Things that got exposed

[LACowboysFan1]

Secondary - guys were open all game long.

Yes, so sick of seeing opposing quarterbacks make simple 10-yard throws to receivers who literally have no defender within 3 yards of them, and the proceed to get another 20 yards after the catch. In this last game, on 3rd and 2, the SF tight end simply ran 3 yards past the LOS, turned around and just stood there, Purdy tossed to ball to him like throwing to a six-year-old, and bingo! first down. Easy peasy.

That goes on week after week, year after year. I so miss Witten, bless his heart, slow as a turtle but the man was nearly always open. Guess he could never teach that to anybody.

Meanwhile our receivers have DBs stuck to them like white on rice. Dak has to make near-perfect throws far too often, resulting in at least some of his INTs. Not most of them, but a few less every year wouldn't hurt.

 

[Praxit]

...coaches that study film.

Better playcalling and playing defense.

 

[rangers71]

He is not getting any bottom half franchise to the playoffs, especially in divisions where these weak teams are already weak. His teams are getting to the playoffs because his teams get to 5-1 with Cooper Rush….

Dak has been getting consistently bailed out by the defense, particularly over his TOs as of late. Against SF last year, the defense held the 49ers to a 3 after Dak’s first ugly pick in his own territory.

LOL.

 

[rangers71]

I think it would take 1 minute to find another QB that can't win big games....lol
Sorry that one was too easy.
Carry on

Lol way to miss the point.

 

[rangers71]

It might take a long time to find the next great Cowboys quarterback but by doing nothing, that long time becomes longer. If we know (and most of us do) that Dak is not capable of winning a Super Bowl, much less a division championship, it’s pointless not to move on from him ASAP, with the understanding things may get worse before they get better.

I never said keep to not move on. I just said be prepared that we could have a wasteland for years.

 

[Captain-Crash]

the team wearing dresses and getting smacked in the mouth and asking for more.

 

[SloMo_Joe]

Lol way to miss the point.

That was just humor. Sorry you didn't get it.

 

[dckid]

1. Pollard. I still like him, but he absolutely is not an up the middle RB. Desperately need a pounder to side him. Going into the season w/ him as the starter and two more little dudes as backups never made sense.
2. DT-3 tech. Hankins was beastly last night, but the play of the guy beside him was just poor. I like Osa and Golston, I do, but they need to be the rotational guys. We need that guy, the one who consistently pushes the pocket and disrupts the QB. That is one of the reasons Micah was ineffective last night, not enough push up the middle. Mazi was a start, but we need to start building up the DLine w/ topnotch disruptors. Average is not getting it done.
3. WR. I like Lamb, but he's more of a 1B type WR. Need that monster there.
4. LB. Need better ones.
5. TE. I like Fergie, but we miss that getting open ability that Schultzie brought. I know, I know, y'all hate Schultzie, but we are missing the one thing that he does at a very high level: Getting open. It continually amazes me how that is so underrated by so many fans. He killed it for Houston yesterday, BTW.
6. S. We do have decent ones now, but we're still missing that CF ballhawk type FS.

Anything I missed?

Great points.
1. This defense is more effective the less it plays. If they play less than 30 minutes a game they get better. Playing zone last year was a great revelation, I think we need to go back to that as we don't have a ball hawk CB anymore.
- Denver is looking to clean house, trade them a Surtain if they are willing to trade him. Adding an all pro can never be a bad thing. WR help

2. This team takes on the personality of the coach. I have had hundreds of posts laying out the past 27 years of Jerry incompetence and why I believe he really does not care bout winning a SB. I don't want to rehash all of it but truly. He has 3 SB's the most valuable franchise in the league, most revenue, most profitable. Every sports station has personalities that love or hate the Cowboys. He will only win his way, he does not care about Jimmy Johnson the only coach that has mattered since 1989.
From a positive perspective the team has gotten better drafting. They love their own players to a fault.

-When was the last time this team actually tried to go out and win the SB? When is the last big FA signing or trade? Other than this year we signed Cooks and Gilmore, guys in the second half of their careers for sure.
Do you think Jerry would even hire a young up and coming coach? McDaniel, McVay, Shanahan... to me Jerry should be spending all his cycles trying to get Ben Johnson. He has been the mastermind behind the Detroit offense.
Did you hear how Collinsworth stated that the 7 step drop has not been put into the offense yet.??? Why is the full offense not been put in yet?

Dak is who we all knew he was. Mid level QB, needs a lot of help. Will never be elite celing is top 12 level QB. I would sling it, better for the team and for who ever else wants him after this contract. BTW we could cut him next offseason post June 1 with a $25 million cap hit.

The biggest problem against he Niners last year was the lack of explosiveness. Once Pollard went down we could do nothing. How much better would this offense be if we had a Mike Evans. This again leads to Jerry not making any big moves. These types of players could have been had in the offseason. Guys who are on the end of their deals. Take a shot and try to win a SB. Why couldn't the Cowboys sign Hargrave? It's like we always like our guys.

 

[Creeper]

1. Pollard. I still like him, but he absolutely is not an up the middle RB. Desperately need a pounder to side him. Going into the season w/ him as the starter and two more little dudes as backups never made sense.
2. DT-3 tech. Hankins was beastly last night, but the play of the guy beside him was just poor. I like Osa and Golston, I do, but they need to be the rotational guys. We need that guy, the one who consistently pushes the pocket and disrupts the QB. That is one of the reasons Micah was ineffective last night, not enough push up the middle. Mazi was a start, but we need to start building up the DLine w/ topnotch disruptors. Average is not getting it done.
3. WR. I like Lamb, but he's more of a 1B type WR. Need that monster there.
4. LB. Need better ones.
5. TE. I like Fergie, but we miss that getting open ability that Schultzie brought. I know, I know, y'all hate Schultzie, but we are missing the one thing that he does at a very high level: Getting open. It continually amazes me how that is so underrated by so many fans. He killed it for Houston yesterday, BTW.
6. S. We do have decent ones now, but we're still missing that CF ballhawk type FS.

Anything I missed?

Pollard looks like he lost a step since his injury. But I agree, Dowdle looks strong up the middle. Sunday night was the perfect opportunity to try using Luepke as the RB, and running him up the middle.

I agree Hankins is doing his job. Mazi is not ready. Odighizuwa started off great, but has slowed significantly lately. Gallimore looks like he is playing better but he is not as stout as they need him to be. I am not a fan of Golston at DT unless it is 3rd and long. Too bad they cut Bohanna. He wasn't great but at least he had some bulk to him.

Lamb is fine. They need to get him the ball. Dak hardly look his way Sunday. That cannot happen. But look at the 49ers ball distribution Sunday. No one caught more than 4 passes. the fullback, Juszczyk was the team leader in catches tied with Aiyuk with 4. Kittle had 3, Deebo had 3 and CMC had only 2. CeeDee had 4 for Dallas although I think they came late in the game.

At this point with LVE going on IR they just need bodies at LB. It is shear incompetence what they did with the roster this year going thin at C and LB and getting injured at both positions. They have to stop using the practice squad as an extended roster to stash scrub players because they have no backups at certain position on the 53 man roster. Being thin at C led to the eventual release of Harper. In the meantime they are giving a spot to Deuce Vaughn who I believe is not an NFL player.

Ferguson is fine. He has much better run after catch ability than Schultz. He is a better blocker too. The questions at TE should be about Schoonmaker. It is early, and he missed most of the preseason but he hasn't done much at all. He was open on the first play Sunday night but Dak over threw him. Too bad that ball was better so we could see when Schoomaker has after the catch. To me he looks like David FaFluer but I need to see more. btw, look up Schultz's stats his first 2 seasons with Dallas. He didn't do much until his 3rd year.

Safety was supposed to be a position of strength for Dallas this year. Kearse has been a huge disappointment, maybe the biggest disappointment of the season so far. Donovan Wilson has hurt them too - so far. His two 15 yard penalties Sunday night were both killers. I like his aggression but penalties like that are so unnecessary. The first one came on the first play and the Cowboys looked really aggressive on that play. After that penalty things seemed to change. His coverage hasn't be great either. Juanyeh Thomas has looked better and that is saying something.

What you didn't mention is the CBs. I think Stephon Gilmore was exposed - again. The Cowboys miss Diggs. Gilmore does not have the makeup speed to recover from a mistake. When receivers make their breaks on Gilmore they gain a few yards and he does not catch up after that like Diggs can. And the guy that Dallas received in the Kelvin Joseph trade is worse than Joseph. Joseph at least has the recovery speed to keep up with faster WRs, even if he can't find the ball. Igbinoghene doesn't appear to have the speed and he also seems to struggle finding the ball. I would have kept Joseph. At least he can play ST. Wasn't Joseph traded after he lined up offsides the way Kearse did?

 

[jgboys1]

Our GM!

 

[CowboyFrog]

Yes, so sick of seeing opposing quarterbacks make simple 10-yard throws to receivers who literally have no defender within 3 yards of them, and the proceed to get another 20 yards after the catch. In this last game, on 3rd and 2, the SF tight end simply ran 3 yards past the LOS, turned around and just stood there, Purdy tossed to ball to him like throwing to a six-year-old, and bingo! first down. Easy peasy.

That goes on week after week, year after year. I so miss Witten, bless his heart, slow as a turtle but the man was nearly always open. Guess he could never teach that to anybody.

Meanwhile our receivers have DBs stuck to them like white on rice. Dak has to make near-perfect throws far too often, resulting in at least some of his INTs. Not most of them, but a few less every year wouldn't hurt.

It sure seemed like the 49 defense knew the plays as good as we did...for sure there were some open WR once Dak was breaking out of the pocket but other than 1 or 2 QB's in this league making a living doing a scramble fest every play just leads to more INT's..Cd was open on a couple but it would've been on the run throws back across the field which literally every HC/OC has told QB's all thier lives not to throw....

 

[G2]

Pollard isn't getting 1st downs and is still a really good change of pace RB, to me. I don't think we ever addressed the RB position, but they thought it was good enough.
The lanes quickly got filled w/ LBers after their D line penetrated. The pass protection was awful and the running lanes/timing was just bad.
We have no playmakers at LB on a consistent basis. The 9ers manhandled Dallas from top to bottom.

Every position but Punter/Kicker.

 

[Sarge]

I never said keep to not move on. I just said be prepared that we could have a wasteland for years.

We’ve already had a wasteland the past 28 years.

 

[EPL0c0]

A lot of the DL's strength came from the 2ndary's ability to cover.

The impact of losing Diggs is starting to show. The Safeties are having to work harder and getting beat more.

Hankins looked OK, Osa had an off game. Tank disappeared, Trent Williams slowed Parsons down enough to nullify him.

I really don't care to discuss the offense... it was out of sync and appeared to have zero ability to adjust

 

[Vandyr]

He’s overrated.

One trick pony.

He was getting handled by their fullback

 

[gtb1943]

I think that is clear. I do remember some threads talking about how talented we were and how deep we were.
I think Sunday pretty much showed that was a pile of Circus Carny crap that you expect from Jerry Jones to tempt the hicks and rubes to part with money.

Now we are a fairly talented team I think that is still true.

But it is clear there are better teams out there and we met one on Sunday.

 

[KJJ]

Arizona proved the Cowboys aren’t a great team.

 

[kskboys]

Yes, so sick of seeing opposing quarterbacks make simple 10-yard throws to receivers who literally have no defender within 3 yards of them, and the proceed to get another 20 yards after the catch. In this last game, on 3rd and 2, the SF tight end simply ran 3 yards past the LOS, turned around and just stood there, Purdy tossed to ball to him like throwing to a six-year-old, and bingo! first down. Easy peasy.

That goes on week after week, year after year. I so miss Witten, bless his heart, slow as a turtle but the man was nearly always open. Guess he could never teach that to anybody.

Meanwhile our receivers have DBs stuck to them like white on rice. Dak has to make near-perfect throws far too often, resulting in at least some of his INTs. Not most of them, but a few less every year wouldn't hurt.

Schultz.

 

[gtb1943]

Arizona proved the Cowboys aren’t a great team.

I can agree on that. But you can kind of excuse one bad performance against what appears to be a bottom feeder; but against a team you should be up for and ready to rumble with?
We got owned in all ways; by a superior team and a more talented team.

 

[Gangsta Spanksta]

I think that is clear. I do remember some threads talking about how talented we were and how deep we were.
I think Sunday pretty much showed that was a pile of Circus Carny crap that you expect from Jerry Jones to tempt the hicks and rubes to part with money.

Now we are a fairly talented team I think that is still true.

But it is clear there are better teams out there and we met one on Sunday.

The problem in Dallas hasn't been one of Talent. We've had talent on many occasion. Players change, coaches change, what is the one constant? The problem in Dallas is a cultural issue in that you can't establish a Coaching staff that players fear and respect. Because of this there is no true leadership on this team.