Losing at home

[Galian Beast]

I've been looking for a trend in our home losses versus the rest of the year, here are some things I've come up with.

The defense hasn't been much worse. I would pin this mostly on the offense laying eggs. They kept Washington to 17 in regulation.

Outside of that they haven't been able to overcome turnovers by the offense in the other three games we lost.

They turned the ball over 3 times against Philly, twice against Arizona, 4 times against San Francisco.

Romo has been limited or absent in all of these games, though this may be cherry picking, but I think it's pretty evident.

One of the biggest problems with the Cowboys is when they put themselves behind the eight ball early with turnovers.

In a rare turn around for his career, Tony Romo is 69.9 in QB rating in games that we lose.

I think we need to establish the pass a bit earlier in games. Scoring early will change a lot of things for this team.

The offense has averaged 14.5 points in games we have lost.

What does this have to do with playing at home? I actually think it is a fluke. Slow starts combined with first half turnovers. In games we have lost we have been outscored 68 to 27 in first quarters.

Beating Indy will be about not letting them dictate the game early. A big question is whether they will play T.Y. Hilton are let him rest going into the playoffs. Someone made a topic that they have nothing to gain, well home field advantage and a bye is something they definitely want, so I wouldn't be surprised if Hilton plays. Another problem is that we've been terrible against tight ends.

Indy has its warts too though. They aren't great against tight ends either. So maybe we can get Escobar re-engaged here.

 

[windjc]

As mentioned in another thread Romo has been either returning from injury (loss 1), being injured (loss 2), out from injury (loss 3) or limited by injury and lack of recovery time (loss 4) in those games.

Not a real mystery why we are 3-4 at home.

 

[Bungarian]

I've been looking for a trend in our home losses versus the rest of the year, here are some things I've come up with.

The defense hasn't been much worse. I would pin this mostly on the offense laying eggs. They kept Washington to 17 in regulation.

Outside of that they haven't been able to overcome turnovers by the offense in the other three games we lost.

They turned the ball over 3 times against Philly, twice against Arizona, 4 times against San Francisco.

Romo has been limited or absent in all of these games, though this may be cherry picking, but I think it's pretty evident.

One of the biggest problems with the Cowboys is when they put themselves behind the eight ball early with turnovers.

In a rare turn around for his career, Tony Romo is 69.9 in QB rating in games that we lose.

I think we need to establish the pass a bit earlier in games. Scoring early will change a lot of things for this team.

The offense has averaged 14.5 points in games we have lost.

What does this have to do with playing at home? I actually think it is a fluke. Slow starts combined with first half turnovers. In games we have lost we have been outscored 68 to 27 in first quarters.

Beating Indy will be about not letting them dictate the game early. A big question is whether they will play T.Y. Hilton are let him rest going into the playoffs. Someone made a topic that they have nothing to gain, well home field advantage and a bye is something they definitely want, so I wouldn't be surprised if Hilton plays. Another problem is that we've been terrible against tight ends.

Indy has its warts too though. They aren't great against tight ends either. So maybe we can get Escobar re-engaged here.

If you read the indy has nothing to gain thread you will see they cannot effect their seeding unless new england or denver lose out.

 

[jazzcat22]

Hasn't the defense been playing better against TE's. It seems they have. I know misconceptions linger for some reasons. But I think they been doing better than perceived. But I haven't looked at any stats either.

 

[Beast_from_East]

As mentioned in another thread Romo has been either returning from injury (loss 1), being injured (loss 2), out from injury (loss 3) or limited by injury and lack of recovery time (loss 4) in those games.

Not a real mystery why we are 3-4 at home.

We literally cannot win a game without Romo..................I hope everybody finally realizes how important he is to this team.

 

[LittleBoyBlue]

We literally cannot win a game without Romo..................I hope everybody finally realizes how important he is to this team.

True. But needs to be fixed.

We literally cannot win a game without Romo because of who we have as our backup..................I hope everybody finally realizes how important he is to this team.


He is very important, but if we had a decent back up that could throw a pass 5 yards to BEASELY for a 1st down or touchdown we could win some games without him.

 

[DFWJC]

If you read the indy has nothing to gain thread you will see they cannot effect their seeding unless new england or denver lose out.

I think they can move from 3rd seed to 4th seed. But both still get home WC games, so the difference isn't much.

 

[Wood]

I've been looking for a trend in our home losses versus the rest of the year, here are some things I've come up with.

The defense hasn't been much worse. I would pin this mostly on the offense laying eggs. They kept Washington to 17 in regulation.

Outside of that they haven't been able to overcome turnovers by the offense in the other three games we lost.

They turned the ball over 3 times against Philly, twice against Arizona, 4 times against San Francisco.

Romo has been limited or absent in all of these games, though this may be cherry picking, but I think it's pretty evident.

One of the biggest problems with the Cowboys is when they put themselves behind the eight ball early with turnovers.

In a rare turn around for his career, Tony Romo is 69.9 in QB rating in games that we lose.

I think we need to establish the pass a bit earlier in games. Scoring early will change a lot of things for this team.

The offense has averaged 14.5 points in games we have lost.

What does this have to do with playing at home? I actually think it is a fluke. Slow starts combined with first half turnovers. In games we have lost we have been outscored 68 to 27 in first quarters.

Beating Indy will be about not letting them dictate the game early. A big question is whether they will play T.Y. Hilton are let him rest going into the playoffs. Someone made a topic that they have nothing to gain, well home field advantage and a bye is something they definitely want, so I wouldn't be surprised if Hilton plays. Another problem is that we've been terrible against tight ends.

Indy has its warts too though. They aren't great against tight ends either. So maybe we can get Escobar re-engaged here.

I think you nailed it by mentioned Romo didn't play full 4 quarters in each of home losses. Thats everything.

 

[JD_KaPow]

I think they can move from 3rd seed to 4th seed. But both still get home WC games, so the difference isn't much.

The difference is between a trip to NE and a trip to Denver in the second round. I know which I'd prefer, but it also doesn't seem like a very strong in-the-moment motivating factor.

 

[Roadtrip635]

I've been looking for a trend in our home losses versus the rest of the year, here are some things I've come up with.

The defense hasn't been much worse. I would pin this mostly on the offense laying eggs. They kept Washington to 17 in regulation.

Outside of that they haven't been able to overcome turnovers by the offense in the other three games we lost.

They turned the ball over 3 times against Philly, twice against Arizona, 4 times against San Francisco.

Romo has been limited or absent in all of these games, though this may be cherry picking, but I think it's pretty evident.

One of the biggest problems with the Cowboys is when they put themselves behind the eight ball early with turnovers.

In a rare turn around for his career, Tony Romo is 69.9 in QB rating in games that we lose.

I think we need to establish the pass a bit earlier in games. Scoring early will change a lot of things for this team.

The offense has averaged 14.5 points in games we have lost.

What does this have to do with playing at home? I actually think it is a fluke. Slow starts combined with first half turnovers. In games we have lost we have been outscored 68 to 27 in first quarters.

Beating Indy will be about not letting them dictate the game early. A big question is whether they will play T.Y. Hilton are let him rest going into the playoffs. Someone made a topic that they have nothing to gain, well home field advantage and a bye is something they definitely want, so I wouldn't be surprised if Hilton plays. Another problem is that we've been terrible against tight ends.

Indy has its warts too though. They aren't great against tight ends either. So maybe we can get Escobar re-engaged here.

I agree, we have to protect the ball. Fortunately for us, the Colts have had their issues with turnovers all season and has gotten worse over the last few weeks. The Colts have 12 TO's in the last 4 weeks. In the last 4 weeks the Colts have fumbled 14 times and lost 8 of those fumbles! Our defense needs to be ripping at those balls and let our offense capitalize.