On this day 6 years ago: Eleven & One

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December 2, 2016

Exactly 6 years ago today, the Dallas Cowboys led by rookies QB Dak Prescott and RB Ezekiel Elliott had won 11 straight games (their longest winning streak in a single season in franchise history) and had amassed an 11-1 record at that point to their 2016 season.

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Oz-of-Cowboy-Country said:
Yep, no complaints about Dak or Zeke back then. I wonder why that has changed over the years?
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Years of disappointment will do that to a fanbase. 2016 was a fresh start, although there were plenty skeptical about Dak back then. Zeke got a little hate off the field, but his real undoing was the hold out/contract.
 
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nightrain said:
As exciting as that 2016 season was, losing to the Packers was a gut punch.
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That game if we had started off fast should have been easy win , instead Turned into a AR theatrical win in the end. I still remember DL was getting outright tackled but no holding calls in that miraculous pass to TE and stupid Byron didn’t bat that.
 
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CWR said:
Years of disappointment will do that to a fanbase. 2016 was a fresh start, although there were plenty skeptical about Dak back then. Zeke got a little hate off the field, but his real undoing was the hold out/contract.
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The disappointment should have been aimed at the coaches instead of the players.The players provided a winning formula back in 2016, the coaches just got away from that formula. That pass happy, Dak friendly concept was trash. Pure trash. Damn coaches.
 
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nalam said:
That game if we had started off fast should have been easy win , instead Turned into a AR theatrical win in the end. I still remember DL was getting outright tackled but no holding calls in that miraculous pass to TE and stupid Byron didn’t bat that.
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No one covered cook on that play lol. AR actually threw a late bad pass and cook just made a great catch.
Then AR got all the credit for that play.
 
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nalam said:
That game if we had started off fast should have been easy win , instead Turned into a AR theatrical win in the end. I still remember DL was getting outright tackled but no holding calls in that miraculous pass to TE and stupid Byron didn’t bat that.
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Yeah, Byron was right there to knock it down. But the pass was thrown out of bounce, so why bat a pass that's going out of bounce. That's pretty much what he was thinking, but I bet he wishes now that he would have made a play on the ball.
 
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Oz-of-Cowboy-Country said:
The disappointment should have been aimed at the coaches instead of the players.The players provided a winning formula back in 2016, the coaches just got away from that formula. That pass happy, Dak friendly concept was trash. Pure trash. Damn coaches.
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I never believed in that defense either. This will be the first year we hit the playoffs with me, actually believing in the D. That is, if the run game D can hold adequately rest of season.
 
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Oz-of-Cowboy-Country said:
Yeah, Byron was right there to knock it down. But the pass was thrown out of bounce, so why bat a pass that's going out of bounce. That's pretty much what he was thinking, but I bet he wishes now that he would have made a play on the ball.
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Was never his strong suit.
 
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