Aikman has been right and no one is listening

[Cydios]

1. Defense "The Dallas defense has been very predictable. There's 0 intention on hiding the scheme beforehand. All the QB needs to do is look adjust and go"
2. Head Coach "Replacing Garrett right now only means putting in one of the other backup coaches, and right now do you see any coach who's failing becoming head coach right now?"
3. Leadership from top to bottom is killing this team. Instead of worrying about money, they should worry about the game. Money will come.
4. "Dak Prescott is averaging 308.6 yards per game this year. That's more than Tony Romo, Troy Aikman, Roger Staubach, or any QB in Cowboys history has ever averaged in any season of their career. Dallas issues is not the QB"
5. "No one is holding their teams mates accountable. I don’t think the players hear that. I wouldn’t hear it if I were them. And this is on the players as much as it is the coaches. They’ve got to be better. I’m not sure I’d even talk to the team this week. I’d just say ‘Let’s just go play next week and you guys figure it out.’ But the talk is over and it has been over for a while.”

 

[MysteryIceGuro]

I agree with him 100%, and people are listening. It's just that the people in power aren't (AKA, Jerry and Stephen) and that's all that matters. I doubt players are listening either.

Also,

1. "Dak Prescott is averaging 308.6 yards per game this year. That's more than Tony Romo, Troy Aikman, Roger Staubach, or any QB in Cowboys history has ever averaged in any season of their career. Dallas issues is not the QB"

I'm guessing you didn't hear him talk about Dak padding his stats all the time either, eh? I still don't think he's sold on Dak.

 

[nightrain]

1. Defense "The Dallas defense has been very predictable. There's 0 intention on hiding the scheme beforehand. All the QB needs to do is look adjust and go"
2. Head Coach "Replacing Garrett right now only means putting in one of the other backup coaches, and right now do you see any coach who's failing becoming head coach right now?"
3. Leadership from top to bottom is killing this team. Instead of worrying about money, they should worry about the game. Money will come.
4. "Dak Prescott is averaging 308.6 yards per game this year. That's more than Tony Romo, Troy Aikman, Roger Staubach, or any QB in Cowboys history has ever averaged in any season of their career. Dallas issues is not the QB"
5. "No one is holding their teams mates accountable. I don’t think the players hear that. I wouldn’t hear it if I were them. And this is on the players as much as it is the coaches. They’ve got to be better. I’m not sure I’d even talk to the team this week. I’d just say ‘Let’s just go play next week and you guys figure it out.’ But the talk is over and it has been over for a while.”

Even Aikman alluded the FACT that Dak's stats are garbage stats. Dak is not their biggest problem, but he certainly isn't providing much to be optimistic about.

 

[Stash]

1. Defense "The Dallas defense has been very predictable. There's 0 intention on hiding the scheme beforehand. All the QB needs to do is look adjust and go"
2. Head Coach "Replacing Garrett right now only means putting in one of the other backup coaches, and right now do you see any coach who's failing becoming head coach right now?"
3. Leadership from top to bottom is killing this team. Instead of worrying about money, they should worry about the game. Money will come.
4. "Dak Prescott is averaging 308.6 yards per game this year. That's more than Tony Romo, Troy Aikman, Roger Staubach, or any QB in Cowboys history has ever averaged in any season of their career. Dallas issues is not the QB"
5. "No one is holding their teams mates accountable. I don’t think the players hear that. I wouldn’t hear it if I were them. And this is on the players as much as it is the coaches. They’ve got to be better. I’m not sure I’d even talk to the team this week. I’d just say ‘Let’s just go play next week and you guys figure it out.’ But the talk is over and it has been over for a while.”

Actually, everybody is listening.

 

[John813]

On offense the game plan is simply to execute and beat your man.

On defense the game plan is simply to execute and beat your man.

 

[Cydios]

On offense the game plan is simply to execute and beat your man.

On defense the game plan is simply to execute and beat your man.

I can agree, but the coaches for the most part pick the plays and train the plays. Why doesn't the defense disguise their play. I've seen the best defense run to the line and drop back 4. There's 0 scheme.

 

[ClappingCarrot]

One thing Aikman said last night that really resonated with me was basically that we have an extreme deficiencies on defense and have zero ability to disguise what they're doing almost every snap. He mentioned that it's a god send to young QBs (Trubisky, Darnold, etc.) because your pre-snap read ends up always being identical to your post-snap read, so you can essentially know what you're doing with the ball before it's even snapped.

This is a HUGE issue.

 

[Bob-Lillys-War]

As Garrett always says:

"We didn't execute." Its that simple .

 

[BoysForLife]

I agree with him 100%, and people are listening. It's just that the people in power aren't (AKA, Jerry and Stephen) and that's all that matters. I doubt players are listening either.

Also,


I'm guessing you didn't hear him talk about Dak padding his stats all the time either, eh? I still don't think he's sold on Dak.

Correct.
he eviscerated Dak last night for his off target throws and missed reads.

"Another missed throw by Dak".... Said that several times. Even Buck picked up on it and started piling on.

The big finale was when Dak had Amari on a cross between the safety and LB and basically threw it in the dirt at his feet.
Aikman flat out said, if that throw was on time and on target, receiver is one step from going the distance. Instead, it's not even a completion.

Aikman wasn't rude about it but if anyone listened to his commentary last night and came away with him being good with Dak, you weren't listening to the same game I was. Just that simple.

 

[foofighters]

1. Defense "The Dallas defense has been very predictable. There's 0 intention on hiding the scheme beforehand. All the QB needs to do is look adjust and go"
2. Head Coach "Replacing Garrett right now only means putting in one of the other backup coaches, and right now do you see any coach who's failing becoming head coach right now?"
3. Leadership from top to bottom is killing this team. Instead of worrying about money, they should worry about the game. Money will come.
4. "Dak Prescott is averaging 308.6 yards per game this year. That's more than Tony Romo, Troy Aikman, Roger Staubach, or any QB in Cowboys history has ever averaged in any season of their career. Dallas issues is not the QB"
5. "No one is holding their teams mates accountable. I don’t think the players hear that. I wouldn’t hear it if I were them. And this is on the players as much as it is the coaches. They’ve got to be better. I’m not sure I’d even talk to the team this week. I’d just say ‘Let’s just go play next week and you guys figure it out.’ But the talk is over and it has been over for a while.”

You mean Jerry isn't listening. You know, the only one who can make change but isn't...

 

[OmerV]

I'm guessing you didn't hear him talk about Dak padding his stats all the time either, eh? I still don't think he's sold on Dak.

The way this is presented is kind of normal, but not at all fair. Yes, Dak's stats have been elevated in some games where we fell behind and had to go pass heavy. But (1) that has not been the case all season, so it's not fair to act as if it has been, and (2) it isn't "Dak padding his stats", it's team falling behind and being forced to throw a lot to catch up. Fans make it sound as if Dak is acting independent of the team and making a decision to artificially elevate his stats, and that's not remotely a fair characterization.

 

[MysteryIceGuro]

The way this is presented is kind of normal, but not at all fair. Yes, Dak's stats have been elevated in some games where we fell behind and had to go pass heavy. But (1) that has not been the case all season, so it's not fair to act as if it has been, and (2) it isn't "Dak padding his stats", it's team falling behind and being forced to throw a lot to catch up. Fans make it sound as if Dak is acting independent of the team and making a decision to artificially elevate his stats, and that's not remotely a fair characterization.

Tell that to Aikman, not me. I'm not the one that said it. Whatever. It doesn't matter. This team is in the toilet bowl.

 

[jazzcat22]

I agree with him 100%, and people are listening. It's just that the people in power aren't (AKA, Jerry and Stephen) and that's all that matters. I doubt players are listening either.

Also,


I'm guessing you didn't hear him talk about Dak padding his stats all the time either, eh? I still don't think he's sold on Dak.

Was just thinking, it is easy to average over 300 YPG for several reasons.

Not in any order.

Playing from behind in the 2nd half and 4th quarter especially, you have to throw the ball most of the time.
Being down 3 scores, you get a lot of garbage time stats.
Moore is worse than Linehan in play calling and abandons the run after the 1st quarter. I rather have Linehan back.
Therefore, more passing downs.

 

[john van brocklin]

1. Defense "The Dallas defense has been very predictable. There's 0 intention on hiding the scheme beforehand. All the QB needs to do is look adjust and go"
2. Head Coach "Replacing Garrett right now only means putting in one of the other backup coaches, and right now do you see any coach who's failing becoming head coach right now?"
3. Leadership from top to bottom is killing this team. Instead of worrying about money, they should worry about the game. Money will come.
4. "Dak Prescott is averaging 308.6 yards per game this year. That's more than Tony Romo, Troy Aikman, Roger Staubach, or any QB in Cowboys history has ever averaged in any season of their career. Dallas issues is not the QB"
5. "No one is holding their teams mates accountable. I don’t think the players hear that. I wouldn’t hear it if I were them. And this is on the players as much as it is the coaches. They’ve got to be better. I’m not sure I’d even talk to the team this week. I’d just say ‘Let’s just go play next week and you guys figure it out.’ But the talk is over and it has been over for a while.”

No, the right people are not listening.
The ones who could do something about it