Analysis: Dak vs Bills

[Runwildboys]

John Owning reviews the tape to come up with his three biggest takeaways from Thursday’s game.

Prescott had one of his worst performances of the season

As far as timing goes, Prescott picked a pretty bad time to have a poor performance. Prescott’s box score didn’t look too bad, finishing 32 of 49 for 355 yards, two touchdowns and an interception. But that ignores his two fumbles, one of which was recovered by the Bills, and the interceptions that were voided by Buffalo penalties.

For what it’s worth, Prescott never hung his head and continued to try to attack the Buffalo defense throughout, showing the type of toughness, leadership and resolve that gives you confidence in his future as the Cowboys’ QB, even with this poor performance. Part of Prescott’s struggles came from an erosion in his footwork and base, which caused him to miss easy throws and put poor placement on others, thus limiting yards-after-catch opportunities for his weapons.


This is others take after reviewing the game

For what it’s worth, Prescott never hung his head; and continued to try to attack the Buffalo defense throughout, showing the type of toughness, leadership and resolve that gives you confidence in his future as the Cowboys’ QB, even with this poor performance.

I don't think this came out right, did it?

EDIT: Oh wait, I get it now...."Prescott never hung his head" and "and continued to..." are separate thoughts. I read it as one continuous thought.

 

[Kaiser]

We always don’t agree, we can discuss it like men, and Then point out what we saw.

Exactly, I don't agree with every one of his observations but I think half the replies he gets are from people that just scan until they see a comment on Heath or Dak or whoever their hotbutton issue is.

 

[Runwildboys]

John Owning reviews the tape to come up with his three biggest takeaways from Thursday’s game.

Prescott had one of his worst performances of the season

As far as timing goes, Prescott picked a pretty bad time to have a poor performance. Prescott’s box score didn’t look too bad, finishing 32 of 49 for 355 yards, two touchdowns and an interception. But that ignores his two fumbles, one of which was recovered by the Bills, and the interceptions that were voided by Buffalo penalties.

For what it’s worth, Prescott never hung his head and continued to try to attack the Buffalo defense throughout, showing the type of toughness, leadership and resolve that gives you confidence in his future as the Cowboys’ QB, even with this poor performance. Part of Prescott’s struggles came from an erosion in his footwork and base, which caused him to miss easy throws and put poor placement on others, thus limiting yards-after-catch opportunities for his weapons.


This is others take after reviewing the game

Just edited that last post, after realizing I'd misread yours. lol

 

[Haimerej]

There were several people on Twitter that said Zeke drifted towards the sideline instead of staying on course towards the end zone.

He was going into the flat.

There were even more questioning running a pass play where Zeke was the primary read late in the game, again!

He wasn't the primary read. Dak even said he was late getting to him.

 

[G2]

There were much bigger issues if you consider the entire game and the team.

 

[Romotil45]

I just reviewed all of Dak's plays in the Bills game.

This post is intended for people that want to know what actually happened.

I know many trolls will try to derail the the thread but I did review all plays which I'm certain that they have not done.

My conclusion is that Dak made a heroic effort in an attempt to win the game. He threaded the needle many times with many great throws. He was under constant pressure. Without a running game, the Bills could just focus on pass rushing and pass defense.

I'm going to primarily list the "bad" plays by Dak or plays that appeared to be "bad" on his part.

• General Observations:
  • Multiple deep throws while under pressure and WRs not really open.
  • Not certain why they kept trying to deep passes to the sidelines.
  • There were multiple tipped passes. The Bills were focused on getting good jumps to tip passes.
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• INT by Star Lotulelei
  • The INT was a freak play.
  • The DT was being blocked by Tyron when Dak released the ball.
  • Dak was being hit as he released the ball.
  • The play design was similar to one in the preseason that also resulted in catastrophic failure.
  • It is a high risk play where the invite pass rushes to come at Dak with Dak looking right but planning all along to throw left to Pollard on a screen pass.
  • The DT made a great play.
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• Ball stripped as Dak was throwing.
  • Su'a-Filo whiffed and the pass rusher hit Dak's hand while he was in the throwing motion.
  • If Su'a-Filo could have delayed the pass rusher by 1 extra millisecond, then the pass was have been out of Dak's hand.
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• INT that was over-turned.
  • There was an INT that was over-turned due to a hands to the face penalty on the Bills DL.
  • The pass was perfect to Gallup but the DB ran through Gallup before the pass arrived.
  • I watched this one several time on slow motion.
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• Zeke bats the ball out of bounds.
  • Dak threw a low pass to Zeke in the flat.
  • The one that Zeke batted out of bounds.
  • It was still catch-able considering that Zeke was standing still when the ball arrived.
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• Final Drive of 1st Half.
  • They were moving he ball.
  • There were 3 plays in the middle of the field on the drive.
  • They attempted a field goal on 1st down because they were out of time.
  • Is that on the QB or Coaching to throw 3 times in the middle of the field when time if running out?
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• 2nd Half
• Dak sacked on a play design that Romo said was a common Cowboys play.
  • That seems to indicate a Garrett play...
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• Side Note:
  • Connor Williams Return from Injury.
  • CW had been out much of the 1st half with and injury issue.
  • He returned for the 2nd half but departed after a false start due to the injury issue.
  • Why was he back on the field if he was not healthy enough to play that snap?
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• Dak's 2nd run to get a 1st down.
  • Dak made an incredible effort to run for a 1st down.
  • This was the 2nd incredible effort to get a 1st down.
  • The 1st time was prior to the 4th down when Garrett went for it at the Dallas 20 yard line.
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• 4th down play in the redzone (3rd quarter)
  • The pass to Zeke looked terrible and way short.
  • After reviewing multiple times and in slow-motion it looks a bit different.
  • Looking at Zeke's location when Dak threw the ball is interesting.
  • If Zeke had moved more towards the endzone instead of the sideline, the pass would have been on target.
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• Zeke drop of sideline pass.
  • Great pass by Dak in the 4th quarter with a defender in his face to Zeke.
  • Zeke has the ball in his hands and has his feet in bounds but can't complete the catch.
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• Pass to the left in the 4th quarter that was almost intercepted.
  • Gallup was out near the sideline and ran an in-route.
  • He stopped just to the outside of the DB which is the opposite of what a WR would should do.
  • The WR needs to cross the DBs face and then stop.
  • Maybe Gallup thought that Dak would have time and allow Gallup to move back outside on an in & out type route which could have resulted in a big gain but in this type of game with the QB under constant pressure, I can't imagine why he might think that was possible.
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• Dak has the ball knocked out of his hands on the 4th down play at about 5:48 in the 4th.
  • La'el failed in a big way.
  • The Bills originally had 11 defenders within 5 yards of the line but some dropped back just before the snap.
  • On that drive, Witten had dropped a ball that hit his hands an there was not a defender near him.
  • The ball might have been tipped but it still hit his hands.
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• Last Scoring Drive
  • On the drive late in the 4th when they scored a TD, Dak threaded the needle multiple times including the TD pass and the 2-point conversion pass.

This is my review of your post and how you might improve your posting in the future.
You state " This post is intended for people that want to know what actually happened.
In the future you might try saying something like this " This post is intended for those who are interested in my review of the all 22 "
Your statement includes some bias namely that your opinion is fact example " what actually happened "
You might also add IMO ( In my opinion ) throughout your posts lets others know that you know that your opinions are not ness fact.

You state " I know many trolls will try to derail the thread but I did review all plays which I'm certain that they have not done.
In the future you might not want to envoke trolls as it only invites them to attack you also you might want to make it clear that there is a difference between a troll and someone with a different opinion. Also you might want in the future to not assume that others do not have access to all 22.
I have all 22 and I disagree with many of your assessments does that make me a troll ?

In the future you might concede for example as Dak himself conceded in his interview that this was not one of his better performances this shows you are not just a " fan boy " but you attempt to balance your own bias. Its also a good idea to admit to oneself that we all have some bias this gives you much more credibility.

Try not to make emotional posts. The real trolls will be trolls and regular posters know a real troll by the way they post and respond to posts just ignore them everyone else does. Also to show you are a person who can except critism you might want to admit when you make a mistake and respond inappropriately. We have all done it. We have all allowed ourselves to get emotionaly involved and get frustrated and say things out of line. Showing you have the character ness to admit you made a mistake gives you much more credibility.

I hope this assessment of your posts was constructive.

 

[zekecowboy]

After further review: Another bad game from Dak Prescott, timid play-calling, and mental lapses

Another bad game from Dak
It doesn’t seem like all that long ago when Dak Prescott’s name had finally surfaced in the conversation as a candidate for league MVP. Well, all that talk has calmed down because Lamar Jackson has been playing out of this world recently, but also - Dak hasn’t.

Statistically, the New England game last Sunday was his worst outing of the season, but if you look at the tape - Thursday’s game might’ve been even worse. Prescott wasn’t reading the defense very well and too often he was throwing into coverage. While he only had one interception in the game, it could’ve been worse as the Bills’ defensive backs read where he was going with the ball and closed out quickly.

And the interception that counted was absolutely terrible as it had no chance of being completed. Tony Pollard hadn’t even come out of his block and was in no position to catch the ball. Prescott just panicked and made a really bad decision with the football.

Dak is also having a problem putting the ball where it needs to go when swinging it to the outside for Ezekiel Elliott. It’s all fine and dandy when Zeke snags it with one hand and scampers into the end zone, but it’s not so great when he isn’t able to come up with it. Dak’s throwing it too low, and Elliott had trouble handling it one time to where he had to swat the ball out of bounds to prevent a possible interception. And on the fourth-down pass to Elliott, Zeke’s still going to have to make a guy miss to get into the end zone, but if Dak is going to look his way there, he has to at least give his teammate a fighting chance.

The great thing about Prescott is that he never stays in a rut. Just like the franchise quarterback before him, Dak has a short memory and even within the same game he will follow up bad play with some pretty outstanding moments. Against Buffalo, he made a few great throws, but it was his mistakes that impacted the game the most.

There is summary video of several of dak's throws in the link.


https://www.bloggingtheboys.com/201...prescott-timid-play-calling-and-mental-lapses