My Thoughts

[RS12]

Jerry Jones was pragmatic in the locker room after the game, saying he looks at the Cowboys more as a 4-8 team than one that is one game back in the division race.

Jerry and I are on the same page for once. Finally sounds more like a GM than a cheer leader.

 

[Coy]

Overall I agree but McFadden getting out of bounds and then scoring was dumb. Just make the first, get down and Dallas wins. I don't know if you remember when we lost that game with Denver when Payton Manning told his running back to get the first and NOT score in the very same situation. The RB did that and they won. Scoring was probably the only chance Washington had at that point.

Manning told Moreno: Get a first down, but don’t score

Manning said after the game that he told Moreno that he needed to get inside the 1-yard line for a first down — but not cross the goal line — so that the Broncos could run the a minute and 30 seconds off the game clock and then kick a field goal as time expired. Manning didn’t want the Broncos to score a touchdown and have to kick the ball back to the Cowboys, who would then have time to score a touchdown of their own and send the game into overtime.

“He basically was asking me, ‘How am I supposed to do that? How can I get a half-yard but not get a yard and a half?‘” Manning said, via the Associated Press. “I just said, ‘You can’t! You can’t score! You can’t do it!'”

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/10/08/manning-told-moreno-get-a-first-down-but-dont-score/