How Do You Defeat the Dallas Cowboys?

[plasticman]

Other teams thought they had the answer, you harrass Dak Prescott into making mistakes, I.e. Impulse throws, wrong reads, INT's. You put pressure on him with blitzers, trick coverage. And a highly intense pass rush. You allow the Cowboys to run in this day and age the running game alone cannot beat you.

Standard operating procedure for. A rookie quarterback. The only problem was that Dak Prescott is not your standard rookie quarterback.

That isnt to say that Dak Prescott is an elite quarterback, some Super Arm freak of nature with the size of a linebacker. But what he is, he is the perfect coach's guy, someone who is smart enough to know ehat he can do even smarter to know what he can't do.

He is an excellent manager, someone who delegates the plays to the skill players iin offense, nut with intangibles to know when to run, when to throw, when to cut his losses and wait for the next play. He doesn't have the risk taking overcondfidence that gets other young quarterbacks in trouble.

Dak Prescott doeant make many mistakes even for a seasoned veteran. And since he is not really the offense, just the trigger you might say, stopping him still wont guarantee a win.

The key is the running game after all. It is the catalyst that creates the favorable corcumstances that give Dak and the passing game more success, by limiting the risky curcumstances.

2nd and 5, 3rd and 2, are far more friendly situations than 2nd and 9, 3rd and 7.

Opponents must stop the run. But how? Zeke Elliott has better protection than most World leaders. He has some of the biggest quickest, youngest, and intense bosyguards in the league. How do you get theough to him.

The answer is, you outnumber them at the onset. You load your Dline, you run stunts against rhe run. You bring up both safeties, perhaps even try a 4-4-3 look. You sell out to defend against the ground game which also includes Dak Prescott.

You frustrate a young team and players that are used to having their way. If the run fails consistantly the Cowboys will stop running, that has usually been Jason and the Cowboy's history.

You make Dak try to beat you as a passing quarterback and not a facilitator.

 

[CCBoy]

Simple answer...take a poll of burn barrel buddies on site. The current Cowboys will lose every time.

Seriously, there are a few transition points that Dak still needs to traverse, before he is fully anointed to being able to do what Tony has only proven that he has the talent to traverse as well.

Continue to develop and get well...the rest will fall into place. Winning.

 

[Don Corleone]

Other teams thought they had the answer, you harrass Dak Prescott into making mistakes, I.e. Impulse throws, wrong reads, INT's. You put pressure on him with blitzers, trick coverage. And a highly intense pass rush. You allow the Cowboys to run in this day and age the running game alone cannot beat you.

Standard operating procedure for. A rookie quarterback. The only problem was that Dak Prescott is not your standard rookie quarterback.

That isnt to say that Dak Prescott is an elite quarterback, some Super Arm freak of nature with the size of a linebacker. But what he is, he is the perfect coach's guy, someone who is smart enough to know ehat he can do even smarter to know what he can't do.

He is an excellent manager, someone who delegates the plays to the skill players iin offense, nut with intangibles to know when to run, when to throw, when to cut his losses and wait for the next play. He doesn't have the risk taking overcondfidence that gets other young quarterbacks in trouble.

Dak Prescott doeant make many mistakes even for a seasoned veteran. And since he is not really the offense, just the trigger you might say, stopping him still wont guarantee a win.

The key is the running game after all. It is the catalyst that creates the favorable corcumstances that give Dak and the passing game more success, by limiting the risky curcumstances.

2nd and 5, 3rd and 2, are far more friendly situations than 2nd and 9, 3rd and 7.

Opponents must stop the run. But how? Zeke Elliott has better protection than most World leaders. He has some of the biggest quickest, youngest, and intense bosyguards in the league. How do you get theough to him.

The answer is, you outnumber them at the onset. You load your Dline, you run stunts against rhe run. You bring up both safeties, perhaps even try a 4-4-3 look. You sell out to defend against the ground game which also includes Dak Prescott.

You frustrate a young team and players that are used to having their way. If the run fails consistantly the Cowboys will stop running, that has usually been Jason and the Cowboy's history.

You make Dak try to beat you as a passing quarterback and not a facilitator.

You beat them with their own medicine. Ball control offense and keeping the Cowboys defense on the field. The Eagles nearly pulled that strategy off successfully.

 

[John813]

Try to replicate what the Giants did.

 

[ShiningStar]

you score more points. more to the point, dedicate to the run and run our defense out of town. a few games we have gotten lucky and teams gave up on it, thinking they knew better.

Dallas defense, patchwork as it is, is being stout but since we have no pass rush, teams are not taking advantage of it as they could. This year Rogers is off his game, a few teams werent as strong as they thought they were and lets be honest, Dallas is stronger than most expected.

 

[jchap]

I think you need to be an offensively explosive team. Out score them and make them play from behind to try and take away the running game.

 

[Carson]

You beat them with their own medicine. Ball control offense and keeping the Cowboys defense on the field. The Eagles nearly pulled that strategy off successfully.

Exactly. Quick slants and short throws. But you have to execute on 3rd down

 

[HomeBiscuit]

Please, fellas. Only one thing beats the Cowboys. Those dirty rotten zebras.

 

[Rob-G]

Focusing just on the NFC, Atlanta would have the perfect recipe on offense. They're the only team in the league that averages more points per drive than the Cowboys and they could get up early forcing Dak to throw it more than we want him too and not rely as much on the run. Julio Jones is as close to unguardable as a receiver can get. Problem is, their defense is wack sauce. They're young, but they got a long ways to go.


The only team in the league that Id be surprised that we'd beat would be New England. With Brady back, their offense is rolling and their defense as always with Belichick is the definition of bend, but dont break. Hopefully we get that chance in February.

 

[Romonater]

Take away the running game and pressure Dak to beat you with the big play.

 

[Yakuza Rich]

Those are all things all teams try to do with QB's. Guys like Brady (and Peyton) you need to gameplan for his supporting cast. Beat their supporting cast and you can beat Brady.

I think the gameplan for Dak is going to be to keep him in the pocket and takeaway the bootlegs. Those bootlegs are fairly simple throws that gain good yardage and taking that away from him doesn't give him an 'out.'

I'm sure teams will start using a lot more zone blitzing and probably drop the robber down in coverage on shotgun plays. I also think they will probably crash hard left because we like to run towards Tyron and can get a bit gunshy about running towards Free. Keep the outside contain to cut off the boots.

There's simple ways to counter these defensive adjustments. We can run more inside zone plays, traps and counters. We have to take advantage of the defense over-committing. We also need for the offense to get in sync with Dez now in the game. And with these adjustments we can probably see EE be more effective on screen passes.

Early on we were stretching the field horizontally. Now defenses will likely stretch out wider and that means we have to beat them up the middle and vertically.




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[Tenkamenin]

Take away the running game and pressure Dak to beat you with the big play.

Stop Zeke, and Dak beats you underneath with Beas or Witten or over the top with Williams or Dez. Our starting O is too talented, and each player wins their individual matchup majority of the time.

 

[LocimusPrime]

1. Do what the Eagles did but just better. Don't drop balls, no stupid mistakes..play more disciplined
2. Do what the Eagles did and call " tails"
3. Do what the Giants did
4. Do what the Giants did but better
5. Do what the Commanders did but better, i.e. Don't miss open TD passes.
6. Play like the patriots

Go Cowboys! Lets stomp those Browns

 

[dallasdave]

1. Do what the Eagles did but just better. Don't drop balls, no stupid mistakes..play more disciplined
2. Do what the Eagles did and call " tails"
3. Do what the Giants did
4. Do what the Giants did but better
5. Do what the Commanders did but better, i.e. Don't miss open TD passes.
6. Play like the patriots

Go Cowboys! Lets stomp those Browns

 

[dallasdave]

You beat them with their own medicine. Ball control offense and keeping the Cowboys defense on the field. The Eagles nearly pulled that strategy off successfully.

That would be bad medicine.

 

[JohnsKey19]

1. Belichek would do everything possible to take away your greatest strength. For the Cowboys, that's the OL and the rushing attack. But as a team, do you have the horses to hold up?

2. Someone touched on it above...ball control offense keeping the Dallas D on the field.

 

[dallasdave]

1. Belichek would do everything possible to take away your greatest strength. For the Cowboys, that's the OL and the rushing attack. But as a team, do you have the horses to hold up?

2. Someone touched on it above...ball control offense keeping the Dallas D on the field.

Dallas vs New England in the Super Bowl and Dallas wins, now that would be great.

 

[Clove]

I think you have to hope Dak just completely implodes. If he starts hitting those plays to Dez, it would have been a blowout.

 

[StarOfGlory]

Do what the Eagles did for 54 minutes, then find a coach who won't brain fart for the final six.

There is no doubt to me that we are the best team in the NFCE. Our biggest enemy would probably be ourselves. When this offense in firing right, I don't think any team can shut us down. Best they can do is play keep away with the ball and hope for the best during the 4th quarter.

 

[CCBoy]

Aren't the Cowboys playing a team today ... that has a poor defense by record; hasn't scored or moved the ball consistently; and a very unproven 'rook' quarterback?