#1 – We don’t suck.
#2 – We got beat today by Phillip Rivers and there is no shame in that. He played a tremendous game.
#3 – The biggest key to our defense is Sean Lee and we don’t win without him.
#4 – The second biggest key to our defense is Zeke running the ball and that was missing as well.
Dez Bryant is not the problem. He caught 3 of his 5 targets, missed one on a good breakup by the DB and the fifth wasn’t a good pass. He’s becoming the Brandon Carr of the offense, a guy people hate because of his paycheck.
Dak Prescott is not the problem. He is a very good young QB with elite leadership that is halfway through his second season. Still a long ways to go on the learning curve. It took Tony Romo two seasons (after 3 years on the bench) to learn to throw the ball away instead of taking a sack. The last three games have been the first time he had to mount a comeback without Zeke and he still has to figure out that he can’t thrown a 15 point touchdown on one play. Its understandable from 24 year old QB.
I’m not going to go into a lot of detail on the game, but let me point something out. I don’t believe the refs are out to get Dallas. For years I have been a guy posting here that the calls even out and when you do see slanted calls, its to keep the score close. The reason for that is that is to maximize the advertising dollars coming into the NFL. The only time I’ve seen a game completely taken away by the Refs was the Steelers/Seahawks Super Bowl, which was blatant.
But did you feel this game had way too many bad calls at critical moments? When Dak broke into the open on his TD run, I thought “they will throw a flag”. They did, and it was a call you can make on every play in every NFL game. Then when the Chargers threw the TD pass to put the game out of reach, I rewound several times to check and two of the four Dallas lineman were held worse than what Tyron did.
When is the last time an opposing OL was called for holding?
Was La’el Collins holding Bosa or did they just want to bring that play back?
When Witten was slung to the ground, that has been called Unnecessary Roughness since they were playing in leather helmets. Why wasn’t it called?
Last week Dez took a violent hit almost two steps out bounds with no flag. This time they called a small chuck out of bounds on Jones to make sure the Chargers would be inside the 10 and pull ahead. Why the difference?
While I’m asking questions, is there some possible reason the NFL Front Office could have a beef with the Cowboys? It’s a real head scratcher.
