If Diggs doesn't go down, do you think the season would have gone differently?

[TheDude]

nope

 

[diamonddelts]

Overshown was a bigger loss. Dallas middle of the field defense is one of the worst in league. And it has been for a decade. This is why I ask if people actually watch the games.

 

[ak47kaehu]

Not unless he could play MLB like RoMc

 

[plymkr]

But you see how just one more regular season win could have changed everything. We tied with SF so we'd have the #1 seed. Then we get the bye. Green Bay would then face the #2 seed SF in the WC round and probably lost. We probably end up facing Tampa Bay in the Divisional Round. I definitely think in that scenario we would have gotten to the NFC Championship and probably faced the 49ers in Dallas and lost.

So the answer is yes because we probably wouldn't have had the same path at all.

I get all that but no disrespect to Diggs but he’s not good enough to overcome other coaches scheming better than our coaches.

It depends what you’re asking. Are you asking would we beat Green Bay with Diggs or would the whole season be different? I’m thinking the end would have been the same. We would have been beat and outcoached the first playoff game. Regardless if that was the divisional game or WC. Our coaches and players can not handle playoff games. IMO

 

[Jayinem]

I get all that but no disrespect to Diggs but he’s not good enough to overcome other coaches scheming better than our coaches.

It depends what you’re asking. Are you asking would we beat Green Bay with Diggs or would the whole season be different? I’m thinking the end would have been the same. We would have been beat and outcoached the first playoff game. Regardless if that was the divisional game or WC. Our coaches and players can not handle playoff games. IMO

What makes sense to me is that Diggs might have gotten us one more win somewhere, maybe @Philly or @Dolphins we stop them from going down and kicking the FG after we scored. Then we're #1 seed and get the bye, Packers have to face 49ers in WC round and lose. We then host Tampa in the Divisional round. We could win that game, they're not the same beast as GB on the road. Then we lose in the NFC Championship at home against 49ers most likely.

It's all just hypothetical though doesn't matter.

 

[diamonddelts]

What makes sense to me is that Diggs might have gotten us one more win somewhere, maybe @Philly or @Dolphins we stop them from going down and kicking the FG after we scored. Then we're #1 seed and get the bye, Packers have to face 49ers in WC round and lose. We then host Tampa in the Divisional round. We could win that game, they're not the same beast as GB on the road. Then we lose in the NFC Championship at home against 49ers most likely.

It's all just hypothetical though doesn't matter.

Dallas would not beat TB. Do you watch the games?

 

[Rockport]

Surely he could have helped stop the bleeding against the Packers.

Dumb question. Of course not. A soft team is a soft team. They don’t win.

 

[plymkr]

What makes sense to me is that Diggs might have gotten us one more win somewhere, maybe @Philly or @Dolphins we stop them from going down and kicking the FG after we scored. Then we're #1 seed and get the bye, Packers have to face 49ers in WC round and lose. We then host Tampa in the Divisional round. We could win that game, they're not the same beast as GB on the road. Then we lose in the NFC Championship at home against 49ers most likely.

It's all just hypothetical though doesn't matter.

I agree. I feel Diggs and Bland/Gilmore maybe get us the #1 seed. Completely agree with you on that. I feel once the playoffs started our inability to stop the run and overall performance wouldn’t have changed. Dak choked, our coaches choked, and no one showed up for the playoffs except Ferguson.

What this team has taught me from the GM down to the water boys is as an organization we can’t win in the playoffs.

I agree with your overall point that we’d have been the first seed with Diggs but the organization’s bizarre inability to win in the playoffs still would have happened.

 

[Streifenkarl]

Nope. The problem did not lie in the skillset of our secondary on the field but how they were used and what strategies they had to execute.

 

[rnr_honeybadger]

The issue on defense started with the inability to stop the run. Everything else you saw snowballed from that.

 

[Pessimist_cowboy]

Surely he could have helped stop the bleeding against the Packers.

Maybe a little. Still would’ve lost that game because QB and front 7.

 

[Captain-Crash]

yeah, maybe he would have kicked dak butt and ripped his little woman purse out of his hand and took a crap in it.

 

[Redsfan_83]

lve has been mediocre for the last 3 seasons, part of the reason why the D was so ineffective against the run over that time span. Are you referring to 2018 LVE?

2022 LVE would have done wonders, he had a great season when finally healthy. Let's be honest, he is/was better than what we currently have and LB has been such an issues for us since my man 50 retired

 

[starfan1]

No hes part of the culture problem as well. We need a coach that takes 0 crap and gets the country club astmospehere out of here

 

[zeke21]

No.

Defence plays in compliment to offence. Offence crapped the bed and nothing D could do from that point on.

The entire issue was that we couldn't go into full pass D/blitz package because GB had full control of the scoreboard and clock. Essentially the hole that Dak dug for us meant that it took away any hope our Defence had of impacting the game.

Diggs would not have been able to do anything.. this was on the coaching and on the QB.

 

[Cmac]

No,he doesn't play QB.

.....but QB doesn't play LB, DL, or DB. Apples and oranges in this thread......again.

 

[Cowboy_svt]

Yes, absolutely. Look even at last year, even when we lost Brown an Lewis our passrush "disapeared" as teams could dunk on us downfield faster, people being able to get open quicker negates the rush, Quinn prob playing our guys 10yds off cause he knew theyd prob get beat by speed, all the sudden everyone moves up a tier when your #1 goes down and theres gonna be some mismatches.

With pretty much the same roster we shut down San Fran in San Fran last year but as usual our offense crapped the bed in the playoffs. CMC even had a terrible run game vs us

Defensively we may have been trying to defend the pass more (we failed miserably) at the expense of the run, with better corners you can stack the box better or more confidently.


Would we win or go further? Maybe but core issues of coaching, inconsistent offense, and for this season our run defense due to having no starting LBers back, but it wouldve been much better defensively.

 

[raven55]

no because nobody was prepared that's it in a nutshell

 

[pansophy]

Digs doesn’t stop the run, so no.

 

[dckid]

Surely he could have helped stop the bleeding against the Packers.

No. The thing that bothers me the most is why was the defense playing with a 8-10 yard cushion on every big play. What happened to bump and run coverage?
Something is truly amiss.