Cooper game reminds me of Miles Austin KC game, where Miles made plays based on garbage tackling by the KC secondary and his speed. This was supposedly the reason why Garrett’s offense was stalling, the lack of second WR, meaning it masked what was obvious. Cooper is a nice pickup, but it’s not resolving the issues in the passing game.
Dak had one solid, beautiful throw on the deep pass to the middle, while the rest of his play was typical.
His run for a TD was amazing, but that’s no surprise, because as I said, he’s an athletic street-ball QB that’s hard to take down. The problem with that play is it was third and his horrible pocket presence spun him into what should have been sacked twice on that play. So that was more poor tackling by the Commanders than anything else.
Of course all of this was aided by the phantom holding call on the Commanders, where they were in scoring territory and would have given them the first whole Colt was moving the ball.
If one paid attention, the Commanders were playing what appeared to be plenty of cover 1, press coverage all game long with 8 in the box. Defenses don’t respect Dak’s arm. The deep ball to Gallup was an awful floater and Dak had all the time in the world to throw the ball. It caused Gallup to slow down and the DB to catch up.