Oddly, this game was confirmation for me that the Cowboys are right there

[NeonNinja]

Thanks for the laugh.

 

[Gangsta Spanksta]

A caught ball is a bad throw? Ok buddy. LOL

So 300 yards and 5 TD's is that a good game for a QB? Lets see if you can get that far.

It is when most receivers wouldn't catch it. >.> Obviously, the announcers saying "High but Caught" means that it was an over thrown ball. Anyone can figure that out. Don't know why you would argue that.

 

[CowboyRoy]

Yea, too many as usual got caught up in the hoopla thinking this team could go to SB. Too tough on the road in playoffs anyway.

Fools.

Anyway........quick question................I thought we definitely should have gone for it on 4th and 9 in our own end at the end of the game. What about you?

 

[TwoDeep3]

The Cowboys are right there. Niners are just a little better. In a way I am proud of this team. They showed up today and for at least half of the game, we were the better team. It wasnt like last year where we got embarrassed. We lost, but unlike the gleeful homers I didnt expect us to win. Dak didnt have a great game by any stretch, but again, against the #1 defense on the road I didnt expect him to. Dak is NOT elite. Top 10 but not elite. I thought the defense played great, they just got tired in the 4th quarter. I thought the Oline had a great game.

This game was essentially over the moment Pollard went out. I was proud of the coaching staff. It ONLY took 4 years and one playoff game, but they finally figured out how much better Pollard is than Zeke. They started Pollard and were featuring him until he went down. Sadly we had to depend on the horrid Zeke and the first two drives out of the he basically had 2 yards and 5 touches with 2 dropped passes.

Without Pollard, I think its abundantly obvious that we simply dont have enough playmakers. If I am the Cowboys I find a way to resign Pollard and Shultz and I get out of the Gallup contract if at all possible without much penalty. I make WR a priority in the offseason along with another RB to go with Pollard.

ON the road, this was a game that would come down to a one or two mistake here and there and thats exactly what happened. 2 picks by Dak, which were NOT good throws at all. Even the tipped ball he shouldnt have thrown. But again, was he feeling pressed because we cant rely on our kicker? Who knows? Niners D had 3 chances for picks and they capitalized on two of them. Well done. Cowboys had two easy picks and dropped them both. It matters. If turpin goes to the outside on that kickoff return, he has a easy TD. A few little things here and there.

Cowboys are right there. Niners/Bengals in the SB. Bengals take it all.

No doubt the clowns will blame Dak, Moore, Cooper not being here, yada yada yada so lets hear it all.

This was a very good season and the Cowboys are heading in the right direction with a great young defense and are right there at the top of the NFL in that handful of 6 or so teams that are true contenders.

What did the early 90's Cowboys have that this team does not?

Playmakers.

The defense surely has a group of men who come through. The performance today holding the 9ers to 19 points reflects a squad that can bring it. However, having said that, were the 9ers to have a competent QB the score would have gotten out of hand.

My take-away.

Dak did not play well today. I am not making excuses for his play.

The team lost Steele, which was perhaps the best run lineman on this front five. Martin and Steele make that side great. But Dallas lost Steele and scrambled for the rest of the year to be close to competent. Tyler Smith will be a player one day. Biadisz is a starter, but not top of the line. This squad has cost the franchise several games throughout the year. And while people want to pin everything on Dak, you saw first hand today a rookie stand in the pocket and throw unmolested for the most part. Especially in the second half. Purdy did not outplay Dak. Purdy had protection and playmakers to hand the ball off and to throw the ball.

Jerry Jones returned this franchise to a similar WR corps like they had prior to when Cooper came. Jones is at fault here. Your playmaker for Dallas in the passing game is Cee Dee. He has proven he can flat out lead the receivers. But even Michael Irvin needed Alvin Harper. Gallup doesn't show much anymore. And Jerry re-upped him with a raise. The rest of that group are players that might not make the team for the Panthers. Jerry did this because he didn't learn anything at all about what the passing game is. He thinks he is a football guy. I doubt he could lead a Pop Warner team to a .500 season.

Pollard went down and that is the only other playmaker this team has on offense. Once Pollard fell, there was no running game, Even though there wasn't much of one prior to the injury. This made the offense one dimensional with Cee Dee, and the 9ers pinned their ears back and applied pressure on a mediocre offensive line.
Dak threw two picks, but that did not lose the game.

Dak is responsible for those picks. But they did not lose the game.

Now here is the question you need to answer. How come Dak looked like a world beater last week and like a spare this week?

Because the 9ers are a better team. Their defense was much better than last week's defense. They collapsed the pocket routinely.

But what can we learn from this? Rebuild the offensive line to protect Dak and give him time.

(I don't gave a dang what other quarterbacks do. So save that strawman argument for someone else. When he has time he can play this man's game well. The team owes him 80 million and trading him is impossible. So you either play with what you got, limit the pressure where he struggles, and fix the issues where he is harried, or you get what you get. There is no option C. But one thing is for certain. Complaining about it fixes nothing.)

Get another playmaker for the WR corps. A burner who can catch. Ferguson will not be enough at TE, and Schultz will surely move on. This team needs competent TE's. Several.

Cut Zeke after June 1st. This may be the year coming up to spend some of Jerry's yacht money and go all in.

Add a real nose tackle.

The real facts are these. Dallas played the #1 defense and a team that scores 35 PPG and held them to 19. The game was tied at the turn to the 4th quarter. 9-9. And still the 9ers only score another ten point falling short of their average by 16 points. Primarily because Dallas was completely unbalanced at that point due to Pollard's injury.

**As a side note, that tackle of Pollard seemed to me to be deliberate. If you review the game, the 9ers defense was rolling on top of the guy with the ball and offering some extra curricular activity on every tackle.

I am disappointed in the results, but I am encouraged by the way the team showed up.

This is not a coaching issue.

I don't know the average age of the people who post here, but I recall playing the Lions in the 1991 play-off game and getting our hats handed to us and shown the door. This team is closer today than they were this time last year. And a lot closer than they have been in the last 15 years or so.

I refuse to throw emotional temper tantrums when there are things which can change the outcome of games like this. This is fixable.

 

[CowboyRoy]

It is when most receivers wouldn't catch it. >.> Obviously, the announcers saying "High but Caught" means that it was an over thrown ball. Anyone can figure that out. Don't know why you would argue that.

Your making such a great point. LOL

What were we even talking about Dak starting out slow? Cmon, give it up.

 

[CowboyRoy]

What did the early 90's Cowboys have that this team does not?

Playmakers.

The defense surely has a group of men who come through. The performance today holding the 9ers to 19 points reflects a squad that can bring it. However, having said that, were the 9ers to have a competent QB the score would have gotten out of hand.

My take-away.

Dak did not play well today. I am not making excuses for his play.

The team lost Steele, which was perhaps the best run lineman on this front five. Martin and Steele make that side great. But Dallas lost Steele and scrambled for the rest of the year to be close to competent. Tyler Smith will be a player one day. Biadisz is a starter, but not top of the line. This squad has cost the franchise several games throughout the year. And while people want to pin everything on Dak, you saw first hand today a rookie stand in the pocket and throw unmolested for the most part. Especially in the second half. Purdy did not outplay Dak. Purdy had protection and playmakers to hand the ball off and to throw the ball.

Jerry Jones returned this franchise to a similar WR corps like they had prior to when Cooper came. Jones is at fault here. Your playmaker for Dallas in the passing game is Cee Dee. He has proven he can flat out lead the receivers. But even Michael Irvin needed Alvin Harper. Gallup doesn't show much anymore. And Jerry re-upped him with a raise. The rest of that group are players that might not make the team for the Panthers. Jerry did this because he didn't learn anything at all about what the passing game is. He thinks he is a football guy. I doubt he could lead a Pop Warner team to a .500 season.

Pollard went down and that is the only other playmaker this team has on offense. Once Pollard fell, there was no running game, Even though there wasn't much of one prior to the injury. This made the offense one dimensional with Cee Dee, and the 9ers pinned their ears back and applied pressure on a mediocre offensive line.
Dak threw two picks, but that did not lose the game.

Dak is responsible for those picks. But they did not lose the game.

Now here is the question you need to answer. How come Dak looked like a world beater last week and like a spare this week?

Because the 9ers are a better team. Their defense was much better than last week's defense. They collapsed the pocket routinely.

But what can we learn from this? Rebuild the offensive line to protect Dak and give him time.

(I don't gave a dang what other quarterbacks do. So save that strawman argument for someone else. When he has time he can play this man's game well. The team owes him 80 million and trading him is impossible. So you either play with what you got, limit the pressure where he struggles, and fix the issues where he is harried, or you get what you get. There is no option C. But one thing is for certain. Complaining about it fixes nothing.)

Get another playmaker for the WR corps. A burner who can catch. Ferguson will not be enough at TE, and Schultz will surely move on. This team needs competent TE's. Several.

Cut Zeke after June 1st. This may be the year coming up to spend some of Jerry's yacht money and go all in.

Add a real nose tackle.

The real facts are these. Dallas played the #1 defense and a team that scores 35 PPG and held them to 19. The game was tied at the turn to the 4th quarter. 9-9. And still the 9ers only score another ten point falling short of their average by 16 points. Primarily because Dallas was completely unbalanced at that point due to Pollard's injury.

**As a side note, that tackle of Pollard seemed to me to be deliberate. If you review the game, the 9ers defense was rolling on top of the guy with the ball and offering some extra curricular activity on every tackle.

I am disappointed in the results, but I am encouraged by the way the team showed up.

This is not a coaching issue.

I don't know the average age of the people who post here, but I recall playing the Lions in the 1991 play-off game and getting our hats handed to us and shown the door. This team is closer today than they were this time last year. And a lot closer than they have been in the last 15 years or so.

I refuse to throw emotional temper tantrums when there are things which can change the outcome of games like this. This is fixable.

Even with those picks it was 3 or 6 points difference at most. The score was tied 9-9 in the 3rd. Niners just pulled it out. Simple as that.

 

[America's Cowboy]

Did the starting QB miss 5 games? Were the WR's coming off ACL surgery?

Hey, you and most other Dak haters were saying Cooper Rush was a better QB than Dak. So now you're flip-flopping since the stats don't fit your narrative?

 

[Sydla]

Oh well that proves it.

Dak played poorly? Yep we covered that one. Said that in my opening post.

How did he play against the Bucs? YOu still havent figured that one out yet. Thats a little disturbing.

Haven’t figured that out yet? I literally said he played great last week.

But let’s be honest, he beat up a bad defense. He faced a great one tonight and one should expect their star QB to play better than he did. There is a wide chasm between playing awesome against the 49ers and sucking. He sucked. All he had to do was be just decent and they probably would have won. All he had to do was not throw two awful picks that were all on him and we probably win.

You just are too in the tank for Dak and can’t see it.

 

[America's Cowboy]

How did Dak do? Was he Clutch?

Nope. Dak choked!

 

[CowboyRoy]

Haven’t figured that out yet? I literally said he played great last week.

But let’s be honest, he beat up a bad defense. He faced a great one tonight and one should expect their star QB to play better than he did. There is a wide chasm between playing awesome against the 49ers and sucking. He sucked. All he had to do was be just decent and they probably would have won. All he had to do was not throw two awful picks that were all on him and we probably win.

You just are too in the tank for Dak and can’t see it.

Buddy, your too fixated. Dak had an all world game last week and had a bad game this week.

Great, lets move on. Do you have any interest in discussing anything else about the game or the team?

 

[Diehardblues]

We outplayed them.

IDK if I’d go that far. We couldn’t stop their run in second half when we needed to.

Three huge plays we missed. Our defense dropping 2 Int. And the miraculous catch by their TE.

Offensively Dak was off. 1st int was horrible. Several poorly thrown balls. A better game offensively we could have won if we got those 2 Purdy interceptions.

But not sure how we can say we outplayed them. Didn’t do enough offensively or create turnovers defensively.

 

[Sydla]

Even with those picks it was 3 or 6 points difference at most. The score was tied 9-9 in the 3rd. Niners just pulled it out. Simple as that.

His first int cost is 3. His second pick was a 6 point swing, at least.

His interceptions were a major factor in the outcome.

My god, people.

 

[Brax]

If thats what you got over a blowout of the Bucs on the road and a hard fought close loss to the best team in the NFL, then that is your opinion.

You do know the Bucs had a losing record and sucked, The cowboys MO came out again and Dak sucked again when it mattered.

 

[Sydla]

Buddy, your too fixated. Dak had an all world game last week and had a bad game this week.

Great, lets move on. Do you have any interest in discussing anything else about the game or the team?

That’s the problem with Dak.

He’s too inconsistent especially when the games get tough.

He’s just not good enough. He’s a decent QB. He doesn’t suck. But he’s also not an upper echelon guy. That’s just reality.

Unfortunately, there isn’t much we can do about it as contractually we are tied to him for a few more years.

 

[Diehardblues]

Buddy, your too fixated. Dak had an all world game last week and had a bad game this week.

Great, lets move on. Do you have any interest in discussing anything else about the game or the team?

Right

I’m ok with we have third best team in NFC. It’s something to build on . I feel we are a little better team than last year. Fortunately all of the up and coming Elite QB’s are in AFC,

 

[Gangsta Spanksta]

Your making such a great point. LOL

What were we even talking about Dak starting out slow? Cmon, give it up.

Well having someone call my point laughable doesn't quite sting as much after their point was just that this game proves to them that they Cowboys are right there as if they are a season away. Dak had a good game last week, in my eyes he just started slow and Brady being so bad gave him a chance to up his game. I even think under the right culture and with the proper leadership from coaches Dak could go further. This is the wrong team for him, because like Romo he just has normal leadership abilities and can't do on the field leadership to get his team mates focused on winning a major game like today. The Cowboys aren't one season away, because we still have the same problem with the team as we had before, be it Romo or Dak as the QB here.

 

[Diehardblues]

That’s the problem with Dak.

He’s too inconsistent especially when the games get tough.

He’s just not good enough. He’s a decent QB. He doesn’t suck. But he’s also not an upper echelon guy. That’s just reality.

Unfortunately, there isn’t much we can do about it as contractually we are tied to him for a few more years.

He’s not Elite. But in NFC after Rodgers we really don’t have any Elite QB’s anymore. They are all in AFC. The rest have to build around average QB’s.

We are prob the third best team in NFC with Dak. Could be worse.

And no doubt he struggles more against great defenses.

 

[JoeyBoy718]

"I don’t understand this logic. Cowboys played just as well as San Fran tonight."

That 2nd sentence is my logic.

I don’t understand the part about being encouraged because they played as well as the Niners. I agree they played as well as the Niners. But they showed once again that they’ll find a way to lose. So playing as well as the other team doesn’t matter when we’ll always find more ways to lose than the other team will. That means the only way we’ll ever win is if we are way better than the other team, like last week with the Bucs. You think the Patriots won 6 Super Bowls because they were always way better than the competition? They won because they were always talented enough and found ways to beat teams. The years they didn’t win were the years they weren’t talented enough. We’re basically the opposite of the Patriots. We were good enough to win 2-3 times under Romo and 2-3 times under Dak, but we never came close because we always found a way to lose. Tonight, we buried ourselves the entire game. Just off the top of my head: missed XP to put us playing 1 point catch up all game, 2 picks that swung the score at least 10 points, defensive penalties that gave SF a TD when we could’ve held them to a FG. And even in the final drive we had two blunders: one where we didn’t run out of bounds that burned another 10 seconds, and one where we didn’t catch the ball inbounds that lost 15 yards. I count at least a 15 point swing on just mental blunders. I really didn’t see any mistakes like that from SF. So really we would’ve won by 8+ but instead lost by 7. You can’t make mistakes like that and beat good teams. And we do that every year.

 

[CowboyRoy]

That’s the problem with Dak.

He’s too inconsistent especially when the games get tough.

He’s just not good enough. He’s a decent QB. He doesn’t suck. But he’s also not an upper echelon guy. That’s just reality.

Yah, we can disagree on that. Unlike you, I understand that the Niners have the #1 D in the NFL and it was the D that was a big reason why Dak had a bad game. Thats the difference between me and you.

And no Dak is not elite. But he is more than good enough. Plenty good enough. And the reality is that finding a QB better than Dak is not likely at all. So for better or worse, we have Dak. STill better at QB than 2/3rds of the league.

Sorry, not going to waste my time as a fan crying that my QB isnt Patrick Mahomes.

 

[Brax]

you not serious with that stupid comment are you? Purdy had all the weapons? your truly a moron.

Poor Dak has play with all those jags no wonder he sucked. Lol A rookie the last player in the draft just outplayed and beat a 7 year vet but the clowns are starting the excuses already