Top 5 reasons why dallas was not succesfull this year

DallasDomination

Well-Known Member
Messages
11,791
Reaction score
6,205
5.
Offensive line flop

Offensive line was Dallas biggest problem in 04 yet Parcells did little to help it. He came in with a mediocore contingecny plan.

a) relying on injury prone Jacob Rodgers
b) Not getting a dominant center
c) Not cutting Torrin Tucker and getting a legit Backup

All that lead to Parcells own destruction and it also lead to us having to start a mediocre rookie at RT.

4.
The max protect Scheme

The Max protect scheme is the easiest way to self distruct. it criples your offensive threat and makes it very simple for the opposing Defense to read.

Basically just cover the few WR threats since the TE's are on the max protect anyways. It also makes the line of schrimadge a big pile witch leads to no running lanes.

3.
Not getting a legit Free safety

After the roy Williams experiment I think it was clear that the big hitters should stay close to the LOS. yet Parcells instead of getting a legit FS goes out and puts Kieth Davis a mini roy Williams.

4.
FA's and rookies not living up to the hype.

The only FA's that did anything were Drew Bledsoe Anthony Henry and Aronn Glenn. Besides them all the rest were almost non existant ( Marco Rivera and Furgy)
The Rookies did not live up to the hype and ran out of gas late in the season. The most disappointing was Demarcus Ware, so much talent yet so little production:( .

5.
3-4 switch.

Not sure if the vanilla 3-4 switch did any good. We were worst at stoping the run and getting pressure at the Qb.

The only time we got pressure was when we had the 4 man front or Blitz, but even then we were mediocre at best.

Our Secondary kept us in games not the front line.
 
I think the Cowboys pass rush was pretty good the first half of the season, but it has completely disappeared the last 6 games. The Cowboys had 24 sacks in the first 8 games, but only have 8 sacks in the last 6 games. Really, not much has changed with the Cowboys. They still stink on offense and have for many years now and they still can't rush the passer. I assume they thought Ware would be the guy to change that as he was supposed to be the best pass rusher in the draft, but he hasn't gotten a sack in 8 straight games. He may turn out to be a good pass rusher, but right now he clearly isn't much of one.
 
jlust22 said:
I think the Cowboys pass rush was pretty good the first half of the season, but it has completely disappeared the last 6 games. The Cowboys had 24 sacks in the first 8 games, but only have 8 sacks in the last 6 games. Really, not much has changed with the Cowboys. They still stink on offense and have for many years now and they still can't rush the passer. I assume they thought Ware would be the guy to change that as he was supposed to be the best pass rusher in the draft, but he hasn't gotten a sack in 8 straight games. He may turn out to be a good pass rusher, but right now he clearly isn't much of one.

At this point Ware is basically an "underwear olympics" pass rusher. He has the size, agility, strength and speed to rush the passer - looks great at the combine running the drills. He just has no idea how to do it on the football field against NFL quality OTs.

We need to bring in someone to teach him because he is about as clueless as
Ekuban was.
 
I am very disappointed in Ware I really am. I never wanted to say this but i'm starting to regret not going for Merriman. Never the less, I still have confidance in ware.
 
The coaching has been the main problem.

You could see a MILE away Payton's and Zimmer's playcalling.
 
TunaFan33 said:
The coaching has been the main problem.

You could see a MILE away Payton's and Zimmer's playcalling.

I think the main problem is injuries. The loss of Flo, Dat, Al S., Crayton combined with the injury to Henry and the fact we are starting a rookie at RT........well........that is a recipe for failure and that in no way, shape or form is Parcells fault.
 

Forum statistics

Threads
463,964
Messages
13,780,537
Members
23,770
Latest member
AnthonyDavis
Back
Top