Biggest difference between the Cowboys and the Rams/Bengals

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I watched every minute of every playoff game.

I made a post about this after the second round of games but will make it now as it is more final and definitive.

WE ARE NOT THAT FAR OFF OF THE OTHER TEAMS.

The biggest difference between us and them is twofold. Penalties and Coaching. (that might be one and the same)

Our roster can go toe-to-toe with any of the teams in the playoffs. But when the competition is tough and the games are close. We shoot ourselves in the foot... over and over again with penalities and to a lesser extent. Stupid coaching. (clock management, time outs, challenges, etc)
 
cmoney23 said:
I watched every minute of every playoff game.

I made a post about this after the second round of games but will make it now as it is more final and definitive.

WE ARE NOT THAT FAR OFF OF THE OTHER TEAMS.

The biggest difference between us and them is twofold. Penalties and Coaching. (that might be one and the same)

Our roster can go toe-to-toe with any of the teams in the playoffs. But when the competition is tough and the games are close. We shoot ourselves in the foot... over and over again with penalities and to a lesser extent. Stupid coaching. (clock management, time outs, challenges, etc)
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GM with his job on the line fixes this..soo its right back to the 26 year reason we dont win...you know him, you love him, he gives a great interview every week about who is playing that week..you guessed it its our dual threat owner!!!!
 
We are not close to the other teams. We say the same thing every year...sure, talent-wise it might be close. But coaching and culture (Jerry) will always hold them back. Too many distractions with playing for the Cowboys. A team can't focus on just being a football team because of the circus and atmosphere. Even a team in Los Angeles, with all of the distractions in that city, can put it together and just focus on winning football games.

Jerry and Stephen need to have their hands in everything so that everyone knows it's their team and whoever is the coach takes orders from them. With the Rams, sure, they have an owner and GM but everyone on that team knows McVay calls the shots when it comes to playing the game.
 
As I pointed out yesterday in a couple of posts. Mike Brown is the ONLY other Owner/GM in the NFL. I say again, the Bengals GM is the Owner.
Just like Jerry.

The difference is he's got Burrow.

The difference with the Rams is they have an actual GM in LA in Les Snead, who IS, a GM.

THOSE are the 2 differences.
 
MountaineerCowboy said:
Well there ya go then.

That's why you've been left wondering what went wrong for the past 26 years. That's why you just can't quite figure out why the Cowboys have 3 Wild Card wins in the past quarter of a century.
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I mean your statement kinda says for 26 years its been the players...surley you dont think we have drafted bad for 26 years. This GM gave you 10 years of JG..ran off Parcells and Sean Payton, again sure the players have failed but they had to learn how once implanted into this great system...
 
Dallas does not have a win and nothing else is acceptable playmaker. Look at Dallas on offense, for example. It's fourth down and they need a first down. Who do you absolutely have to get the ball to? Who is going to win their battle no matter what? Who is saying get me the ball and I will get that first down? No one. There is not one player who refuses to lose and will make a play when one has to be made. They have a lot of good players that could make a play, though. Defense is much of the same on defense with the lone exception possibly being Micah Parsons.
 
I hate the old "blueprint" thing, but I will use it here. The Rams are the blueprint for the Cowboys going forward. I mean it in the sense that the Cowboys defense is probably closer to the Rams defense than the offense is to being a championship offense.

The Rams built a defense that can simply overpower the opponents to stop their passing game. Of course having Aaron Donald is a big part of that and there just aren't any Aaron Donalds available in the draft every year. He comes along once in a generation. But the Cowboys have 2 DEs and Micah Parsons who can get after the QB. All they need, and I have been saying this for years, is a DT who can push the pocket and get pressure up the middle. How much is a Super Bowl worth to Jerry? I am sure it is more than the price of one impact DT. This is why Jerry need to focus on building the defense and simply fix the OL on offense.

Stafford is not a better QB than Dak. Dak can do what Stafford does. Stafford was nothing special yesterday. The Rams did not win because of him. They won because the Rams defense did not allow the Bengals to drive for a game tying FG, Burrow or no Joe Burrow. That's what it takes to win a championship.
 
Coaching! No accountability even you have our coaches having to react to their overlord Jerry. Garrett wasted 10 yrs and now MM doesn’t even run his own O or have control of anything. If you watched any of the mic’ed up pregame highlight shows yesterday you will see 2 young coaches who run the ship without thinking twice about being second guessed. It’s a circus here
 
2021 was the return of elite Defense.

TB, KC and Dallas all made the playoffs but faltered when they ran into a defensive buzz saw.

Cincy lost 8 games this year, 8!!! That wasn't a perfect team by any means.
Burrows had a lesser REGULAR season than Dak.
But Cincy got hot when it mattered. Chase and Burrows developed as the year went and is arguably the best QB/WR combo in football right now. --PM5/TyHill, AR/Adams and Staff/Kupp right there.

Stafford had some really up and down performances but did enough to win it all.

In a year where defense ruled' all those free yards Dallas gave up were the biggest issue IMO.
Have to be cleaner if you can't just go get 400 yards of total offense every week.

Dallas fans have every right to feel hard done by officiating.
Same issue last night as there were a lot of obvious penalties that were not called all game then bam they got called in the final 6 minutes.
All that said Dallas was too undisciplined all year to realistically earn any benefit of the doubt on penalties.
 
The difference?

- Strength in the trenches - the Rams defensive line had it, the Bengals offensive line didn't.
The game was there for the taking for Cincy. Score at touchdown on any one of those offensive possessions in the fourth quarter, and this game is over.
But the Rams defensive line stepped up, and the Bengals line folded.

- Coaching (as in play calling). Joe Mixon should have been featured more often in the second half. But the Bengals abandoned the run to put the game in Burrow's hands. Trying to make a star of your quarterback and not your running back came back to bite the Bengals. And why the heck are you featuring Perine? He gave little effort in running the ball hard to get that first down on 3rd and 1, and made little effort to dive for an errant Burrow throw. The moment was too big for him.

- Always go with smart, determined, coach-I'll-make-the-play players. I'll never forget what Michael Irvin said. In essence, there are players you can tell that when the game is on the line, they DON'T want the football. There are certain players who just crank it up a notch when the game is on the line. And it has to be a player other than the quarterback, although he is important also. I just felt on the last scoring drive for the Rams, Cooper Kupp would not be denied. It just amazes me how Stafford could get the ball to him, but we can't seem to get the ball to our star players in crunch time against good teams. Kupp runs precise routes and has a will that won't be denied. In contrast, Perine shrank under the bright lights. We need more Kupps. Michael Irvin was like this. Emmitt was like this. Outside of Micah Parsons, I don't know if we have players who are consumed by winning.

Currently, we have talented players, but we don't have strength in the trenches both on offense and defense, we don't have the coaching, and I doubt our will. The look of fear in the Cowboys players' eyes before the Niners game is a memory I likely won't forget. We were beaten before we took the field.

You can't win with players who aren't confident and who can't get the job done. We need another Jimmy Johnson who can mold a team to reflect his attitude. But we know a coach such as he is not welcomed at Cowboy Ranch.

So ... dream, dream, dream, dream (cue music).
 
cmoney23 said:
I watched every minute of every playoff game.

I made a post about this after the second round of games but will make it now as it is more final and definitive.

WE ARE NOT THAT FAR OFF OF THE OTHER TEAMS.

The biggest difference between us and them is twofold. Penalties and Coaching. (that might be one and the same)

Our roster can go toe-to-toe with any of the teams in the playoffs. But when the competition is tough and the games are close. We shoot ourselves in the foot... over and over again with penalities and to a lesser extent. Stupid coaching. (clock management, time outs, challenges, etc)
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cmoney23 said:
I watched every minute of every playoff game.

I made a post about this after the second round of games but will make it now as it is more final and definitive.

WE ARE NOT THAT FAR OFF OF THE OTHER TEAMS.
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I watched all of the games, too. I went 6-for-6 betting wild card weekend so apparently I saw something that made me think the Niners would win, and they did.

The Cowboys lost two of their final six games. Both were at home versus playoff teams, Arizona and San Fran, and the opponent controlled the game for 3+ quarters. Dallas made the results look closer in the end, but trailing 22-7 and 23-7 after 3 quarters showed a gap in class.

I'm not sure the Cowboys would've even made the playoffs if they swapped divisions with the Seahawks. Six games versus Arizona, San Fran, and the Rams wouldn't have produced the 6 wins Dallas got from beating up on the East.
 
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