Schottenheimer was also horrible today

[Coogiguy03]

2nd and goal from the 1 and they passed the ball

2 plays and we couldn't get 1 yard

 

[Coogiguy03]

The red zone play calling was moronic

No the PENALTY was also

 

[JoeKing]

Schotty admitted he needed to call better plays at halftime. That doesn't excuse it but accepting responsibility is the right direction to getting that corrected.

 

[RonWashington]

Cowboys ran it the play before and failed to get the 1 yard for the 1st down, didn't they?

Same thing at the goal line. Ran it on 1sr down. Got it down to the 1. Passed on 2nd down from the 1. Incomplete. Were getting ready to run it again from the 1 on 3rd down but Guyton moved early. Penalty moved the ball back to the 6. 3rd & Goal from the 6. Need to pass now. Blame the Oline.

I’m talking the series before half ball was around the Cowboys 35 , 3rd & 1 you have to try with Willams if nothing else keeps the clock moving last thing you want is Denver’s offense on the field before half again . This may have been the offenses worst game of the season the defense was the same . Horrible. This is an 8 possibly 7 win team . 2 yrs in a row now .

 

[America's Cowboy]

I’m talking the series before half ball was around the Cowboys 35 , 3rd & 1 you have to try with Willams if nothing else keeps the clock moving last thing you want is Denver’s offense on the field before half again . This may have been the offenses worst game of the season the defense was the same . Horrible. This is an 8 possibly 7 win team . 2 yrs in a row now .

Understood and agreed. Horrible playcalling thought process by Schottenheimer.

 

[jblaze2004]

Still, it was 90% Eberflus. Who was a Jerry hire.

Wait Jerry hired Eberflus? I hope he was a DC on Shotty's list of DC's he would like to coach with. I hope the HC had some say in who his DC is.

 

[Creeper]

I know all the anger is at Eberflus, but Schotty was horrendous today. He still doesn’t understand how bad this defense truly is, if he did he would never punt the ball with anything less than 4th and 5. They were never winning today but him punting twice on 4th and 3 or less was playing right into the hands of the broncos, same for the 4th and goal, kicking a fg was a loss. He needs to start coaching with zero trust for this defense nor should he

What you said, plus throwing the football on 3rd and 1 or 2nd and 1 inside the 5 yard line is maddening. You have a physical RB and allegedly one of the best OLs. You extended your FB and TE. So what do you do when you need one yard? Of course you throw the FB into the strength of the Denver defense.

 

[charron]

Same story different year, different playcaller. High powered offense gets stymied by a good defense.

 

[blueblood70]

I know all the anger is at Eberflus, but Schotty was horrendous today. He still doesn’t understand how bad this defense truly is, if he did he would never punt the ball with anything less than 4th and 5. They were never winning today but him punting twice on 4th and 3 or less was playing right into the hands of the broncos, same for the 4th and goal, kicking a fg was a loss. He needs to start coaching with zero trust for this defense nor should he

I agree he played it safe like we have some kind of Ravens or Bears 85 defense II swear to God the the 4th and 1/4 and 5 hell even the short yardage stuff what the hell was the weird calls just tell your guys to run straight forward play it just like you do at the goal line..

Here's the problem though on the flip side the offensive line was terrible it's the worst game they played all year and it's odd we got our starters all back except for BB why did our backups play more physical and better than our starters or just the team we're playing?

Can't run an offense without an offensive line I mean I hate to break it to you but when they're running free or getting penalties which is most of the time it put pressure on the rest of the skill players and the play caller that there weren't a whole lot they could do because nothing could develop...

No he doesn't get a pass but let me give you one of those same things I'll say every time it doesn't matter how well the offense would have played unless they would have scored on every single drive we lose this game so would you rather be a 44 to 43 loss Because we were gonna lose if they had the ball last or close to last...

You do understand the concept right when your defense is this bad that no matter what you're probably going to lose if it's a high scoring game if the defense can't even put up any resistance you're going to lose against a better offense their offense is balanced well put together in a really good play caller and our defense was getting destroyed from the beginning of the game and it got worse as the game went on and I realized we're missing a lot of players I'm not letting Schottenheimer off but I don't think with that offensive line anything was gonna work.

I agree at least two of those punts they should have went for it and that's the ones I remember maybe there were three but one way or the other the pressure was there and by the way I'm not letting some of the receivers off the hook who ran the wrong routes or the running backs who instead of going forward on 3rd and one they go sideways or second and one this was the worst short guardiest game we've ever played as far as at least the last year I can remember I don't they couldn't move pass the line of scrimmage.

I mean if it wasn't for a penalty it took them like six attempts to get one yard to finally score on that 2nd Williams score that's sad that that's bad again you can't run an offense without an offensive line you can't play behind the chains or having your quarterback run for his life... I guarantee that second interception you ask CD lamb how they got off the page and I didn't listen to any of the garbage after the game so I don't know who claimed what was worse the throw or the route I think that was CD Lamb was supposed to sit down in that area and Prescott was counting on him being there let the ball go and Lamb was running towards the goal post somebody was supposed to be there In my opinion it looks like Lamb but it could have been somebody else but Prescott doesn't usually throw to nobody There literally was three orange jerseys and not a single receiver or tight end right there somebody made a mistake...

 

[Jarntt]

2nd and goal from the 1 and they passed the ball

That was the big one for me. Why why why why why???????? It kind of swung momentum back a little also.
The punt vs go for it. Meh, I probably would have gone for it myself, but if you are worried about the D do you really want to give them good field position? Kind of goes both ways with the crappy D, so I can give a pass on that and especially early. But on the first drive, when you run the ball well and have the momentum, just decide right there you are running it 3 more times. It only has to work one out of three times from inside the 1 yard line unless you have a loss!!!! As soon as Dak dropped back on that play I was pissed.

 

[blueblood70]

What you said, plus throwing the football on 3rd and 1 or 2nd and 1 inside the 5 yard line is maddening. You have a physical RB and allegedly one of the best OLs. You extended your FB and TE. So what do you do when you need one yard? Of course you throw the FB into the strength of the Denver defense.

did you watch this games the offensive line was horrible I mean did you actually watch the game not allegedly they could not move the line of scrimmage they were either getting penalties getting driven back or letting guys run free at the quarterback you cannot run an offense like that..

We got our **** beaten in trenches we were out physical and that's all there is to it but you can't run an offense that way I get what you're saying I don't know about throwing the ball but they were hesitant on trying to get anything over 4 yards but yeah when you punt on 4th and 1 and 4th and 5 and I don't remember how many more but those were mistakes especially late in the game trusting your defense you just needed to be aggressive You should have probably went for it on 4th down probably the entire 4th quarter no punts I wouldn't have I would have just lived with the results you were going to lose anyway You can blame Schottenheimer all you want but without an offensive line or a defense we were going to lose that game even if we scored on 75% of our drives we still lose that game you guys do realize that right

This is by far the worst defense I've ever seen the Cowboys have maybe my memory is bad but this looks worse than Mike Nolan At least with Mike Nolan we lost our quarterback early in that season so it didn't matter this matters because up to this point our offense can play football most games they were due for a bad game so I can't let them off the hook a bit because they wouldn't have won the game anyway they have to be nearly perfect to win a damn game and that is sad..

 

[Johannes44]

This was a game where Dak needed to make the plays that would back the defense up so that the run could work.

 

[jrumann59]

Right before the half it’s 3rd and 1 you’ve got the 2nd leading rusher in the league and Dak dialed up an incompletion. Punt Denver gets the ball scores before half . Game set match . Schott your running game needs that call .

reminds me of a coach that used to coach in Dallas before

 

[Pass2Run]

I know all the anger is at Eberflus, but Schotty was horrendous today. He still doesn’t understand how bad this defense truly is, if he did he would never punt the ball with anything less than 4th and 5. They were never winning today but him punting twice on 4th and 3 or less was playing right into the hands of the broncos, same for the 4th and goal, kicking a fg was a loss. He needs to start coaching with zero trust for this defense nor should he

You are right about punting, but he gets a pass from me because he's been good most of the season.

 

[RonWashington]

reminds me of a coach that used to coach in Dallas before

Would he be from Green Bay

 

[Praxit]

..Shotty and offense was under duress whole game.

The silver lining, and there's always one. Learning steps for next game and harder opponents.

FIre EBERJOKE, half your problems will be over.

 

[Mikexike]

This week they need to take a day to study how the texans left the niners on the sidelines in the first half of a ball game. Only way this team wins if the other offense doesn't get on the field.

 

[CowboyFrog]

That was huge just as the James Houston offsides.

If we score there and get that stop we possibly go up 14-0 and it’s a completely different ball game

Guyton literally stopped one drive and tried to stop the next 2... Schotty did get way to conservative with the defense he has but that first series Guyton stopped.

 

[FVSTONE]

I know all the anger is at Eberflus, but Schotty was horrendous today. He still doesn’t understand how bad this defense truly is, if he did he would never punt the ball with anything less than 4th and 5. They were never winning today but him punting twice on 4th and 3 or less was playing right into the hands of the broncos, same for the 4th and goal, kicking a fg was a loss. He needs to start coaching with zero trust for this defense nor should he

The lousy play of players has to be included in this cluster f@#k! Players committing insane penalties has to be addressed. There have to be consequences when players are LINING UP OFFSIDES or flinching when they have become set! O-Linemen throughout the league know that once they are set, if they even twitch their nose, they're going to be called for a false start! These two types of penalties cost the Cowboys a 14 point swing in a matter of minutes in the 1st quarter yesterday. Can't win on the ROAD with STUPID, GUTLESS, HEARTLESS coaches and players!

 

[FVSTONE]

It started early with inexplicable passing attempts 1 foot from the goal line on the first possession after the pick in the 1st quarter. Cost us 4 points.

Then, they still wanted to get cute on future goal line calls. Just run the damn ball with your RB and FB lead blocking. It's so simple even a Caveman can handle it.

Let's not forget about the idiot O-Lineman who cost the Boys with a false start call that moved the ball back 5 yds. From there Prescott made two horrible passes that were NEVER going to be caught. I will bet the house that 5 years from now we're going to read that Prescott had money on Denver in yesterday's game and made sure the Boys wouldn't score with those two horrible passes that resulted in a fricking field goal to start the scoring for the Boys.............LOL!