Dak Furious

[rambo2]

There was no reason to hire him.

Actually, he has been very good.

 

[GMO415]

Take the points. Next

 

[DZSierra]

There was no reason to hire him.

Whatever coach you're talking about, there was a reason to hire anyone of them.

They weren't expensive and they will listen to the GM who happens to be the owner which is how the owner runs his organization.

EVERYTHING stops at Gerry because there is no GM to be held accountable.

What Jerry needs to do (which we all know he won't do) is hire people to run his organization and hold them accountable.

That said, Jerry could counter that for a host of teams such as the Browns or Jets or a couple more teams, that doesn't work (at least what he tells himself to justify his chain of command).

 

[Flamma]

Right…right

The “fix was in” after the refs surprisingly overturned the safety that was originally called on the field and could have easily been upheld.

All fixing aside, under normal circumstances, it's probably better to give up the safety than punt from the back of your endzone. But that was before I knew that our defense didn't show up. So I doubt it mattered.

 

[Swagger]

No different than Dan Marino or Phillip Rivers or a host of other great QB's that just didn't have the "luck" to play on a good overall team...

Comparing Dak Prescott with Dan Marino? Normally it's Peyton Manning or Tom Brady...not hard to see why other people view Cowboy fans as a complete joke.

 

[IceStar-D7]

Season was over in the Summer. Worthless GM not upgrading the defense. Worthless head coach not playing the starters in preseason to see how bad the defense was. same old story as it's been for 30 years now.

 

[KingCorcoran]

Season was over in the Summer. Worthless GM not upgrading the defense. Worthless head coach not playing the starters in preseason to see how bad the defense was. same old story as it's been for 30 years now.

It makes you wonder just how much input Jerry Jones has in deference to prosecuting the games.

 

[IceStar-D7]

It makes you wonder just how much input Jerry Jones has in deference to prosecuting the games.

I'm sure he has his Ghoul knobby little fingers on everything we see on the field.

 

[Kevinicus]

I remember Madden a long time ago talking about how one of a coach's main duties was to overrule QBs about going for too many 4th downs.

It was the right call based on the game was going. There's no guarantee that it would be successful.

The potential positives of success far outweighed the negatives of failure.

They had the chance of not only more points, but of killing clock.

Potential 7 point difference lost there.

Factor in the way Detroit was moving, and it's a no brainer.

 

[Brax]

But he didn’t say what DFW said. He lied.

Curb stomp- light them up, if you read it he said - didn’t he basically say-, dumb on Daks part especially when he can’t back it up

 

[KingCorcoran]

I'm sure he has his Ghoul knobby little fingers on everything we see on the field.

I hope not. Fear you’re right.

 

[Cowfan75Lives]

Actually, he has been very good.

He's been no worse than the average Cowboys coach, which is bad but good enough for us.

 

[Cowboys5217]

The potential positives of success far outweighed the negatives of failure.

They had the chance of not only more points, but of killing clock.

Potential 7 point difference lost there.

Factor in the way Detroit was moving, and it's a no brainer.

Aubrey was the only one keeping it close in the score as Dak could only manage to get to mid field most of the game.

You simply cannot go for all 4th downs. You cannot go for most because you will hurt your team far more than you will help them. If Dallas had gone for it and failed they would have been further behind and out of the game sooner, so your "no brainer" makes you look dumb in that regard. The potential negatives were far worse than the risk reward justified since, as you say, Detroit was moving. In that case you must take all the points as they are available and not gamble them away like a fool.

 

[Rockport]

Curb stomp- light them up, if you read it he said - didn’t he basically say-, dumb on Daks part especially when he can’t back it up

He didn’t say what DFW said. You’re a hater so go back to Madden.

 

[Pentagruel]

The logic that Schottenheimer followed there was sound.

Team was down by two scores at that point and kicking the field goal would bring them within one score.

In fact, that decision helped the Cowboys get within 3 points in the 4th quarter.

Every decision leading up to that point is subjective of course, but they went from 3 points down in the 4th quarter to losing by 14 points.

You cannot expect your offense to score 45 points very often to win games where the other team scores 44 points.

There of course is plenty of blame to go around from the coaches to the players and even the referees, but in the end it comes down to the same thing it has most of the season .. bad defense.

If the cowboys converted, scored a touchdown and drained the clock that would have been a better outcome however. I agree with Dak that it was worth the risk there considering the tenor of the game.

 

[RonWashington]

Right…right

The “fix was in” after the refs surprisingly overturned the safety that was originally called on the field and could have easily been upheld.

I thought it was a safety

 

[Kevinicus]

Aubrey was the only one keeping it close in the score as Dak could only manage to get to mid field most of the game.

You simply cannot go for all 4th downs. You cannot go for most because you will hurt your team far more than you will help them. If Dallas had gone for it and failed they would have been further behind and out of the game sooner, so your "no brainer" makes you look dumb in that regard. The potential negatives were far worse than the risk reward justified since, as you say, Detroit was moving. In that case you must take all the points as they are available and not gamble them away like a fool.

Way wrong. It was 4th and 3. Not extremely difficult.

Negatives were 3 less points. That doesn't compare to potentially 4 more points from a td and no fg from Detroit.

You can't keep settling for FGs in a game like that.

No brainer go for it.

 

[triplets_93]

I remember Madden a long time ago talking about how one of a coach's main duties was to overrule QBs about going for too many 4th downs.

It was the right call based on the game was going. There's no guarantee that it would be successful.

I'm so proud of our coaches.

 

[rambo2]

He's been no worse than the average Cowboys coach, which is bad but good enough for us.

He has done very good for his 1st year as a head coach.

 

[DZSierra]

Comparing Dak Prescott with Dan Marino? Normally it's Peyton Manning or Tom Brady...not hard to see why other people view Cowboy fans as a complete joke.

You're missing my point.

Let's play Seseme Street and play "One of these things is not like the other"?

Dan Marino
Phillip Rivers
Dak Prescott
Brad Johnson

Lets play the same game using the below now...

Trent Dilfer
Brad Johnson
Dak Prescott
Nick Foles

No way does Dak Prescott get compared to Peyton Manny, Tom Brady, Roger Staubach or Troy Aikman IMO for that matter.