The importance of good defense

[Chocolate Lab]

To me, this is like talking about the importance of buoyancy to a boat. Of course, it's essential.

 

[SquidwardTentacles]

yes and that comes with ability to run the ball bette. assuming you complete 65% of passes, then 35% aren't being completed and you end up off the field, specially for a pass heavy team....

effective run game or having a mahomes.... both help.... which is easier to get?

We spent 9 years not trying to find a mahomes, and have largely ignored the backfield for a good while

 

[CCBoy]

To me, this is like talking about the importance of buoyancy to a boat. Of course, it's essential.

Know how a gondola goes straight when the oarsman only rows on one side?

 

[CCBoy]

We spent 9 years not trying to find a mahomes, and have largely ignored the backfield for a good while

Elliott and Prescott should have won it all and were cheated by referee's call...later changed.

 

[SquidwardTentacles]

You still are predicting...

What was my prediction, specifically?

you just quoted my post where i said the future was speculation and i could only comment about what we were at our last snap.

Hint: there is no prediction there

 

[SquidwardTentacles]

Elliott and Prescott should have won it all and were cheated by referee's call...later changed.

If they would have taken care of the game, during the game, it would not have come down to one play near the end

 

[CCBoy]

What was my prediction, specifically?

you just quoted my post where i said the future was speculation and i could only comment about what we were at our last snap.

Hint: there is no prediction there

Learn English...you predicted failure.

 

[SquidwardTentacles]

Learn English...you predicted failure.

I said we sucked.

Perhaps you should learn about the past, present and future tense of verbs in written language.

 

[CCBoy]

If they would have taken care of the game, during the game, it would not have come down to one play near the end

They were cheated from the win...you excusing the refs instead? You call yourself a fan? No thanks. That wasn't football but play acting. Oh, I hear you...blame Jerry.

 

[SquidwardTentacles]

They were cheated from the win...you excusing the refs instead? You call yourself a fan? No thanks. That wasn't football but play acting. Oh, I hear you...blame Jerry.

It takes 60 min to lose or win a game.

 

[CCBoy]

I said we sucked.

Perhaps you should learn about the past, present and future tense of verbs in written language.

That involves understanding...and all infants learn that differenciation as to blaming. Play with words now. Just remember for your reference, there is no right way for you to do the wrong thing.

I don't lie, steal, cheat nor tolerate those who do. Honor Code at the US Air Force Academy.

That is called Ethics. You are a liar here. You state your own words and don't respond to what is offered to reference. That is YOUR making and you are guilty as charged!

Talking about a future team and YOU insult on the past...stereotype. Oh, you have ownership of that blocking YOUR view.

With crying about Jerry or Dak, explain how the team can still be improved to categories you ignore and can also win using their real gained levels of play.

You don't get away with merely insulting me. You are a liar,

WR, RB, and a CB are ways to improving strongly as a team. A few more renegotiated veterans and the immediate future improves as well.

 

[SquidwardTentacles]

That involves understanding...and all infants learn that differenciation as to blaming.

Yes, understanding past, present and future tenses of verbs would be a good starting point, so that you can differentiate them when read

 

[blueblood70]

We haven’t neglected the defense. Not sure but I believe we’ve used more first round picks on the defense the past couple of decades but some were flops. We’ve struggled to find a dominant DT.

Agreed and it wasn't just missing on a few...Mazi-TBD Taco and Hill busts..

just getting unlucky trying to find a middle linebacker but Sean Lee and lve and jalen Smith; all injury prone and they just couldn't stay on the field... now it's Overshown, dude could be a Hall of Fame player, but is he going to be able to stay healthy?

Now you can list guys like Trayvon diggs, how often was tank hurt? Last year we lost bland and diggs 1 didn't start the year 1 didn't finish the year, year before digg's gone again. kind of hard when you're superstars are hurting or out... Can you imagine if we just had the health those players being on that defense all at the same time no just the three corners you imagine it bland and digs and Lewis would have been on the field say three straight years with little injuries just showed up and played Cowboys would then have a reputation of hey what a great trio back there..

So, you're correct they have not ignored it, it was a lot of years we didn't have good safeties and finally at least have solid safety group. Maybe one day in the middle of that defensive line like the safeties will get fixed..

What is a mixture of things they missed in the draft a little bit and they have a bunch of injuries to the ones that could have been stars and they just couldn't play can't get on the field you're not doing this very much good.

 

[CCBoy]

It takes 60 min to lose or win a game.

Final scores are just that unless there is cheating. They did play well enough to have won and should have. Conjugation involves tense and sequence. A statement that always just uses the pronoun you is done for insult........as intent. Carry on.

 

[gtb1943]

Elliott and Prescott should have won it all and were cheated by referee's call...later changed.

you are a total football fool if you think we would have won the SB that year.

 

[blueblood70]

It went from you grasping at straws to explain what happened in the game to now an anomaly. You're pride got the best of you little nate. Do better next time

be a self-proclaimed amateur poster expert of all football things, calling yourself a guru, are you a narcissist, or are you just this delusional?

you don't think other people watch these games from the inside out, sideways and from all angles, and can blame just about everybody on the team for these losses?!!

I mean seriously dude ,

you sit here and are absolutely talking out of the side of your face... I mean you're a hypocrite, you're literally saying that you can't blame bad defense on bad quarterback play, but you're blaming most of our bad offense or putting pressure on our defense because our offense can't move the ball, and it's just on Prescott ??

that's what you're saying, I've read too much of your crap this morning and I wish I didn't have time to read it and I'm not saying you don't know anything but stop telling other people they don't know anything that's where the narcissism comes in, you think you're a know it all GM and you're just an amateur like the rest of us.. there are very few people in here that know anything about football except what they self-learned, there are a few better coaches some, were high school and used to be college coaches, I know them and most of those guys are levelheaded and don't act like they know it all right, @Ranching.

US supporting Prescott or bringing up valid reasons to why his lack of success doesn't make us homers, it doesn't make us lackeys, or whatever names you're trying to call people who like Prescott fanboys, is that your favorite word, OK narcissist,

you trying to tell me that Aikman and Roger Staubach somehow didn't have some kind of advantage called an offensive line & a run game that showed up in the playoffs the big games they were there they ran first played defense 2nd and didn't ask the quarterback to carry the team...!!! You're trying to tell me that the Jimmy Johnson and Landry coaching Staffs were not better than what we've seen here the last couple of decades that they had game plans for these big games that didn't count on their quarterback being perfect?!!​

Prescott had to deal with in almost every loss in the playoffs, or loss in a big game, with either an offensive line that was underperforming couldn't open holes played on our side of the line of scrimmage or didn't have a second target, nobody was getting open lack of separation, for sure go look those losses have one thing in common, it's not the turnovers by Prescott ,it's the lack of a run game at all.. lack of physicality in the trenches on both sides of the ball has been the downfall of the Dallas Cowboys besides bad luck. And that's just leaving defense out of this and I get your point about the defense you're correct those damn Quinn defenses were a mirage they lit up a bunch of average to below average teams and then when it came down to it what do they look like oh that's right they look like the NFC championship game Washington Commanders defense that defense that defense has struggled to beat Cooper rush last year...​

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The way I invite you to go back just do the Green Bay playoff loss go look at both those interceptions really look at them I want you to watch them four times each the entire play from the inside out you're trying to tell me we're all game nobody was getting open there wasn't time to throw there wasn't no run game that first interception I believe it was out towards the sideline to Brandon cooks trying to tell me that Prescott just trying to give cooks a chance to make a play cooks gets grabbed from the back of the jersey starts to fall then he gets his shoulder pulled and that's how the leverage came that the interception happened it wasn't like he threw a bad ball he was just trying to give his receiver a chance to catch the and instead there was no call there .... turned into an int no big deal right? Nothing well was going on and sometimes it makes your quarterback think he's gotta make a play so he just puts it out there wasn't a bad throw no the guy wasn't very open but if he doesn't get pulled down lose his balance and it gets pulled from the shoulder so the guy can get around him and pick the ball up how is that on Prescott that it's like I said above lots of quarterbacks throw interceptions or fumble the football even in big games and they still win..​

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Now go to the other interception and maybe I'm messing up the order but I believe this was could have been a pick 6 I can't remember but I can tell you this go ask everybody on that team that knew what that play was supposed to be and it wasn't lamb cutting up field he went rogue he went off script he was supposed to carry across the field I don't know if it was a crossing route a post route a slant whatever he was doing he was supposed to finish coming across the field when Prescott saw him was gonna give him a chance he let the ball go and guess what lamb decides to go up field at that very second ball's already about to be released you can't stop it you're blaming Prescott for a bad route run by the receiver but I also don't even blame lamb the whole way he also knows that they're trying to make a play that they're desperate he doesn't think he's open enough so he cuts it up field thinking maybe he can break long but it's too late these things happen in football games there's a lot of moving parts that I've seen and Roger fumble and throw interceptions in the playoffs...​

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Do you remember the San Francisco game not against us in that same playoffs against the lions you do realize that San Francisco played an equally bad first half their quarterback and their offense sucked you know it's crazy though their defense didn't give up three straight touchdowns coming out of halftime and they clawed back into the game they played as a team and they ended up coming back and winning the exact same type of game that's because their team was better they didn't look at how bad that first half was and give up they came back and won!!! we did not lose that game because he threw a couple of interceptions, we lost because there was nothing else on offense to depend on and the defense was flat out horrible... they gave up three straight touchdowns coming out of halftime SF did NOT!!​

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here's the thing you win and lose as a team we lost as a team.. Blaming on the quarterback because the offense couldn't move the ball and he threw a couple of interceptions it's ridiculous.. Yes it's as ridiculous as saying the defense can't get turnovers because of the offense..​

If all our problems was just bad play by the quarterback because you're using bad players a couple of interceptions early in the game you're telling me that aikman and Rogers never done that you're trying to tell me that Matthew Stafford didn't go through a whole season leading the league in interceptions with the Rams his first year looking just like old Detroit lion Matthew Stafford nothing wrong with that but that's basically Romo in a nutshell not having good enough teams to help you in bigger games or in the playoffs and then we get to the Super bowl and guess what happens Matthew Stafford once again threw 2 interceptions did they put that onus on him and lay down and let them lose no they didn't the defense stepped and just shut down anything positive coming from those interceptions that's what we see that's what we saw we watched the games as well...​

 

[stilltheguru]

be a self-proclaimed amateur poster expert of all football things, calling yourself a guru, are you a narcissist, or are you just this delusional?

you don't think other people watch these games from the inside out, sideways and from all angles, and can blame just about everybody on the team for these losses?!!

I mean seriously dude ,

you sit here and are absolutely talking out of the side of your face... I mean you're a hypocrite, you're literally saying that you can't blame bad defense on bad quarterback play, but you're blaming most of our bad offense or putting pressure on our defense because our offense can't move the ball, and it's just on Prescott ??

that's what you're saying, I've read too much of your crap this morning and I wish I didn't have time to read it and I'm not saying you don't know anything but stop telling other people they don't know anything that's where the narcissism comes in, you think you're a know it all GM and you're just an amateur like the rest of us.. there are very few people in here that know anything about football except what they self-learned, there are a few better coaches some, were high school and used to be college coaches, I know them and most of those guys are levelheaded and don't act like they know it all right, @Ranching.

US supporting Prescott or bringing up valid reasons to why his lack of success doesn't make us homers, it doesn't make us lackeys, or whatever names you're trying to call people who like Prescott fanboys, is that your favorite word, OK narcissist,

you trying to tell me that Aikman and Roger Staubach somehow didn't have some kind of advantage called an offensive line & a run game that showed up in the playoffs the big games they were there they ran first played defense 2nd and didn't ask the quarterback to carry the team...!!! You're trying to tell me that the Jimmy Johnson and Landry coaching Staffs were not better than what we've seen here the last couple of decades that they had game plans for these big games that didn't count on their quarterback being perfect?!!​

Prescott had to deal with in almost every loss in the playoffs, or loss in a big game, with either an offensive line that was underperforming couldn't open holes played on our side of the line of scrimmage or didn't have a second target, nobody was getting open lack of separation, for sure go look those losses have one thing in common, it's not the turnovers by Prescott ,it's the lack of a run game at all.. lack of physicality in the trenches on both sides of the ball has been the downfall of the Dallas Cowboys besides bad luck. And that's just leaving defense out of this and I get your point about the defense you're correct those damn Quinn defenses were a mirage they lit up a bunch of average to below average teams and then when it came down to it what do they look like oh that's right they look like the NFC championship game Washington Commanders defense that defense that defense has struggled to beat Cooper rush last year...​

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The way I invite you to go back just do the Green Bay playoff loss go look at both those interceptions really look at them I want you to watch them four times each the entire play from the inside out you're trying to tell me we're all game nobody was getting open there wasn't time to throw there wasn't no run game that first interception I believe it was out towards the sideline to Brandon cooks trying to tell me that Prescott just trying to give cooks a chance to make a play cooks gets grabbed from the back of the jersey starts to fall then he gets his shoulder pulled and that's how the leverage came that the interception happened it wasn't like he threw a bad ball he was just trying to give his receiver a chance to catch the and instead there was no call there .... turned into an int no big deal right? Nothing well was going on and sometimes it makes your quarterback think he's gotta make a play so he just puts it out there wasn't a bad throw no the guy wasn't very open but if he doesn't get pulled down lose his balance and it gets pulled from the shoulder so the guy can get around him and pick the ball up how is that on Prescott that it's like I said above lots of quarterbacks throw interceptions or fumble the football even in big games and they still win..​

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Now go to the other interception and maybe I'm messing up the order but I believe this was could have been a pick 6 I can't remember but I can tell you this go ask everybody on that team that knew what that play was supposed to be and it wasn't lamb cutting up field he went rogue he went off script he was supposed to carry across the field I don't know if it was a crossing route a post route a slant whatever he was doing he was supposed to finish coming across the field when Prescott saw him was gonna give him a chance he let the ball go and guess what lamb decides to go up field at that very second ball's already about to be released you can't stop it you're blaming Prescott for a bad route run by the receiver but I also don't even blame lamb the whole way he also knows that they're trying to make a play that they're desperate he doesn't think he's open enough so he cuts it up field thinking maybe he can break long but it's too late these things happen in football games there's a lot of moving parts that I've seen and Roger fumble and throw interceptions in the playoffs...​

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Do you remember the San Francisco game not against us in that same playoffs against the lions you do realize that San Francisco played an equally bad first half their quarterback and their offense sucked you know it's crazy though their defense didn't give up three straight touchdowns coming out of halftime and they clawed back into the game they played as a team and they ended up coming back and winning the exact same type of game that's because their team was better they didn't look at how bad that first half was and give up they came back and won!!! we did not lose that game because he threw a couple of interceptions, we lost because there was nothing else on offense to depend on and the defense was flat out horrible... they gave up three straight touchdowns coming out of halftime SF did NOT!!​

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here's the thing you win and lose as a team we lost as a team.. Blaming on the quarterback because the offense couldn't move the ball and he threw a couple of interceptions it's ridiculous.. Yes it's as ridiculous as saying the defense can't get turnovers because of the offense..​

If all our problems was just bad play by the quarterback because you're using bad players a couple of interceptions early in the game you're telling me that aikman and Rogers never done that you're trying to tell me that Matthew Stafford didn't go through a whole season leading the league in interceptions with the Rams his first year looking just like old Detroit lion Matthew Stafford nothing wrong with that but that's basically Romo in a nutshell not having good enough teams to help you in bigger games or in the playoffs and then we get to the Super bowl and guess what happens Matthew Stafford once again threw 2 interceptions did they put that onus on him and lay down and let them lose no they didn't the defense stepped and just shut down anything positive coming from those interceptions that's what we see that's what we saw we watched the games as well...​

 

[fivetwos]

An even better example of this might have been the 1994 Super Bowl. We had done practically nothing in the first half. We were down 13-6 and Aikman had thrown an interception that killed one of our possessions.

In the second half, we came out and Leon Lett forced a fumble that James Washington returned for a TD to tie the game. On our next possession, we drove for a TD almost exclusively on running plays. Aikman had a dump pass, but otherwise Emmitt Smith carried for 61 yards and the score.

We went back to doing little on offense, with Aikman missing some receivers (particularly Jay Novacek) until Washington made an interception. Then with a mix of the run and pass, we capitalized for a TD (on a fourth-down goal-line run).

Without a great defense and strong running game, there's little doubt we lose that Super Bowl. And that's with a Hall of Fame QB.

Today, our offense gets off to a slow start and we know it's over.

At the end of that game I fully expected James Washington to be named MVP.

It’s very similar to the Randy Hughes situation in 77.

 

[SquidwardTentacles]

Final scores are just that unless there is cheating. They did play well enough to have won and should have. Conjugation involves tense and sequence. A statement that always just uses the pronoun you is done for insult........as intent. Carry on.

My apologies.
Will you feel better if I use the word "one" instead of "you"?

 

[CCBoy]

Yes, understanding past, present and future tenses of verbs would be a good starting point, so that you can differentiate them when read

I don't have problems there.

Nothing is provided but a play on words in the responses by yourself.

That still meets the threshold of lying, stealing, and cheating. Simply, that is unethical...understood by the Greeks long ago.

Conjugate one's way out or volunteer after we paid the price for an all volunteer armed force.