Quick game thoughts

[Ranched]

The haters conveniently forgot where Dallas was last season without Dak.

 

[JBS]

Been a rough 3 weeks for Chelsea fans. The Lukaku situation has been heart-breaking now twice. Such a talented player but just has never been happy here for any length of time.
Chillwell loss was huge as they just lack another solid 2-way option there. He was so in form.

All that said a top 4 EPL finish, UCL round of 16, and still alive in the Carabou Cup is a pretty good version of awful.

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was hoping either one of us would give city a run this season, if not both. Looks like neither will. That sucks. Give me city in the champions league. Smack those clowns around. Can’t stand them.

 

[links18]

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They did a good job of competing that final quarter. Arizona still doesn't scare me. I'd never block Chandler Jones with Dalton Schultz again but basic scheme adjustments and I like Dallas by 14 in a rematch.

Only on a Cowboys board do people think they can have no fear of a team that just handed us our butts. The Dalton Schultz observation is a good one, however.

 

[Aven8]

Can't see Rams losing at home with a division title on the line but it is possible.

SF hasn’t lost to the Rams since 2018

 

[jterrell]

I think the team was treating it as a big game as well; MM saying the team was going to treat this like a playoff game.

Tall order to make a deep playoff run. We are going to have to get lucky or have something really click like it did for the Giants the year their defense carried them on their improbably Super Bowl run.

Never bought that from MM and the team played with zero sense of urgency until down late.
There were no meaningful 2nd half adjustments that I saw.
They did open it up in the 4th and nearly go win it but that first 3 quarters was pre-season like basic scheme.

 

[Outlaw Heroes]

Cool story but I predicted this in advance on this board.
I was only shocked Arizona played it as aggressively as they did.

Feel free to cry though. That always helps.

Congrats on the prediction. They don't stop being excuses just because you make them in advance.

 

[jterrell]

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Only on a Cowboys board do people think they can have no fear of a team that just handed us our butts. The Dalton Schultz observation is a good one, however.

rofl handed us our butts... it was a 3-point loss where they missed a fumble call that at the very least sends it to OT.
If folks football IQ is so poor they could not tell how the teams played the game I can't help more than I have tried to already in this thread.
Arizona played this like an important game but Dallas did not.

 

[jterrell]

Congrats on the prediction. They don't stop being excuses just because you make them in advance.

Not sure you understand the difference between a prediction and an excuse.
If you can read at all you noticed the warning this wasn't going to be the thread for cry-babies.

 

[jterrell]

SF hasn’t lost to the Rams since 2018

That is a great note and SF did flog them in the Bay but I'll still lean to the team with a 3-game lead and home field.
Rams played poorly this week and likely come out ready to go. That Rams defense should be able to shut SF down.

 

[Outlaw Heroes]

Not sure you understand the difference between a prediction and an excuse.
If you can read at all you noticed the warning this wasn't going to be the thread for cry-babies.

Dude, you come in here offering a pathetic list of excuses for why Dallas lost an important game. The one thing you're not in a position to do is pretend to be more grown up or manly than those who accept the loss for what it was: a thorough disappointment.

'Hey guys, be tough like me and act like a child who can't accept reality.'

 

[Aven8]

That is a great note and SF did flog them in the Bay but I'll still lean to the team with a 3-game lead and home field.
Rams played poorly this week and likely come out ready to go. That Rams defense should be able to shut SF down.

I watched that game back in November. They literally did the toss sweep on 9 consecutive plays down the field to open the game for a TD. They just don’t match up well with them. Having said that I can see the Hawks beating Zona too.

 

[jterrell]

I really really hope you are 100% correct.

Unfortunately, it buys us only 1 playoff win if I am right. And I am right
I'm not saying we beat either Tampa or GB.

 

[NoLuv4Jerry]

Watched it again, no expert but…

a handful of killer penalties stalled drives in 1h. 3rd and 12 offsides on defense (Gregory) when tgeyvgot a stop led to 3 extra points for Cards (they failed on 2 pt play)

Hooker deflects ball on 4th down cards td in 2Q. A touch unlucky.

3Q was god awful football, especially on offense.

I still thinks it’s going to be a tough haul to get out of 1st round, but I’m slightly more encouraged after rewatch.

offense still too many empty possessions, I worry about the secondary when there is not any semblance of pressure. You could say that about any secondary, but Diggs, Brown, J Lew weren’t good yesterday. Joseph came in and gave 15 yards of cushion.

you mean to tell me Dak was not the only reason we lost?

 

[Direwolf63]

How was playing a winning team that could be a playoff foe in Week 17 of the season while you, yourself, are fighting for the #1 seed (or #2 seed) not a big game?

It's comical the lengths some will go to in order to excuse a loss.

Agreed

I don't buy the "this wasn't a big game so they took it easy" argument for a second

If anything, what yesterday's game proved is that this team is a year away from truly contending.

 

[jterrell]

Dude, you come in here offering a pathetic list of excuses for why Dallas lost an important game. The one thing you're not in a position to do is pretend to be more grown up or manly than those who accept the loss for what it was: a thorough disappointment.

'Hey guys, be tough like me and act like a child who can't accept reality.'

Dude, you came on my thread which warned in the very first line this wasn't going to be the thread for crying and instead of heeding that proclamation proceed to post over and over in my thread.

So let me be clear it was only disappointing if you have a really low football IQ.
Dallas had very little play for. They certainly had little desire to present Arizona with a playoff game plan.
Some things are just what they are and people with brains can see that.
Other people are irrational and cry every time they don't get the result they want.
It is clear which you are.

Buck up sparky, the most likely result of the final two games was we would play Arizona in Dallas.
That was computers doing the math BEFORE the game.
Still the most likely result and now the Cards have shown us their game plan while we largely trotted out generic formations.

 

[Direwolf63]

Last week I asked what would happen if the defense stopped getting turnovers. Could they beat a good team without the benefit of 4 turnovers? I got hammered for asking the question.

But we got the answer yesterday.

 

[Outlaw Heroes]

Dude, you came on my thread which warned in the very first line this wasn't going to be the thread for crying and instead of heeding that proclamation proceed to post over and over in my thread.

So let me be clear it was only disappointing if you have a really low football IQ.
Dallas had very little play for. They certainly had little desire to present Arizona with a playoff game plan.
Some things are just what they are and people with brains can see that.
Other people are irrational and cry every time they don't get the result they want.
It is clear which you are.

Buck up sparky, the most likely result of the final two games was we would play Arizona in Dallas.
That was computers doing the math BEFORE the game.
Still the most likely result and now the Cards have shown us their game plan while we largely trotted out generic formations.

You don't get to dictate the responses 'your' thread attracts. It's a public forum. But I get it: you think you can bend reality to your will. That's a delusion. If you're unable to disabuse yourself of it, the world will do it for you.

Dallas had plenty to play for. Pretending otherwise is ridiculous.

 

[Sydla]

The pretzel twisting to excuse the loss is laughable.

K.I.S.S.

We lost to a good team because we didn't play well, left some plays on the field and made some crucial mistakes in a big game. Trying to write this off as basically the Cowboys not caring about the game as it was unimportant to them and that we are hiding schemes (in Week 17 mind you) is typical thinking form fans that often struggle to just admit what is patently obvious. We lost to a good team (again) that played better than we did. Not because we played vanilla or didn't scheme for them or didn't take the game seriously enough.

We may get a crack at the Cards again. Hopefully we play better, execute better and don't make as many dumb mistakes.

 

[links18]

rofl handed us our butts... it was a 3-point loss where they missed a fumble call that at the very least sends it to OT.
If folks football IQ is so poor they could not tell how the teams played the game I can't help more than I have tried to already in this thread.
Arizona played this like an important game but Dallas did not.

So, what's your argument? We let them win, basically?

 

[Sydla]

Oh and by the way, if we were trying to disguise a playoff game plan and hide some new fangled scheme we will break out in the playoffs, we likely would have run more than we did. And also not run a WR option pass.

LOL.