Dak Prescott balled out against Patriots

[lopey]

I mean, is there any chance at all that all 5 members of the starting offensive line can actually start a game together at some point? Until they do, I shall reserve judgement on what this offense is truly capable of. That said, is there any point in being at your peak in week 5 of a season?

I get we wish we had all the starters in but reality says injuries will happen. Got play with what you have

 

[glimmerman]

Looked really good. Was throwing it all over the yard. But my guess is everyone will say it was just against pats.

 

[RonnieT24]

The issue is and has been when the defense allows points and Dak is pressured to produce points of his own he is a train wreck. He's adequate when the defense is shutting opposing teams down and he can dink and dunk his way up the field. Even then though he makes questionable reads and decisions. There will be another cardinals type game very soon then watch how Dak responds.

Do you guys even watch the games? 40-34 ring a bell? That was the score in the second game against the Eagles. Good thing the defense was "shutting the Eagles down" that day huh? How about 35-29 at Foxborough two years ago. Thank God for Dak dinkin and dunkin for 4 TDs and 450 yards in that one. I could cite a dozen more but unless you pull your head out of you know where the information won't reach your brain anyway. Dak has had plenty of games where he has bailed the defense out in his career. But don't let the facts get in the way of a good story.

 

[Chuck 54]

He plays good games against bad teams and yes the Patriots this year are a bad team.

That’s all you guys on that side of the Dak thing have to do. Just recognize when he plays well. Don’t nitpick every throw or every decision. There’s nothing wrong with saying Dak had a really good game, but I don’t trust him. I like Dak, but he is not an elite QB who can carry a team to victory when the OL, receivers, defense play poorly. The guys capable of doing that are probably in a very small exclusive group, and when they do, it is still a rare occasion as we’ve seen with Mahommes, Burrow, and Allen, who are all more talented than Dak.

If the defense plays to their talent and the OL is mostly intact, I beIieve Dak can play well enough to beat any team. If the team plays well and Dak drops the ball and plays poorly vs any team, good or bad, then he deserves the criticism.

But even if you are always waiting for Dak to collapse and don’t believe he can perform against a good team, allow yourself to enjoy when he plays well. It doesn’t mean you are wrong about him. But yesterday he played very well.

 

[RonnieT24]

Looked really good. Was throwing it all over the yard. But my guess is everyone will say it was just against pats.

You know the drill.. Cowboys win it's "It was just _____" .. Cowboys lose and it's "told you Dak doesn't win big games." When the Cowboys go in there and curb stomp the 49ers next week emergency rooms will be overrun with people with back injuries from bending over backwards trying to find ways to discredit the team and especially Dak.

 

[Denim Chicken]

Dak was PFF's second highest QB in week #4 (90.0 grade)

He had the 3 highest completion rating & time to throw.

He played a great game.

 

[CowboyFanInLexKy]

Dak looked very solid . When our defense plays like that he is more than enough .

There will be times though when our defense and everything isn’t going our way and will need him and offense to overcome . That’s when the great ones separate themselves .

And I’m still concerned with our Redzone offense which appears to be more about the new offense than our QB.

We are headed into a tough 4 game stretch , SF- LAC- LAR -Phi , which will tell us much about where this team is and headed.

The first half of season showed we are dominating against below .500 teams . Mostly.

Diehard, you nailed it with every word. As to the bolded, make no mistake our defense is who keeps us afloat. The defense played horrible last week and look what happened. If the defense shows up every week (like they did in weeks 1,2, and last night) all you need is a bus driver to lead us offensively. That has been proven.

 

[nightrain]

Dak played great. They are going to need him to play that way all year. There will be shootouts and low scoring games with tough D on both sides. Protecting the ball is key.

 

[Chuck 54]

I think what most of you are seeing is McCarthy’s conservative approach. He said all off-season that the defense is the strength of our team and he wants to play the game through them. Right or wrong, that’s what he hated about Kellen Moore; Moore was all out all the time, which some fans like, but it occasionally backfired and cost us games that we had in hand. When we have a nice lead and the defense plays well, and the other team is imploding, McCarthy calls a conservative game, dinking and dunking based onthe score is like running the ball in the old days to eat clock. He will dink and dunk when he feels the OL can’t protect. Mike, as a head coach, just wants to win. That is not unlike Jimmy Johnson. Then Johnson’s Cowboys had a lead, he was very conservative. We didn’t blow a lot of teams out, and Troy Aikman had many wins throwing the ball only 20-24 times.

When the defense crapped the bed vs the Cardinals, we should have seen a good test for the offense, but Mike admitted that due to the OL, he called a much too conservative game.

If our defense shows up vs SF on Sunday night, I expect Mike to call it like a playoff game, somewhat conservatively. It will either be a low scoring, defensive battle, or a surprising, uncharacteristic shootout. But even if our defense plays well, don’t expect Mike to be throwing the ball 35-40 times and taking deep shots all game. He’s just very unlikely to call a game like that. He has a way that he thinks is the best way to win games. It’s not the Kellen Moore way on offense. Time will tell who is correct.

 

[CowboyFrog]

Do you guys even watch the games? 40-34 ring a bell? That was the score in the second game against the Eagles. Good thing the defense was "shutting the Eagles down" that day huh? How about 35-29 at Foxborough two years ago. Thank God for Dak dinkin and dunkin for 4 TDs and 450 yards in that one. I could cite a dozen more but unless you pull your head out of you know where the information won't reach your brain anyway. Dak has had plenty of games where he has bailed the defense out in his career. But don't let the facts get in the way of a good story.

They dont watch the game I dont even think they are football fans..This forum is what they like about football, coming here and causing fires..thats their entertainment ..not the Cowboys or Football.

 

[RonnieT24]

Dak played great. They are going to need him to play that way all year. There will be shootouts and low scoring games with tough D on both sides. Protecting the ball is key.

Amen... As long as Dak plays within himself and doesn't try to be Rodgers or Mahomes he will be fine. He throws the ball just fine despite what some of these armchair experts try to tell you. Dude is around 70% on the year with two games over 80!! That is ballin. So is 4 TDs and 1 turnover. I noticed though that defenses are really not honoring the zone reads.. especially in the red zone. Dak is going to have to take off a few more times to change that. Once he does I have a feeling the red zone efficiency will go way up.

 

[CowboyFrog]

Amen... As long as Dak plays within himself and doesn't try to be Rodgers or Mahomes he will be fine. He throws the ball just fine despite what some of these armchair experts try to tell you. Dude is around 70% on the year with two games over 80!! That is ballin. So is 4 TDs and 1 turnover. I noticed though that defenses are really not honoring the zone reads.. especially in the red zone. Dak is going to have to take off a few more times to change that. Once he does I have a feeling the red zone efficiency will go way up.

Thats the thing missing in the RZ, Dak needs to run one in for sure.

 

[glimmerman]

You know the drill.. Cowboys win it's "It was just _____" .. Cowboys lose and it's "told you Dak doesn't win big games." When the Cowboys go in there and curb stomp the 49ers next week emergency rooms will be overrun with people with back injuries from bending over backwards trying to find ways to discredit the team and especially Dak.

Wow. Lmao. Your right. You know most of them that are doing this are not Cowboys fans.

 

[Captain-Crash]

 

[charron]

Nothing to celebrate. Out of 28 attempts 10 were within 5 yards and an additional 7 behind the LOS. 17 of 28 passes were 5 yards or less and only 1 TD from the starters.

 

[Rayman70]

I feel MM is keeping many plays in the bag. I think we been fairly vanilla offensively. I think when we start getting into november we will see the RZ issues get much better.

 

[Rayman70]

Zeke is washed. Why do fans never wanna see that? Patriots must surely see it. Zeke was a beast but like all ballers, they eventually can't do it anymore. Thats him.

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

Zeke is washed. Why do fans never wanna see that? Patriots must surely see it. Zeke was a beast but like all ballers, they eventually can't do it anymore. Thats him.

So is Stevenson washed to because he was just as "bad"?

 

[Rockport]

Basically if the defense and ST doesn't get turnovers and score there is little to no offense - that is what the AZ game highlighted.

Basically you’re cluless. The Cowboys have the 11th rated offense.

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

Nothing to celebrate. Out of 28 attempts 10 were within 5 yards and an additional 7 behind the LOS. 17 of 28 passes were 5 yards or less and only 1 TD from the starters.

Schoonmaker dropped a touchdown. Its so weird guys are now taking out attempts because they are 5 yard throws? Brady made a living off this as did Drew Brees. Joe Montana.....not sure why its a issue now?