Fans blaming Dak

[Rockport]

If you are blaming Dak for this loss....you should be banned from talking football. This defense was a sieve.

Anyone blaming Dak has mental issues.

 

[cowboys5xsbs]

Dak got outplayed by a better QB... SHOCKING!

Imagine if Dak got to play against the cowboys defense

 

[SlammedZero]

I'm not blaming Dak for the loss, but come on, he knows better than to throw that pick right before half. That certainly didn't help things.

 

[CowboyFrog]

the staff was put in the spotlight last night also, the Giants boxed the DT's as the only threat and put Belt to Arss the rest of the game easily, we better hope this staff has some answers... first game we will but it wasn't pretty.

 

[Dakota]

Why is everyone so upset? We are only 1 game behind in the battle for the division.

 

[MajesticRey]

Why are Dak threads always 15+ pages long? You all must really love this man, no judgement though if yall swing that way.

 

[CanadianCowboysFan]

Take away the pass interferences and this team scores 6 points

That is a silly argument given the PI penalties prevented our receivers from catching balls

 

[CyberB0b]

Not sure what has happened to Dak, but his release is horrible. He used to get the ball out quickly, but now, his wind up takes like 3 seconds. It's like if he isn't throwing on the run, he can't throw anymore. Hard to put my finger on it.

 

[Swagger]

People can rightfully pick out various factors for the loss but for me it really centred around the last few minutes of the first half. It was such a pivotal moment in the game given the Giants were due to receive the ball at the start of the second half and the Cowboys had a great opportunity to take the lead before the break.

It all started with the timeout taken by the Cowboys just before the interception. Why take a timeout? This is what illustrates that Dak does not have total command of the offense like say Romo did especially towards the latter part of his career. I remember Romo scoring countless drives late on in halves, e.g., against the Giants funnily enough and he wouldn't take a timeout even if say there was only a minute left at the start of the drive. He wanted the defense to be gassed out on their knees and if he needed a timeout, he would spike the ball himself. The coaches would effectively leave it up to him how to engineer the drive in such circumstances. This isn't a Dak bashing post - I'm just surprised that he seemingly does not have 100% autonomy of the offense in such situations when in my view, given that he's an 11 year VET, All-Pro and Pro Bowler...he should!

Any way, this was followed by an inexplicable drop by Pickens. Dak threw a perfect ball and of all people, Pickens just completely missed the catch.

This was of course followed by Dak's ill advised interception when he was trying to throw the ball out of bounds.

This was then followed by the most embarrassing defensive drive from any team I have watched all weekend.

We can fast forward to Williams rightly being given an unsportsmanlike flag for goading the Giants when losing...

Add in other countless penalties throughout the game.

What does it all tell me? Best case scenario is that the Cowboys were simply not prepared or coached up to win this game. Worst case is it runs much deeper than that.

I guess we will find out over the coming weeks which it is.

 

[Nexx]

as much of a critic of Dak that I am, he is towards the end of the list of people to blame for that loss.