How do you not get 1 shot into the end zone

thunderpimp91

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This team clearly wasnt ready for the big moments. I go back and listen to Romo talk through those final plays and he was 100% right. The strategy itself really wasn't bad at all, the execution just wasnt there.

To be honest it almost felt like they really didnt practice the situation even though McCarthy said they did. That seems to be par for the course under McCarthy though. I love a lot of what that guy has brought to this team after Garrett, but how many weeks can this team just seem completely lost before we see a correction?
 

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It was obvious on the first series that we weren’t properly prepared for the game.

The ending, although certainly embarrassing, is largely irrelevant.

The better team won.
 

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The logic the Cowboys are giving us is having one shot from inside the 30 was better odds than two or three from the 50.

The way they executed it gave them zero shots from nowhere. Good job, boys.
 

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I have a hard time even calling them a professional team. That was amateur hour at it's finest. Imagine if Roger decided to try a QB draw instead of giving Pearson a chance. These guys are a joke so they lash out at the refs. Pathetic. Get intercepted in the end zone like a real man. Patting the stats till the bitter end.
 

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Good break down. I really enjoyed the moment before the 2 minute warning when we could have run a play but never got one off. Romo was even saying how it was the perfect time to sneak in a run because the clock would stop. We looked like a preseason team that was winning by 17 not a desperate team far behind in a playoff game with time running out. Clown show all around.
 

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For years the QB draw was the best play Dak had. Then we signed him to 40 million per year and took it out of the playbook. Then we bring it back for the last play of the game from 40 yards out. Insanity.
 

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The idea of not spiking it and throwing it is interesting. He got the snap off.
 

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My best guess is they were stupidly thinking of a spike as the same thing as a timeout that loses a down. It's not like that at all, as we've seen. If they had had a timeout, they could have run that play and then instantly stopped the clock. But .... (and I feel like saying DUH-DUH-DUH) with a spike you can't instantly kill the clock. I can't believe so-called professionals overlooked that obvious truth. I suspect everyone reading this thread knows that a spike requires some time for a setup, including the ref touching the ball.

I can't believe our coaches are so stupid that they didn't know it was time to just heave it into the endzone and say a prayer. It's a low percentage play, but it at least gives you a chance to win. The only other possibility is to run one of those multiple lateral desperation plays, but that's even lower percentage. But either of these choices is far superior to doing an asinine quarterback draw that has next to zero chance of ending up in the endzone. He could have run it into the endzone only if the 49ers were the most incompetent NFL team ever to take the field, which clearly is not the case.
 

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Just so completely unacceptable.It still boggles my mind, that pathetic play call.There’s no other team in football who doesn’t at least throw once into the endzone w/ 14 seconds left at the 40 w/ no timeouts.
 

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Yes we all know they lost the game for many other reasons, but them not even getting 1 shot into the end zone is just pathetic
This question has been running through my mind all night after the game ended and as the sun rose this morning.
Dak is ruined and exposed, he doesnt have the ability to hit even intermediate targets anymore.
Something is wrong in his head, the pic six,s got to him.
He is gun shy now and will never be more than a decent starter that cap retards team growth.
You think peeps are being hard on Dak now, wait till we start seeing cuts that bleed deep on this roster in order to pay Dak his contract.
Its not going to be pretty here with all the tears falling, another quality player passed up or cut to accommodate our super hero.
 

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Kellen Moore seems to continuously outsmart himself. I think he tries to do things a little different just for the sake of being different, and it kills us.

He refuses to involve Cooper like a true #1 WR should be, he refuses to phase out Zeke, he refuses to continue with the run even if it’s working, he gets scared and becomes ultra conservative when things start going bad, AND NOW, he doesn’t even try to score a TD with 14 seconds left and a season on the line. He’d rather get cute and run Dak up the middle and let the clock run out.
 

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Just so completely unacceptable.It still boggles my mind, that pathetic play call.There’s no other team in football who doesn’t at least throw once into the endzone w/ 14 seconds left at the 40 w/ no timeouts.
I grew up with Cowboys being heros, now I fade in life with a scared franchise QB with no ability to lead.
Dak isnt a team leader, that is all hog wash now.
 

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I have a hard time even calling them a professional team. That was amateur hour at it's finest. Imagine if Roger decided to try a QB draw instead of giving Pearson a chance. These guys are a joke so they lash out at the refs. Pathetic. Get intercepted in the end zone like a real man. Patting the stats till the bitter end.

Well said.
Amateur hour is right.
Players and coaches.
It would be interesting if someone did a baseball style analysis of penalties (and negative plays in general).
Like in baseball, a taking a first pitch ball and the count going to 1-0 shoots your chance of sucess way up, while taking a fist pitch strike, an 0-1 count, the pitcher now has a huge edge.
A lined up in the neutral zone penalty, so 1st and 5, increases the offenses possibilty by a huge amount (one would imagine).
Conversely a false start, and 1st and 15, decreases the chance of a first down tremendously.
The Cowboys continually shoot themselves in the foot, and in the playoffs against a good (and well coached team), those negative plays reduce your chance of winning to such a razor thin margin.
 
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