The $60 Million Dollar Man Can't Fix the Defense from Getting Dog Walked

[Relayer]

That's because his offensive line got destroyed there was no run game his tight end didn't even get one catch They weren't getting open as much he was trying to find them but either they were playing behind the chains I mean what exactly were you looking at as usual he put up 21st half points against the Eagles on the road against the Super Bowl champions who have a pretty good defense it's not his fault all the drop passes in the second half are we going to keep doing this the fumbles the drop passes the bad play by the offensive line or when you can't run the football just like in the Carolina game they couldn't run the football but he still got the team 27 points and that should have been enough..

I don't care who you're playing, if your offensive line gets dog walked, and gives up all the penalties, and has on many occasions, on Sunday against Denver had two guys running free at Prescott, and he's supposed to play well??!!!

are you guys Oh not in a properly ventilated place, while staining your cabinets??!!!

because that's what it sounds like you don't realize that everything you're talking about in the games he has not played well it's been the same They don't have a run game the offensive line's getting a ton of penalties, They had no run game ,and the defense can't stop the run, they're not consistently getting open, or they're dropping passes,

it's the same you're right but it's not on Prescott it's the rest of the offense wasn't there how is he expected to play better than the sum of his parts?

Let's get the context correct and use proper perspective on what you saw and what you think you saw as a matter of fact the 2nd interception somebody was supposed to be there prescott doesn't throw the ball where there's zero players wearing blue and white or silver and white whatever you want to call it It looked like somebody went off script or they read it wrong and the receiver thought it should go up instead the quarterback thought it should stop I don't know if they have that in their offense where they're reading whether they should turn around and do a hitch or take off running towards the end zone because somebody and it looks like Lamb who did that in the Packer game in 2023 where are you supposed to continue across the field and instead stops and heads for the end zone but ball's already out too late...

We want to have these conversations you're going to get this from me every time whether you want to read it or not it's a fact yes Prescott looks bad in games where the rest of his offense looks bad yes you're right not on him though kind of hard to play quarterback in that scenario,..

And when he looks over and needs that scored 35 points to win a game you do start pressing and start thinking you know what i'm going to have to start taking more chances it happens The fact that you ought to blame him for his bad games without perspective and context is ridiculous you're fought out wrong if you have something else to bring with him on offense and defense he will perform well..

At least twice Romo commented on Dak not seeing wide open guys. Going after the big play instead of taking what was there.

 

[GMO415]

Everyone needs to point the real finger at what is killing this team, and that's our GM. There isn't one GM in the league that is as old or as senile as ours. Until the Boys get a real NFL GM, NOTHING is going to change, NOTHING!

Agreed. How many 83 year old men that you know are innovative enough to sustain a multi-billion dollar business?

 

[Diehardblues]

We have no chance with him...he wants to be paid like the best but also have the best team.

Depends on what you think we have a chance for ?

 

[charron]

Jerry knows TD's sell. Jerry would rather lose games 27 to 34 than win games 17 to 14. All the investments into the OL, QB, WR, its because points are exciting. Dak can't help the defense but jerry isn't trying to win, he's just selling his brand. They haven't won a thing in 30 years but here we are.

 

[Johannes44]

Teams leaving cap room is a normal thing. It isn’t something the Cowboys do just to pocket money. Teams generally will leave about 20% to allow for room to maneuver and make changes as they go along. The Patriots this season are carrying over a 100 mil in cap space.

 

[blueblood70]

Also can't win if Dak is going to score 10 points through 3 qtrs and he's going to throw it to the other team. And both those picks were all on Dak. Both those picks were bad. First one the receiver was doubled and it was short and the second one he completely misread the defense.

Tired of you singling out an individual, we don't use that, say the offense, please for the love of God, say team, say defense, and say offense, when you say Dak is only scoring 10 points,

you're forgetting how horrible the offensive line played, not only with the penalties, but when they weren't grabbing jumping before the snap Or getting a post snap penalty, you know On both sides of the ball, but the offensive line was absolutely horrible, and you can't run an offense When your offensive line is doing nothing but getting their butts kicked.

Asking Prescott to play quarterback when there's no time to throw or you're at 3rd and 18 do you realize how many times they had to replay first down or second down or have a play called back because of a penalty and then the penalties weren't there they were letting guys run free at him all day sometimes there were two..

Sick of you all not realizing that,

come on here and say the offense needs to play better or the defense sucked or the offense wasn't good today when you pick out Prescott alone you're ridiculous,

you sound like a casual person who knows nothing about the basic structure of a football team, it starts in the trenches they lost that game because they couldn't play physical enough on either side of the ball, in the trenches and they got behind because of all the penalties and negative plays, and yes negative plays happen when guys are running free at your quarterback, he doesn't have time to let a player come open let alone are they coming open against 1 of the best defenses in football, if not the best right now..

I'm not having this conversation with a person that does not understand what football the Basic Football 101 , is your offense and defensive lines and ours got torched and you're blaming a quarterback someone else is making fun of our rookie running back for a fumble that everyone else has done already this year.


so I'm not going to hear it if you want to have a football Talk we can do it but don't start with using only one person's name and that's the quarterback no that's not what got us only 10 points That would be a bad offensive line and a bunch of penalties and no run game...

 

[Diehardblues]

Here’s an alarming stat I saw this morning.

Cowboys' opponents are earning a first down on 54% of their third down attempts, the highest rate in the NFL in the last 40 years

 

[Chasing6]

Jerry pushed his chips all in on Dak in hopes that he can throw this team into the playoffs. Its not feasible. Dak can't do it week in week out. This defense is the reason why this team is getting dog walked around the field weekly.

If Dak can't lead this offense to 35 points, Dallas can't win.

So let's add another $30M+ WR. That should do the trick.

 

[Pass2Run]

We talk about that every week this season.

They should have fired the dweeb after week 2. What this team needs is pressure. The scheme obviously won't work. But he refuses to adjust. It's maddening and I'm less interested and less engaged overall. Similar to last year.

 

[Pass2Run]

So let's add another $30M+ WR. That should do the trick.

Some of you don't understand why adding Pickens, whom we've already added, makes sense. I used to not understand how the cap worked either. But then, I just didn't comment on it because I didn't know.

Now that I understand more, I cringe watching people who don't know comment on the issue. It's kinda funny, in a pathetic way.

We can keep Pickens and still fix the defense. You have to start with firing the dumb ace DC.

 

[blueblood70]

At least twice Romo commented on Dak not seeing wide open guys. Going after the big play instead of taking what was there.

You know what sometimes you can't see the entire side of the field when you have pressure in your face and you're being moved I don't care what he saw from the box that doesn't mean Prescott saw it because that's not where his primary was it's not getting greedy I don't care that that's what he said sometimes you don't see one side of field when you're pushed off your spot and you don't have time to go back and look elsewhere..

By the way this whole Prescott nonsense like when he was actually checking the ball down and throwing the ball 5 yards people got on him for that now you're upset he didn't take the underneath stuff you guys will complain like toddlers kick your feet and scream no matter what prescott can't win just like nothing Jerry will ever do will be good they won't give him any credit it'll all be Wilma clay does the good stuff jerry does all the bad stuff that's how you guys look at it you don't know anything about football stop listening to other people use your own eyes you don't play quarterback in the NFL It is obvious that you think they see everything they can't see the whole field when their offensive line is horrible..

 

[ArtClink]

Jerry pushed his chips all in on Dak in hopes that he can throw this team into the playoffs. Its not feasible. Dak can't do it week in week out. This defense is the reason why this team is getting dog walked around the field weekly.

If Dak can't lead this offense to 35 points, Dallas can't win.

100% accurate.

 

[blueblood70]

Some of you don't understand why adding Pickens, whom we've already added, makes sense. I used to not understand how the cap worked either. But then, I just didn't comment on it because I didn't know.

Now that I understand more, I cringe watching people who don't know comment on the issue. It's kinda funny, in a pathetic way.

We can keep Pickens and still fix the defense. You have to start with firing the dumb ace DC.

This is true,

but let me explain to you what overpayment means, what Parsons did, not just the antics, not the nonsense, and the extracurriculars, that's what pushed Jerry over the top, but the money they went from being in the 40 range to 47 range,

he priced himself off the team...

Now here we are at Pickens,​

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I get tired of hearing, just pay the man anything ,he wants like a blank check, every time I hear that, I cringe,​

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I don't think you guys understand the cap either...​

I don't want to bring up the pie ,because you don't like it when Steven Jones mentions the pie, well let me explain something to you,​

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we need so many more defensive players and free agency, undrafted free agents, unsigned free agents, and draft picks, that we need much more money, now to go to that side of the ball, way more than your brain is like focused on, they need to cycle off so many of these players and I don't even care if they're a bunch of players like Murray or Sanborn but you get rid of them and you start over, with some similar ones, but we need about 10 or 11 new players on defense, just minimum..​

So Pickens wants to take T Higgins money something around 29 million maybe cap it at 30, I think Jerry should think about it, he wants more than that, you franchise tag him with a first round tender or a 2nd round tender, however that works, however you think he can still get his way by leaving but you can get maximum draft picks,

you go get that receiver in the draft...A DEEP WR DRAFT...

And we use the draft pick that you get from Pickens to get say a new receiver in the top three rounds..

It's a deep wide receiver group the last two years the Cowboys should go after 1 this year, That is the alternate opinion, nobody's saying to not do George Pickens, but it is an embarrassment of riches to try to do what Cincinnati has done, and then ignore the defense pretty much..

Adding a player here or there on your defense isn't getting it done,

I don't care that they have Hendrickson, it's not helping TJ Watt and Miles Garett not helping, because there's not enough players on those teams, I mean the Browns are the opposite they got nobody on offense Maybe Judkins...

So you have to spend wisely,

you just can't really nearly go and we really want to have a dynamic duo at wide receiver at the expense and yes it is at the expense if you go out and get a free agent with that same money well then the defense should get that part of the pie if you're getting a dynamic player for thirty million versus a receiver for thirty million that you technically don't need.


Think about this before George was here, 2023 CD Lamb and Prescott had an MVP like seasons together with no real threats anywhere else on the team. 12-5 into the payoffs with #1 seed..

I realize it's nice to have a guy that allegedly takes some of the pressure off CD/DAK, however even last year he was injured he didn't play the whole season he still had 1300 yards, he was still a threat, if Prescott would have stayed healthy and there been a better team assembled.


What's go to this year when Lamb was out what were they saying about our offense with George Pickens just him even Turpin was gone and he was carrying the offense we had one receiver carrying the offense ,and we were still putting up a lot of points, we were still in every game except for the Bears game, when we had one receiver, it didn't look much different than having two or 3....

Realistically this offense I'd rather keep Williams, he's a less expensive option, you can draft a receiver and a running back or maybe Mafah still does something before the end of the year, him in blue maybe you don't need to draft another, but maybe you get another one in the 4th round ,and then you spend all the extra money and the higher draft picks on defense.​

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Our offense is pretty young and most of them are all signed already they can easily move the ball and score enough points to win most games if they had a better defense..

this is why we're talking about using resources more on the defense than worrying about a dynamic highly paid WR2 when you can get A WR 2 in the draft or you might even be on this team what if Flournoy ready to make that step?. I mean we haven't seen him as the absolute WR 2 Where he gets those reps and see what he does I mean then you still have Turpin...

I mean you still can develop like holding I mean you guys are just overly focused on George Pickens but realize how he and Lamb were just in the worst game we had all year They get neutralized by better defenses because our offense don't have time to throw the ball and there's no run game and we're one dimensional and it's much tougher to score points even with two dynamic receivers..

Denver games offense was pretty healthy and they constantly were playing behind the chains and couldn't score enough points it didn't matter that we had two dynamic receivers, literally look at Cincinnati they are the AFC version of us ,when their offensive line isn't running well and they can't get a run game going everything is on Joe Burrows, T Higgins ,and Jamar Chase, and they don't get it done enough..

 

[Johannes44]

Pickens did t price himself off the team. The ridiculous contract handed to Dak is what priced Pickens off the team

 

[khiladi]

At least twice Romo commented on Dak not seeing wide open guys. Going after the big play instead of taking what was there.

This is Dak’s problem. Hes a one-read QB. He can throw on his early reads, in part because he’s decisive, but it he plays a disciplined good defense that forces him to go down his reads, it’s over.

 

[Relayer]

You know what sometimes you can't see the entire side of the field when you have pressure in your face and you're being moved I don't care what he saw from the box that doesn't mean Prescott saw it because that's not where his primary was it's not getting greedy I don't care that that's what he said sometimes you don't see one side of field when you're pushed off your spot and you don't have time to go back and look elsewhere..

By the way this whole Prescott nonsense like when he was actually checking the ball down and throwing the ball 5 yards people got on him for that now you're upset he didn't take the underneath stuff you guys will complain like toddlers kick your feet and scream no matter what prescott can't win just like nothing Jerry will ever do will be good they won't give him any credit it'll all be Wilma clay does the good stuff jerry does all the bad stuff that's how you guys look at it you don't know anything about football stop listening to other people use your own eyes you don't play quarterback in the NFL It is obvious that you think they see everything they can't see the whole field when their offensive line is horrible..

I'm not upset. It's the people who hear anything critical of Dak and then they start name calling and trying to belittle you that are obviously upset. If it makes you feel better yesterday I saw Dak literally walk on water while curing a blind guy.

 

[Chasing6]

You know what sometimes you can't see the entire side of the field when you have pressure in your face and you're being moved I don't care what he saw from the box that doesn't mean Prescott saw it because that's not where his primary was it's not getting greedy I don't care that that's what he said sometimes you don't see one side of field when you're pushed off your spot and you don't have time to go back and look elsewhere..

By the way this whole Prescott nonsense like when he was actually checking the ball down and throwing the ball 5 yards people got on him for that now you're upset he didn't take the underneath stuff you guys will complain like toddlers kick your feet and scream no matter what prescott can't win just like nothing Jerry will ever do will be good they won't give him any credit it'll all be Wilma clay does the good stuff jerry does all the bad stuff that's how you guys look at it you don't know anything about football stop listening to other people use your own eyes you don't play quarterback in the NFL It is obvious that you think they see everything they can't see the whole field when their offensive line is horrible..

When our D consistently gives up 20 points or less, then I will blame Dak.