I'm not too worried yet about the redzone struggles

[75boyz]

I'm just the opposite. If the playcaller and his QB can't figure out how to score TDs once reaching the opponent 20, then this team will go nowhere.
I don't care if they give up 300 yds rushing and have all back up o-linemen.
Redzone scoring is the single biggest weakness affecting team success right now.

All the rest is fluff.

jmo.

 

[shabazz]

The French weren’t worried while the Germans approached the Maginot line either……

Public school students feel free to Google it

 

[kskboys]

I'm just the opposite. If the playcaller and his QB can't figure out how to score TDs once reaching the opponent 20, then this team will go nowhere.
I don't care if they give up 300 yds rushing and have all back up o-linemen.
Redzone scoring is the single biggest weakness affecting team success right now.

All the rest is fluff.

jmo.

If we gave up 300yds rushing, you would care, and you'd care a lot. Because that means we'd lose.

 

[75boyz]

If we gave up 300yds rushing, you would care, and you'd care a lot. Because that means we'd lose.

Not if we went 5 for 5 on RZ scoring opportunities I wouldn't.
The rush defense or back up oline didn't lose the Cards game.

The inability of the playcaller and his QB to score once reaching the opponent 20 is.

Period.
AND it will continue to be the primary factor to wins and losses.

Offensive playcalling and QB decision making.
These are the primary factors to this team's losing.

If the HC or QB fails at their assignments this weekend by stalling in the RZ, it's another loss.
Book it.

Zeke and Stephenson can do whatever.
The offense can't **** the bed when the opportunities are there.

 

[NotForLong]

I'm just the opposite. If the playcaller and his QB can't figure out how to score TDs once reaching the opponent 20, then this team will go nowhere.
I don't care if they give up 300 yds rushing and have all back up o-linemen.
Redzone scoring is the single biggest weakness affecting team success right now.

All the rest is fluff.

jmo.

I agree with you. Except I put none of the blame on the "Play Caller"

 

[NotForLong]

Not if we went 5 for 5 on RZ scoring opportunities I wouldn't.
The rush defense or back up oline didn't lose the Cards game.

The inability of the playcaller and his QB to score once reaching the opponent 20 is.

Period.
AND it will continue to be the primary factor to wins and losses.

Offensive playcalling and QB decision making.
These are the primary factors to this team's losing.

If the HC or QB fails at their assignments this weekend by stalling in the RZ, it's another loss.
Book it.

Zeke and Stephenson can do whatever.
The offense can't **** the bed when the opportunities are there.

I agree with you except for the "Offensive Play Calling" part

 

[Cowboys4FL2022]

Admittedly he said OL shuffles limited his aggressiveness, but come on , at least should have pounded the ball to get one RZ conversion to TD, what is the issue with not using TEs ?

I do miss our 3 TE’s On the Left Side and being able to run on that side like Kellen Moore Tried last year and it worked but kellen never ran it enough and went away from it which was stupid but i got all the faith in MM to turn this Offense around

 

[CCBoy]

I agree, along with using Dak's legs more.

Throw in Cooks and make opponent defenses' decisions very quick and very drama filled.

 

[America's Cowboy]

I’ll keep saying it we’re missing Zeke and Dalton Schultz. They combined for 17 TDs last season, and most of them were in the redzone. We’ve had five straight goal to goal failures. That’s a concern!

Agreed, but Zeke and Schultz got super greedy and pushed themselves off the team. The Cowboys wanted to keep both. They offered Schultz $10 million/year and Zeke slightly less than half of the $16.7 million he was scheduled to receive before contract renegotiations. Both Schultz and Zeke got greedy and left thinking they could get more elsewhere than what the Cowboys were offering them. Boy were they seriously wrong. Schultz only received $6.25 million with the Texans, while Zeke only received a $2.9 million/season contract with the Patriots. They would have received much more had they not been greedy and instead stayed with the Cowboys.

 

[Beast_from_East]

We have had 13 red zone possessions and scored 5 TDs.

That is about 40%..............only three teams in the NFL are worse (Houston, Tennessee, and Tampa Bay).

Anybody who does not think this is a problem..........yikes, I dont know what to say.............we are literally one of the very worst teams in the entire NFL in the red zone, the numbers dont lie.

 

[CCBoy]

We're not opposed to putting the ball in Pollard's hands, but throwing at or behind the line of scrimmage allows the defense to get downfield and stop the play in its tracks.

https://thelandryhat.com/posts/red-zone-targets-cowboys-top-playmakers-terrible-look-mike-mccarthy

The same can be said for Lamb's two targets. Very quietly, Lamb has just seven red zone touchdowns since the 2021 season, which is less than Ezekiel Elliott (24), Amari Cooper (11), Dalton Schultz (11), and Pollard (10).

 

[RustyBourneHorse]

Throw in Cooks and make opponent defenses' decisions very quick and very drama filled.

This would be a smart move.

 

[RustyBourneHorse]

We have had 13 red zone possessions and scored 5 TDs.

That is about 40%..............only three teams in the NFL are worse (Houston, Tennessee, and Tampa Bay).

Anybody who does not think this is a problem..........yikes, I dont know what to say.............we are literally one of the very worst teams in the entire NFL in the red zone, the numbers dont lie.

I'm not saying that there's no issue here. I'm just saying that I'm not concerned yet by it. If we get another week or two into the season and we still are struggling, then I'll be concerned.

 

[Captain-Crash]

me either, scoring 3 points in the red zone is no problem.

 

[blueblood70]

I'm not too worried yet about the redzone struggles that the Cowboys have had so far. The reason is because the Cowboys are running a new system atm and, especially given that the players didn't play in the preseason, I think this is something that will be corrected and be improved on as the season progresses.

What does bother me is that the Cowboys starters didn't get at least a few reps in the preseason. I think it's telling with how Mike McCarthy admitted that he was "too conservative" (https://news.yahoo.com/amphtml/why-mike-mccarthy-taking-blame-175309033.html) with his play calling in the redzone against the Cardinals. I think, if the Cowboys had at least tried a few reps in the redzone during the preseason with the starters, the offense would have been able to tell what works well for the offense in the redzone and what doesn't. I understand that the first few games of the season nowadays is almost a glorified preseason game, but I think the starters, especially with a new system being installed, should have gotten a few reps. Hopefully, next preseason, the starters will get at least a drive or two in the preseason to test out some plays in the redzone.

maybe, we shouldn't give it it's a 17-game season and that's all it counts but if you want to comparison last year....first three games of 22= 46 points first three games this year =86..time to move on both got us 2-1 starts

 

[RustyBourneHorse]

maybe, we shouldn't give it it's a 17-game season and that's all it counts but if you want to comparison last year....first three games of 22= 46 points first three games this year =86..time to move on both got us 2-1 starts

Well, exactly, it's a 17 game season, and our players didn't play much if at all in preseason. So, there's not been much putting into practice what they worked on in camp. That's why I am not really worried yet about our struggles. After this week, given that it's week 4 now, I expect improvement. But, I'm not worried three games into the season.

 

[Qcard]

We’re 3 weeks in.

A drive in the preseason changes nothing.

Apparently 5 drives in one game did not change anything either.

 

[charron]

Anyone who paid attention last year knew about these issues. I assumed the new scheme would correct some of this especially in the run game but we haven't seen that in the 1st 3 games. Many here believed Schultz was over rated and he wasn't needed, but we now know differently. By years end things could be different but this is what we see now. The defense more than covered up some of these holes in the offense in the 1st 2 games but game 3 showed you what could happen if the defense fails to be dominant.

 

[kskboys]

Not if we went 5 for 5 on RZ scoring opportunities I wouldn't.
The rush defense or back up oline didn't lose the Cards game.

The inability of the playcaller and his QB to score once reaching the opponent 20 is.

Period.
AND it will continue to be the primary factor to wins and losses.

Offensive playcalling and QB decision making.
These are the primary factors to this team's losing.

If the HC or QB fails at their assignments this weekend by stalling in the RZ, it's another loss.
Book it.

Zeke and Stephenson can do whatever.
The offense can't **** the bed when the opportunities are there.

Extraneous details. We lost because we let the other team drive up and down the field.

 

[CowboyFrog]

Not if we went 5 for 5 on RZ scoring opportunities I wouldn't.
The rush defense or back up oline didn't lose the Cards game.

The inability of the playcaller and his QB to score once reaching the opponent 20 is.

Period.
AND it will continue to be the primary factor to wins and losses.

Offensive playcalling and QB decision making.
These are the primary factors to this team's losing.

If the HC or QB fails at their assignments this weekend by stalling in the RZ, it's another loss.
Book it.

Zeke and Stephenson can do whatever.
The offense can't **** the bed when the opportunities are there.

your not gonna get 5 redzone attempts generally when a team rushes for that many yards.. yes they need to fix the redzone offense, NO we will not be winning many games the defense gives up that many yards rushing..its pretty much a league wide thing..