What's the secret to getting a team to play at a 43-3 or 56-14 level all the time?

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First of all a coach like Quinn who's players will fall on a sword for him. Neither MM or KM inspire the offense. Our OL coach needs replacing, poor technique and discipline, also needs to develop a sense of putting a hurt on a defense. Putting our QB back into a similar scheme as 2016 that eliminates his weaknesses and allows him to lead. Overall team discipline.
Put MM and KM on notice, you've got 4 games period .
Draft OL and replace VanderSlow.
Championship.
 
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Red Dragon said:
There were two times in the season - the 43-3 annihilation of Atlanta and 56-14 annihilation of Washington - when the Cowboys played well enough to beat ANY team in the league. They were at their A+ level. Nobody - not the Chiefs, Pack, Rams or Bengals - could have stopped that version of the Boys.

So, clearly, the Cowboys were capable of a Super Bowl champion level of play. The problem is, they did it only about 10% of the time.

How do you coax that sort of performance level out of the team more often? You don't even have to do it 100% of the time - a team like the 1992 Cowboys, for instance, still had their shares of bloopers and were only playing at that level maybe 70% of the time. But that was good enough to get Lombardis.
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Those were false. The secret is playing bad teams. When we play the better teams esp those who do a good job disguising their back end defense were a different offense.
 
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Atlanta basically started its first five defensive plays in man. They basically played cover 0 a large portion of the game,

When you got far superior players lining up 1 on 1, and your blocking is the type of blocking Dak gets up front, it makes it easy even for a guy like Dak Prescott, because like every commentator basically says about every WR on the Cowboys, these WRs have no problems winning their 1 on 1 matchups almost every time.

https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/so-much-for-a-blueprint-vs-dak-the-offense

"They came out and played man (coverage) early. I think we went 5-for-5 against man-for-man," head coach Mike McCarthy said. "They came out with the intention of challenging our perimeter, and I'm sure part of that was last week's game.
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Once again, like every year, a bad team suddenly makes Dak an MVP again and the ‘slump is over’.
 
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Having a QB that doesn't wait until mid-way through the third to show up would help.
 
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Red Dragon said:
There were two times in the season - the 43-3 annihilation of Atlanta and 56-14 annihilation of Washington - when the Cowboys played well enough to beat ANY team in the league. They were at their A+ level. Nobody - not the Chiefs, Pack, Rams or Bengals - could have stopped that version of the Boys.

So, clearly, the Cowboys were capable of a Super Bowl champion level of play. The problem is, they did it only about 10% of the time.

How do you coax that sort of performance level out of the team more often? You don't even have to do it 100% of the time - a team like the 1992 Cowboys, for instance, still had their shares of bloopers and were only playing at that level maybe 70% of the time. But that was good enough to get Lombardis.
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For blowouts to take place it is 2 fold you play excellent and the opponent plays poorly. To expect these type of games is not reality, most games will be close and you will have to overcome things within the game.
 
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All of the teams we saw in the divisional round of the playoffs have the capability to play at a high level such as what Dallas showcased against the bottom feeders of the league early on in the season

The question is, are the coaches mentally preparing the team to bring their A+ game at all times during the playoffs? Does the game plan make sense and are the players capable of executing it at the highest level on the biggest stage?
 
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It's a cute theory but the real answer is.. there is no answer. Football is played by human beings and as such there will be ups and downs. Guys will have off days and guys on the other team will play out of their mind on any given Sunday. Part of the reason coach Landry preached even keel all the time is that he wanted to avoid the usual ups and downs of human performance. He wanted his guys to come out and be machines. Of course it didn't always work, but it formed the basis for the longest string of winning seasons in US professional sports history. But even his teams could come out flat as three day old beer on occasion.. nd get molly whopped by some pretty average teams. This isn't ever going to change.. All you can hope for is that your team shows up and plays at or near its peak 10 times a year and you expect to win at least 8 of those. Then you just have to figure out how to win at least half of those games when you DON'T have your A game. You figure two of them will be against crappy teams then you need to steal one of two from an average to good team. Do that and you got yourself 10 wins and a spot in the payoffs. Then you just need 3 A games to reach the promised land. But asking for 15-16 A games in the regular season followed by another 3-4 in the postseason? Nah.. never gonna happen..
 
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1 - The teams we played were not on the same level as us.

2 - Quick start by Dak and the team.

3 - Turnnovers.. Our Defense got turnovers and gave us extra drives and we turned them into points. By halftime the game was over but we had swag and kept the pressure on. THAT I liked.

We need to start with quick starts. And if we get the ball in the second half we need points on that drive. Pressure from the Defense will be a big help.. Need a good draft for O-Line and DT..
 
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Red Dragon said:
There were two times in the season - the 43-3 annihilation of Atlanta and 56-14 annihilation of Washington - when the Cowboys played well enough to beat ANY team in the league. They were at their A+ level. Nobody - not the Chiefs, Pack, Rams or Bengals - could have stopped that version of the Boys.

So, clearly, the Cowboys were capable of a Super Bowl champion level of play. The problem is, they did it only about 10% of the time.

How do you coax that sort of performance level out of the team more often? You don't even have to do it 100% of the time - a team like the 1992 Cowboys, for instance, still had their shares of bloopers and were only playing at that level maybe 70% of the time. But that was good enough to get Lombardis.
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If you can schedule them to play the NFL least every Sunday or 2nd and 3rd stringers on the opposing teams.
The DC are (and have been) what you saw this last season. Pretenders.
 
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Red Dragon said:
There were two times in the season - the 43-3 annihilation of Atlanta and 56-14 annihilation of Washington - when the Cowboys played well enough to beat ANY team in the league. They were at their A+ level. Nobody - not the Chiefs, Pack, Rams or Bengals - could have stopped that version of the Boys.

So, clearly, the Cowboys were capable of a Super Bowl champion level of play. The problem is, they did it only about 10% of the time.

How do you coax that sort of performance level out of the team more often? You don't even have to do it 100% of the time - a team like the 1992 Cowboys, for instance, still had their shares of bloopers and were only playing at that level maybe 70% of the time. But that was good enough to get Lombardis.
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There was a team this season who lost to the Bears and Jets, got blown out at home by the Chargers and Browns, and started 5-4.

They're playing in the Super Bowl next week (Cincinnati).

No one plays at a 40-50 point level regularly. What separates teams is who can win close games when you don't play at your best, especially in January.
 
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The 2007 Patriots were a perfect storm of a situation where they were 16-0. Great defense. All-time elite offensive guys (Brady and Moss) having career-best seasons. And on top of it they had a huge chip on their shoulder due to the recent controversies with the league, so they were actively trying to run up scores every week just to give everyone the finger over SpyGate or whatever, to prove they weren't a product of their cheating.

And they still only averaged an insane 20-point margin. And you're sitting there with a straight face wanting to know how we can double that?
 
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Start cutting people mid-season. Cutting Jaylon Smith lit a fire under this team I hadn't seen in a long, long time.

Then Dak got hurt in the Pats game and the spark was gone.

Tough break.
 
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