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

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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willia451 said:

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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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.

…Lombardis.

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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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atlantacowboy said:

Yeah not sure how anyone overcomes a minor calf injury. I'm sure jimmy G's bad thumb on his throwing hand yet still advancing his team further than Dallas has gone in 25 years.........gotta be a fluke b/c we all know Dak is better than Jimmy. Just look at their salaries.

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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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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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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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Floatyworm said:

It starts with the protection.....Dak gets easily rattled in the pocket....Make him feel protected.

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Oz-of-Cowboy-Country said:

Let's get physical... physical. I want to get physicaaaaaaal.



But seriously, no one on our offense is intimating. You stop the run, you beat the Cowboys. That means they aren't scared of our WR's. They aren't intimated.

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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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