Twitter: Sturm: Cowboys rank 4th in turnovers

rnr_honeybadger · Sep 30, 2020

Hawkeye0202 said:
True.......if I'm not mistaken, 4 are directly charged to Dak but only 2 were actually bad plays. The fumble and hail mary pass last week are flukes as stated. In fact, the initial interception was his first in over 200+ plays.

He likely would have had 2 interceptions if the CB wasn't so surprised that a QB would throw the ball directly at him. Probably why he fell down or maybe he is like that dog on Youtube that has seizures and passes out every time he gets excited.

Hawkeye0202 · Sep 30, 2020

rnr_honeybadger said:
He likely would have had 2 interceptions if the CB wasn't so surprised that a QB would throw the ball directly at him. Probably why he fell down or maybe he is like that dog on Youtube that has seizures and passes out every time he gets excited.

This word can do a lot of damage ......on either side (lol).

LACowboysFan1 · Sep 30, 2020

Hawkeye0202 said:
True.......if I'm not mistaken, 4 are directly charged to Dak but only 2 were actually bad plays. The fumble and hail mary pass last week are flukes as stated. In fact, the initial interception was his first in over 200+ plays.

Yep, get a lead late in the game and there won't be desperation throws and having to hold the ball so long to make a long pass play...

CouchCoach · Sep 30, 2020

Actually, they're tied for 3rd and the East with no Beast has 3 of the top 4. This makes up for those crappy power rankings.

fansince68 · Sep 30, 2020

fivetwos said:
Its amazing how something like the Pollard play may never happen again in his career, yet it was enough to probably alter the outcome of that game.

That's why analysis is almost pointless.

It comes down to who can make the least amount of mistakes.

Unfortunately I dont ever see us cleaning that up. They have been a sloppy, shoot themselves in the foot team for a very long time.

Inho, Pollard brings kicks out if the endzone habitually. Problem is; he is not good at returning kick offs.

12+88=7 · Sep 30, 2020

I love how it's the defense fault and special teams fault, but the offense has 6 turnovers and a safety, but they are absolved from any blame. Nothing to see here.

EVERY unit is underperforming.

JReed1000 · Sep 30, 2020

We fumbled 4 times in 1 freaking quarter....it’s a bad stat but this team is not a turnover machine. It can be fixed.

LACowboysFan1 · Sep 30, 2020

fansince68 said:
Inho, Pollard brings kicks out if the endzone habitually. Problem is; he is not good at returning kick offs.

With the rules changes of the past few years, for the life of me I fail to see why teams EVER run out kickoffs. Through 3 games, there have been exactly ONE kickoff returned for a td.
(And ZERO punt returns for a td).

Only 26 runbacks have gone for more than the 25 yards you get for taking a knee. 14 more have gone for at most to the 35. Doing runbacks risks turnovers, injuries and less than 25 yard returns. Just not worth it.

Runwildboys · Sep 30, 2020

Hawkeye0202 said:
Won't win many games unless we clean this up, which I expect. Notice every NFCE team on the list (lol)

Most of ours were from a freak first quarter against Atlanta, so I'm not real worried about it continuing, but it would be nice to invert the ratio.

erod · Sep 30, 2020

Typical Sturm. The game with all the turnovers was the game Dallas actually won, but he doesn't look that deep.

Turnovers do not tell the story of this season at all. 3rd down and red zone efficiency does.

quickccc · Sep 30, 2020

we're committing turnovers on offense .... .and we certainly cannot force turnovers on defense .

Defense may end up being Monte Kiffin like. I don't always buy into the No offseason excuse, as it's about coaching adjusting on the move, simplify
schemes and matters to lessen burden of learning a complex system on the run .

Creeper · Sep 30, 2020

It's not a large sample size but the Cowboys have 3 turnovers in each of the last 2 games. You can slice and dice it anyway you want but that needs to get cleaned up.

Hawkeye0202 · Sep 30, 2020

Chuck 54 · Sep 30, 2020

CyberB0b said:
How does that skew anything? Those actually happened. We should be 0-3 right now.

When you have played only 3 games and you had a bunch of uncharacteristic fumbles In one quarter, it looks worse than it is. That has not been a Cowboys trait in recent years. We will be well down the turnover list soon. The problem is that we will remain way down in the takeaways.

CyberB0b · Sep 30, 2020

Chuck 54 said:
When you have played only 3 games and you had a bunch of uncharacteristic fumbles In one quarter, it looks worse than it is. That has not been a Cowboys trait in recent years. We will be well down the turnover list soon. The problem is that we will remain way down in the takeaways.

It looks pretty characteristic of this team this year.

MikeB80 · Sep 30, 2020

LACowboysFan1 said:
Same for the Romo apologists. But each have had their issues, just a short example on Romo:

September 12, 2011: Week 1 loss to the Jets
In Romo's first game back from a broken collarbone, the Cowboys coughed up a 14-point fourth-quarter lead. It was highlighted by Romo's late fumble on the goal line and an interception to Darrelle Revis in a tie game with under one minute left.

December 7, 2008: Week 14 loss to Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh scores 17 unanswered points in the fourth quarter, capped off by Deshea Townsend's game-winning pick six of Romo. This kick starts a December swoon that leaves Dallas out of the playoffs.

October 6, 2013: 51-48 loss to Denver
This was the ultimate Romo debate Rorschach test. Romo threw for more than 500 yards with five touchdown passes, but a late interception spoiled the day. Jerry Jones said it was Romo's best game as a pro. That felt true, but so strange to say after another crushing loss.

December 30, 2012: Division decider against Commanders (and the rest of the Week 17 disasters.)
Romo throws three interceptions in a Week 17 play-in game to decide the NFC East championship. This spot stands symbolically for all of the Week 17 losses that decided the NFC East, like the 31-14 loss to New York at the end of the 2011 season and the 44-6 loss to Philadelphia to end the 2008 season.

January 13, 2008: Divisional Round loss to New York
This was supposed to be the Cowboys' Super Bowl year, but the NFC's No. 1 seed fell in a nail-biter to its division rivals. A huge Patrick Crayton drop in the third quarter is forgotten. Romo's game-ending pick and Terrell Owens' tearful "That's my quarterback" sound bite live on.

lol at Romos game ending interception!!! LOL

Get a clue man. You have left off a number of important facts in this "I hate Romo and will prove he is the worst post of the day"

Tyron Smith stepping on his foot as he was stepping into his throw vs denver, the punt block for a TD vs the Jets....The cowboys forcing Pittsburgh to punt and then touching the ball and the steelers recovering leading to an easy score swinging the momentum.

He was bad vs the Commanders and that early interception to austin should never have happened. I think this was his actual worst game played because he always played well in big moments and he didnt on that night. He and the offense had no chance vs the giants in 11. That game was over before they kicked off. They had no running game and no ability to block that giants front....and guess what..just like in 07 no one else could either...that same team went to lambeau two weeks later and beat the 15-1 packers. then Brady and Bellichick for the second time.

Its hillarious though the mental gymnastics you have to go through to say something like Romo threw a game ending interception to lose to the giants.....on the previous play on 3rd down he threw a perfect ball that should have been the game winning touchdown in the corner of the endzone but Crayton hesitated and didnt come out of his dig route adjustment in rhythm and the ball fell incomplete forcing the 4th down...no one was open across the board and he threw it up looking for glenn to make a play or get a flag. Such a lousy uninformed comment.

Floatyworm · Sep 30, 2020

SeanLee50 said:
Same results, different year.

Losing the turnover battle, terrible starting field position every time, bad special teams play = 1-2

LACowboysFan1 · Oct 1, 2020

MikeB80 said:
lol at Romos game ending interception!!! LOL

Get a clue man. You have left off a number of important facts in this "I hate Romo and will prove he is the worst post of the day"

Tyron Smith stepping on his foot as he was stepping into his throw vs denver, the punt block for a TD vs the Jets....The cowboys forcing Pittsburgh to punt and then touching the ball and the steelers recovering leading to an easy score swinging the momentum.

He was bad vs the Commanders and that early interception to austin should never have happened. I think this was his actual worst game played because he always played well in big moments and he didnt on that night. He and the offense had no chance vs the giants in 11. That game was over before they kicked off. They had no running game and no ability to block that giants front....and guess what..just like in 07 no one else could either...that same team went to lambeau two weeks later and beat the 15-1 packers. then Brady and Bellichick for the second time.

Its hillarious though the mental gymnastics you have to go through to say something like Romo threw a game ending interception to lose to the giants.....on the previous play on 3rd down he threw a perfect ball that should have been the game winning touchdown in the corner of the endzone but Crayton hesitated and didnt come out of his dig route adjustment in rhythm and the ball fell incomplete forcing the 4th down...no one was open across the board and he threw it up looking for glenn to make a play or get a flag. Such a lousy uninformed comment.

Talk about a "lousy uninformed comment", you TOTALLY missed my point, which is: Can't blame Dak any more than you can blame Romo solely for the playoff losses or late season losses that kept the Cowboys from getting to the NFC championship game or beyond. BOTH did things that lost the games, regardless of the circumstances. But there were other things besides quarterback play that lost those games, such as not getting ahead of the opponents so that the game didn't come down to last minute plays.

And the games I quoted were from somebody else's blog, just to show that people complained about/blamed Romo just as they do Dak.

But you just couldn't wait to fire off the insults, eh? I'm more than happy to discuss the Cowboys, but if you want to go with the "get a clue" etc. trash, you can find somebody else to disagree with....

Rayman70 · Oct 1, 2020

Parcels always said that a team is what it is after about 4 games. Lets hope that 4th game this weekend is a vast improvement in the T.O. dept.

LACowboysFan1 · Oct 1, 2020

Rayman70 said:
Parcels always said that a team is what it is after about 4 games. Lets hope that 4th game this weekend is a vast improvement in the T.O. dept.

Oh I certainly agree, said earlier this season I'd have to wait for 3-4 games before we could evaluate the team to any degree, though when I said that we hadn't lost VanderEsch, Awuzie and others, injuries can certainly derail progress.

If memory serves, when the Raiders became the first wild card team to win the SB, it was because they had early injuries and so lost a few games, but after those players got back the team was SB worthy. This season we had to deal with no camp, pre-season, etc. as well of course, but if we can get Smith, et al back by, say, game 5 or 6 we might still have a shot...

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