Jaire Alexander's INT

[kwcool619]

I wouldn’t say it was a bad decision. That play is only made by 2 maybe 3 corners in this league. Jaire being one of them. Most other corners are called for DPI there but Jaire is smooth

Jaire is a baller

 

[Creeper]

At first I thought Cooks was wrong for not finishing his route. Then after watching a different close up view of the play, I saw Alexander put his hand of Cooks' should pad and pull him back and out of the way to Alexander could get in front of him to intercept the pass. This could have been called holding or PI. The defender cannot use his hands or arms to impede the path of the receiver to the ball. But that is exactly what Alexander did. This is why Cooks appears to not finish his route. I am not going to whine about it. They lost 48 to 32, but at that point in the game that play was huge. My theory is the refs let it go because it was inside 5 yards where contact is allowed.

The Cowboys have to get better at acting when they get held of interfered with. Like other teams they need to get up and throw their hands up in the air and do the pulling the flag motion 20 times. It seems to work for everyone else.

I am not excusing Dak, it was a bad decision. He should have gone to CeeDee on that play.

And btw, we don't know what Dallas was looking at CeeDee was running a route behind Cooks. He could have been looking at either of them or both of them.

 

[loublue22]

I mean it was clear PI, you can't grab the receivers shoulder and pull him back to get to the ball.

 

[khiladi]

There are more than a few out there who believe GB knew most of the plays the Cowboys were running because their offense was so vanilla last Sunday. Heck, YOU probably could have got yourself a pick if you suited up for that game.

The Texas West Coast dumbed-down offense…. Remember, they struggled in 3 of their last 4 games, as they weren’t playing bottom-feeders..

 

[Mac_MaloneV1]

And yet you linked in another thread to Kurt Warner's analysis and he certainly doesn't claim it was definitely an auto throw to the under route or that Dak made the right read. In fact, he kind of hints that he's perplexed why Dak didn't throw to Lamb based on how Alexander first reacted to the play.

Wrong.

It's an auto throw once the decision that CD is covered is made. When you throw it, there's no read. It's an assumption that the WR is crossing face.

Doesn't matter if it should have gone to CD or not.

 

[Clove]

Who knows why QBs throw INTs. I remember having to play QB because our QB was sick one game, I'm a natural receiver. And I was the worst QB in the history of football. It's hard playing QB when you didn't grow up doing it. Having said that, the ultra point of the thread was that Dak sucks. No matter how many ways you try to articulate it, that's the point.

 

[UncleOscar]

I wonder if he was trying to draw a DPI call. That's my only explanation. Especially since Lamb is wide open up top.

Is that the early play that caused CeeDee to get pissed on the sideline?

 

[Walker]

Pay Dak more money that will fix the problem, since there is less to go around and we can get more of the same.

 

[big dog cowboy]

Is that the early play that caused CeeDee to get pissed on the sideline?

It was late in the 1st quarter when it happened. His unhappiness started before that. But I'm sure that play didn't help.

 

[RustyBourneHorse]

Is that the early play that caused CeeDee to get pissed on the sideline?

Not sure. If it was, I don't blame him.

 

[Sydla]

Wrong.

It's an auto throw once the decision that CD is covered is made. When you throw it, there's no read. It's an assumption that the WR is crossing face.

Doesn't matter if it should have gone to CD or not.

Then why does Warner say in the video that if Dak sees the CB drop down to cover Cooks, the throw should be thrown to the area outside Lamb who is breaking open?

 

[1942willys]

Virtually all commentators that are ex QBs try hard to give the QB blowing the play some kind of excuse if at all possible
you see it again and again
Dak stared down the WR on that play; something that you are taught day one NOT to do; never stare down a receiver because really good DBs will see that and react quickly
which is exactly what happened

 

[glimmerman]

Another thread ripping Dak. No need to anymore. Either Daks makes or breaks this year if they bring him back..

 

[BoysForLife]

Trying to draw a PI on a 4yd pass?

 

[SlammedZero]

There are 3 things in life that are guaranteed:
1) Death
2) Taxes
3) Dak throwing interceptions in the playoffs.

 

[SultanOfSix]

Both passes weren’t good. The first was delivered badly. Even if Cooks was held/interfered with, the defender somehow still beats Cooks to the ball while being behind him because the ball was thrown too far out in front of the receiver. Had he delivered it accurately, the defender likely would have to go through him to make a play.

The second was just an awful read. He zeroed in CeeDee and just didn’t see the defender sitting there in zone when Cooks was the second read with man coverage and was open.

 

[Mac_MaloneV1]

Then why does Warner say in the video that if Dak sees the CB drop down to cover Cooks, the throw should be thrown to the area outside Lamb who is breaking open?

Doesn't matter, it isn't the point. Whether it should or shouldn't have gone to CD, you throw that route anticipating that the WR crosses face.

He also talks about how Cooks ran it with really poor depth, which is the bigger problem.

 

[Philmonroe]

I want you to look at TWO THINGS:

1. On the first Tweet, pay attention to Dak the whole time and where he is looking. He is watching the action between Cooks and Jaire the WHOLE TIME.

2. Now look at the second Tweet and watch the actual action between Jaire and Cooks. It’s obvious that Jaire won the match-up.

Then ask yourself why in the hell did Dak throw it, knowing this fact?

According to the second tweet they said it wasn’t really Dak fault and dude made a great play.

 

[Philmonroe]

There are more than a few out there who believe GB knew most of the plays the Cowboys were running because their offense was so vanilla last Sunday. Heck, YOU probably could have got yourself a pick if you suited up for that game.

Who were these few? People on twitter lol. I don’t know why fans say that dumb comment. Of course teams know other teams plays and tendencies they watch tape. It isn’t like a team has 1000 plays to run. They run a lot of the same plays all the time. Heck any decent YouTube break down guy can show you this so why wouldn’t actual teams do an even better job of this?

 

[Sydla]

Doesn't matter, it isn't the point. Whether it should or shouldn't have gone to CD, you throw that route anticipating that the WR crosses face.

He also talks about how Cooks ran it with really poor depth, which is the bigger problem.

LOL.

As I suspected you are basically cherry picking what Warner said. He's quite clear. He said if Dak reads the CB covering Cooks properly, the throw should have gone to Lamb. You can point out play design and Cooks issue on his depth but Dak also made a mistake there.