I almost felt sorry for Garrett

[Ranching]

This is CowboysZone! We have to keep the conversation as dumbed down as possible.

We do that by choosing someone we don't like in the organization and blaming the loss on them.

Not blaming him, in a way i'm blaming Jerry. Or, is that to dumb for you to understand?

 

[Ron12]

Dak was good enough to win last night. There was literally zero help from anyone on offense. Looked like Dak was trying to drag everyone to the win.

The whole offense SUCKED enough said !

 

[links18]

Explain how you know this. What is the source of this information?

Two eyes?

 

[Future]

How do you know that he had more authority?

Because the offense completely regressed to last year

 

[Future]

He should have done something about it then. Any HC worth a flip would have. Thats my point.

He literally never has lol. Why would we feel bad about that?

 

[Ranching]

Exactly. Some morons have to feel like it's Garretts fault that our offense sucked last night just to get them through the week. If that's all there miserable lives have...let em have it.

Moron??? you're a frikin idiot if thats what you took out of OP.

 

[charron]

Because the offense completely regressed to last year

he didn't call plays last year either.

 

[Miller]

I'm not trying to dumb down the conversation but I literally had this observation to my wife while watching the game last night ……"seriously, does he do anything but stare angrily at the field. What is his job now?" And it's a serious question because I feel over the years the FO has pared down everything where we got rid of his hand picked OC in Linehan and we have an old time DC. We hired a "boy wonder OC" to create something new from their old burning heap...so what does he do? I'm assuming its game management. Fire the kids up. Shrug

 

[glimmerman]

He looked like a neutered cat on the sideline. Every time they showed him, he had a blank look on his face. I guess Jerry has taken all of his authority. He wore a headset, but I never saw him talking to anyone. He yelled at the refs a couple of times, that about all I saw him do. It would be nice to have a real head coach that can take over a game when he needs to.

He should have challenged the Elliot fumble. Looked like his knee was down before the ball came out..

 

[CouchCoach]

So, execution by the players has nothing to do with it?

We see the OC and QB up against a real team and the HC gets the blame? Some are actually blaming him for the offense last night? So what do you think happened, the Joneses got tired of seeing success and told Garrett to stop Moore and his antics?

At what point do posters consider their lofty opinions were based on the really bad teams that they played with MIA and WAS fighting for the top pick? They played a tough team last night in their stadium and the Saints defense is better this year and they stuffed the Cowboys #1 weapon and that's the HC's fault?

I am not a Garrett fan but that was a team loss last night against a team on the same level with the Cowboys. If that game is played in Dallas, maybe that's reversed but those fans had been ready for that game for quite some time and their players feed off the energy created by their fans. Good teams lose there all the time.

 

[glimmerman]

I'm not trying to dumb down the conversation but I literally had this observation to my wife while watching the game last night ……"seriously, does he do anything but stare angrily at the field. What is his job now?"

His career rests on a first year OC that struggled last night. Playcalling was iffy but had some mistakes that were on the players. And the refs didn’t help us.

 

[khiladi]

Garrett has effectively been neutered from play-calling since 2014, when Jerry stripped him of those duties. He’s been the same way on game day since 2014.

Most of his work now is politics behind the scenes.

 

[CouchCoach]

I'm not trying to dumb down the conversation but I literally had this observation to my wife while watching the game last night ……"seriously, does he do anything but stare angrily at the field. What is his job now?" And it's a serious question because I feel over the years the FO has pared down everything where we got rid of his hand picked OC in Linehan and we have an old time DC. We hired a "boy wonder OC" to create something new from their old burning heap...so what does he do? I'm assuming its game management. Fire the kids up. Shrug

He's not the Clapper anymore, he's the Scowler.

 

[Future]

he didn't call plays last year either.

I know. But he's responsible for the approach. Last night was the Linehan offense, hands down. It's JG's vision, always has been.

 

[glimmerman]

So, execution by the players has nothing to do with it?

We see the OC and QB up against a real team and the HC gets the blame? Some are actually blaming him for the offense last night? So what do you think happened, the Joneses got tired of seeing success and told Garrett to stop Moore and his antics?

At what point do posters consider their lofty opinions were based on the really bad teams that they played with MIA and WAS fighting for the top pick? They played a tough team last night in their stadium and the Saints defense is better this year and they stuffed the Cowboys #1 weapon and that's the HC's fault?

I am not a Garrett fan but that was a team loss last night against a team on the same level with the Cowboys. If that game is played in Dallas, maybe that's reversed but those fans had been ready for that game for quite some time and their players feed off the energy created by their fans. Good teams lose there all the time.

Moore kept running the ball to the same place. No screens or tosses. Just run right into them. Those 2 fumbles killed us. Cooper isn’t 100% and pushed off a few times. Dak needed to keep a few of those and run it himself. We never really stretched them out. He never had time to take any deep shots.

 

[CouchCoach]

His career rests on a first year OC that struggled last night. Playcalling was iffy but had some mistakes that were on the players. And the refs didn’t help us.

I didn't see them help NO either, sloppy game like most of the ones I've watched.

 

[khiladi]

By the way, people keep talking about Moore, but Dak AUDIBLED plenty and kept going underneath.

 

[glimmerman]

I didn't see them help NO either, sloppy game like most of the ones I've watched.

Very sloppy. I do think Elliot was down before the ball came out. But that Witten fumble was horrid. I saw it coming the whole time. This Offense had a ego check.

 

[OmerV]

Two eyes?

Nope, that doesn't work. You can't reasonably decide Garrett has nothing to do with the offense when it successful, and he is the one pulling the strings when it's not. Well, I guess you can if you aren't concerned about fairness or logic and the goal is only to turn whatever happens into an indictment of one guy.

 

[CouchCoach]

Moore kept running the ball to the same place. No screens or tosses. Just run right into them. Those 2 fumbles killed us. Cooper isn’t 100% and pushed off a few times. Dak needed to keep a few of those and run it himself. We never really stretched them out. He never had time to take any deep shots.

The D had something to say about that. It's not all on what the Cowboys didn't do, they weren't playing one of those patsies like in the first 3 games.

I am seeing a general overreaction to what was revealed last night and will probably be further revealed with real competition as we progress through this season. In order for Moore to be Wunderkind, his QB needs the run game and a cleaner pocket. DC's are not going to give them that going forward.

We knew there would be bumps and some thought this would just roll along and that was Kellen Moore's official welcome to the NFL last night. Good to get this "it doesn't always go according to plan" in the 4th game to prepare him for more adversity. And good to get the players' heads out of the clouds and back in the game, going to be more like that.