That's the one for me. I get that teams use the first drives to establish how the defenses are playing, but our whole game should be predicated on getting a lead, helping Dak to play HIS controlling game. Id add the Defense coming out and starting strong as well.
I dont know if it's so much as a "lack of focus", or a fear that they're going to get beaten and try and get off early to compensate? The penalties only tend to occur when we play better Defenses!
Agreed, but that's something that the players themselves must work on. The o-line players know the snap count, no excuse most plays for jumping offsides. Many of the penalties are linemen reacting to movement by the defense, if they don't jump every time the defense moves then they know not to, just a matter of focus. If they can't maintain focus during the entire game, not much the coaches can do for that. And when playing somebody like a Watt or such, that are difficult to handle, they have to trust that Dak will get rid of the ball if he can't evade the rush. In other words, don't try to make up for their inability to shut down the defense, just play your game and assume others will do the same.
Well said and to the point. Until the Cowboys can win a divisional round game and at least advance to an NFC championship game, we are what the last nearly 3 decades say we are: Underachievers in the playoffs.
i agree with most of that... however we lost four players during that week 3 PB OL and Diggs, just bad day at the office
really you don't there's no weak teams you like Minnesota, TB, and the giants as few recent examples??or playing SF minus their top 2 quarterbacks?? easy to say that but sheagles had the softest road to the sb ever IMHO. some luck is involved and they had that all last year and now this year, just everything seems to bounce their way. yes they are very good team but all that went down last sunday and we lose by 5 with 3 stalled drives inside the 10 and many bad calls and 3 lucky bounces for their fumbles on their turf? i dont see gap between the Boyz and eagles but such fine line between win or loss , the team that gets the most breaks or plays tad cleaner wins.. not like either of the 18 rams or 2 sf losses were by more than a score.
that's just plain ridiculous, seriously!!.... Maye Troy got tunnel vision with Michael Irvin UM NOT!!! , you feed your number one this is not wide receiver by committee. fans were upset as was CD he was getting the ball enough and ow hes getting exactly that and performing great.., this is what true #1 looks like, you throw it to him early often and twice as much as anyone.. the whole spreading the ball around is overrated and unless you dont have a true 1 its dumb and unnecessary when you're #1 is doing well...
My point is that Dak looks exclusively at CD while other receivers may be a more appropriate selection. Why throw to CD when he’s not open when Cooks is wide open? I’m not saying not to throw to CD. I’m saying Dak’s eyes should be eyeing all receivers.
Know an opponent's strength...but never, never, fear him. Handle him!
i guess you missed the first giants game and the other games at the start fo the year, when we were up 40 points was that playing down?? the AZ game was more due to injures to 3 PB OL missing and Diggs missing on the road we got shocked and beat, refs didn't help.
That isn't the design of the passing game. That has been explained on site. The team had to gain a little momentum and why Lamb was used a lot during that rhythm transitioning.
