon Smith a lot of times. Poor technique leads to missed tackles. The Cowboys have terrible technique.

I have also noticed the lack of speed on the part of the Cowboys. Dak looks slow. Zeke looks slow. Even Cooper looks slow. Witten is slow. Our safeties are terrible and one of the reason why is that do not have good football instincts. Their range is limited. Notice how on deep passes out safeties are almost always nowhere in sight. They are about 5 yards late getting to the play. Its another reason they do not intercept many passes. They are not in position to pick off those errant deep balls.

I think the tackling problems can be corrected but drilling them on techniques and demanding it in the film rooms. I wonder when they watch film if the defensive coaches are calling them out over those missed tackles. And if they do, then why are they still so bad at tackling?

I think a lot of our players put on weight in the offseason...I'm not joking. This team has to be the slowest in the league. We need to bring in U. Bolt to teach these players how to utilize speed because this team will literally go no where if they are as slow as they are now. That's why a new HC will not change as much as we'd like. This team has bad techniques.

 

[erod]

This team was drafted and built on speed, especially on defense.

They are fast.

But they're just going through the motions these days.

 

[Manster_Mash]

This talent is way overrated, as is the drafting. Our coaches are terrible, yes, but good players will always flash and 'wow' us with an occasional play, even if schemes suck. Fact of the matter is that except for Cooper and Gallup, I haven't seen another single player flash on this team this year. Not once in 13 games.

I remarked here after the niners and ravens game several weeks ago about the stark contrast of those teams when compared to ours. The simple truth is that we are much closer to the Bengals than we are to the top teams. Something that is likely to be highlighted this coming week against the Rams. Maybe, then, the homers will finally get a dose of reality.

 

[CWR]

Its because they know their assignments and are able to simply react.

We have supposedly dumbed it down and simplified as much as humanly possible and we still dont recognize and react.

Im hard pressed to believe all of our players are stupid. They arent coached to the point of being prepared.

Its obvious to see when Zeke and the FB both dont know their routes on critical 4th down plays. Its also obvious to see when Tavon is calling for a fair catch with 20 yards of field in front of him.

Our team is slow and lacks confidence, in large because the scheme doesn't work and they aren't being prepared.

Dont roast me thinking that I dont place blame on the players as well. Missed tackles, drops, poor decisions and loafing are on the players. Its reached the point of snow balling and the lack of preparation and poor scheme are feeding into more and more mistakes by the players.