Cooper Rush Appreciation Thread

[kskboys]

You really put in a lot of effort to try & be difficult. If I had wanted to comment about Tyler Smith, I would have done so. You asked why the OL played better, I gave you a very simple reason that taking a player (Martin) who wasn't playing that well is addition by subtraction. One reason. Nothing more, nothing less.

And that's still not it.

Rush gets rid of the ball quick which makes the OL look better. Simple stuff.

 

[McKDaddy]

And that's still not it.

Rush gets rid of the ball quick which makes the OL look better. Simple stuff.

Yes, that is another reason.

 

[noshame]

We started the game passing which is what opened up the running game.

And I guess that's my point, the run started to work. We should have started leaning on it heavily and we should from now on. As long as we have a threat to throw those intermediate passes, the running game is going to work.
But alas, McCarthy is not a run guy, which is why he won't be here beyond a few more games.

 

[DIAF]

Aren't a lot of folks saying they observe a difference in the team with him at QB?

Did they observe that same difference in either of the previous two games he started/played extensively in?

 

[McKDaddy]

Did they observe that same difference in either of the previous two games he started/played extensively in?

some differences, yes. like hitting Turp in stride for that long TD. obviously the little things added up to a larger impact yesterday.

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

You really put in a lot of effort to try & be difficult. If I had wanted to comment about Tyler Smith, I would have done so. You asked why the OL played better, I gave you a very simple reason that taking a player (Martin) who wasn't playing that well is addition by subtraction. One reason. Nothing more, nothing less.

But you didn’t take one player out you took Tyler Smith out as well lol. You’re trying to debate around that fact but my question verbatim said both of those guys. Guyton has sucked all year as well. Yet the unit still played well even with him and Asim swapping all game.

 

[McKDaddy]

But you didn’t take one player out you took Tyler Smith out as well lol. You’re trying to debate around that fact but my question verbatim said both of those guys. Guyton has sucked all year as well. Yet the unit still played well even with him and Asim swapping all game.

I most certainly did not. Of the two of us, you are the only one who has mentioned Tyler.

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

I most certainly did not. Of the two of us, you are the only one who has mentioned Tyler.

No I don’t mean literally you lol….i made a post saying I don’t know how the line got better without Tyler and Martin. You mention Martin and you think he’s been bad this year. But you forgot to mention Tyler…..which is convenient…

 

[lemadurham]

Good Job today by Qb1.


24/32
247 yds
2td
0 int


Probably the best performance by a Dallas QB all year. And he did it with a backup OL against a 7-4 team

And on the road in a long time fierce rival's stadium.

 

[McKDaddy]

No I don’t mean literally you lol….i made a post saying I don’t know how the line got better without Tyler and Martin. You mention Martin and you think he’s been bad this year. But you forgot to mention Tyler…..which is convenient…

I was choosing what I wanted to comment on which was getting Martin out for someone younger & healthier is making your line better. (We have seen these guys play before so it's not blind faith)

Since you want to go down that road, I think Tyler S is our best OL. So no, I'm not saying we are better without Tyler. Maybe he has been playing with some nagging things we aren't aware of. Maybe the young guys just ran on adrenaline yesterday. Don't know. I have no doubt that a healthy Tyler is upgrade over any of them though.

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

I was choosing what I wanted to comment on which was getting Martin out for someone younger & healthier is making your line better. (We have seen these guys play before so it's not blind faith)

Since you want to go down that road, I think Tyler S is our best OL. So no, I'm not saying we are better without Tyler. Maybe he has been playing with some nagging things we aren't aware of. Maybe the young guys just ran on adrenaline yesterday. Don't know. I have no doubt that a healthy Tyler is upgrade over any of them though.

That’s all I was saying is just say you don’t know. It’s the NFL some things can’t be explained…..that’s one of them….for now anyway. Maybe we have some dogs on the mine all. Who knows.

 

[CowboysFaninHouston]

How many teams have won or even reached a Superbowl over the past 10-15 years when they significantly overpaid at the quarterback position? There may be one but from memory the answer is a big fat zero. Stafford wasn't overpaid and is better than Prescott. Perhaps Peyton Manning at the Broncos but that really was an anomaly with a fantastic defense. The % call is to not overpay for the Prescott's and Cousins in the league.

It's pointless me aftertiming and providing a list of all the players the Cowboys could have signed but the reality is that a Superbowl winning team typically needs every single piece they can get hold of to get over the hump. You look back at past winners and there are plays made by key pieces brought in or retained.

I would much rather have a QB like Sam Darnold earning chicken feed or a rookie quarterback surrounded by a bucket load of talent than Prescott without a load of extra talent because of his contract. The salary cap is real.

You are blinded by thinking Dallas Cowboy fans are obsessed with how much Prescott earns - I couldn't care less. It's telephone numbers to me. I care about the team winning and being successful in the play offs.

You disagree which is fair enough everyone is entitled to an opinion but my view is that paying Dak Prescott $60 million a year with $231 million guaranteed over 4 years with a no trade clause was a horrific decision that will effectively act as a progress stopper for the whole team especially when he's so injury prone at this point in his career. He's a walking hospital.

a lot of them have ....there was argument, hey the Giants paid Eli and he is making 16% of the cap and they will not win the superbowl...and just like that a couple of years later, he wasn't counting 16% of the cap and they won the superbowl...people tend to bring this argument because they only look at the year of the contract not percentage of cap each year.....KC handed Mahomes a 450M contract at the time the highest paid....yet since then they have won the superbowl and been to another one a few times...why? because the cap goes up, but contract doesn't....

Stafford was paid....and so in your second sentence you kind of contradicted yourself...... stafford was highly paid, they did win the superbowl......

now, this is not an attestment to say we should pay Dak....its that the salary cap can be managed. if you have the right GM. salaries are what they are. QB market is what it is. so often people get confused between average salary, salary in a specific year and keep going back to the original contract value average and the cap in that year.

and I find it funny, people always jump on the latest band wagon that's up front. nobody and I mean nobody ever this off season mentioned Sam Darnold, but now every says hey I got the crystal ball and I rather have Darnold.
and the last problem is the bucket of talent. our drafts have been bad and we don't spend in FA. so where is this bucket? what talent have we wanted to keep and couldn't? if anything we handed out large contracts to some players that actually didn't deserve it. I can't recall one player we have wanted to keep and couldn't. and one player in FA that we really wanted, but Joneses chose not to sign. we have 23M on the cap this year. few contract redos next year and its easily over 65M. that's with Dak's large cap number.

the incompetence lies with the GM and nobody but the GM.

 

[Cowboys5217]

Which player has the ability to influence the game more than any other? That's why the quarterback receives the greatest amount of scrutiny. There's no other reason.

People could not care less about players earning a lot of money - they care that it impacts the salary cap which then impacts the flexibility of the team retaining and adding to players in free agency.

I.e., when an overrated quarterback is hugely overpaid it essentially results in a team being unable to get over the hump in the play offs even with a mostly good/strong roster.

Yep. People who use that "why do you care about another man's money" are using a straw man fallacious argument. It is ascribing motives they made up in their head and apply to us because they want to discredit us with emotional out burst rather than deal with the reality of it.

Nobody would care how much Dak made if he worked at McDonalds. Likewise, nobody would care what he, or any player made in the NFL IF IT DIDN'T AFFECT THE SALARY CAP WHICH IS A BIG FACTOR IN TRYING TO WIN THE SUPER BOWL.

It is a childish argument to claim that those critical of Dak and his contract are doing so out of jealousy for his money. If that were true then we wouldn't like contracts that ANY NFL players got, but that's not the case as any idiot can easily discern.

If these guys don't want us factoring in contract dollars to Super Bowl chances then they need to convince the NFL to both get rid of the Salary Cap and stop publishing player contracts so that nobody in the public even knows anything about these contracts.

 

[TheCoolFan]

Great performance...looks like Cooper Rush still has it in him! I will admit that I wrote him off but he proved me wrong.

 

[noshame]

Did you see the Packers games or all those 200 yard rushing games against him? Not sure why you got offended to resort to calling people clowns but it’s a known fact his defenses can’t stop the run why do you think the good teams ran all over us?

So I see!
its yards amassed that win games.
I understand now, points and turnovers have little to do with it, which his defenses generate.

 

[BrAinPaiNt]

KNOCK OFF THE NAME CALLING AND PERSONAL INSULTS.

 

[RoboQB]

Cheers to Cooper Rush!

Although his passes look like a duck that has taken its own life in mid-flight, he got it done. WRs are coming back to the ball because, well, they have to, or else. Those passes move at the speed of a balloon but he gets the ball out quicker than a $60 million dollar man.

The whole team played with determination yesterday. Sure, it might not have been pretty but it was entertaining. And that's really the whole point anyway.

 

[CowboyFrog]

So I see!
its yards amassed that win games.
I understand now, points and turnovers have little to do with it, which his defenses generate.

i mean those yards did turn into points, GB set record in our house for playoff points....

 

[PAPPYDOG]

Cheers to Cooper Rush!

Although his passes look like a duck that has taken its own life in mid-flight, he got it done. WRs are coming back to the ball because, well, they have to, or else. Those passes move at the speed of a balloon but he gets the ball out quicker than a $60 million dollar man.

The whole team played with determination yesterday. Sure, it might not have been pretty but it was entertaining. And that's really the whole point anyway.

They will play for Cooper as he's a grunt (Not an overpaid 60 million prima donna) like they are but trust me the team has zero to no respect for Daktrash!
Once the Deer in the Headlights face comes out the defense just stops trying...................

 

[LACowboysFan1]

Good win.

If Dallas can win enough games to make the playoffs. If not, all it did was worsen the draft position.

Kudos to Rush, he did fairly well. However, to me that performance was the epitome of "bus driver" quarterbacking. That suits him to a "t".

Hard to win games in the playoffs that way, without a very stout defense. Cowboys haven't shown that type of defense all year. The long td pass by Daniels at the end of the game was an embarrassment, there were 5, count 'em, 5 defenders and only 1 Commanders blocker, and still it was a td.

Unless the defense can pick it up another couple of notches, this win won't be repeated against the Bucs, Eagles and Bengals...