CFZ Did Prescott crater under the pressure?

Ken said:

Joe Burrow was 10-7 last year.

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cowboyblue22 said:

the cowboys wont beat the bengals sunday they will lose by at least 14 the were not going to beat the bengals if dak prescott played joe burrow is to good

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Diehardblues said:

Yep, a horrible performance. And the game went pretty much like some of us and the local beat writers and critics said it would go.

And I was even laughed at for suggesting we rest Dak from risk of injury in a game and matchup which didn’t favor good results .

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john van brocklin said:

You have amateurs running the team.
Neither Jerry nor Stephen came up through the ranks of a football operations and had to prove their abilities along the way.
They are constantly making poor decisions that cost the team dearly.
I would even say with strong conviction that this team will never win anything of consequence with them in charge.
That's fairly safe to say given the last 27 years of futility.

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CouchCoach said:

I am not talking about pressure from the Bucs, I am talking about the self-imposed kind.

All off season he spun it for the front office. It's OK that 2 of his OL are gone and his #1 and #3 WR's and his #2 injured. We're just fine, never better.

I think he's still feeling the effect of the fan and media backlash against his contract because if you get paid with the best, you have to play like the best.

Have you noticed how he tries to underplay any physical hiccups like his ankle being about the cleats or the calf didn't bother him when it was obvious it did.

I think he has a case of Superman Syndrome and just being Clark Kent won't fly. He has to do it better.

I do not think there is another position in all the NFL tougher to play than the QB of the DC from an emotional side. It is life in the goldfish bowl exacerbated by the owner and his son always trying to sell him to the fans. And don't think a lot of them don't buy it.

So, now he gets to back off a little, heal up, rehab and reflect on just what happened Sunday night. Not only was he booed but a few morons threw trash at him as he came off the field injured. He has to wonder how it came to this.

I think he has been trying to live up to the contract and the title too much and it got to him and what we saw on that sideline, the deer in the headlights, was the proof of that. This is a man that had no problem in admitting he's had some mental health concerns and I applaud him for that.

This hand injury might be a blessing in disguise for him. He might not even realize how tightly wound inside he is but when I saw him on that sideline, that man looked dazed, confused and a little fearful.

Can't consider this man without considering where he came from and just how he got here as well as how he got the starting jobs in high school and Miss St. He couldn't take the job from the starters but when he got it, he would not give it back. That says something about him, something unusual.

Even those so opposed to him as the DC QB have to agree, they've not seen him play like that. I mean, he was really bad. The OL and WR's weren't great but that wasn't it, it was him. I got the feeling he wasn't playing football, he was fulfilling some role and when it started to unravel on him he started to panic inside and that look he had on the sideline is the look of anxiety.

I really do not think the only problem is with that hand and I hope he gets some help with that while he's not on the firing line.

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Ken said:

Joe Burrow was 10-7 last year.

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CouchCoach said:

I am not talking about pressure from the Bucs, I am talking about the self-imposed kind.

All off season he spun it for the front office. It's OK that 2 of his OL are gone and his #1 and #3 WR's and his #2 injured. We're just fine, never better.

I think he's still feeling the effect of the fan and media backlash against his contract because if you get paid with the best, you have to play like the best.

Have you noticed how he tries to underplay any physical hiccups like his ankle being about the cleats or the calf didn't bother him when it was obvious it did.

I think he has a case of Superman Syndrome and just being Clark Kent won't fly. He has to do it better.

I do not think there is another position in all the NFL tougher to play than the QB of the DC from an emotional side. It is life in the goldfish bowl exacerbated by the owner and his son always trying to sell him to the fans. And don't think a lot of them don't buy it.

So, now he gets to back off a little, heal up, rehab and reflect on just what happened Sunday night. Not only was he booed but a few morons threw trash at him as he came off the field injured. He has to wonder how it came to this.

I think he has been trying to live up to the contract and the title too much and it got to him and what we saw on that sideline, the deer in the headlights, was the proof of that. This is a man that had no problem in admitting he's had some mental health concerns and I applaud him for that.

This hand injury might be a blessing in disguise for him. He might not even realize how tightly wound inside he is but when I saw him on that sideline, that man looked dazed, confused and a little fearful.

Can't consider this man without considering where he came from and just how he got here as well as how he got the starting jobs in high school and Miss St. He couldn't take the job from the starters but when he got it, he would not give it back. That says something about him, something unusual.

Even those so opposed to him as the DC QB have to agree, they've not seen him play like that. I mean, he was really bad. The OL and WR's weren't great but that wasn't it, it was him. I got the feeling he wasn't playing football, he was fulfilling some role and when it started to unravel on him he started to panic inside and that look he had on the sideline is the look of anxiety.

I really do not think the only problem is with that hand and I hope he gets some help with that while he's not on the firing line.

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Aftershock said:

His face was screaming a big sigh of relief when his thumb got injured. I could tell as he was running to the trainer and into the locker room. Normally you see players look angry and try to think of a way or ask the trainer to fix it somehow so he can get back into the game. Nope, Dak looked like he couldn’t wait to go back into the Locker room as if a bunch of naked cheerleaders were in there

He just wanted to get out of that mess. 90,000 angry fans in a giant stadium all pointing the finger at you. No idea what that feels like.

I don’t feel bad for him at all. He is going to live comfortably for generations to come down to his great grand children.

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Ken said:

Joe Burrow was 10-7 last year.

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plymkr said:

You may be on to something here. I remember when A-Rod from the Yankees got caught using steroids he was asked why he did it. He said that prior to his massive contract baseball was fun but after he signed for big money he felt like he had to justify the contract. He put all this pressure on himself and started using roids to live up to the contract. Could be what's happening to Dak. Someone handing you a multimillion-dollar check could add unbelievable pressure to live up to it.

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Typhus said:

Dak was a deer in headlights, eyes wide open, glazed over stare, and never a single receiving option rarely finding space.
Moore had as much to do with this failure of a performance as Dak did IMO, I will stand with that assessment.
Poor offensive design knowing what you have available to play with.
Saw Seattle and Denver run their TE bench dry and both teams having success doing so, yet Ferguson and Hendershot were both totally negated from Moores game plan.
Not trying to give Dak another excuse, but a lot of QBs would have looked totally exposed under those conditions.

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doomsday808 said:

1) Front Office off season complacency
2) Coaching off season and game time Prep
3) Player performance

IMHO, this is was the cause of Sunday's collapse. Let's not forget, Dak should not be blamed for the 10 team penalties.

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raven55 said:

evert body has memory loss from last year dak is a good qb but not a franchise one, he gets flustered when a defense attacks him just review the 49ers game and in it he made bad decisions all day so if your looking at him coming back and even with the 2 receivers coming back and he goes off well forget it , that's not gonna happen. all those people on the breck too talking cowboys there job is to spread and impossible dream that everything is gonna be okay but if you watch this team in a few weeks it's gonna start coming apart at the seams because 23 0r maybe 6 players eithier on defense or offense cannot do the things that kellen (boy wonder) , wants them to do he is not a offense coordinator and for the most part he was never much of a pro qb. the defense will be good but the rest forget it the season is over before it get's started. and the first thing some one will say is it's only one game keep in mind this started last year the penalty yards and getting to the red zone and not. and every body knows scoring so with less talent on the offense this is what you get. tyhere gonna miss amari

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plymkr said:

Agree 100%

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phildadon86 said:

Yeah and they got better.

The cowboys didn’t. They got worse. And if you try and spin this “fantastic off-season” you think this team had you need to really seek help.

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HonoluluCowboy said:

Burrow must have "punked" you ! How u can even put Dak in the same league as Burrow speaks volumes . Find another hobby , as your posts are delusions of a Homer !

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