Dak Prescott has had the 3rd worst postseason defense over the last quarter century

BoysForLife

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It’s the receiver, lol


LOL. They post obtuse graphs that Stephen Hawking would probably have trouble figuring out. And then they will dismiss obvious evidence like what you just posted.

"Pay no attention to what your eyes are telling you folks, this is not on Dak. Nothing to see here!"

I keep hearing about how terrible our defense is in the playoffs, but in 21 and 22 they held San Francisco to about 20 points per game. Both of those were very winnable games, and the highest paid quarterback in the history of professional football averaged about 220 yards per game and those two contests and threw 2 total touchdowns with 3 interceptions in those two losses

And in the Green Bay debacle last year, he had 87 yards and two picks in the first half, one of which was taken to the house for a touchdown. And all they want to talk about is the defense

It's literally embarrassing to watch them fall all over themselves trying to defend the indefensible. These are the type of people as parents if their kid takes a crap in the middle of the living room rug they take a photo of it and post it on Facebook with the caption "look what my little Johnny did!"


It's genuinely sad at this point
 

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I was gonna post this an hour ago. But the same Dak haters just keep pouncing on perfectly reasonable nuggets of facts.

The defense might be good in the regular season but they are AWFUL in the playoffs.
Ever think the D is bad because the O is putrid and turnovers etc put the D in a bad spot. Stop the crying excuses
 

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Ever think the D is bad because the O is putrid and turnovers etc put the D in a bad spot. Stop the crying excuses
What do you mean? Instantly putting the defense back on the field has no repercussions hater, they just need to never let the other team score so we can win with a 60yd field goal cause thats the best the offense can do.

when the defense held the niners without a touchdown till the 4th qtr in 2022, and dak was still throwing INTs and goin 3 n out, that was something to behold. I almost thought he get 60mil right then and there, but then he really showed why he deserved that money against green bay in the first half.
 

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Ever think the D is bad because the O is putrid and turnovers etc put the D in a bad spot. Stop the crying excuses
And if that were the case you would see the QB EPA be far worse than what Daks is. This measures both Daks play relative to how the defense plays.
 

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Imagine having a real defense and not whatever we trot out there every playoffs
I can imagine that it wouldn’t help us get where we want to be. In addition to a defense that can stop the run and make an opponent pass, Jerry hasn’t run out a balanced attack since Lamb, Cooper, a healthy Gallup, and a Zeke who still had some juice. Look at the top three receivers and top two runners on all the successful playoff teams and compare to what we’ve been running out there since Cooper was run out of town.
 

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And if that were the case you would see the QB EPA be far worse than what Daks is. This measures both Daks play relative to how the defense plays.
He’s had plenty of help and failed. It’s happened in the same manner over and over. Stop putting it on others when he’s just as big an issue in these games. Overall as a franchise it’s all one big fail. Anyone who thinks Dak played well in the GB or SF game and the D let us down wasn’t watching.
 

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LOL. They post obtuse graphs that Stephen Hawking would probably have trouble figuring out. And then they will dismiss obvious evidence like what you just posted.

"Pay no attention to what your eyes are telling you folks, this is not on Dak. Nothing to see here!"

I keep hearing about how terrible our defense is in the playoffs, but in 21 and 22 they held San Francisco to about 20 points per game. Both of those were very winnable games, and the highest paid quarterback in the history of professional football averaged about 220 yards per game and those two contests and threw 2 total touchdowns with 3 interceptions in those two losses

And in the Green Bay debacle last year, he had 87 yards and two picks in the first half, one of which was taken to the house for a touchdown. And all they want to talk about is the defense

It's literally embarrassing to watch them fall all over themselves trying to defend the indefensible. These are the type of people as parents if their kid takes a crap in the middle of the living room rug they take a photo of it and post it on Facebook with the caption "look what my little Johnny did!"


It's genuinely sad at this point
Read what EPA is, to me it’s a stat that has subjective value doesn’t mean a lot on the field because of all the variables.
 

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Actually,

I'm not even reading anything but I'm just gonna get my opinion off the title,

yes lots of bad defenses offensive line doesn't show up doesn't have a run game even when the defense even plays half as good they don't make the big plays the impact plays they allow too many big plays and runs,

you need all phases to play well,

so it's a team loss, these are team losses, but blaming the quarterback is stupid...

here's a good example from yesterday you know the Green Bay Packers had four turnovers in that game and still going into the fourth quarter they were only down 1 touchdown then they were only down 9 points at one point... they were within one score in a low scoring game because of why,? ,

because the defense held up enough to try to give the offense a chance to catch up and get better.... As bad as their quarterback played, they still were in it, anybody keeps blaming the quarterbacks don't understand the game..

sometimes, yeah it might take a minute for the offense to get going or they might make a few mistakes but like Aaron Donald and that defense for the Rams when Matt Stafford being propped up like he ever did anything in Detroit no when he came to the Rams he did the same thing he was the same person he led the league in interceptions and then he had two interceptions in the Super bowl and somehow they won that game... they didn't blame this on the quarterback the defense the special teams the coaching staff all held up enough to give the offense a chance to catch up...that's TEAM Ball!!

So what happens when your defense even in the Green Bay game last year in the playoffs gave up seven quick points like there was no resistance and yes the offense, not that can we stop spelling offense , dak ,that doesn't work for me.. literally the offensive line , the run game were so putrid, the separation of our wrs outside of CD lamb and even him when he's doubled nobody else is open.. so you got a one-dimensional team that can't run the football they can't block long enough to let our wide receivers get open , because they can't get open fast enough and you're wondering why our quarterbacks making mistakes forcing the ball because he gets impatient of course he does I've watched it happen all around the league...

At some point you feel like all the pressures on you a quarterback will start forcing the ball even though there's nobody open there's nowhere to go you got to make a play you got to try to throw it up and let you receiver make a play, it's been happening for decades in the nfl....​

Let's give an example again last playoffs, we got rail against Green Bay because of what happened in the first half, apparently you blame the quarterback for a bad first quarter, but the offense had a bad first quarter,

yes, but the defense had a horrible first half and a horrible second-half they literally had no good points in that game whatsoever but let's swing over to the San Francisco game against the lions they had the same terrible first half across the board their defense come out and do in the second-half they made a bunch of stops they kept the team in it and they allowed San Francisco to get back in the game late and win the game what did our defense do they gave up three straight touchdowns to start the second-half you're going to play in the quarterback for that because we had no offense this is what our quarterback is supposed to do

no matter the situation he's supposed to go toe to toe with a better defense against a better team ,one-dimensional with no support from the run game the offensive line or the wide receivers for the most part, not saying always but this has been recent history,

we've had no run game the offensive lines either has a bunch of penalties we're playing behind the chains or they're just not blocking or opening holes and then on the other end receivers are not getting open very often when they are it's not fast enough because our offensive line is allowing a four to five man line to dominate while they play Mac zone and have everything covered on the other end,

so, you want our quarterback to be able to just put up 40 anytime no matter what or place well when there's nothing else going on and don't give me the San Francisco games how close they look the time of possession in the one game where our offensive line had 11 penalties we were behind the chains almost all game you're supposed to play third and twenty or second 18 like all game and you expect the quarterback to do that without a run game and with the receivers open just because the defense appeared to be holding the game but this is not the truth that one game they give up 10 yards per carry and had all the time of possession like San Francisco own the time of possession mean there were limited possessions for our offense...

I mean these are just some examples Prescott played really well in the first Green Bay game is rookie year battle all game just to have the defense lose he wins in the first round against Seattle in 2018 and in the second round the ground game again you can't give up 278 yards and play keep away and not give our opportunities to our offense the defense was horrible that's two back-to-back situations well you don't have to see CJ Stroud in his back-to-back playoffs from his rookie year to his second year his defense showed up to put they gave him a chance to warm up get into the game and they end up winning those games...

No one's giving Prescott a pass but people we watch the games you can't blame the quarterback when almost the rest of the team is not showing up and doing their job there's holes all over the place weaknesses and that includes the coaching staff the game plans and the adjustments but most of these games have been 1 dimensional there's no run game you show me the Emmitt Smith and Tony Dorsett run games and those defenses and those coaching staff and I'll show you 2 quarterbacks in Romo and Prescott that would also win those games and have some Super Bowl rings...​
 

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Imagine having a real defense and not whatever we trot out there every playoffs
Imagine having a real quarterback who actually produces and doesn't make the defense play by themselves in big games.
It's really disgusting to see people try to trash other players so they can defend Dak Prescott.

That's low, and it reeks of paid propaganda.
 

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I'm puzzled as to how the defense is to blame for Mr. Prescott's abysmal play in the post season? Is this guy responsible for anything? Even his own crappy play is now being blamed on the defense. Is the defense elite? No. Has the offense virtually disappeared through large portions of a game? Yes. Happens in the regular season and the post season. Both these things can be true.
 

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Explain those pick-6s. Break them down. Let's see if they truly are Dak's fault.
LOL Watch the video, it's in HD. Absolutely horrendous read, they were waiting for him to throw it to ceeDee. Starred him down all the way misread the coverage, blind as a bat. Should've thrown to Cooks. Total rookie throw.

That's one example. Gave us no chance. How many interceptions do you want to analyze? He's made some horrible ones in the playoffs.

 

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3 and outs.
Picks.
Pick 6s.
Dak does get ball, and he can go score points regardless of what the Cowboys defense does, yet he doesn't.

Y'all need to calculate the points Dak gifts other, which, you want to count against the defense.

Blame the entire team to prop up the QB smh.
 

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LOL Watch the video, it's in HD. Absolutely horrendous read, they were waiting for him to throw it to ceeDee. Starred him down all the way misread the coverage, blind as a bat. Should've thrown to Cooks. Total rookie throw.

That's one example. Gave us no chance. How many interceptions do you want to analyze? He's made some horrible ones in the playoffs.


Wasn't it against Washington in the regular season where he ran the same play back to back. First time was nearly picked off and the second time was a pick 6?
 
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