Cowboys at 49ers: The good, the bad, and the “what the”

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The Good
Michael Gallup: He only played one series but he did it without his partner Amari Cooper. That made Gallup the #1 receiver for the night and on his drive he looked the part, catching two of Dak Prescott’s four passes and drawing a pass interference call. Gallup really started to come on at the end of 2018, and for one series on Saturday night he carried on looking the part of dangerous receiver.

Blake Jarwin: The Cowboys leading receiver by receptions on the evening was Jarwin. Four catches for 51 yards in place of the resting Jason Witten showed that Jarwin is making his case for playing time with Witten. We’ve been hearing about his potential for a while, maybe he is starting to come into his own.

Backup DEs: This one took a while to get going, so if you only went by the first few drives for the 49ers you might have missed it. And don’t get fooled by the stats either. Taco Charlton, Dorance Armstrong, Jalen Jelks and Joe Jackson each had moments worth appreciating.



The Bad
Trysten Hill: The Cowboys first pick in the 2019 draft got plenty of playing time, especially toward the end against the 49ers backups to the backups. You would expect some action from him. Instead... crickets. He didn’t even scratch on the stat sheet and never really had his name called for disruptive play. Rod Marinelli pounded the table to get him, let’s hope it was just first game jitters for the defensive tackle.

Mike White: Slow progression reads, poor pocket awareness, loose with the football? Yep, Mike White was back to his previous form. In his defense, his offensive line wasn’t doing him any favors, but White looked like the same player he was last preseason. The Cowboys need to play him with the 2s next week and see if he really has progressed at all.

Mitch Hyatt: This popular pet cat took an absolute beating in the game. You could count three plays where he basically did nothing to stop his man. For a two-time college All-American on a championship team, he certainly looked entirely overwhelmed in the game. Maybe it was first game jitters, but it was less than auspicious.



The “What the...?”
Jon’Vea Johnson: Talk about being all over the map. Johnson is his own personal good and bad section. On the good side, he was targeted a team-high eight times, proving he was getting open. He caught three passes, including a nice sideline toe-tap play. He also drew a long pass interference call. On the other hand, he dropped a super-easy third-down conversion, had another pass knocked out of his hands, and went out of bounds before trying to catch a pass leading to a penalty.

Brett Maher: Yes, he was three of four so there was some good there. But why does he constantly miss what should be an easy field goal for an NFL kicker? It’s hard to trust any kick he takes.

https://www.bloggingtheboys.com/2019/8/11/20800864/cowboys-49ers-the-good-the-bad-and-the-what-the
 

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The Good
Michael Gallup: He only played one series but he did it without his partner Amari Cooper. That made Gallup the #1 receiver for the night and on his drive he looked the part, catching two of Dak Prescott’s four passes and drawing a pass interference call. Gallup really started to come on at the end of 2018, and for one series on Saturday night he carried on looking the part of dangerous receiver.

Blake Jarwin: The Cowboys leading receiver by receptions on the evening was Jarwin. Four catches for 51 yards in place of the resting Jason Witten showed that Jarwin is making his case for playing time with Witten. We’ve been hearing about his potential for a while, maybe he is starting to come into his own.

Backup DEs: This one took a while to get going, so if you only went by the first few drives for the 49ers you might have missed it. And don’t get fooled by the stats either. Taco Charlton, Dorance Armstrong, Jalen Jelks and Joe Jackson each had moments worth appreciating.



The Bad
Trysten Hill: The Cowboys first pick in the 2019 draft got plenty of playing time, especially toward the end against the 49ers backups to the backups. You would expect some action from him. Instead... crickets. He didn’t even scratch on the stat sheet and never really had his name called for disruptive play. Rod Marinelli pounded the table to get him, let’s hope it was just first game jitters for the defensive tackle.

Mike White: Slow progression reads, poor pocket awareness, loose with the football? Yep, Mike White was back to his previous form. In his defense, his offensive line wasn’t doing him any favors, but White looked like the same player he was last preseason. The Cowboys need to play him with the 2s next week and see if he really has progressed at all.

Mitch Hyatt: This popular pet cat took an absolute beating in the game. You could count three plays where he basically did nothing to stop his man. For a two-time college All-American on a championship team, he certainly looked entirely overwhelmed in the game. Maybe it was first game jitters, but it was less than auspicious.



The “What the...?”
Jon’Vea Johnson: Talk about being all over the map. Johnson is his own personal good and bad section. On the good side, he was targeted a team-high eight times, proving he was getting open. He caught three passes, including a nice sideline toe-tap play. He also drew a long pass interference call. On the other hand, he dropped a super-easy third-down conversion, had another pass knocked out of his hands, and went out of bounds before trying to catch a pass leading to a penalty.

Brett Maher: Yes, he was three of four so there was some good there. But why does he constantly miss what should be an easy field goal for an NFL kicker? It’s hard to trust any kick he takes.

https://www.bloggingtheboys.com/2019/8/11/20800864/cowboys-49ers-the-good-the-bad-and-the-what-the

Not much of note here at all in this game. Only thing that stood out to me was that Jarwin seems like a legitimate receiving TE and our backup QB's are horrid.

The DE's did zero. Moments? They were terrible. Getting some pressure against 3rd stringers once or twice doesnt mean diddly to me.

I actually saw the same, boring, dont go deep, throw short to intermediate, run up the gut, offense we have seen from Garrett for 12 years here. Pre snap motion? Hardly saw any of that.

We can only hope they are saving things for the regular season with the offense.

At the moment, this DL looks to be in big big trouble.
 

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Not much of note here at all in this game. Only thing that stood out to me was that Jarwin seems like a legitimate receiving TE and our backup QB's are horrid.

The DE's did zero. Moments? They were terrible. Getting some pressure against 3rd stringers once or twice doesnt mean diddly to me.

I actually saw the same, boring, dont go deep, throw short to intermediate, run up the gut, offense we have seen from Garrett for 12 years here. Pre snap motion? Hardly saw any of that.

We can only hope they are saving things for the regular season with the offense.

At the moment, this DL looks to be in big big trouble.

Its preseason...Hopefully Moore isn't showing his hand before the real games begin.
 

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Not much of note here at all in this game. Only thing that stood out to me was that Jarwin seems like a legitimate receiving TE and our backup QB's are horrid.

The DE's did zero. Moments? They were terrible. Getting some pressure against 3rd stringers once or twice doesnt mean diddly to me.

I actually saw the same, boring, dont go deep, throw short to intermediate, run up the gut, offense we have seen from Garrett for 12 years here. Pre snap motion? Hardly saw any of that.

We can only hope they are saving things for the regular season with the offense.

At the moment, this DL looks to be in big big trouble.
Did any of our starters on DL even play?
 

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Did any of our starters on DL even play?

Ross, that was it. Backups did nothing. Hill didnt even show up and Armstrong was pretty much a non factor. Taco was getting stonewalled all night by 3rd stringers. Broke free one time and applied a pressure. He needs to get cut.
 

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Ross, that was it. Backups did nothing. Hill didnt even show up and Armstrong was pretty much a non factor. Taco was getting stonewalled all night by 3rd stringers. Broke free one time and applied a pressure. He needs to get cut.
Ross doesn’t start. I’m not even sure if our backups even got much burn aside From Ross and Hill. You’re jumping off the cliff prematurely.
 

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I’ll be honest. I feel about Hill as I did Taco. Instead of Watt I think we should’ve drafted Dremont Jones
 
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