skicat1898;1498553 said:
Not to change the subject,, but somebody mentioned our defense tanking last year.... Down the stretch, which games did we lose to because the defense played badly.. I only remember two, NO and DET... The other losses our offense failed to produce enough points to win....
You're off the mark bro......
We lost three games in December....and the defense played poorly in all three losses....they even played poorly in our two wins.
Here are the scores from the five games in December.
NYG--23 to 20 (defense gave up 270 yards passing and 126 yards rushing: offense gained 110 yards rushing 255 passing)
NO--17 to 42 (defense gave up: 384 yards passing and 159 yards rushing: offense gained 116 yards rushing 231 passing)
ATL--38 to 28 (249 yards passing 127 yards rushing...offense gained 94 yards rushing 258 passing)
Philly--7 to 23 (222 yards passing 204 rushing!!! offense gained 118 yards passing 83 rushing)
DET--31 to 39....can't bring myself to look at this one.
Now, if you really look at the numbers, our offense seemed pretty solid to good in those games. Our defense was flat out awful....especially our run defense.
The only game we really tanked on offense was the Philly game. But they ran for over 200 yards on us! We couldn't get them off the field.
Most people rail on Romo for his "poor" performance in the last five games. But he still passed for an average of about 250 yards a game in Dec. Now, he did throw 6 TDs to 8 INTs in Dec....but how much of that was just poor play...or how much was it him having to press due to our defense not being able to stop anyone?