You don't believe injuries and covid haven't messed up the Cowboys?
Seriously?
Exactly how was this coaching staff supposed to put in their system with no offseason, no minicamp, no QB camp, no training camp, and no preseason games? On top of that the Cowboys are in the middle of the historic worse injury filled season in the teams history.
I’d have more sympathy for the argument, but we made the choice to implement a complex defense knowing about the effect COVID was going to have on the defensive installation. We did it anyway. We also blew the VFA defensive additions, badly. And we’re still seeing badly blown coverages still tonight, in week 13. If the issues were just needing time to get things down, we’ve had the time by now.
On offense, we’ve had issues, but one of the problems was a RT not being prepared for camp. We lost the QB on a designed run. We’ve seen at least three significant blown fourth down calls, a couple of them among the worst decisions I’ve seen in years—not the amateurish second guessing we get whenever a 50/50 call doesn’t work out—low-percentage calls on 4th and long deep in our own territory. We have no identity at all, on either side of the ball. It’s terrible to watch. This isn’t 2015, when we just had an awful QB but we’re playing otherwise reasonable football. We’ve got one of the better backup QBs in the league, but the issues are cropping up all over with this team.
I can’t speak for antibody else, but if we trot this same warmed-over mess again next season it’ll be the least excited I’ve been for football since that season Parcells started Vinny Testaverde.