Twitter: Watch Tyler Smith blocking his guy. and then everybody else

[SteveTheCowboy]

Derrick Henry would've saved all of this!

{breathes}

 

[SteveTheCowboy]

My criticism of Martin in no way absolves the owner from blame.

I still for the life of me why people think you have to go through EVERY OTHER problem FIRST before getting to the OP subject matter. It's very weird.

 

[aikemirv]

That’s the worst part for me. He held this team hostage last year and now clearly doesn’t care. He knew he was done, but held them up for one last payday anyway.

The other guys have excuses, Martin doesn’t.

Yeah he knew he did not have anything left and took Jerry - don't feel bad for Jerry but that was a Zeke Elliot move!

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

This would be the way to go. I was hoping that Steele would be back to the form that earned him the extension in the first place before the injury. He's not. Guyton hasn't been great at LT, which is fine. He's a raw rookie that we knew would need time to develop. He's shown flashes of what he can do. But I think moving him to RT and moving Smith out to LT, then going with Bass and likely a FA at the other guard position after this season may be our best bet.

I agree. Bass and Richards can start for this team if Guyton is what they are gonna throw out there. They are letting draft position dictate who plays.

 

[BleedSilverandBlue]

People have not acknowledged just how bad the line has played this year. They have been absolutely horrendous run and pass blocking all season and it’s a huge part of why the offense can’t move the ball at all.

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

This is getting a bit ridiculous.

Martin played fine last year under his new deal. He had one of his highest graded seasons in 2021 and then graded Top 12 for OGs in 2022. So it wasn't like he fell off a cliff and then demanded a big pay day. He was still playing well at that point. His back is clearly an issue this offseason.

Only in Cowboys land would be end up vilifying one of the best players this franchise has ever had. Hahahaha.

And again, let's put the blame where it actually goes - Jerry, for paying these guys. Sometimes, tough decisions have to be made and Jerry never seems to make the right call when it comes to his guys.

No one vilifying the guy for his career. As a leader of this team and one of its best players he sat out to get compensated. Fair enough. He’s been worse since then so what he shouldn’t be called out for it? Same goes for Dak. He asked for 60 and got it and flaws in the roster damned he still will get scrutinized for his play.

 

[goshann]

Martin is washed lol. If some team is dumb enough to offer a 4th or higher I’d take it and run.

No way is someone offering that

 

[Sydla]

PFF is so erratic in their grades it's mind boggling. Bottom line, the grade they gave him was well above his real performance.

He started getting beaten more regularly in the 21 season and it has gotten progressively worse. For a couple years prior to that he wasn't losing but he wasn't winning at a high rate either. Most of his blocks were stalemates.

If we truly had the players PFF & pro bowl nods suggest, why haven't we had a consistent run game in years?

For those reasons, he should have played out his contract or traded not given a raise.

I am no fan of PFF but I would trust them more than an internet fan who says X or Y happened.

And the reason why our run game struggled? A variety of reasons. The OL has been erratic at times around Martin. Steele got hurt and then came back and was not very good. Biadasz struggled early in his tenure. One all pro OL isn't going to make the OL road graders in the run game. Martin, in the early 2020s was surround by suspect talent AND questionable coaching.

 

[IceStar-D7]

The drop off of Martin from last year is astounding.

Martin was always overrated in my book. I thought Frederick was a WAY better Oline man. Between the two? Give me Frederick....any day. Hate his career had to end. Far to soon.

 

[SteveTheCowboy]

Martin was always overrated in my book. I thought Frederick was a WAY better Oline man. Between the two? Give me Frederick....any day. Hate his career had to end. Far to soon.

It was the end of our o-line.

 

[gtb1943]

That’s the worst part for me. He held this team hostage last year and now clearly doesn’t care. He knew he was done, but held them up for one last payday anyway.

The other guys have excuses, Martin doesn’t.

he is clearly injured

 

[gtb1943]

Martin was always overrated in my book. I thought Frederick was a WAY better Oline man. Between the two? Give me Frederick....any day. Hate his career had to end. Far to soon.

Well I know not to take your opinion seriously

 

[gtb1943]

What interested me on that play was dak looking Like Romo when the blocking broke down; scrambling around barely getting away and then managing to connect for a big play.

 

[jblaze2004]

Steele almost tackled Dak and then tried to race him to the endzone instead of looking for someone to block lol.

 

[big dog cowboy]

Derrick Henry would've saved all of this!

No

 

[stilltheguru]

No

It was sarcasm for all the Henry whining on here.

 

[McKDaddy]

but I would trust them more than an internet fan who says X or Y happened.

All anyone has to do is actually watch the film. Anyone remember early in the 2022 season (I believe) when he was getting beat and him having a fit on the field? At first some thought he was mad at someone but later realized he was frustrated with his own play.
Remember last year when Jalen Carter or Fletcher Cox pancaked him before he got out of his stance enroute to blowing up the play? I think they both had pretty impressive wins but one was an immediate & unmitigated destruction.
Tell me the last game where people were immediately talking about how Zack was dominating.

If a player isn't getting pretty consistent recognition during the season, he isn't one of the best players at his position.

 

[blueblood70]

Exaxctly but blame dak..this is 2020 2.0

Don’t understand why The Jones allowed Dak to put in a no trade clause in his contracts! Not good Business we are stuck with him!

You ALL NEED TO stop it all the dak Prescott's playing bad !!!!!


he's not playing up to his contract ,he's not what we thought he was, it's all nonsense ,it's all absolute garbage, He is NOT THE ISSUE makes my 10th on top 10 issues maybe but COME ON!!!


the offensive line is the biggest issue we have, then we have the offensive scheme, both from the offensive line coach, the offensive coordinator, the play calling, the defense ,everything !!!!

where's all the help???!!! Prescott was supposed to get this year????!!!​

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that other all in teams did that teams up to this point are still getting guys to help their quarterbacks before the trade deadline everybody here said it was a historically bad offseason there wasn't enough talent added for the talent we lost and then we have to add in all the injuries this has been a bad year all around and anybody acting like the quarterback is any part of this without the context??? is plain BULL!!!​

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NO QB can run an offense without a consistent offensive line. that can run the damn football on a consistent basis .stop getting penalties .stop releasing guys from both the outside tackles. Martin's aging before our eyes, we got huge problems and quarterbacks not one!!!​

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it's not a bad contract because ,many of the contracts for the top ten highest paid quarterbacks in the league are all in a similar spot and the only one performing up to it for the most part is Patrick mahomes and maybe Josh Allen now but over a long period of time this is what you get you either gonna get some below average quarterbacks like Daniel Jones making 42,000,000 Prescott's far better than he is and somehow you keep pointing out Prescott even the post that says the opposite line is bad saying Prescott's bad , HECK no Prescott's not bad..​

He's playing average because he's got nothing around him in front of him or on the other side of the dang football !!!!

you've got guys look like it's a comedy show running into each other wide open touchdowns being given up on the other side, and people are like pointing out how we didn't score enough on offense,
so the defense shouldn't be blamed??!!

yeah that was like during the game yesterday, I was going to wait a few days to post but I'm sick of hearing this Prescott's contract!!!!!!!

we just need to fix everything else you can't have it both ways you can't call the front office conservative that they don't do anything in the offseason to better the team and they expect the talent at the skill position that they paid to overcome all the other holes and deficiencies on this team you don't even know what football is you guys are a bunch of casuals Prescott did the only could yesterday including run even though you said that Jerry Jones controls what people do on the field no he doesn't not even at all and if you need any more proof that Prescott decided to run all day and he was getting sandwich beat up he did everything he could he threw no interceptions had no fumbles and yet here we are blaming him again.. huh odd no0 matter what hes blamed!!! he was trying to make chicken salad with chicken you know what!!!!

You all might want to watch football from the inside out!!!!!

starts in the trenches,

then you need to add in some skill players but most of all you need execution from the rest of the team,

you can't just expect the quarterback because he's making so much money to carry the damn football team with this really bad that offensive line.....

I don't even know what you're looking at it is horrible this is 2020 all over again if you haven't noticed that's the year he got hurt is he only losing season that seems had since he has been the quarterback and he wasn't the quarterback that year ie 2020,

he's been part of no losing seasons where he plays a majority of the games where he starts and finishes the year even if he missed some games in between he's never been part of a losing season but 2020 he got hurt why because the offensive line, nobody was producing it was a terrible year, and we're having another terrible year, and we're blaming the quarterback,


our quarterback just last year second in MVP voting second team all pro he also a couple years back right after he got paid his other contract in 2021 at 37 touchdowns it only 10 interceptions you're trying to tell me that he's regressed and he sucks now ?? what ??!!

I'm telling you is your opinions are all slanted and they're delusional and clueless and they if they keep landing on the quarterback, you got bigger problems than being upset about how your team's performing and underperforming and all that other nonsense this is systemic from the top to the bottom ,

but most of this is about coaching and it's been around the players around Prescott are not doing their job you can't play quarterback with things crumbling around you... I also remember in 2020 when we had a I think you're Elliot trying to run behind that terrible offensive line and he had like his worst year fumbling and everyone said he fumbles too much really without context again... I mean do you guys ever watch football before you keep blaming one person it's a team game and the last person on my list did I come to would be the quarterback would be Prescott or Romo because I've watched enough football to know this is from the top down coaching front office GM execution and mostly defense you can't even go into a game and have confidence that if you just play normal football that you can win a game your defense gives up so many easy touchdowns you come into a game thinking you have to play perfect and you know what happens you play tight you make mistakes you try to do too much because nothing else is working..

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I don't care if you read this you don't like it or you're going to respond saying it's too long didn't read or it's too run on sentence and you don't know how to actually read what's in front of you even if it's not perfect...

because I use talk to text , trust me I can play word jumbles and puzzles where they have all the words mixed up with 1000 other letters that mean nothing and you got to pick out words sentences and numbers that's pretty easy if you can't read when I'm writing it's because you don't want to..

The truth is the quarterback's not our problem.

we tried to do this in 2022 he still won 12 games but he came back from a broken hand and he had a calf injury and he still managed to put together a very good season and right now there is no good season because this is like 2020 when you can't play well in the trenches your skill players are not executing your best players are also in your words have bad contracts Trayvon diggs and CD lamb aren't doing anything everybody else where's cake where's Michael Parsons all right they're not even playing we're missing 8 guys on defense...

Rants coming in the days to come on Dak blaming and shaming!!!!. I wont have it...

 

[buybuydandavis]

They've determined he's a better guard than tackle. I'm not an offensive line guru but as a novice it seems smart to have him at tackle, Guyton at right tackle and do what the hell ever you want with Steele.

I expected them to have Tyler take over to Tyron.
Most tackles are better guards than tackles. The best athletes become the tackles, those with some limitations become guards.
Tackles are harder to find, and more valuable. Tyler would probably have been a good one.

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

I expected them to have Tyler take over to Tyron.
Most tackles are better guards than tackles. The best athletes become the tackles, those with some limitations become guards.
Tackles are harder to find, and more valuable. Tyler would probably have been a good one.

I don't know how he went from our future tackle to now our guard. Especially when teams win in this league with decent guards.