31st ranked offense

[Legend]

Owens year with Buffalo was 55 catches for 829 yards and 5 TDs (50.5% catch rate with 8 drops on 109 targets). That was the year after Romo.

Dez last year was 69 catches for 838 yards and 6 TDs (52.3% catch rate with 10 drops on 132 targets).

Many have said Dez sucked last year. If we are being consistent, what was that year for T.O.? (Not sticking up for Dez or slamming T.O., just pointing out the standard).

Antonio Brown last year had 1,533 yards and Julio Jones had 1,444. Yes, Dez numbers sucked since he was getting paid as a top NFL receiver.

 

[dfense]

LOL

So glad we got rid of Romo

Can't get blood from a stone. Can Garrett get Dak to improve his arm strength? Can Garrett get Dak to make a decisive throw? Joneses screwed their coach.

 

[Beast_from_East]

Yes, he made “great plays” during the playoffs against the Giants after his vacation in Cabo.

At least we were in the playoffs most years with Romo.

You don’t have to worry about that now. This team will be lucky not to finish in last place in the East.

Fighting the Giants for which team sucks the most......priceless

 

[Stash]

The offense that they worked an entire off-season on is garbage

And they've effectively ruined the quarterback. Say whatever you want about Prescott, his faults, his failings, and his shortcomings. The fact is that despite all of that, the offense and passing game worked in 2016.

And now that he's got all of these failures voices in his head, he's unsure, tentative, and looks worse than ever. That's not coincidence, and it's not all on he player. Dak Prescott is just another name in a long list, ruined by this inept coaching staff.

This cycle must end.

 

[dfense]

Dak can hit open guys beyond 5 yards like Tavon against the Giants.

The problem is Tavon cannot get open like that consistently unlike a player like Antonio Brown.

Ha ha, the one pass he's thrown this year for more than 15 yards. Great example. "He can do it, every blue moon."

 

[CowboysFaninHouston]

You can't run it if you don't try.

Look, this isn't any attempt to absolve the quarterback and passing game of their own struggles. There's no arguing that whatsoever. This is pointing out a coordinator who refuses to adjust to that fact.

The best this offense looked yesterday was when they actually made the effort to use the running back more. The question that needs to be asked is why did it take so long?

The answer is one that many of us have known for quite some time. You've got a pass happy coordinator hired by a pass Happy head coach attempting to coach an offense built for the run. Round pegs and square holes.

people often get confused about running attempts. 25 rushing attempts in a game don't come all on first downs. our history with garrett has been about 50/50 run/pass on first downs, which is good. but one has to get first downs to make those attempts. yesterday we were 3 for 13 on third downs. also, we are being stopped pretty much on first downs, which puts us in a 2nd and long and 3rd and long situation, yes some because of penalties and it forces you to pass. also, when you are down late in the game you tend to have to pass to score quickly...we lose some runs there....so this we don't run enough is just looking at one small stat line and coming to a conclusion.

when teams are winning, ala giants game, we run to run out the clock. we didn't do that yesterday in the 4th....

add up all of those and that's about 9 -11 runs a game lost because the offense was inept in the first 3 quarters...that's about the 25 runs a game we want to see from zeke. yesterday, this was 2nd and distance in the game in the first 3 quarters..

2nd and 5 - passed
2nd and 3 - run
2nd and 7 - pass
2nd and 10 - run
2nd and 20 - run
2nd and 7 - pass
2nd and 7 - run
2nd and 12 - pass
2nd and 17 - pass
2nd and 15 - pass
2nd and 8 - pass
2nd and 10 - run

that's an average of 2nd and 10 to go, and we had 5 runs, 6 passes. good mix of run/pass but mixed results.

this was the average and break down for 3rd downs.... what's obvious is that through first 3 quarters we only ran one time on 3rd down. we passed an opportunity on two short yards to run the ball....it also seemed in those cases, they were 8 or 9 in the box and a spy on Dak. the rest of the time we were in 3rd and long situations which dictate offensive call. after failing to convert 1 yard on a 3rd and 1, we abandoned the run on 3rd downs.

3rd and 6 - penalty on seattle
3rd and 1 - run (loss of 1 yard)
3rd and 2 - pass
3rd and 9 - pass
3rd and 9 - pass
3rd and 7 - pass
3rd and 2 - pass
3rd and 17 - pass
3rd and 5 - pass sacked
3rd and 4 - pass
3rd and 6 - pass sacked

 

[CowboysFaninHouston]

That is not garbage time. We had plenty of time to come back. You might think it was garbage time because you had no faith in Zeke, but this team absolutely still had time to come back.

plenty of time for an offense that would have been clicking somewhat. if it was a 37 to 23 game, I would say ok, maybe because the offense scored 23 points...but in a 24-6 game, when we had total of 160 offense, 70 yards passing, an offense that was totally dominated, I don't think you can catch magic in a bottle for 3 scores in the 4th...that would be wishful thinking....

I had faith in Zeke, but he had 70 yards in the first 3 quarters...that's reasonable....but the prevent defense gave up long runs, bottled up the play inside to kill the clock.

 

[Legend]

Dak is missing a big receiving weapon like this... who can take it to the house on any given play.

 

[TruBluSince1982]

The Cowboys in 2007 had 13 pro bowlers.

Shhh... Just let them continue. That was an NFL record number of "help" around him as well..

Just the facts please.

All of 2016's help made a 4th round rookie QB, an NFL record breaker.

Imagine that. That ties into why they are so mad. A rookie 4th rounder with no experience comes in with nearly the same team and leads them to the same record. "The one that Romo was supposedly carrying"...

 

[Apostolos]

The coaches do not use the teams strength against opponents. I do not know why. No rpos till 4th qt? Why cant we give zeke the ball 30 times?!! If they not going to use Dak to his strengths, and they keep trying to make him be like Rodgers, keep playing like this and then lets draft a #1 QB.

 

[DandyDon1722]

People who think Romo always had good receivers need to look at these stat lines:

Laurent Robinson
Year before Romo: 74 targets, 34 receptions, 344 yards, 10.1 yards per reception, 2 touchdowns, 19 first downs.
With Romo: 81 targets, 54 receptions, 858 yards, 15.9 yards per reception, 11 touchdowns, 36 first downs.
After Romo: 43 targets, 24 receptions, 252 yards, 10.5 yards per reception, 0 touchdowns, 8 first downs.

Bingo.

And...a 32 million dollar contract with Jax - 14 of which was guaranteed all because of his production with the Cowboys.

I sure as hell hope he sends the Romo's a Christmas card every year.

 

[CPanther95]

A blind squirrel could find that nut, doesn't say much for our coaching staff.

Garrett's brain turns into primordial ooze when the Cowboys fall behind on the scoreboard. Garrett's game plans are bad, but like they say, "A bad plan is better than no plan at all". If the Cowboys take the lead early, the bad plan will still work some of the time. When the Cowboys fall behind, Garrett tosses his plan out the window and abandons the running game to catch up.

This is why he always takes the ball when they win the coin toss.

 

[TruBluSince1982]

That's the point here.

Not sure you have a point. You just claim poor Romo had no weapons and want everyone to pout for him and use this baloney to try to claim Dak should be able to do with less as well. Number 2 all-time NFL HOF receiver and soon to be HOF TE you just prefer us to discount and believe what we have now is on par with that.

Get outta here..

Have no idea if Dak is the guy, but removing all his top weapons and worse performing O-line was and is not a recipe for success.

 

[glimmerman]

Elliot kept about 13-21 points off the board. 3rd down play Dak hit him in the hands on the run and he had a good step on defender. Was a huge play, he dropped it.

Elliot not being aware of where the sideline is. Dak scrambles and hits Elliot and was a walk in TD. He has stepped out of bounds.

Elliot breaks a big one and had us in scoring range. He fumbles.

I like the way he took blame for it.

But some one on this staff is taking out the RPO plays that make the Offense go. You don’t do it in the panthers game and the Offense was flat.

You run it a handful of times in the giants game and the Offense ran great.

You revert back to not calling it in the seahags game and the Offense reverts to being flat again. You call it with 6 minutes left and pick up 10 yards and even drew a flag.

These are staff or HC problems. Players aren’t focused and ready. Linehan playcalling is the same pass pass pass. No reason for taking out the RPO plays.

 

[Galian Beast]

Not sure you have a point. You just claim poor Romo had no weapons and want everyone to pout for him and use this baloney to try to claim Dak should be able to do with less as well. Number 2 all-time NFL HOF receiver and soon to be HOF TE you just prefer us to discount and believe what we have now is on par with that.

Get outta here..

Have no idea if Dak is the guy, but removing all his top weapons and worse performing O-line was and is not a recipe for success.

Please quote where I said Romo had no weapons.

 

[Galian Beast]

Elliot kept about 13-21 points off the board. 3rd down play Dak hit him in the hands on the run and he had a good step on defender. Was a huge play, he dropped it.

Elliot not being aware of where the sideline is. Dak scrambles and hits Elliot and was a walk in TD. He has stepped out of bounds.

Elliot breaks a big one and had us in scoring range. He fumbles.

I like the way he took blame for it.

But some one on this staff is taking out the RPO plays that make the Offense go. You don’t do it in the panthers game and the Offense was flat.

You run it a handful of times in the giants game and the Offense ran great.

You revert back to not calling it in the seahags game and the Offense reverts to being flat again. You call it with 6 minutes left and pick up 10 yards and even drew a flag.

These are staff or HC problems. Players aren’t focused and ready. Linehan playcalling is the same pass pass pass. No reason for taking out the RPO plays.

Your math is way off. 11 points max, and that is assuming that Dak can convert a touchdown on a drive, which is hardly assured.

 

[SoupcanSam]

Romo is in the booth and has been for a long long time.

Aikman is also in the booth and has been for a long long time.

And Irvin is on the network. Wish we could bring him back also.

People kill me with the Romo crap. He more than likely breaks his back again answering his cellular phone had he come back.

 

[Beast_from_East]

Shhh... Just let them continue. That was an NFL record number of "help" around him as well..

Just the facts please.

All of 2016's help made a 4th round rookie QB, an NFL record breaker.

Imagine that. That ties into why they are so mad. A rookie 4th rounder with no experience comes in with nearly the same team and leads them to the same record. "The one that Romo was supposedly carrying"...

Fluke rookie season.........league has him figured out now.

RG3. 2.0

 

[glimmerman]

Your math is way off. 11 points max, and that is assuming that Dak can convert a touchdown on a drive, which is hardly assured.

This is me assuming Maher makes the kicks. The first 3rd down drop was set up to be a big play. The fumble was in the red zone. The out of bounds play took 7 off the board.

 

[TruBluSince1982]

Please quote where I said Romo had no weapons.

Well I could have sworn that was what we have been discussing. If not my apologies.