Game Day ***Pre-season Cowboys vs Bengals post game thread***

[Bob-Lillys-War]

Do scrubs benefit from a terrible playbook , and terrible coaching ?

 

[armadillooutlaw]

Starting offense looked pretty good. Starting defense was phenomenal. Loads of depth at DE, LBs look good. Might have a decent 1T in Antwaun Woods. Byron and Chido looked real good. Safety is a real concern, as is slot Corner. What happend to Lewis? Brown isn't very good. OL depth is bad. I do like Gallup and Hurns. Getting Beasley back should help. Even T-Will made a play. More good than bad. As always, we can't afford an injury to Dak, backups are bad.

 

[Alexander]

I bet the pressure ramps up this week to go after Earl Thomas.

 

[Yoshimitsu]

White seems to lack touch on short passes. He threw his receivers bullets but they need to catch the ball.

 

[bigdnlaca]

I blame this loss on the lack of a home field advantage. No excitement and the road team was comfortable again.

 

[Sydla]

Our two deep threats arent playing. Thompson and Austin.

Thompson is a JAG and likely not a guy that suddenly opens it up for other players.

Austin has, in 5 seasons, never been that kind of player either. We are left hoping we somehow can rub that genie and make it work.

 

[DFWJC]

I can't grade the backup qb's with the blocking they had in front of them. But I'm not sold on White.

I hear you.
No protection at all.
I just have draft day flashbacks for both White and Shutlz
Tim Settle and Deshon Elliott would sure look good in a Cowboys uni.
And so many of us wanted them
Oh well

 

[Alexander]

Starting offense looked pretty good. Starting defense was phenomenal. Loads of depth at DE, LBs look good. Might have a decent 1T in Antwaun Woods. Byron and Chido looked real good. Safety is a real concern, as is slot Corner. What happend to Lewis? Brown isn't very good. OL depth is bad. I do like Gallup and Hurns. Getting Beasley back should help. Even T-Will made a play. More good than bad. As always, we can't afford an injury to Dak, backups are bad.

These are all peripheral.

The core of your team, the meat, the middle has to be sound.

We have real problems there.

 

[DEDUB88]

I think it's important for us to scour the waiver wire after the cuts have been made.

No one will put a quality qb on waivers. Unless there's a trade this is what we have.

 

[stiletto]

And yet the 1st team defense dominated the Bengal 1st offense.

Let that sink in.

I agree but I don't like our starting safeties at all...everything else looks decent on D. Oline....another story. Yikes.

 

[Yoshimitsu]

Safety is a concern because of depth but i like Woods and Heath. Woods showed me he can play that deep safety because of his range. He should've intercepted that ball. If one of those guys go down we are in trouble.

 

[CWR]

Woods' hamstring.

We were already thin at S and weren't exactly dripping with talent there anyway. If his hamstring is a big issue, we are down to Frazier, who isn't very good in coverage and Heath. That is not good at all.

I think we know what needs to be done

 

[buybuydandavis]

Two Plays:
Tapper catches a RB from behind 40 yards downfield
Rico catches a ball around the defender's head

They helped themselves

 

[waving monkey]

Brady has one of the quickest releases... he doesn't care about pressure .

Oh I see that yur example, completely fair.

 

[Yoshimitsu]

Two Plays:
Tapper catches a RB from behind 40 yards downfield
Rico catches a ball around the defender's head

They helped themselves

I still don't think Tapper makes the team. I'm not impressed with him as a rusher.

 

[Super_Kazuya]

Preseason disclaimer obviously, but honestly it looks like a rerun from the end of last year. Same anemic passing game, workman running game, “good enough” defense (against Bungles/49ers anyway). They can beat some teams playing like this, but they will continue to get rolled if the other team jumps out in front early.

 

[waving monkey]

Do scrubs benefit from a terrible playbook , and terrible coaching ?

it's impossible to attain enlightenment with a bad mantra

 

[waving monkey]

I still don't think Tapper makes the team. I'm not impressed with him as a rusher.

too much competition for that spot

 

[sideon]

The defense might be legit top 5 by the end of the year, but this offense will not survive if Zeke doesn't play all 16 games. The play to Rod Smith and the Williams TD made people forget that Dak was bad tonight. The OL has real issues and even thought he was on the sidelines we don't know how bad Zack's injury is.

 

[Bizwah]

No one will put a quality qb on waivers. Unless there's a trade this is what we have.

Experienced QBs are sometimes cut for young guys.