Cowboys number 1 of fewest drives ending in a punt or turnover

[JBS]

We’ve had offenses good enough to win a championship but we haven’t had the defenses at least not in the big games.

Yep. Defense holding SF to 22 points and 19 points is too much for this offense to overcome

 

[CCBoy]

Yep. Defense holding SF to 22 points and 19 points is too much for this offense to overcome

Oh, then just how does this affect that very view:

Now with his future mostly set in stone, Smith will be helping bring along a new center in 2024 after the departure of Tyler Biadasz. Having Zack Martin on the other side of the line will certainly help that transition, but Smith is taking it upon himself as well to smoothen the transition for whoever ends up winning that competition.
"It all starts in that o-line room, but definitely with communication," he said about what he will have to help with the most. "Centers have a lot on their plate and obviously it will be a new center, so just communicating with him and keeping him up to speed. Taking as much off his plate as we possibly can so we can play the best we possibly can."

https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/tyler-smith-focused-on-cemented-left-guard-placement

 

[PAPPYDOG]

I don't think anyone is doubting Dak regular season stats. The problem is when the Bills come to town Dallas might as well call up Cole Beasley to play QB because Dak becomes helpless as a baby and needs to be picked up and carried.

I doubt them as they're mostly against dog teams.

 

[CCBoy]

I doubt them as they're mostly against dog teams.

This is the real question for the up coming season:

Despite his immense potential, Guyton remains an unknown, leaving the offensive line without a top tackle for the first time in a long time. PFF recently ranked the Top 32 tackles in the NFL ahead of the 2024 season and no Dallas player made the cut.

It shouldn’t be a surprise that neither Guyton, nor starting right tackle Terence Steele made the list. Guyton will be a rookie protecting quarterback Dak Prescott’s blind side, and it’ll be a switch in sides for the young LT. Dallas believes Guyton has what it takes to become another of their All-Pro caliber offensive linemen drafted, but he’ll have a bumpy road on the way to hopefully making the list in the coming years.

https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/20...ve-tackle-bookends-looking-up-at-nfl-tandems/

Ben Grimaldi

@BenGrimaldi

When the Cowboys take an offensive lineman in the first round, its a home run! Since 2011, each of their 4 first-round OL selections have become All-Pros. Tyron Smith, Travis Frederick, Zack Martin and Tyler Smith all paid off. The expectation is that Guyton will as well.


11:11 AM · May 29, 2024
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On the right side, Steele needs to rebound from a rough year. The Cowboys put their faith in him after two solid campaigns at RT and gave him a hefty contract extension before the 2023 season began. Unfortunately, the veteran RT was coming off a torn ACL injury and wasn’t the same player. The expectation is that Steele will be back to his old self another year further away from the serious injury.

When he’s healthy, Steele is a good RT who excels in paving the way for the running game as one of the better run blockers in the league. He’s never made a Pro Bowl, but with his work ethic and the improvement he’s shown throughout his career, Steele is capable of being a Top 10 RT. However, it’s no surprise he didn’t find his way onto the list.

https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/20...ve-tackle-bookends-looking-up-at-nfl-tandems/

 

[Blitzen]

Dak ended most drives with a TD pass. Shocking when you consider it was a new offense and had no NFL running game.

Tied for 16th in YPC and were 14th in total rushing yards. They had a meh rushing offense, but still better than half the league.

 

[GMO415]

Bring in the post season stats. Then let's talk or burn it all down. Hahaha

 

[CCBoy]

Bring in the post season stats. Then let's talk or burn it all down. Hahaha

This is the comparative element for now:

This is the real question for the up coming season:

Despite his immense potential, Guyton remains an unknown, leaving the offensive line without a top tackle for the first time in a long time. PFF recently ranked the Top 32 tackles in the NFL ahead of the 2024 season and no Dallas player made the cut.

It shouldn’t be a surprise that neither Guyton, nor starting right tackle Terence Steele made the list. Guyton will be a rookie protecting quarterback Dak Prescott’s blind side, and it’ll be a switch in sides for the young LT. Dallas believes Guyton has what it takes to become another of their All-Pro caliber offensive linemen drafted, but he’ll have a bumpy road on the way to hopefully making the list in the coming years.

https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/20...ve-tackle-bookends-looking-up-at-nfl-tandems/

Ben Grimaldi
@BenGrimaldi

When the Cowboys take an offensive lineman in the first round, its a home run! Since 2011, each of their 4 first-round OL selections have become All-Pros. Tyron Smith, Travis Frederick, Zack Martin and Tyler Smith all paid off. The expectation is that Guyton will as well.


11:11 AM · May 29, 2024
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On the right side, Steele needs to rebound from a rough year. The Cowboys put their faith in him after two solid campaigns at RT and gave him a hefty contract extension before the 2023 season began. Unfortunately, the veteran RT was coming off a torn ACL injury and wasn’t the same player. The expectation is that Steele will be back to his old self another year further away from the serious injury.

When he’s healthy, Steele is a good RT who excels in paving the way for the running game as one of the better run blockers in the league. He’s never made a Pro Bowl, but with his work ethic and the improvement he’s shown throughout his career, Steele is capable of being a Top 10 RT. However, it’s no surprise he didn’t find his way onto the list.

https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/20...ve-tackle-bookends-looking-up-at-nfl-tandems/

This currently is the post season comparative factor:

The Philadelphia Eagles have both of their tackles listed among the Top 10 in the league. LT Jordan Mailata came in at number five on the list, while RT Lane Johnson was right behind him, ranking sixth. It’s disheartening to see rivals rank so highly on a list where the home team isn’t represented.

https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/20...ve-tackle-bookends-looking-up-at-nfl-tandems/

 

[KJJ]

Yep. Defense holding SF to 22 points and 19 points is too much for this offense to overcome

SF scored 23 in 2021 and rushed for 169 yards. They controlled the ball for 34 minutes. Hard for an offense to overcome that when they’re on the sidelines because the defense can’t make a stop.

 

[blueblood70]

Fewest in the league last year!

not too shabby for a new offense being ran by a fat overweight overrated and not so good average offensive coordinator slash/ head coach who the fan base want fired, who's given players who are overrated can't play with historically bad offseason with non additions etc etc and somehow the Dallas Cowboys keep turning up in these stat lines that show that they are one of the better teams in the NFL...full of talent that allegedly the FO doesn't know what they are doing..

 

[blueblood70]

Yeah we can't do the things we do and have a suck qb, suck coaches, suck run game etc.

Someone actually has to be good.

Right it doesn't fit all the narratives that this place arrives at all the time about our players somehow we're a top six team the last three years but we have the worst of everything the front office the coaches the players we don't do enough in the offseason and somehow we're just tripping into being rated in the top of just about every category in all three sides of the ball actually..

Yes we're all disappointing about the playoffs and that's what will be the comeback anytime we try to give praise or flowers to the Dallas Cowboys it'll be well what did they do in the playoff game well yeah they all blew it they choked that's what they did but don't act like we didn't have the talent...

The stranger thing is everybody's worried about this offseason like the last three offseasons they say we don't do enough and every time we've ended up having stats come up like this I mean we virtually are returning the same offense as last year.. We're missing a few players most of which we're not dynamic we're not special or they were up in age and hurt all the time but everyone's all worried about it.

 

[blueblood70]

SF scored 23 in 2021 and rushed for 169 yards. They controlled the ball for 34 minutes. Hard for an offense to overcome that when they’re on the sidelines because the defense can’t make a stop.

Wasn't that the same year the offensive line gave up eleven penalties in that game, 11??!! imagine how many plays got called back and how many times we were behind the chains asking our quarterback with virtually no run game to overcome all that ie 2nd and 3rd and long, add the defense all of it.. yes they gave up ten yards per carry I believe in that game the deebo Samuels in the first half but nobody remembers that because they want to blame Prescott as usual...

 

[big dog cowboy]

SF scored 23 in 2021 and rushed for 169 yards. They controlled the ball for 34 minutes. Hard for an offense to overcome that when they’re on the sidelines because the defense can’t make a stop.

Let's not forget the offense put the defense into a hole. SF had a FG drive of just 28 yards and a TD drive of just 26 yards. The offense had 11 possessions. More than enough opportunity to score more than 17 points. Especially considering 3 of those points came off the fake punt completed pass by Anger keeping the drive alive.

 

[KJJ]

Let's not forget the offense put the defense into a hole. SF had a FG drive of just 28 yards and a TD drive of just 26 yards. The offense had 11 possessions. More than enough opportunity to score more than 17 points. Especially considering 3 of those points came off the fake punt completed pass by Anger keeping the drive alive.

Our defense put us in a hole right off the bat allowing SF to score a TD on their opening drive. We didn’t sack Jimmy G once. He didn’t even play well but we couldn’t stop their rushing attack. They dominated us in the trenches. Our offense wasn’t great but we only had one fewer first down than SF. Their defense made critical stops and we kept shooting ourselves in the foot with 14 penalties.

 

[JBS]

SF scored 23 in 2021 and rushed for 169 yards. They controlled the ball for 34 minutes. Hard for an offense to overcome that when they’re on the sidelines because the defense can’t make a stop.

Yeah also hard to overcome a scrub performance by the qb..top stats would be different if the offense could sustain drives

 

[fivetwos]

This is part of direction today...

1. The Dallas Cowboys see another defensive chess piece in third-round linebacker Marist Liufau."Number one, he's brilliant," defensive coordinator Mike Zimmer told reporters. "He catches on really quick. He wants to be so good and so intense that he's almost too much at it right now. The other thing is I think he's a really good pressure player and I think having that with (Micah) Parsons and another pressure player that is a linebacker or he can move somewhere else and Parsons can move somewhere else. I think those pieces add to confusion for the offense, plus he's a really good rusher. "
   
   Liufau isn't just a box player, though. He didn't allow a single touchdown when in coverage over the last two seasons, according to Pro Football Focus.
   
   For the Cowboys, the coaching staff has a good problem on its hands. Veterans Eric Kendricks, Damone Clark and DeMarvion Overshown are the projected starters. Liufau is going to push Overshown in particular for a spot. But Zimmer can move all of them around to give opposing offenses different looks.
   
   Even if Liufau doesn't find himself in the starting lineup, he'll be a sub-package performer providing flexibility for the entire unit.

bleacherreport

I don’t mind this pick as much as most if they really wanted him and didn’t want to risk him lasting until the fifth. Not as if it wasn’t a position of need. They’ve had a handful of reaches of late that haven’t gone well though.

Now they just have to be right about it. Still say all these LBs are going to look worse than they are with the atrocious DT room, but let’s see if miracles occur.

 

[KJJ]

Yeah also hard to overcome a scrub performance by the qb..top stats would be different if the offense could sustain drives

He was statically better than Jimmy G but he had a running game to lean on and a great defense.

 

[JBS]

He was statically better than Jimmy G but he had a running game to lean on and a great defense.

That’s cool. Wasn’t statistically good enough to win the game. Had the ball in his hands twice w a chance to win it and did absolutely nothing

 

[KJJ]

That’s cool. Wasn’t statistically good enough to win the game. Had the ball in his hands twice w a chance to win it and did absolutely nothing

We had 14 penalties and some of those wiped out some good plays and helped kill drives. Have to credit SF’s defense. Wish the Cowboys had their defense. Some of you need to stop putting it all on Dak.

 

[blueblood70]

Let's not forget the offense put the defense into a hole. SF had a FG drive of just 28 yards and a TD drive of just 26 yards. The offense had 11 possessions. More than enough opportunity to score more than 17 points. Especially considering 3 of those points came off the fake punt completed pass by Anger keeping the drive alive.

We're not forgetting but just remember the total game that was the game our offensive line had 11 penalties and put our offense in a hole big time , the D 3 huge penaties that extended drives...everything went against this team in way they just couldnt get any momentum...

I'd rather play Switzerland here it was a total team loss just like many of the other losses we've had you can go find where you can blame the defense for the 2016 Green Bay loss and you probably should and again the Rams game in 2018 278 yards on the ground the defense just gave up too many long drives that consumed too much time and didn't put our offense back but some of it was our offense not getting anything done because it once again we didn't have a run game, and then again 2021 we're talking about 14 penalties they were huge they took back plays they ate up clock they just let the 49ers own time of possession and control all the momentum in the game even if it looked close it just never seemed like you could just get anything going because of all the penalties and yes the other things happen but it was a team loss, the 2022 game probably could blame the offense more than anything else but we do have to remember some of the big plays that could have been made by the defense weren't a dropped interception that kittles play that should have never happened if Trayvon diggs just put his shoulder into him that there's just a lot of little things that keep adding up to the team keeps making too much mistakes let's stop trying to blame one side of the ball or the other and of course last year against Green Bay was a total disaster in all four phases offense defense special teams we didn't have a chance from the first snap literally the defense came out and just gave up an easy touchdown and then it was pretty much over.. I'm almost sure we would have lost seven nothing if nothing else would have ever happened in that game just because that's how it felt we lost from that snap..

So I'd like to just keep this as team losses the coaching Staffs are not adjusting they're not bringing in good game plans the players are making mistakes in all three phases we just need to get it together... Trying to blame one side of the ball or another it's just useless it's wasted energy I mean come on we can go back to every play and find it it was all three phases...

 

[CWR]

Right it doesn't fit all the narratives that this place arrives at all the time about our players somehow we're a top six team the last three years but we have the worst of everything the front office the coaches the players we don't do enough in the offseason and somehow we're just tripping into being rated in the top of just about every category in all three sides of the ball actually..

Yes we're all disappointing about the playoffs and that's what will be the comeback anytime we try to give praise or flowers to the Dallas Cowboys it'll be well what did they do in the playoff game well yeah they all blew it they choked that's what they did but don't act like we didn't have the talent...

The stranger thing is everybody's worried about this offseason like the last three offseasons they say we don't do enough and every time we've ended up having stats come up like this I mean we virtually are returning the same offense as last year.. We're missing a few players most of which we're not dynamic we're not special or they were up in age and hurt all the time but everyone's all worried about it.

For me the worry isn't necessarily we are getting worse, but we aren't doing enough to break through. We are wasting the opportunity to upgrade a good team into a great team.