Scout's Eye: Breaking Down The Passing Game; Grading The Defense

[waving monkey]

FRISCO, Texas – Make all the comments you want about the Bears, but it doesn’t change the fact that Sunday was one of the most complete performances we’ve seen from the Cowboys in a while.

Yes, the Bears are now in an 0-3 hole and were without many key players in that Week 3 matchup. Despite that, give some credit to the Cowboys for overpowering an outmatched opponent. Led by Dak Prescott and Ezekiel Elliott, the Cowboys moved the ball almost at will – both on the ground and through the air.

While not exactly dominant, the defense held its opponent to 17 points and is only surrendering an average of 20 points so far this season. They also forced two takeaways to give them four on the year – already a marked improvement from a year ago.

Here are some more detailed notes on the win – good, bad and ugly

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[DogFace]

Nice notes on a nice game. Some make light of beating a weak Bears team. In the NFL any win is big.
Clean up a few issues and this would've been a major blow out.

 

[Wolfpack]

I liked that they defended the run route well.

 

[boysfanindc]

More Davis please!

After what I saw from Ryan Davis during his time in the second half, I would expect that he will receive more opportunities in the coming weeks. I think his rush was due more to skill than just being a fresh body late in the game. Davis rushed from both sides, but it appeared that his better work came off the right side. He put Charles Leno in some terrible blocking positions with his rush and should have been rewarded with a holding call on Leno, but the official missed it. Davis was explosive and technique-sound, which was noticeable from my seat in the press box and even more impressive when I got to study the game later. He has a little juice to his rush.

 

[noshame]

At the rate Daks progressing if we add some defense this year, next year we'll be challenging for the big dance

 

[MichaelWinicki]

I thought Davis played well.

Put he and Lawrence both out there and you may sense the slight pulse of a pass rush.

 

[Sydla]

Nice notes on a nice game. Some make light of beating a weak Bears team. In the NFL any win is big.
Clean up a few issues and this would've been a major blow out.

Very true but let's point out that there were a lot of posters around here trying to downplay how good Wentz looked by saying "well he's beating up on the Bears so that doesn't really count."

People can't have it both ways.

 

[Sydla]

I thought Davis played well.

Put he and Lawrence both out there and you may sense the slight pulse of a pass rush.

Yep.

Hopefully Tapper eventually gets on the field as well. Then you can put J. Crawford back a swing guy and have him stop playing so much.

 

[DogFace]

Very true but let's point out that there were a lot of posters around here trying to downplay how good Wentz looked by saying "well he's beating up on the Bears so that doesn't really count."

People can't have it both ways.

Why not?

 

[gmoney112]

Very true but let's point out that there were a lot of posters around here trying to downplay how good Wentz looked by saying "well he's beating up on the Bears so that doesn't really count."

People can't have it both ways.

He had a pretty mediocre game. An 87 QB rating with 190 yards on 30 attempts and a YPA of 5.6. It's not bad, and he's a rook so whatever, but he didn't beat up on anybody. That was his defense.

Dak had a 123 QB rating and over 10 YPA. We were over 50% in 3rd down conversions until we took the foot off in the 4th.

If we'd gotten 2 more turnovers and 3+ sacks, we'd have put up 40, with the TW fumble. Eagles defense and Carson's short game got them +3 in TO ratio.

So yeah. Hard to compare considering injuries, but Dak had a much better game. And I wish we had the Eagles defense.

 

[big dog cowboy]

Yes, the Bears are now in an 0-3 hole and were without many key players in that Week 3 matchup.

People making excuses for the Bears...well what about the key players the Cowboys were missing? It's not like we were at full strength either.

 

[Aven8]

Yep.

Hopefully Tapper eventually gets on the field as well. Then you can put J. Crawford back a swing guy and have him stop playing so much.

Yeah I think J Crawford is dying playing this much. His tongue has been hanging out and it's making him lose his effectiveness.