So Moore never exploited matchups on his way to 3 straight years of the #1 scoring offense in the NFL with Dak at QB?
No one said "never." What I said was that they were poor at it. Which they were. Teams could trot you and me out there at corners and Moore would run the same plays. I saw it too many times to NOT notice it when I see the Cowboys actually attack a backup corner. However your assertion that Moore had "3 straight years of the #1 offense in the NFL." Sorry.. no he didn't.. He had it once.. in 2021.. They were #4 last year and #17 in 2020. Yes I know Dak missed 11 games in 2020.. but 2020 was really the first time I really noticed how bad he was at it. In the Thanksgiving Day game against Washington Cooper has just taking the corner (Ronald Darby?) to school.. I think he had like 100 yards and a TD in the first half. Instead of continuing to go after that matchup Moore outsmarted himself and started "spreading the ball around." Cooper had only 2 or 3 targets in the second half of that game and it steadily got away from us. After that game I really started to hone in on that aspect of Moore's playcalling and it dawned on me that we just never WENT AFTER matchups like we should have. Especially early in games. Moore was always out there "feeling the other team out" early in the game. Like he hadn't just spent 80 hours during the week watching the other team. I always maintained (and always will maintain) that we should go into every game knowing the opponents' weak points and the gameplan should be to attack those weak links for all they're worth until they can adjust.
My praise is for the playcaller and the mentality. I readily acknowledge the red zone struggles.. Some of it's on the line.. some of it's on the QB.. some of it's on the backs.. And a LOT of it is on the tight ends who by my count have three dropped TDs (one each) so far this season.
Hilarious - Op can't even name one time McCarthy has done it.
That ones on Bones.
Can't stress that last part enough. Dropped passes and simply being young and inexperienced. Obviously, they need to get better, but I hope they don't try to over-correct the red zone issues. As these young TEs develop over the course of the season I think the Red zone issues start to clear up. Don't forget about Luepke too, I'd add him into Schoon & Ferg as that's three tweener type of dual threat players who can both catch/run as well as block. That's money in the red zone, but they have to execute.
Interesting.. Dak mentioned in his post game presser that the idea after Gonzalez went down was to go after whoever replaced him. I guess Dak was mistaken too.
I know. And Mike has done a terrible job calling plays in 4 games so him finally calling something that doesn't suck isn't deserving a praise from me. KM had his own faults but his offenses scored, now we rely on Defensive and ST touchdowns.
Moore's offenses scored against chumps. Then got neutered against good defenses. What we should be looking for isn't 30 ppg garnered off hanging 40 on bottom feeders and limping to 17 against better teams. What I want is an offense that can hang 40 on the chumps but also hang 24-28 on good defenses too. Maybe cut that swing down a little bit. Besides even without the defensive scores yesterday's game is 24-3. Not really whine-worthy.
Good point.. I thought of that too but didn't both posting it as you know how people are once they make up their minds about something. Facts be damned. I suspect once Lamb showed he could roast that #2 corner they gave him help which is why Gallup went to town on 'em. He was working against what was essentially a #4 corner if you count the nickel corner as #3. They attacked the favorable matchup .. which wasn't always going to be Lamb.
And Yet , HE'S OUR FOURTH LEADING RUSHER ALL -TIME !!!!!!!
Third actually.. guy just took up a roster spot.. Can you imagine not catching up with hall of famers like Emmitt and Dorsett. What a waste I tellya!
Not trying to.. but you're not going to convince anyone that 1-3 is better than 3-1 either. It's not ABOUT stats.. It's about winning. I don't care if the Cowboys finish 15th in offense and 20th in the red zone.. as long as they keep winning..
Relying on a defense to play lights out every week to win won't end well.
