One thing that should be very clear

Kaiser said:
If you play your starters in preseason, guys will get hurt and be lost for the year.

If you don't play your starters in preseason, you get openers like you saw yesterday.

Its not about the franchise falling off the map, its a predictable result of a decision to hold everyone out of the preseason. The team is built around Dak and Zeke and if one of them got hurt in preseason the meltdown here would be ten times worse. Look at Dak and Zeke in the 4th Quarter of this game and its a night and day difference from the first half - that is what fans need to look at in the big picture.
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I keep hearing how Dallas sat it's starters in PS. I just don't think that was the plan at all. Dak played in game 1 and 2,, and played the typical amount. 1 drive in Game 1, a quarter or so in game 2, leading to a half in game 3.. the issue is that 3/5 of the OL was hurt heading into game 3, so they couldn't play Dak or at least they shouldn't have. I dont' think the plan was to set the starters in PS, it just turned out that in game 3 and 4, they did because of injuries.
 
Cowboy4ever said:
I keep hearing how Dallas sat it's starters in PS. I just don't think that was the plan at all. Dak played in game 1 and 2,, and played the typical amount. 1 drive in Game 1, a quarter or so in game 2, leading to a half in game 3.. the issue is that 3/5 of the OL was hurt heading into game 3, so they couldn't play Dak or at least they shouldn't have. I dont' think the plan was to set the starters in PS, it just turned out that in game 3 and 4, they did because of injuries.
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Then we need better backups.

Dak did not play the normal amount in preseason.
 
Cowboy4ever said:
I keep hearing how Dallas sat it's starters in PS. I just don't think that was the plan at all. Dak played in game 1 and 2,, and played the typical amount. 1 drive in Game 1, a quarter or so in game 2, leading to a half in game 3.. the issue is that 3/5 of the OL was hurt heading into game 3, so they couldn't play Dak or at least they shouldn't have. I dont' think the plan was to set the starters in PS, it just turned out that in game 3 and 4, they did because of injuries.
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Which was still a mistake. Dak needed to play in game 3 period.
 
Keithfansince5 said:
Which was still a mistake. Dak needed to play in game 3 period.
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Yeah, a young raw QB who desperately needs snaps didn't get them. It's not a whole lot more complicated than that.

Seriously, is this another example of poor evaluations and assessments by our org?
 
Batman1980 said:
We need better back-ups?! The lack of a proper back-up is the only reason I'm not okay with benching Dak right now.
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Of course, if we threw Cooper in, it would be funny and we'd get a better draft pick!!!!!!
 
kskboys said:
Of course, if we threw Cooper in, it would be funny and we'd get a better draft pick!!!!!!
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This offense is so inept we're headed to a 4th place finish and a top 10 finish anyway if Linehan can't get us on track.
 
Colombiacowboy said:
I know that it has been said hundreds of times since yesterday that the Cowboys had a really bad game. They looked bad on offense, special teams and several defensive players had rough games. The only guy who did his job was Chris Jones, and even the coaches screwed that up when they could have punted to nail them deep for that last drive.

All of that has been said, but what has not be said specifically is this...

Yesterday serves a notice as to NOT ONLY how far away this team is from being elite, but also how far away they are from the rest of the NFC.

Given it was kickoff weekend, I watched all of Thursday night's game, was stuck to the Red Zone for the morning games, watched the Cowboys, and watched the Packers lucky streak continue with their QB bum (dripping with sarcasm).

Nobody, except maybe the Bills, looked as bad as we did. While I understand we will probably get better as the season progresses, we are nowhere near being contenders. That is the one crystal clear fact I take away from yesterday.
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We don't look like contenders today but we could look like contenders a week from today if one game makes us feel like contenders or non-contenders, right. Don't get too uptight about what one game is or isn't. Reasons for concern after yesterday, yep, reasons to quit the season, nope
 
kskboys said:
Yeah, a young raw QB who desperately needs snaps didn't get them. It's not a whole lot more complicated than that.

Seriously, is this another example of poor evaluations and assessments by our org?
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Yes. The list is long my friend.
 
what's the difference? maybe one of the backups won't be scared to actually throw the ball.
 
Batman1980 said:
This offense is so inept we're headed to a 4th place finish and a top 10 finish anyway if Linehan can't get us on track.
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Hey, at least w/ Cooper's extremely bad showing in pre we don't have to see 426,840 "Start Cooper" threads!!!!
 
Colombiacowboy said:
I know that it has been said hundreds of times since yesterday that the Cowboys had a really bad game. They looked bad on offense, special teams and several defensive players had rough games. The only guy who did his job was Chris Jones, and even the coaches screwed that up when they could have punted to nail them deep for that last drive.

All of that has been said, but what has not be said specifically is this...

Yesterday serves a notice as to NOT ONLY how far away this team is from being elite, but also how far away they are from the rest of the NFC.

Given it was kickoff weekend, I watched all of Thursday night's game, was stuck to the Red Zone for the morning games, watched the Cowboys, and watched the Packers lucky streak continue with their QB bum (dripping with sarcasm).

Nobody, except maybe the Bills, looked as bad as we did. While I understand we will probably get better as the season progresses, we are nowhere near being contenders. That is the one crystal clear fact I take away from yesterday.
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The defense looked very good yesterday.

With better QB play yesterday I think we beat the Panthers.
 
Personally I welcome the idea of benching Dak for a while. Could be a whole game or a series or two. The message needs to be sent, we are NOT OK with this.
 
kskboys said:
Seriously speaking, if we hadn't insisted on the Chaz experiment, maybe we'd have better OL backups.

And Connor is clearly not ready. I do believe he will be good in time.
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Maybe moving La'el back to LG with the guy we got from NE at RT should be considered? La'el doesn't seem as good at RT as he was at LG to me.
 
Keithfansince5 said:
Maybe moving La'el back to LG with the guy we got from NE at RT should be considered? La'el doesn't seem as good at RT as he was at LG to me.
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Not sure that's the answer.

Maybe Xman can come in and at least plug the hole at OG.
 
Keithfansince5 said:
But Atlanta played the SB champ Eagles. They are the best team in football. Had Dallas played them, it would have been a rout. If Atlanta played Carolina, they likely would have won that game. Ryan is light years better than Dak.
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Correct, but offensively, Atlanta's offensive skill positions are light years ahead of Dallas' so they should've performed better regardless of the competition. The fact that they didn't IMO is just as disappointing than Dallas' performance against Carolina. Bottom line is both were road games against formidable defenses playing in their home opener.
 
Cowboy4ever said:
I keep hearing how Dallas sat it's starters in PS. I just don't think that was the plan at all. Dak played in game 1 and 2,, and played the typical amount. 1 drive in Game 1, a quarter or so in game 2, leading to a half in game 3.. the issue is that 3/5 of the OL was hurt heading into game 3, so they couldn't play Dak or at least they shouldn't have. I dont' think the plan was to set the starters in PS, it just turned out that in game 3 and 4, they did because of injuries.
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Reasonable hypothesis.
 
yep and the backup qb's played behind the backup offensive line. so what did you expect to see from them.. lmao.. our shaky guy playing behind the starters and looked like a bad backup.
 
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