23-7 - the score entering the 4th quarter
27.1. Daks QBR for game
1-3. Dak's career playoff record
We can blame MM.....the refs......bottom line is that Dak didn't deliver. The players play the game and no cowboy was more underwhelming than Dak Prescott. He could not get the offense moving until SF was basically in a prevent defense.
Its on to season 7 for Dak. I hope this performance will linger in our collective memories so we can have fewer arguments next season over who this guy is. He is gutless and not a big game QB. He pads his stats against bad teams and playing catch-up against prevent defenses.
So next year when he torches the Giants for 500 yards and 8 TDs, anyone who starts posting about how great he is should be automatically considered a buffoon.
This will be my last post until next year….
Dak’s fault? What game did you watch? O-line couldn’t protect him and they had zero ability to block in the run game. He wasn’t committing atrocious penalties that put us further and further behind the sticks. No run game, no play action. Period. And that was with SF rushing 4 players. How many 1st-3rd with 20+ did we have? How many had anything to do with Prescott? No QB is going to consistently overcome that. No QB in the NFL is even asked to, at least not this year.
Dak doesn’t install the game plan. That’s Moore’s responsibility. You think Dak ***** up a brilliant game plan? He didn’t.
And that ‘vaunted defense’…where was it? Yeah, they held SF to FGs a bunch of times, but they were run on like chumps. Dak can’t play from the sideline.
I blame Dak for the last play. He had to take the 10 yards and get down. In the end, I still think we got jobbed by the ref when he moved the ball backwards and then forwards again. That was the one second we needed, but it should’ve never come to that.
This was an incredibly undisciplined, uninspired team loss. The persistent, season-long pre-snap penalties were an embarrassment on both sides of the ball. I can’t say for certain, but it’s very hard to imagine that these penalties aren’t evident in practice. They always were when I played, but I’m not at the Star watching. I guess it’s possible that practices are ultra-clean, but then all that discipline flies out the window EVERY game day. Possible, but not likely.
Very disappointing. McClay put the personnel in place. The rest is up to the coaches and players, both of which didn’t show up to win this past Sunday.
See you next year.