Stephen Jones said that the Cowboys wanted to drain the clock

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So, we have Garrett saying that Dak had the option to pass or keep the ball for himself. And that Moore was the one doing the playcalling. Garrett tried to avoid the fact that a running play was called or that the mindset was installed with Dak and Moore that the ball needed to be ran to take time off of the clock. They choose to take the ball out of Dak's hands because they didn't trust our defense to make the stop.

Wonder what would Garrett would have said if Dak threw a pass to take the lead with the TD and then the defense gave up a score. Since he is good at deflecting blame, I'm sure he would have said that he thought that time should have been taken off of the clock. smh.

 
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They botch clock management no matter which way they go. They had already taken plenty of time off the clock. They still have to score. If your defense can't hold a lead against Cousins with a minute left then they don't deserve to win.
 

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So basically let's see how we can spin this today to make ourselves look better than we really are.

"We got a really good football team in our mind".

In our mind. That's the problem. In your mind you have long overrated the team and the current head coach.
 
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Sydla said:
So basically let's see how we can spin this today to make ourselves look better than we really are.

"We got a really good football team in our mind".

In our mind. That's the problem. In your mind you have long overrated the team and the current head coach.
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Yeah, they had plenty of time to run clock well before 2nd and 2 and they chose not to, so while that was my thought as well for run plays, they should not have needed to do that then to run clock. It should have been done 1:30 earlier.


Idiots!
 
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Sydla said:
So basically let's see how we can spin this today to make ourselves look better than we really are.

"We got a really good football team in our mind".

In our mind. That's the problem. In your mind you have long overrated the team and the current head coach.
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And I call BS on Jones and Garrett trying to argue that running clock was a key component in this.

If running clock was that important then why did they hustle up Dak and have him run a play before the 2 minute warning? They quickly ran a play which was a short completion to Witten right before the 2 minute warning.

If you are that concerned with the clock then why not let the 15 seconds run off and not rush a play before the 2 minute warning?
 
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Call a timeout, get organized and make sure you're calling a good play on 3rd and 4th down. This wasn't even a goal to go situation, they still needed the 1st down. Make sure you pick up the 1st down and then you can start playing the clock strategy chess match (Minny probably uses their timeouts at that point).

They didn't understand that the game was on the line at that point, there was no purpose of saving the timeouts because all you were gonna get is a hail mary attempt anyway if you got the ball back.
 
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Bob on the ticket just pointed out that, fine if that's your strategy, no big deal. But then why run a play before the 2 minute warning (free timeout for Minnesota) and then after the 2 minute warning we snapped one snap at 25 on the game clock, then were in hurry up the rest.

This is the type of crap that drives me insane about Garrett. Totally incoherent strategy vs execution and if kellen moore is out of his depth cuz he's just starting that's when the freaking head coach ensures the strategy is understood and followed.

I'm not blaming Garrett for the actual play calls, but this, these brutal starts, etc
 

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vlad said:
Bob on the ticket just pointed out that, fine if that's your strategy, no big deal. But then why run a play before the 2 minute warning (free timeout for Minnesota) and then after the 2 minute warning we snapped one snap at 25 on the game clock, then were in hurry up the rest.

This is the type of crap that drives me insane about Garrett. Totally incoherent strategy vs execution and if kellen moore is out of his depth cuz he's just starting that's when the freaking head coach ensures the strategy is understood and followed.

I'm not blaming Garrett for the actual play calls, but this, these brutal starts, etc
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Because the "we were concerned with the clock" excuse likely came out of thin air after they realized they botched the final two minutes.

If you are trying to run clock to prevent the Vikes from being able to get in FG range, as noted you surely don't snap the ball before the 2 minute warning and you don't snap the ball with a lot of time on the play clock.
 
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Like I said last night if that was true, why were they going hurry up right before the 2-minute warning from the Vikings 20-yard line?

They could have easily run another 40 seconds off the clock at that point, but didn't. It just shows the lack of preparation and game management by this coaching staff.
 
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Stephen Jones should know that as long as he sticks with Clappy Spit Slappy he's draining the enthusiasm out of the fan base:(
 

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It's excuse making. As noted we ran a play before the two minute warning.

Further, the next play started at 1:57 and it was a pass to Cooper. Assume it took 5-6 seconds for that play to be run, the next snap was at 1:33.......... so in other words, we ran the next play with a lot of time on the playclock.

So we then run Elliott at 1:33 and he gets stopped, assume a few seconds to spot the ball. So let's say the refs spot the ball at 1:30........... the Cowboys have 40 seconds of play clock now. So with that in mind, they could have ran the clock down to 50 seconds if they wanted.

Instead they snapped the ball with 1:06. All told, they could have likely ran 20 seconds or more off the clock in those two plays. But they didn't.

So either this is excuse making after the fact or Stephen just admitted that his coaching staff showed horrible game management there if they really were trying to run the clock down.
 
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Stephen is the last person I'd use to try and make some sense of this. Fact is we lost to a team that was as good as we are and out coached us. End of story. Tell Stephen to say that.
 
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Garrett constantly preaches "situational awareness". IT WAS KIRK COUSINS!! Anyone think he was going to drive the length of the field with less than 90 seconds? The odds are way more likely he would have chocked.
 

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Another way of saying our defense is trash. Pretty obvious we weren't gonna win that game.
 
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