Twitter: McCarthy on letting the clock run down to :03

[DallasEast]

To me the 8 sec down to 3 wasn’t the mistake. The not calling TO when Gallup was ruled forward progress with around 40 sec

^ This

 

[FVSTONE]

MM has to go! You can't coach and play scared in the NFL and some of the play calls were just plain horrible! It seemed like it was 2nd and 10 with MM calling for run plays straight up the gut which left 3rd and 7 or 8 all night long! What happen to the Texas Coast Offense, little flare passes to the back and let him get outside and pick up some yardage, but no let's run it up the middle for little or no yardage ALL NIGHT LONG! MM is coaching scared and it's showing in the lousy offense we all witnessed last night.

 

[Coogiguy03]

I'LL GIVE HIM THIS ONE, we give dak chance after chance. I can see where he's coming from, if we throw it and make a mistake we'd all be complaining he should have just taken the 3 points

 

[Flinger]

That's because MM knows he doesn't have any redzone routes in his playbook far enough to reach the endzone from the 3, so they could come up short with no timeouts remaining... lol

 

[Mac_MaloneV1]

It seemed like it was 2nd and 10 with MM calling for run plays straight up the gut which left 3rd and 7 or 8 all night long!

Where have you been for the last 15 years? This nonsense isn't new lol

 

[CowboysDrew]

Normally "gutless" would not be something one would say about McCarthy on first glance but boy it was there.

 

[Mac_MaloneV1]

To me the 8 sec down to 3 wasn’t the mistake. The not calling TO when Gallup was ruled forward progress with around 40 sec

I mean I agree with you, but both decisions are the same.

They were playing for a field goal as time expired. That's a stupid thing to do, but the decision to do that was made well before the Gallup play.

 

[Dale]

Incomplete trust in your QB and complete coaching failure that you haven’t practiced a play for that situation enough to have the faith in your offense to execute it.

Exactly. Bad coaching or not, he signaled to all that he did not trust his QB (and the rest of the offense) with another snap in that situation.

 

[TexasHillbilly]

It was. But it was still bad clock management

I think everyone wanted MM to take the timeout and try to get the ball in the endzone. Maybe they are right, but we had already failed once. He did not ask for the clock to be stopped at 8 seconds because he had already decided to run it down to 3 and kick the field goal. I guess that's his choice as the coach.

Hey, I wanted him to take the points before and he did not. Who am I? Just a couch coach hoping my team wins. MM's clock management skills have never been great.

 

[erod]

I don't get the confusion.

He doesn't trust Dak.

Period.

 

[McKDaddy]

so maybe the owner isn't completely senile

 

[McKDaddy]

I didn't like the conservative approach but I understand the logic, the team wasn't playing disciplined football and he didn't want to risk a turnover or a negative play/flag that could have taken them out of field goal position.

A turnover was the only real risk though. A penalty wasn't taking them out of FG range. Certainly not if they were serious about Aubrey kicking the one he lined up for a few games ago. Like 60 something yards. You had a timeout just in case something weird happened.

If you are that scared of your QB, he shouldn't be playing. And since you're the HC you have no excuses if he's in the game.

 

[Shane612]

This is the way MM will play with Prescott as his QB, take only necessary chances and hope the defense plays well.
To Dak's credit he didn't throw an INT. For Dak that is a good day.

 

[J12B]

I was at the game. All the Cowboys fans around me were confused as well.

This will be Mike's last year in Dallas.

 

[Runwildboys]

Wait...so if Jerry wanted to take a shot, but they didn't take a shot, and nobody does anything without Jerry's permission...

Mind...blown

 

[Screw The Hall]

Cowardly

 

[mardwin]

This is the way MM will play with Prescott as his QB, take only necessary chances and hope the defense plays well.
To Dak's credit he didn't throw an INT. For Dak that is a good day.

He didn't have many passes down the middle of the field unless he was rolling to his right.

 

[Runwildboys]

Except our QB was playing well

He was also holding onto the ball too long and taking sacks. That's what I was picturing in that scenario.

 

[Shane612]

I didn't like what he did, but he did get the field goal and the Cowboys won by 3.

Yup.
Winning the only thing that matters.

 

[Mannix]

There is a ZERO % chance he would have ever done that with Rodgers....ZERO.