5 plays that cost us this game

[The30YardSlant]

5: "False start" on Ware - Pretty obvious he wasnt offsides, and it was 3rd down. Dallas stopped the Giants by batting the pass down, and they would have had to punt. Instead, they kept posession and scored.

4: Romo letting the ball slip out of his hand - TO would have walked in for a TD, but because Romo didnt get much on it, the ball wobbled and floated way over TO's head and we settled for a FG.

3: McQuarter's punt return - The Giants offense looked anemic in the second half until we gave them life by missing 3 tackles and letting McQuarters take the punt back to our 35.

2: Crayton's drop - Probably the biggest Cowboys drop since Jackie's in the SB back in the day. He catches that, he's in a 65 yard foot race to the wide side of the field. If he didnt score, he would have put us in very close proximity to being able to score and go up by 10. That looked just like Alvin Harper's game clinching catch and run against SF in '92, only he actually caught it.

1: Crayton giving up on the route - On the 3rd and 11 from our 22 with 23 seconds left, Crayton beat his man, Romo threw a perfect pass to the back corner of the endzone, and Crayton just STOPPED. TO or Glenn easily catches that for the winning points, but for some reason, Crayton just cut off his route as if the ball was thrown away when in fact it landed no more than 3 feet in front of him because he stopped running.

 

[theebs]

I cant explain to you how dissapointed I am in crayton. His play was really poor tonight, those were plays we made all year.

 

[The30YardSlant]

I cant explain to you how dissapointed I am in crayton. His play was really poor tonight, those were plays we made all year.

I want someone, anyone, to ask him whhat happened on the second to last play. I've never seen a guy just give up on a perfect pass before

 

[theebs]

I still havent seen a replay of it since I have been home, but laufenberg basically was shocked and confused as to why he stopped running.

 

[noletime95]

I want someone, anyone, to ask him whhat happened on the second to last play. I've never seen a guy just give up on a perfect pass before

I'd like an explination also..............let's face it, Crayton was just terrible today...

 

[Teague31]

don't forget about the austin play.. romo was flushed but was rolling in the right direction and to me it looked like he had time to let it fly. austin had his man beat by 10 yards. easy TD if not for the blitz.

 

[noletime95]

I still havent seen a replay of it since I have been home, but laufenberg basically was shocked and confused as to why he stopped running.

I saw the replay and can't figure out any reasonable explination (I've now watched the replay five times....

 

[CanadianCowboysFan]

5: "False start" on Ware - Pretty obvious he wasnt offsides, and it was 3rd down. Dallas stopped the Giants by batting the pass down, and they would have had to punt. Instead, they kept posession and scored.

4: Romo letting the ball slip out of his hand - TO would have walked in for a TD, but because Romo didnt get much on it, the ball wobbled and floated way over TO's head and we settled for a FG.

3: McQuarter's punt return - The Giants offense looked anemic in the second half until we gave them life by missing 3 tackles and letting McQuarters take the punt back to our 35.

2: Crayton's drop - Probably the biggest Cowboys drop since Jackie's in the SB back in the day. He catches that, he's in a 65 yard foot race to the wide side of the field. If he didnt score, he would have put us in very close proximity to being able to score and go up by 10. That looked just like Alvin Harper's game clinching catch and run against SF in '92, only he actually caught it.

1: Crayton giving up on the route - On the 3rd and 11 from our 22 with 23 seconds left, Crayton beat his man, Romo threw a perfect pass to the back corner of the endzone, and Crayton just STOPPED. TO or Glenn easily catches that for the winning points, but for some reason, Crayton just cut off his route as if the ball was thrown away when in fact it landed no more than 3 feet in front of him because he stopped running.

Yep, I agree completely. The one on Ware was atrocious.

 

[demdcowboys#1]

Crayton's poor play ultimately cost us the game. I knew that drop would bite us in the *** in the end.............

 

[utrunner07]

Crayton owes every single fan, eversingle teammate, and every single coach a personal apology. Until I get that I hope he never plays another game in a Cowboy's uniform, if that means he screws up his knee next pre-season, then so be it.

 

[ThreeSportStar80]

I still havent seen a replay of it since I have been home, but laufenberg basically was shocked and confused as to why he stopped running.

My question is why didn't they put Glenn on that side???

 

[xpistofer]

5: "False start" on Ware - Pretty obvious he wasnt offsides, and it was 3rd down. Dallas stopped the Giants by batting the pass down, and they would have had to punt. Instead, they kept posession and scored.

4: Romo letting the ball slip out of his hand - TO would have walked in for a TD, but because Romo didnt get much on it, the ball wobbled and floated way over TO's head and we settled for a FG.

3: McQuarter's punt return - The Giants offense looked anemic in the second half until we gave them life by missing 3 tackles and letting McQuarters take the punt back to our 35.

2: Crayton's drop - Probably the biggest Cowboys drop since Jackie's in the SB back in the day. He catches that, he's in a 65 yard foot race to the wide side of the field. If he didnt score, he would have put us in very close proximity to being able to score and go up by 10. That looked just like Alvin Harper's game clinching catch and run against SF in '92, only he actually caught it.

1: Crayton giving up on the route - On the 3rd and 11 from our 22 with 23 seconds left, Crayton beat his man, Romo threw a perfect pass to the back corner of the endzone, and Crayton just STOPPED. TO or Glenn easily catches that for the winning points, but for some reason, Crayton just cut off his route as if the ball was thrown away when in fact it landed no more than 3 feet in front of him because he stopped running.

absolutely nailed the key plays....totally beat ourselves...

is it time for the draft yet?

 

[CanadianCowboysFan]

My question is why didn't they put Glenn on that side???

Maybe Glenn couldn't do fly patterns but even with Crayton's lack of speed, he still had the TD if he doesn't slow down.

 

[Portland Fanatic]

Good post HH31...you are right on.

If I'm dissappointed in anyone right now its Crayton...with his mouth his should do everything to back it up, instead he potentially caused us to lose.

 

[big dog cowboy]

Shot ourselves right in the foot. That is what makes this loss suck even more.

 

[mmohican29]

Whoa to yee Patrick Crayton, for thou shalt wear the Scarlet Q for (Quit) pinned to thine 84 for alst tyme....

 

[ghosttown cowboy]

Flo's false start on third and 7 that made it third and 12, followed by Tony's duck 3 feet behind TO on the next play....

 

[cnhnyy]

Crayton is J Reeves of offense.

Romo needs to learn how to run the two-minute offense. We have 1'50" and we only need to go 57 yard. There was plenty of time. He should have spiked the ball to stop the clock when we had the first downs. Instead, he tried to get everyone perfectly lined up for a failed attempt(which cost 25 seconds off the clock)

Of course, having two, or even one extra Timeout would help as well. It is hard to believe we had to blow a TO to cover a punt.

 

[Doomsday]

5: "False start" on Ware - Pretty obvious he wasnt offsides, and it was 3rd down. Dallas stopped the Giants by batting the pass down, and they would have had to punt. Instead, they kept posession and scored.

4: Romo letting the ball slip out of his hand - TO would have walked in for a TD, but because Romo didnt get much on it, the ball wobbled and floated way over TO's head and we settled for a FG.

3: McQuarter's punt return - The Giants offense looked anemic in the second half until we gave them life by missing 3 tackles and letting McQuarters take the punt back to our 35.

2: Crayton's drop - Probably the biggest Cowboys drop since Jackie's in the SB back in the day. He catches that, he's in a 65 yard foot race to the wide side of the field. If he didnt score, he would have put us in very close proximity to being able to score and go up by 10. That looked just like Alvin Harper's game clinching catch and run against SF in '92, only he actually caught it.

1: Crayton giving up on the route - On the 3rd and 11 from our 22 with 23 seconds left, Crayton beat his man, Romo threw a perfect pass to the back corner of the endzone, and Crayton just STOPPED. TO or Glenn easily catches that for the winning points, but for some reason, Crayton just cut off his route as if the ball was thrown away when in fact it landed no more than 3 feet in front of him because he stopped running.

Bigg's personal foul penalty on Strahan was huge as well. We had converted 2nd and 4 on that play, instead we and up in 2rd and 19. 2 plays later Crayton drops the ball, we punt and 3 miss tackles later the Giants are in position.

 

[marchetta]

Don't forget the play where Miles Austin ran right by the DB, and had him beat by at least 10 yards, but Romo was under such pressure that he couldn't set his feet to throw it to him.