CFZ My thoughts on the Cowboys vs Texans game

[john van brocklin]

I'll be furious with the coaching staff if we don't. This was a wakeup call to the team with a lucky win.

We dodged a major bullet
Hope we learned our lesson!!!!!

 

[RustyBourneHorse]

this is a family forum.

Ooof, *blushes* didn't mean to come off that way haha.

 

[KJJ]

Haha, take as long as you like to read it if you will. I was just giving my analysis of the game, and, when I give an analysis, I try to be thorough with it.

You obviously gave it a lot of thought to come up with all that. I can give you my thoughts in a few words, we dodged a real bullet today against a real bad team. This performance isn’t going to fly against playoff teams. I really don’t want to put any more thought into this game than that.

 

[RustyBourneHorse]

It will all be over in 5 weeks. Then free agency and draft talk to commence!

I don't know. I think this team is capable of going further than that. However, the coaches MUST use this game to wake up the team.

 

[RustyBourneHorse]

You obviously gave it a lot of thought to come up with all that. I can give you my thoughts in a few words, we dodged a real bullet today against a real bad team. This performance isn’t going to fly against playoff teams. I really don’t want to put any more thought into this game than that.

That's pretty much what I was saying haha, just in a more condensed way. I was also pointing out specific areas where I felt we were particularly poor. But, there were positives to draw IF the coaches can motivate the players the right way.

 

[RustyBourneHorse]

We dodged a major bullet
Hope we learned our lesson!!!!!

I certainly hope so too, or this will be a massively disappointing season. Also, I hope we can keep Pollard and Quinn after this season, or we might be in trouble next season.

 

[john van brocklin]

I certainly hope so too, or this will be a massively disappointing season. Also, I hope we can keep Pollard and Quinn after this season, or we might be in trouble next season.

Franchise Pollard if needed
He is my number one off season priority
Let Shultz walk.

 

[RustyBourneHorse]

Franchise Pollard if needed
He is my number one off season priority
Let Shultz walk.

Definitely, I think we are fine at TE without Schultz. However, the Zeke and Pollard combination is deadly. We MUST keep them imo.

 

[john van brocklin]

Definitely, I think we are fine at TE without Schultz. However, the Zeke and Pollard combination is deadly. We MUST keep them imo.

Yep we are set at TE
Zeke needs to take a pay cut

 

[RustyBourneHorse]

Yep we are set at TE
Zeke needs to take a pay cut

Considering contracts and the rising cap spaces, oh and the fact we don't spend much, I'm not concerned by his contract. If we can keep him and Pollard going into next season, I'm ok with it. It's not like we would use that savings on much during FA anyway.

 

[john van brocklin]

Considering contracts and the rising cap spaces, oh and the fact we don't spend much, I'm not concerned by his contract. If we can keep him and Pollard going into next season, I'm ok with it. It's not like we would use that savings on much during FA anyway.

Don't bring up our lack of free agency involvement.
You know that's a sore subject with me.

 

[RustyBourneHorse]

Don't bring up our lack of free agency involvement.
You know that's a sore subject with me.

Oh yeah lol, sowwy

 

[john van brocklin]

Oh yeah lol, sowwy

No problem, gotta come to terms with Jerry.

 

[RustyBourneHorse]

No problem, gotta come to terms with Jerry.

I think we all do haha

 

[john van brocklin]

I think we all do haha

Stephen too
Lol

 

[bsbellomy]

I did not see the arm get nudged, but even so, I think that the the team played a poor game, but won where it counted. Dak was clutch at the end, as I stated, but that ball was not even close to a WR, if his arm was indeed nudged, then that goes again to the missed blocks point that I was making.

Apart from anything else, whosever fault that was is a red herring imo. The point on that is that sort of play cannot happen if we want to win the Super Bowl. Nobody is going to look back after a playoff elimination and dissect whose fault that was. The fact is, that type of play will mean the Cowboys season will end in a thud if it's not corrected.

I guess of you missed Daks arm getting hit on that play you must have missed the DB deflecting the ball before it hit Noah Browns hands on the first int as well.

 

[RustyBourneHorse]

I guess of you missed Daks arm getting hit on that play you must have missed the DB deflecting the ball before it hit Noah Browns hands on the first int as well.

I literally stated on the Noah Brown one in my OP that I thought that was on Noah Brown instead of Dak. I know that it was tipped, but he had a good opportunity to catch it and didn't.

 

[bsbellomy]

I literally stated on the Noah Brown one in my OP that I thought that was on Noah Brown instead of Dak. I know that it was tipped, but he had a good opportunity to catch it and didn't.

Yes and I pointed out where you were wrong. Can't expect a WR to catch a deflected ball that happened in that fast of a window.

 

[RustyBourneHorse]

Yes and I pointed out where you were wrong. Can't expect a WR to catch a deflected ball that happened in that fast of a window.

Good point about that. However, the overlying point of this thread is that those sorts of mistakes cannot happen if the Cowboys are to reach the potential that I think the Cowboys can reach. In the playoffs, sometimes all it takes is one mistake to send you home.

 

[Joe Realist]

I don't know. I think this team is capable of going further than that. However, the coaches MUST use this game to wake up the team.

They are gonna lose this week to Jacksonville