The last few years I noticed something very unusual.
The beginning of Daks career under Linehan I recall a decent number of close games he won, even if he was down at the beginning.
2019 and the boy genius appears. Since 2019 I've noticed that the game is usually decided by half time. If the cowboys are up 10 or more it's a guaranteed win. If the cowboys are down 10 or more, it's a guaranteed loss. Basically the Cowboys are front Runners. And that seems to coincide with Moore taking over.
If Moore is allowed to design the offense, but McCarthy calls the plays would you be good with that? I know I would. The issue with Moore seems to be he doesn't know how to counterpunch.
I think we're seeing some of the same failure to adjust. In 2016, we had a strong running game and a great short-pass outlet in Beasley. Defenses adjusted by taking away our short-range game, leaving us with Prescott trying to get the ball downfield to players who were no longer as big of a downfield threat. The bracket coverage on Beasley allowed defenses to keep an extra man close to the line for the running game. Linehan's downfall had to do with not being able to counter that.
Moore had teams yo-yoing early this season because if they played two-deep we ran successfully and if they played man, we attacked them with downfield passing. They adjusted by playing a shell game to confuse the offense. They went away from traditional four-man rushes, often showing blitz and then dropping players, including defensive linemen into the short zones. That way they had extra players up to play the run or drop out and they avoided going one-on-one with our offensive line, often overloading a side where one lineman was left with no one to block while another had to pick between rushers.
Now, there were opportunities that we missed and that just encouraged defenses to keep playing that way.