Couple of stats that haven't mattered.... ***MERGE***

[Jimz31]

At least for us:

Time Of Possession.....we won that yet again today.

Total Yards...won that again today as well.

Third Down Efficiency....The Bears converted 9%...we converted 46%.

Normally, when a team wins each of those categories, you win the game....It hasn't happened for us this year.

The offense has so many more problems than any of us know.

Lack of discipline and lack of talent on the o-line is standing out to me. Penalties at the wrong time are killers....allowing a d-lineman to hit the gap without hardly touching him on a running play is a killer as well.

Never forget....how the lines go, the teams go. Right now, ours is stuck in mud.

 

[CaptainAmerica]

No running game and Witten is a shell of his former self.

Going to be a long year.

 

[Venger]

Third Down Efficiency....The Bears converted 9%...we converted 46%.

That is just amazing... are you sure? Oh my God.

1 for 11. How does a team go 1 for 11 and hang 27 points on you?

 

[NextGenBoys]

At least for us:

Time Of Possession.....we won that yet again today.

Total Yards...won that again today as well.

Third Down Efficiency....The Bears converted 9%...we converted 46%.

Normally, when a team wins each of those categories, you win the game....It hasn't happened for us this year.

The offense has so many more problems than any of us know.

Lack of discipline and lack of talent on the o-line is standing out to me. Penalties at the wrong time are killers....allowing a d-lineman to hit the gap without hardly touching him on a running play is a killer as well.

Never forget....how the lines go, the teams go. Right now, ours is stuck in mud.

You hit the nail on the head.

We all need to shut up with our diagnosis. None of us have a freaking clue. Something is seriously not right though, and it's far beneath the surface.

 

[Jimz31]

That is just amazing... are you sure? Oh my God.

1 for 11. How does a team go 1 for 11 and hang 27 points on you?

They hang 27 points by our DB's playing off so much and getting big yardage.

 

[NextGenBoys]

No running game and Witten is a shell of his former self.

Going to be a long year.

He is effectively being schemed out of games.

 

[T-RO]

Talk about weird:

Third down efficiency:
Cowboys 6-13 46%
Bears 1-11 9%

Another one almost as weird:
Total plays:
Cowboys 71
Bears 48

Same as the Skins game: we were more consistent in moving the ball than the opponent. But big plays and mistakes killed us.

 

[baj1dallas]

Big plays on defense killed us along with the mistakes on offense.

 

[Vintage]

Yeah. We've gone from half-tard (last year) to full-tard this year.

Glad to see we improved somewhere...

 

[RCowboyFan]

Talk about weird:

Third down efficiency:
Cowboys 6-13 46%
Bears 1-11 9%

Another one almost as weird:
Total plays:
Cowboys 71
Bears 48

Same as the Skins game: we were more consistent in moving the ball than the opponent. But big plays and mistakes killed us.

And D basically being bad from 2nd quarter on. Total epic failure by the Secondary especially. Our Safeties were total bust today.

 

[MegaMagick]

The cowboys are a freakish ballclub.

 

[Hoofbite]

You hit the nail on the head.

We all need to shut up with our diagnosis. None of us have a freaking clue. Something is seriously not right though, and it's far beneath the surface.

Beneath the surface?

I think it's pretty well obvious on the surface.

Just not as good as we think.

 

[baj1dallas]

And D basically being bad from 2nd quarter on. Total epic failure by the Secondary especially. Our Safeties were total bust today.

I'm not sure that it was Ball that was supposed to cover Olsen on the TD.

 

[Bob Sacamano]

Still. We lost the turnover battle...again.

Special teams was horrible...again.

Penalty filled game...again.

Those are more important stats than total yards, and they completely make 3rd down conversion, success rates obsolete. Because you end up killing the drives that you prolong.

 

[FLCowboyFan]

The stat that typically predicts who will win is turnovers. We lost that stat both in games.

 

[LongSnapper]

I laugh at posters who say we all need to shut up because we have no clue and then decide they have all the answers

 

[TheSkaven]

That is just amazing... are you sure? Oh my God.

1 for 11. How does a team go 1 for 11 and hang 27 points on you?

Several reasons:

- They never got to third down in many cases
- You missed the most important stat: turnovers!!

 

[Dodger]

Normally, when a team wins each of those categories, you win the game....

Unless you lead in another stat: turnovers....

 

[NextGenBoys]

I laugh at posters who say we all need to shut up because we have no clue and then decide they have all the answers

Please show me where I've done that.

Everything I've said today has been around the lines of "I have no idea what's wrong right now"

 

[Bob Sacamano]

Please show me where I've done that.

Everything I've said today has been around the lines of "I have no idea what's wrong right now"

Dude, we know. You don't have to tell us.