Aikman: "why do you throw that pass when Zeke just ran the ball for 8yds?"

[coogrfan]

Bu they scored on their best run play anyway

You don't call the read option on 2nd and 1. You run the ball between the tackles. More than likely you don't score, but you do force them to burn their final timeout.

 

[Bleu Star]

His "patience" for this "process" has already reached ridiculous proportions. I don't expect that to change anytime soon unfortunately.

And it will be easier for fans to point fingers at each other for being "bad fans" or lacking that same ridiculous "patience".

Call me a pessimist, I'm not seeing a playoff team here. Certainly not a playoff coaching staff

No. You're not a pessimist at all. It's very clear that we do NOT look like a team that will make any noise down the stretch. The frustrating thing is that we are getting guys back, should have been 4-1 at this point if not for our dumb coaches, and will just tread water thanks to our "dumb coaches".

 

[Boyzmamacita]

I am trying to see the coaches side of that call and come up with a good reason to make the call. I am being serious when I say that I cannot come up single reason to call that fade pass in that situation. It leads me to a scary realization, there are coaches on this team with some level of incompetence. Did he not know the down and yardage? Did he not know how much time was left? If we score, did he not think that a minute and a half for Rodgers was enough to at least get in FG range? Did he allow the QB to audible that call? Really struggling to come up with an excuse for that call.

It was almost picked off too which is another reason not to do it.

 

[Tabascocat]

Linehan has minimal situation awareness

 

[Deep_Freeze]

They RAN the very next play..

Your still not seeing that when you do an incomplete pass on that 2nd and 1, the clock being stopped is more important than anything.

If we score that TD, guess what there is even more time on the clock. Either way, the decision is horrible giving the ball back to Rodgers with even more time left.

Not sure what your not getting about the play clock....or wait is that you JG?

 

[Bleu Star]

Not sure what your not getting about the play clock....or wait is that you JG?

Savage

 

[khiladi]

Your still not seeing that when you do an incomplete pass on that 2nd and 1, the clock being stopped is more important than anything.

If we score that TD, guess what there is even more time on the clock. Either way, the decision is horrible giving the ball back to Rodgers with even more time left.

Not sure what your not getting about the play clock....or wait is that you JG?

So holding Rodgers to less than 150 yards passing the whole game is enough to warrant you thinking he can't be stopped?

Maybe we shouldn't have played prevent?

 

[Deep_Freeze]

So holding Rodgers to less than 150 yards passing the whole game is enough to warrant you thinking he can't be stopped?

Maybe we shouldn't have played prevent?

Maybe, just maybe, when your D sucks you shouldn't even give them the ball in the first place.

That 2nd and 1 play gave them the ball back with plenty of time left.

 

[TheHerd]

On a second and one and another chance to get a first down, while getting single coverage on Dez, it was perfectly a fine play call..

Not with this defense. Your only hope is to score with less than 30 seconds left, ideally less then that.

12 years of Romo haters will disagree, but that's just the reality of being the Dallas Cowboys QB.

 

[khiladi]

Maybe, just maybe, when your D sucks you shouldn't even give them the ball in the first place.

That 2nd and 1 play gave them the ball back.

So then holding GB to around 150 yards passing until that last drive proved they sucked and couldn't stop GB? What am I missing here?

 

[khiladi]

Not with this defense. Your only hope is to score with less than 30 seconds left, ideally less then that.

12 years of Romo haters will disagree, but that's just the reality of being the Dallas Cowboys QB.

Romo didn't lose because if defenses.. Romo lost because his offense was committing 30 plus TOs a game because the incompetent HC was our OC then and the defense eventually folded having to constantly cover for that bum..

We had a top six scoring defense when Wade was here..

 

[Deep_Freeze]

So then holding GB to around 150 yards passing until that last drive proved they sucked and couldn't stop GB? What am I missing here?

Your missing that its Aaron freakin Rodgers.

 

[Swanny]

On a second and one and another chance to get a first down, while getting single coverage on Dez, it was perfectly a fine play call..

100% disagree. If he scores your givimg too much time if it's incomplete it stops the clock. Run the ball let that clock tick. The clock waa just as important as the score.... With a defense like we have. With a better defense then yeah I'd have no problem with the play call

 

[SacredStar]

Sometimes the better team doesn't win. Dallas was the better team today. Sucks bad.

 

[LittleBoyBlue]

Good teams don't throw that pass.

The Cowboys, however, are not a good team.

No... they are a good team that does bad team things.


Here is the perennial ... “we should be 4-1” post.

 

[aikemirv]

So then holding GB to around 150 yards passing until that last drive proved they sucked and couldn't stop GB? What am I missing here?

That they did not have to pass because we could not stop the run wither. What in Rodgers stats for the first 3 and a half quarters shows you that we were stopping him-his attempts??

 

[Toruk_Makto]

You score when you can. There was under 90 seconds left when we kicked off the ball.

Trying to score with 1 second left on the clock is a good recipe for not scoring the ball at all.

 

[wssaustin]

Been too cute too often too much.

Linehan has minimal situation awareness

 

[NextGenBoys]

On a second and one and another chance to get a first down, while getting single coverage on Dez, it was perfectly a fine play call..

No it wasn't. It's a lose lose scenario in that context of the game.

Our situational football is abysmal

 

[mmohican29]

I am trying to see the coaches side of that call and come up with a good reason to make the call. I am being serious when I say that I cannot come up single reason to call that fade pass in that situation. It leads me to a scary realization, there are coaches on this team with some level of incompetence. Did he not know the down and yardage? Did he not know how much time was left? If we score, did he not think that a minute and a half for Rodgers was enough to at least get in FG range? Did he allow the QB to audible that call? Really struggling to come up with an excuse for that call.

I think this staff failed Dak again today. 2nd down and 2 play he has to be told to run the football no matter what. The look on Linehan's face tells me he too was upset with the decision to pass if indeed it was Dak who changed the play, but I highly doubt Dak was told that the play was a run: non-negotiable.