The One Important Thing We Learned About The Cowboys From The 49ers Game

[waving monkey]

There are usually several things mentioned in this weekly post on what we learned about the Dallas Cowboys during their last game, but against the San Francisco 49ers, one overriding lesson was very clear. The 2016 edition of the Cowboys is almost the complete opposite of the team that fell to 4-12 last year in all the really important aspects.

We all chalked up the failures in 2015 to key injuries, led by Tony Romo, Dez Bryant, and Orlando Scandrick. There were also the four-game suspensions of Greg Hardy and Rolando McClain to start the season, the early season struggles to establish a running game with Joseph Randle, and it also was evident that the coaching staff was just not coming up with answers while the trio of Brandon Weeden, Matt Cassel, and Kellen Moore tried to replace Romo, with essentially no success.

However, this season started with Romo already injured, and by last Sunday’s game, Bryant, Scandrick, Tyron Smith, and La’el Collins had all been relegated to the inactive list, while McClain is basically gone and DeMarcus Lawrence was serving the last game of his suspension. Meanwhile Randy Gregory still has ten weeks to sit and has little chance of contributing at all. Arguably the team was worse off in terms of missing talent for the San Francisco game than any game in 2015.

link/http://www.bloggingtheboys.com/2016...-49ers-game-dak-prescott-tony-romo-dez-bryant

 

[haleyrules]

There are usually several things mentioned in this weekly post on what we learned about the Dallas Cowboys during their last game, but against the San Francisco 49ers, one overriding lesson was very clear. The 2016 edition of the Cowboys is almost the complete opposite of the team that fell to 4-12 last year in all the really important aspects.

We all chalked up the failures in 2015 to key injuries, led by Tony Romo, Dez Bryant, and Orlando Scandrick. There were also the four-game suspensions of Greg Hardy and Rolando McClain to start the season, the early season struggles to establish a running game with Joseph Randle, and it also was evident that the coaching staff was just not coming up with answers while the trio of Brandon Weeden, Matt Cassel, and Kellen Moore tried to replace Romo, with essentially no success.

However, this season started with Romo already injured, and by last Sunday’s game, Bryant, Scandrick, Tyron Smith, and La’el Collins had all been relegated to the inactive list, while McClain is basically gone and DeMarcus Lawrence was serving the last game of his suspension. Meanwhile Randy Gregory still has ten weeks to sit and has little chance of contributing at all. Arguably the team was worse off in terms of missing talent for the San Francisco game than any game in 2015.

link/http://www.bloggingtheboys.com/2016...-49ers-game-dak-prescott-tony-romo-dez-bryant

Strange old world. Add a real QB and bingo!! The club can still win. No Romo...no prima donna wideout..and bingo...the Club can still win. Thats what a real leader at QB can offer a Team. Lest we forget!!

 

[Reality]

What we learned was that the team was not prepared last year to deal with the loss of certain players. Sure, we had backups, but it seems like there was no real preparation or consideration that we would lose key players for an extended amount of games.

Dak has made the team look smart, but honestly, if he had not played as well as he has, we would be looking at 2015 all over again.

I think overall, the front office and coaching staff have done a much better job preparing for the loss of players this season, but I still think having Dak play as well as he has so far has made it less of an issue.

 

[Maxmadden]

Strange old world. Add a real QB and bingo!! The club can still win. No Romo...no prima donna wideout..and bingo...the Club can still win. Thats what a real leader at QB can offer a Team. Lest we forget!!

Don't want to take anything away from Dak but it is a team effort. We have better depth and our much maligned defense is forcing field goals instead of touchdowns, and sprinkling in a few turnovers to boot.

 

[Super_Kazuya]

Let's not forget that last year we played BOTH of the previous year's Super Bowl teams, road games at two of the hardest places to win in the NFL for the last decade (@Green Bay, @New Orleans) and a 15-1 team (w/Romo cameo). This year we have beaten the only team we could beat last year without Romo and two teams likely to be picking in the Top 5 of the draft.

 

[Floatyworm]

Who have we really played? The NFL wants the Cowboys relevant for ratings......We should be unbeaten

 

[StarBoyz83]

Who have we really played? The NFL wants the Cowboys relevant for ratings......We should be unbeaten

Dallas could've just as easily been 1-3 as 4-0. Dice rolled their way. I'll take the wins though lol.

 

[Hawkeye19]

With just average QB play last year-- we finish 7-9 or 8-8. We lost several close, winnable games.

We just got caught with our pants down regarding the backup QB position. When it was clear Weeden couldn't cut it, we panicked and traded for Cassell who was even worse.

This year the offense is sustaining drives, wearing defenses out, protecting the ball, and gaining confidence.

The next 3 weeks will tell us a lot about the character and talent of this football team.

 

[ShiningStar]

Last year was what it was, i dont blame Weeden, i dont blame any players, i look Garrett and JJ straight in the face. Thats were the problems lied. PLayers cant hire themselves and they cant write their own contracts nor draft themselves.

If you believed the board last year we drafted 3 number 1's, Byron, Collins, Gregory. How is that looking now? In less than a year no less. Last year would have been bad, Garrett and company made it worse. This actually shouldnt have shocked anyone, yet it still did.

Fast forward (as we ve been doing 20 plus years) and now we have a QB problem, Sadly only Dallas can do this. Put back in Romo to appease the fans that buy into anyone Jones does and wants to high five their friends at the bar to only miss the playoffs and not helping Dak, Or help the team for the future and get Dak his experience, bad games and all, For the other teams (inculding NY who went through this) this is a problem for Dallas.

Chances are better we are going to bypass the experience that a QB can only get playing, play the Qb who the team feels is getting younger, hasnt been hurt, and will come right out and lead this team right to the place of destiny. Because this has happened before, i dont know in whos dreams but according to them its the right thing to do, its not, again see NY, but lets run with it. Being mediocre is what we love.

Now for the next draft, i agree with many here, go defense, we ll see if that happens, tho im not holding my breath. Defense is easier to put in place and give any team a better chance.

Dallas should be using this year to get their offense in place, work out the kinks and give their young QB room to grow. again, the only team to look at this and say "Screw that" . I say "wonderful" with rollling eyes.

Nothing to do now but sit back, ride the ride and not bother saying "what went wrong guys"? we already know.

 

[ConceptCoop]

Dallas could've just as easily been 1-3 as 4-0. Dice rolled their way. I'll take the wins though lol.

I'd say 2-2, but agree with your point. The NYG,WAS games were coin tosses - one went our way and one did not. But just as easily as we could have won week 1, we could have lost week 2. WAS had a first and goal up 3 points with 10 minutes in the game. This after Cousins missed two easy TD passes early in the game.

 

[DeaconMoss]

Injury to Kellen Moore may be the most positive football god karma that has happened to this team in a long time

 

[CosmicCowboy]

Me thinks a little Coaching helps.......