He's not in a slump, it's just all the other players that suck. Yeah, that's the ticket!
It's mostly the coaching, imho. Just for example, how many times are the Cowboys going to pass the ball to the receiver standing near the sideline? They make yards on that play about 10% of the time, MAYBE. Most times the receiver has to juke his way past a defender, or if he has blockers, the blockers are totally ineffective. Have seen one defender slice through THREE blockers and make the tackle.
Whoever teaches wide receiver or tight end blocking should be fired.
Or they throw a short pass to Zeke or Schultz while they are running directly to the sideline, so that once they catch the pass they have to slow up and get their shoulders turned upfield, which before they can do so a defender is right on them.
I know Stephen doesn't want Dak to run, but geez, if there's 20 yards of empty field before him why can't he run 10 and just slide? Keeps the defense backed up a bit, but noooooooooooo, Dak stands back there until there's 3 defenders all over him.
On defense, on nearly every pass play, when playing a right handed quarterback, the left DE slices inside, leaving the entire right flat wide open, even a slow-footed quarterback like Brady is free to slip out there and buy time to find a receiver, or run for a first down, and a speedy quarterback doesn't encounter a defender until he's 15 yards down field.
Guess Moore and Quinn are telling players in games "Just go out there, hang around and sooner or later the defensive player will fall down, or screw up the coverage, and we'll gain yards!, or sooner or later the offensive player will run the wrong pattern, and whoo boy! we'll stop them for no gain on 1st and 10? (Of course that won't happen on 2nd and 10 and the offense will get a td or gain 30 yards, but hey! it wasn't a touchdown!
Thanks for letting me vent....
