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The 49ers are not unbeatable they can get punched in the mouth but only if the game is officiated consistently.

If they're going to let Mike be held on every play and CDs pants be pulled down no we have no chance of winning under those conditions we cannot overcome lack of calls on legitimate infractions along with ticky tack calls on questionable and fractions.
It changes the whole game
Nowhere in my post did I mention the 49ers are "unbeatable." You added that.
And, I get what you're saying. The refs are legit trash. But none of that happened when we played them either, they just kicked our ends in.
That's my point.

The 9ers are the NFC standard until we beat them.
 

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This was a game much more critical for Ravens battling for top seed.

While a statement win for Ravens I wouldn’t put too much into this . I doubt SF throws 4 INT in playoffs .

But this game should get everyone’s attention in AFC. Unless Miami beats them Sunday.

Jackson is healthy and with their defense will be a tough out especially if AFC goes thru Baltimore . But Bills could be a tough out too. And I hate to ever count out Mahomey .

AFC appears to be much more up for grabs than NFC.
 

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It's a basic opinion. I don't have to prove anything.

How about this: Until we are remotely competitive against them or teams of their caliber, it proves it's own case.
Anything always possible in NFL but with our recent history against SF without all the turnovers they gave up to Balt I don’t see how any Cowboys fan has any confidence or evidence we will beat them .
 
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With the loss by Dallas and the win by Philly, pretty much set that Dallas will not win the division. Possible, but now a game behind Philly, have to make that game up, Philly not playing well, but as we saw yesterday, they find ways to win. But we'll see.

But assuming we'll be on the road for all playoff games, as history this season and the last few shows, soon as we play a good team on the road, it's a loss. Which brings us to the future. Can Dallas take the next step and move from pretender to contender?

We do have very good to great young players- Cee Dee, Parsons, Tyler Smith, Ferguson, Pollard, Bland, Diggs, Aubrey. Add to that other young guys who the jury's still out on, and who may yet develop into very good to great players - Tolbert, Hendershot, Williams, and I'd even include Mazi, much as I think he's not shown as much as you expect from a first round pick.

Some of the older guys like Lawrence, Armstrong, and Osa should still be good for another year or two or three.

Add those together and we have a good core of players to work with.

The question I have is not the players, but the coaches. I don't have much faith in McCarthy to get better, he had Aaron Rodgers for years and won 1 Super Bowl. Lots of questionable coaching during that tenure. Has had time with Dallas as well, but the same problems remain. (Running Dak up the middle on 2nd and 13?????)

Quinn to my view is as good as he needs to be. Regardless of who you play, to blow out teams like 40-0 shows you can coach an NFL defense. Of course, can't do anything about the refs, you can be sure Dallas will get shafted there regardless of who are the coaches. So might as well ignore that factor.

Much afraid we're seeing Dallas win as much as they are going to with MM at the helm. Barring some incredible luck and all other playoff teams getting hit by a rash of injuries to key players, better enjoy the regular season wins and the occasional first round playoff win, because that's as good as it's going to get as long as Jerry is the owner/general manager....
Got to agree with much of what you said except for accepting getting shafted by the referees this is not any kind of conspiracy theory it is a true reality that you can watch on tape.

Jerry was put in the NFL Hall of Fame I guess because of his ability to make money for the league I don't understand why his team gets no consistency in the officiating.

It's almost like after the year 2000 he was put in excommunicado as far as ever getting a super bowl win.
You can play you can get a lot of regular season wins you can have a bunch of players go to the pro bowl you can even win a playoff game but you're never getting to the NFC championship game where you would have a legitimate chance to get to a super bowl.

On occasion like at present we build a really good team and the inconsistency in the officiating becomes way more obvious we have players now that can impact and change the game but they are held hostage by the officiating.
Somebody needs to get to the league office and fix this problem if I'm Jerry I don't play another game until it's fixed he doesn't need another dime leave the league wondering what happened
 

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CCBoy in with his usual rainbows and pot of gold thread

GM is great
Coaches are great
Players are great

But we lose every important game for years and years and years

But no one is at fault
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Lol. He is a bit delusional. Dallas does NOT have the personnel to contend with the 49ers. OP saw the throttling Dallas got from SF in their first game. Yet he is filled with hope a second matchup would go differently?

He is the type of fan Jerry LOVES.
 

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Lol. He is a bit delusional. Dallas does NOT have the personnel to contend with the 49ers. OP saw the throttling Dallas got from SF in their first game. Yet he is filled with hope a second matchup would go differently?

He is the type of fan Jerry LOVES.
Yes we dont but whose fault is that?
The GM

Who is that?
 

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Hate to say it but it's been proven 3 times in the last 2 years, we can't run or stop the run, we have a qb that struggles against zone and we are physically not as strong in the trenches.

We don't match up well against them and there is next to 0 percent chance we win, it could happen but very very unlikely
Agree with this with exception of one thing that raises a question. Is it our QB that struggles against zone or is it offense concept? Fair question as Dak is visibly more hesitant when 2 high safety comes in to play. Has the coaching staff provided a solution to the zone puzzle or are we a one trick pony that doesn’t work?
 

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Everything you spoke about makes a lot of sense but I believe at this point the officiating is so inconsistent and it's not the penalties that are getting called on us it's the penalties that are not getting called on our opponents that are killing us stopping our momentum causing an attitude of no hope

Micah Parsons is a generational talent with an impact on the game like no other at this moment in time and he is being unfairly neutered by the officials.

If all the holding was called like it should be we absolutely stop other team's momentum in its tracks and give the ball back to our offense at an alarming rate to the point we would have won at least three more games.

Problem there's nobody on the team that can fix this but Jerry either the league is prejudice against the team or Micah one of the two and whichever one it is it needs to stop or we will not get any further there is only so much a team can overcome and the officiating is making it impossible to overcome anymore
The officiating has been suspect this year but I believe it evens out over time. There’s no collusion by the league. That’s tinfoil hat stuff.
 

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CCBoy in with his usual rainbows and pot of gold thread

GM is great
Coaches are great
Players are great

But we lose every important game for years and years and years

But no one is at fault
:facepalm:
If you remember the 70’s Cowboys, they were also a team labeled “Can’t win the big one.” Remember the Miami loss in the SB? I think it was Lilly who threw his helmet in disgust after losing. They had been labeled then just as the current team is labeled. They had to learn how to win.

Remember the 90’s Cowboys? Same thing. They also had to learn to get over that hump. Yahoos of today want instant gratification and don’t have the intestinal fortitude to be objective and instead lash out like you. So when they DO win the SB don’t come crawling back here trying to climb back on the ship. It’s too late for your types.
 

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Q: Why isn't Dowdle the go to RB on the goal line....he at least doesn't play like a tweener.
 

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The more I watch the NFL the more I think coaching is "it" when it comes down to who wins the championships and wins 10+ wins in the regular season.

I watch lesser receivers on other teams run simple patterns and don't have a defender within 3 or more yards of them. Makes their quarterbacks look like they're head and shoulders better than Dak (or Tony or whoever in the post-Aikman years). And how many times in the Dak years have we seen Dak be set up with what should be an excellent chance to get a td, only to have some offensive lineman, or receiver, jump and get a penalty, putting Dak in a more difficult position to get the td (or first down in a critical drive) and turning a first and 10 to first and 15, necessitating changing play calls on the fly. (And yes, Dak should be able to handle that, and he usually does, it's the ones he doesn't, which every quarterback in the league fails at, that we remember).

For some reason the coaches can't figure out how to get our receivers open on a consistent basis. We griped about Dak's ints last year, but it's hard to avoid some of those when he has to make a pinpoint throw so much. I also get tired of seeing screen plays when we have 3 blockers on 2 defenders and one of the defenders just blows past our blockers and tackles our receiver before he can take two steps. Can't they teach blocking? Just watch some of the Patriots' screen passes in their "glory" years, EVERY block is hat on hat, their receiver isn't even touched for 20 yards. So it can be done.

I miss the Landry years where our coaches out-smart other team's coaches, our coaches now just react to the other teams' schemes, not the other way around.

Maybe I'm all wet, or just frustrated, but it sure seems like even when Dallas plays well, it's due solely to player talent alone, runners powering through blocks, or receivers making moves to get away from would-be tacklers.
 

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Lol. He is a bit delusional. Dallas does NOT have the personnel to contend with the 49ers. OP saw the throttling Dallas got from SF in their first game. Yet he is filled with hope a second matchup would go differently?

He is the type of fan Jerry LOVES.
It’s better to be hopeful and optimistic than being miserable with no hope. All that’s left for your types here is to ***** about everyone and everything and have it ruin your Christmas with your bitterness. What a shame y’all think that’s ok.
 

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It's a basic opinion. I don't have to prove anything.

How about this: Until we are remotely competitive against them or teams of their caliber, it proves it's own case.
Lol I'd say 42-10 kind of proves the point for you
 
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Anything always possible in NFL but with our recent history against SF without all the turnovers they gave up to Balt I don’t see how any Cowboys fan has any confidence or evidence we will beat them .
It's ignorant to assume, they're an awesome team. Not that we can never win, but history has been written.
 

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It’s better to be hopeful and optimistic than being miserable with no hope. All that’s left for your types here is to ***** about everyone and everything and have it ruin your Christmas with your bitterness. What a shame y’all think that’s ok.
I'm hopeful and optimistic my 40 year old tiller is going to start every spring when I dust it off. I always bring a bag of tools, though. No misery and hopelessness involved no matter the outcome.
 

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. All that’s left for your types here is to ***** about everyone and everything and have it ruin your Christmas with your bitterness. What a shame y’all think that’s ok.
Says the guy who is as bitter a poster as has ever existed on this forum and spends most of his time complaining about everyone and everything on this forum.
 
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