CFZ Thought about yesterday's upset victory!

Cowboyny

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-Start of the season, we would of taken a split in our first 2 home games against two quality teams.

Offense

-Thought the offense had more balance, before they went conservative in the 2nd half.
-Didn't like the pitches to the outside for Zeke. Get him running downhill!
-Pollard has to get more touches in the run/pass
-OL didn't commit 1 penalty, that is a major accomplishment.
-Tyler/Farnoik had a few mental mistakes, did give up a sack. All and all they have held up thus far. Growing pains are expected out of 1st yr starters. Tyler has played as good as those 1st rd Tackles.
-Martin/Steele were getting a tremendous push in the run game.
-Noah Brown had his best game of his career.
-Cooper Rush was clutch throughout the game and was money on the final drive. Has earned the job.
-Shultz had issues again with his blocking and had a bad fumble that could of sealed the game.

Defense

-What can you say about Parsons, I actually felt bad for Collins in that matchup. You would think teams will start doubling him on every snap, it will be up to Quinn to get him into single matchups with scheme.
-It wasn't only Parsons, Armstrong had multiple sacks and I thought Fowler was very good.
-Sam Williams has to stop with these hands to the face penalties, we saw them in the preseason too.
-3 terrible penalties, 1 was on special teams that extended drives. 3 veterans no less.
-Run defense was better, but still remains this defense weakness.
-Thought the secondary played outstanding, although pass rush really helped.
-19 player drive, plus the 2 pt conversion was the only poor drive of the game. 2 TD's given up in 2 games.
-Diggs gets killed for his tackling, but made a huge stop to get the Bengals off the field.

Special Teams

-Maher made 2 FG's over 50 yards, 1 being the game winner. He has been money thus far, knock on wood.
-Turpin had a nice punt return that flipped the field.
-Semi almost blocked the punt, but did an excellent job not roughing the kicker.
 

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Tyler actually got away with a couple of holds. Luckily they weren’t called.

The player offsides on the punt was #50 Devon Harper just FYI. It originally looked like it was Dlaw.

I think they need to get Turpin involved more in the offense. We haven’t seen him at WR yet which is silly. Let the kid stretch the field a little.
 

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Lamb seemed to play more inspired ball this week. I'm sure getting called out by Joneses added a little fuel to the fire but he seemed to be playing p*ssed off - fast and aggressive

I also think a noticeable change from week 1 is that Fowler needed to play more snaps in week 1. I think Fowler's play will eventually lead to Basham being released and signed to practice squad once he comes off IR .
 

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I swear I thought he missed the game winner. I was so upset until I saw them celebrate. Looked like the ball drifted out. Was so exhausted after that. And once again in the second half it looked like we went to the pass to much. I did see MM in the first half looking at the play sheet and talking into the head set. Maybe playcalling by committee.
 

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-Start of the season, we would of taken a split in our first 2 home games against two quality teams.

Offense

-Thought the offense had more balance, before they went conservative in the 2nd half.
-Didn't like the pitches to the outside for Zeke. Get him running downhill!
-Pollard has to get more touches in the run/pass
-OL didn't commit 1 penalty, that is a major accomplishment.
-Tyler/Farnoik had a few mental mistakes, did give up a sack. All and all they have held up thus far. Growing pains are expected out of 1st yr starters. Tyler has played as good as those 1st rd Tackles.
-Martin/Steele were getting a tremendous push in the run game.
-Noah Brown had his best game of his career.
-Cooper Rush was clutch throughout the game and was money on the final drive. Has earned the job.
-Shultz had issues again with his blocking and had a bad fumble that could of sealed the game.

Defense

-What can you say about Parsons, I actually felt bad for Collins in that matchup. You would think teams will start doubling him on every snap, it will be up to Quinn to get him into single matchups with scheme.
-It wasn't only Parsons, Armstrong had multiple sacks and I thought Fowler was very good.
-Sam Williams has to stop with these hands to the face penalties, we saw them in the preseason too.
-3 terrible penalties, 1 was on special teams that extended drives. 3 veterans no less.
-Run defense was better, but still remains this defense weakness.
-Thought the secondary played outstanding, although pass rush really helped.
-19 player drive, plus the 2 pt conversion was the only poor drive of the game. 2 TD's given up in 2 games.
-Diggs gets killed for his tackling, but made a huge stop to get the Bengals off the field.

Special Teams

-Maher made 2 FG's over 50 yards, 1 being the game winner. He has been money thus far, knock on wood.
-Turpin had a nice punt return that flipped the field.
-Semi almost blocked the punt, but did an excellent job not roughing the kicker.

Love this..... let's do it after every game :thumbup:
 

Hawkeye0202

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I think they need to get Turpin involved more in the offense. We haven’t seen him at WR yet which is silly. Let the kid stretch the field a little.

Agree 100%.....even a half-dozen snaps a game. Even if you target him, give future opponents some to worry about. But to NOT use his speed on offense is down right criminal......lol
 

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Tyler actually got away with a couple of holds. Luckily they weren’t called.

The player offsides on the punt was #50 Devon Harper just FYI. It originally looked like it was Dlaw.

I think they need to get Turpin involved more in the offense. We haven’t seen him at WR yet which is silly. Let the kid stretch the field a little.
Now you want to penalize a player who did not get called for a penalty. :laugh::facepalm: Only Cowboys fans.
 

nalam

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Tyler actually got away with a couple of holds. Luckily they weren’t called.

The player offsides on the punt was #50 Devon Harper just FYI. It originally looked like it was Dlaw.

I think they need to get Turpin involved more in the offense. We haven’t seen him at WR yet which is silly. Let the kid stretch the field a little.

Amen bro
 

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I swear I thought he missed the game winner. I was so upset until I saw them celebrate. Looked like the ball drifted out. Was so exhausted after that. And once again in the second half it looked like we went to the pass to much. I did see MM in the first half looking at the play sheet and talking into the head set. Maybe playcalling by committee.
..from the TV set, the FG looked no good. Then I saw refs good signal. I thought, ...'"what the hell".
 

Bigtex67

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I swear I thought he missed the game winner. I was so upset until I saw them celebrate. Looked like the ball drifted out. Was so exhausted after that. And once again in the second half it looked like we went to the pass to much. I did see MM in the first half looking at the play sheet and talking into the head set. Maybe playcalling by committee.

I was the same way!!! I though it was wide right (from the kickers view).
 

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Yes, thanks for nothing, Mr. franchise tag.

If he wants to get paid, he'd better step it up.
 

gimmesix

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Tyler actually got away with a couple of holds. Luckily they weren’t called.

The player offsides on the punt was #50 Devon Harper just FYI. It originally looked like it was Dlaw.

I think they need to get Turpin involved more in the offense. We haven’t seen him at WR yet which is silly. Let the kid stretch the field a little.

I liked these refs because they let the teams play. They could have called the push-off against Diggs and they could have penalized LVE for the hit on the receiver, but for the most part, they were very conservative with their penalties, which made for a more enjoyable game.
 

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Lamb seemed to play more inspired ball this week. I'm sure getting called out by Joneses added a little fuel to the fire but he seemed to be playing p*ssed off - fast and aggressive
More importantly this off season would be when the decision is made to pick up the 5th year option. As of right now they probably wouldnt.
 

glimmerman

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..from the TV set, the FG looked no good. Then I saw refs good signal. I thought, ...'"what the hell".
Lmao. I was super pissed. I didn’t see the refs signal good. I was screaming until I saw them celebrating and stopped to look. I didn’t see them replay the kick either. I just went with it..
 

nalam

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I liked these refs because they let the teams play. They could have called the push-off against Diggs and they could have penalized LVE for the hit on the receiver, but for the most part, they were very conservative with their penalties, which made for a more enjoyable game.

except the couple of personal foul calls ( just keeping bengals drives alive ) they were ok.
 
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