Kaiser
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Sunday was a brutal way to end the team’s playoff hopes and a painful loss, but sometimes lightning strikes. When Dan Bailey misses two FG’s you know that the game is snakebit.
I know people need to vent but Dez is going to have a ball punched out of his hands once every five years. If that doesn’t happen, we are up 9 – 0 or 13 – 0 and win going away. Dak has thrown one really bad pass for a Pick Six in his career and it was in this game. Otherwise we go up 12 – 7 even with the Dez play.
Stupid mistakes hurt also, Swaim’s crackback block was idiotic and kept us from going up 10 – 0.
So the downside is that this game was insanely painful. The upside is our defense played well even with no interior pass rush. The rookie DBs continue to play very well and we have bookend Corners set for years to come.
Taco Carlton has come a long way and will be even better next year (and will be a starter). He had a sack in this game and was held several times (without calls) or would have had more. He also made a tackle on the sideline on a WR screen that most DE’s don’t make. If he wasn’t playing a QB as mobile as Wilson he would have had even better stats.
Some random notes –
Ho hum, Sean Lee had another 400 tackles in this game.
Dak Prescott can take a hit as well as anyone and doesn’t get credit for it. He took a helmet to helmet hit in the first half and got up to wink at the defender.
DLaw’s 22 yard sack of a highly mobile QB is a perfect example of why he will get a monster contract from Dallas – and deserve it.
Playing without David Irving is a big loss for this team and we had no interior pass rush – and we still held the Seahawks to 136 yards of offense.
We didn’t lose this game because of bad calls, but… there were bad calls. The biggest play of the game was the 3rd down completion to Baldwin where Taco was held. Even Aikman commented on it. The endzone PI call on Awuzie was offensive PI and the endzone PI call on Lewis was PI, but could easily have been called an uncatchable ball. The holding call on Witten in the Red Zone was a complete joke.
Russell Wilson is the enemy but I love the guy.
We desperately need to upgrade the Swing Tackle spot in the offseason, Byron Bell is a big liability. Swing tackle and WR are the only gaping holes to fill so I really see Dallas overpaying for a veteran OT who can fill the swing tackle spot for a year or two. Then our draft goes something like 1 - WR, 2 - WLB, 3 - OT, 4 - DT.
I know people need to vent but Dez is going to have a ball punched out of his hands once every five years. If that doesn’t happen, we are up 9 – 0 or 13 – 0 and win going away. Dak has thrown one really bad pass for a Pick Six in his career and it was in this game. Otherwise we go up 12 – 7 even with the Dez play.
Stupid mistakes hurt also, Swaim’s crackback block was idiotic and kept us from going up 10 – 0.
So the downside is that this game was insanely painful. The upside is our defense played well even with no interior pass rush. The rookie DBs continue to play very well and we have bookend Corners set for years to come.
Taco Carlton has come a long way and will be even better next year (and will be a starter). He had a sack in this game and was held several times (without calls) or would have had more. He also made a tackle on the sideline on a WR screen that most DE’s don’t make. If he wasn’t playing a QB as mobile as Wilson he would have had even better stats.
Some random notes –
Ho hum, Sean Lee had another 400 tackles in this game.
Dak Prescott can take a hit as well as anyone and doesn’t get credit for it. He took a helmet to helmet hit in the first half and got up to wink at the defender.
DLaw’s 22 yard sack of a highly mobile QB is a perfect example of why he will get a monster contract from Dallas – and deserve it.
Playing without David Irving is a big loss for this team and we had no interior pass rush – and we still held the Seahawks to 136 yards of offense.
We didn’t lose this game because of bad calls, but… there were bad calls. The biggest play of the game was the 3rd down completion to Baldwin where Taco was held. Even Aikman commented on it. The endzone PI call on Awuzie was offensive PI and the endzone PI call on Lewis was PI, but could easily have been called an uncatchable ball. The holding call on Witten in the Red Zone was a complete joke.
Russell Wilson is the enemy but I love the guy.
We desperately need to upgrade the Swing Tackle spot in the offseason, Byron Bell is a big liability. Swing tackle and WR are the only gaping holes to fill so I really see Dallas overpaying for a veteran OT who can fill the swing tackle spot for a year or two. Then our draft goes something like 1 - WR, 2 - WLB, 3 - OT, 4 - DT.
