Twitter: Sturm doesn't want us to forget Cowboys missed playoffs because of these things from 2019

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DakPresgoat said:
Sure

Now answer this question, If the cowboys special teams actually makes one damn play or gives the cowboys offense good field position one time ever, do the cowboys possibly win those games and go to the playoffs?

remember that New England game? One of the biggest plays of the game was our special teams crapping the bed and giving up a blocked punt which led to a TD for the patriots.

If the cowboys defense doesn’t let Mitch freaking Trubisky and Josh Allen look like Steve Young out there, do the cowboys win those games and make the playoffs?

that’s my point. Apparently you aren’t getting or don’t want to get.

if you want to lay blame for the seasons overall failure on the offense, go for it. I’ll continue to expect the entire team to try and win games.

You blame the offense for being inconsistent when they had horrible starting field position all season and only started with the ball in opposing territory one time in 16 games. And then you want to blame them when they don’t score much against good defenses. Of course they Didn’t score much against good defenses when they had to drive the ball 80 yards every time they got it. Good defenses don’t give up 80 yard TD drives very often.
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Go through each loss last year and you can see which unit underperformed and was responsible for the loss.

Why it is so hard to watch a game and not be able to break it down.

The excuses are amazing. In the 8 wins the offense had no trouble, averaging 37 points. But in the 8 losses they averaged 17 points. Is this not the most inconsistent offense in the NFL?

In the 8 wins the offense could score from anywhere. But in the losses it was the defense and special teams that did not help, they were team losses, or better yet, coaching.
 
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12+88=7 said:
Go through each loss last year and you can see which unit underperformed and was responsible for the loss.

Why it is so hard to watch a game and not be able to break it down.

The excuses are amazing. In the 8 wins the offense had no trouble, averaging 37 points. But in the 8 losses they averaged 17 points. Is this not the most inconsistent offense in the NFL?

In the 8 wins the offense could score from anywhere. But in the losses it was the defense and special teams that did not help, they were team losses, or better yet, coaching.
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Amazing isn't it, in the wins the offense carried the team in the losses the rest of the team let down the offense!
 
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Northern_Cowboy said:
You wouldn't be talking about these 3 losses would you

NO 12 Dallas 10
NE 13 Dallas 9
Philly 17 Dallas 9....biggest game of the season
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Those were huge games. Im sure the offense would like to have those games back........and to be fair there are games the D and ST's would like to have back but nobody on those 2 units are demanding reportedly 35-40 Million per year
 
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WoodysGirl said:
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here is what I see on twitter posts, which is why I dont like them or their image format.
and no one ever types out what was said.
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shabazz said:
Those were huge games. Im sure the offense would like to have those games back........and to be fair there are games the D and ST's would like to have back but nobody on those 2 units are demanding reportedly 35-40 Million per year
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Exactly
 
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12+88=7 said:
Go through each loss last year and you can see which unit underperformed and was responsible for the loss.

Why it is so hard to watch a game and not be able to break it down.

The excuses are amazing. In the 8 wins the offense had no trouble, averaging 37 points. But in the 8 losses they averaged 17 points. Is this not the most inconsistent offense in the NFL?

In the 8 wins the offense could score from anywhere. But in the losses it was the defense and special teams that did not help, they were team losses, or better yet, coaching.
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I have watched every game. Why is it hard for you to watch the games and NOT see the special teams being absolutely abhorrent? I mean it was clear as day that special teams was problematic in every single game last season.

Why weren’t you able to see the lack of turnovers?

Again I have said in my posts that the offense is to blame also. I’m simply stating that blaming just the offense for not making the playoffs is nonsense. It’s not a difficult concept to grasp. I’m saying the entire team failed to make the playoffs last year, because the reality is, the entire team did.


And I’ve already explained the points per game. You can’t expect an offense to put up a lot of points against good defenses, when their starting field position sucks and the defense and special teams don’t give them any short fields.


There were also games where the defense did get some turnovers and then it allowed the offense to put up a lot of points.

Football teams are symbiotic. It’s not hard to understand.
 
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All 3 phases **** the bed at the "wrong" time this past year. One half the defense would be awol, another half the offense vanished leading the the D to be gassed. Other times Maher/Jones/tackling would be poor on STs.

It was an overall failure in each phase during some games that cost this team victories.

Dak had bad games, so did Cooper, Zeke, smith, Martin, Frederick, Law, LVE, Smith, Awuzie, Maher, among handful more.
Weird coaching decisions also hurt this team. Either with trusting Maher too much, or getting away from what worked offensively, and the drama among the defensive coaches sure didn't help.

Maybe guys ate the cheese after the 3-0 start and thought they could just coast/show up here and there and get wins.

Only our lord and savior Jeff Heath played at a GOAT level. /s
 
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I have watched every game. Why is it hard for you to watch the games and NOT see the special teams being absolutely abhorrent? I mean it was clear as day that special teams was problematic in every single game last season.

Why weren’t you able to see the lack of turnovers.

Again I have said in my posts that the offense is to blame also. I’m simply stating that blaming just the offense for not making the playoffs is nonsense. It’s not a difficult concept to grasp. I’m saying the entire team failed to make the playoffs last year, because the reality is, the entire team did.


And I’ve already explained the points per game. You can’t expect an offense to put up a lot of points against good defenses, when their starting field position sucks and the defense and special teams don’t give them any short fields.


There were also games where the defense did get some turnovers and then it allowed the offense to put up a lot of points.

Football teams are symbiotic. It’s not hard to understand.
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The Dallas special teams were the worst in the NFL, absolutely.

But when the opposition scores 17 points or less, it's usually about the offense and not about the plays special teams or the defense didn't make.
 
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DakPresgoat said:
I have watched every game. Why is it hard for you to watch the games and NOT see the special teams being absolutely abhorrent? I mean it was clear as day that special teams was problematic in every single game last season.

Why weren’t you able to see the lack of turnovers?

Again I have said in my posts that the offense is to blame also. I’m simply stating that blaming just the offense for not making the playoffs is nonsense. It’s not a difficult concept to grasp. I’m saying the entire team failed to make the playoffs last year, because the reality is, the entire team did.


And I’ve already explained the points per game. You can’t expect an offense to put up a lot of points against good defenses, when their starting field position sucks and the defense and special teams don’t give them any short fields.


There were also games where the defense did get some turnovers and then it allowed the offense to put up a lot of points.

Football teams are symbiotic. It’s not hard to understand.
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The Cowboys were 20th in the league in average starting field position in 2019 with their average starting position being the 27.9 yard line, we were also 19th in points scored per drive, the team starting with the 12 best field postion was the dolphins starting at the 29.4 yard line they were 27th in points scored per drive, the Buffalo Bills were 10th in starting field position starting at the 29.7 yard line, they were 30th in the league in points per drive you are putting more emphasis on a point that really doesn't deserve it. Arizona cardinals also had better average starting field position than us but finished 32nd in the league in points per drive, same with Washington and the Vikings. Our offensive let downs had nothing to do with our starting field position. We just weren't as good an offense as alot think, we took advantage of some terrible teams early on and some easy 4th quarter stats in games were already out of and were exposed against some of the better teams in the league

https://www.reddit.com/r/nfl/comments/amjnxs/data_average_starting_field_position_vs_points/
 
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lets add thats 2 of three season with no playoffs, lest stop living in 2016..

So remind the 3 players who feel they all of a sudden are self anointing themselves a crown OF top tier elite talent deserving of ridiculous contract demands that THEY DID NOTHING TO HELP THE DC TO WIN ONE MORE GAME NEEDED TO MAKE THE PLAYOFFS DOWN THE STRETCH..

team full of selfish players who feel they have arrived because of one good season..
 
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we should have kept our OL coach. MCol was doing an excellent job.

the OL coach before Colombo, a disaster. Didn’t even finish the season.

why did they fix what wasn’t broken?

so MM could hire his old buddy.
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I didn't mind MC, but I guess MM wanted someone he is Moore familiar with that has much more experience in his blocking schemes for the offense.
 
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really depends on your agenda who you blame. There is plenty of blame to go around. Dak and the offense struggled in some of the losses for sure. If you don't want Dak to get paid then that scenario fits your agenda perfectly.Anyone who follows this team for many years knows all too well that the defense has been an issue for far too long. No Dak didn't carry the team when the team needed him to I agree. He didn't carry them in NO when Zeke and Witten had costly fumbles. he didnt carry them against the Jets when the officials had 2 phantom OL calls and we were missing our starters on both ends. He didn't carry them in Philly when everything was on the line and your star receiver decides he needs to be on the sideline. He couldn't carry the team when the FG kicker and the special teams kept putting them in a hole

and most of all he like his predecessor could not overcome the putrid coaching staff that is now gone. Dak is the least of our problems.
 
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really depends on your agenda who you blame. There is plenty of blame to go around. Dak and the offense struggled in some of the losses for sure. If you don't want Dak to get paid then that scenario fits your agenda perfectly.Anyone who follows this team for many years knows all too well that the defense has been an issue for far too long. No Dak didn't carry the team when the team needed him to I agree. He didn't carry them in NO when Zeke and Witten had costly fumbles. he didnt carry them against the Jets when the officials had 2 phantom OL calls and we were missing our starters on both ends. He didn't carry them in Philly when everything was on the line and your star receiver decides he needs to be on the sideline. He couldn't carry the team when the FG kicker and the special teams kept putting them in a hole

and most of all he like his predecessor could not overcome the putrid coaching staff that is now gone. Dak is the least of our problems.
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During this whole thread no players names have been mentioned, only blame has been placed on units or coaching.

YOU now have an agenda and have come to the support of Prescott when no one said he was to blame.

Lose the Prescott agenda and respond to the actual post made.
 
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12+88=7 said:
Just because you don't agree it doesn't make it nonsense. During this thread there are many that agree with this point of view, *******.
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Anyone who puts the blame for a win or a loss on just one unit is a dummy.
 
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