CFZ What the Eagles game reveals/reinforces about the Cowboys

[Cydios]

I would add Cooks was a bust

 

[mugsybows]

1st & goal from the 6 yard line with the clock stopped, and 27 seconds left. And somehow, we didn't even get a ball in the end zone for a chance of a score. Instead, out come the clown shoes and we put on a comedy show.

They always beat themselves. Unreal that they can’t snap the ball off in time after getting that.

 

[Aven8]

They go to work in Frisco with all the hoops and stars around that complex daily….and growing each day.

They are treated like stars with our fan base. It’s just natural to think you have won already really.

 

[Cowboys5217]

There is just something about this team.
call it …something inherently wrong …. and has been that way for years.

Or call it,
Snake bit
Jimmy curse
Rowdy curse
FO screw ups.

They just can’t ever seem to get over the hump. As far back as the Clayton drop, Garrett 3 straight years of losses on win and in games. As well as other missed big moments.

Someone or something has to step up, or happen to get over that.

Other possible theories:

Jerry made a deal with the devil for the last SB and this is the cost.

The fans made a deal with the devil for the last SB and this is the cost.

The government is running some sort of psychological operation on Cowboys fans, and Jerry is secretly a Fed who's in on it.

 

[mugsybows]

I think thing with cowboys is they can never win the big game. This game had the potential to at least give us some hope that narrative was changing and instead it just reinforces it. I have no doubt we will get in playoffs and choke it away like always.

 

[ArtClink]

After an incredibly disappointing loss, and after the emotions of frustration and disappointment subside, there are plenty of opportunities to assess what this game and this point of the season reveals about the Cowboys.

The Cowboys are what their record shows it to be. At 5-3 they are a good but not great team with some obvious strengths and weaknesses. Here are some of my assessments about this team - good and bad:

• Yeah our fans are frustrated with the refs BUT - this team has an obvious problem with penalties. It is undisciplined. Lining up offsides, false starts, delays of game, and a tackle failing to report as an eligible receiver are not “bad calls” by the refs. They are signs that this team lacks attention to detail.
• We have a good enough QB to win with. I don’t want to spend any time on the most tired topic on this forum but QB is not THE problem here.
• We have found an outstanding K in Brandon Aubrey. He’s the most reliable player on the team currently.
• Cedee Lamb is the best offensive weapon we have.
• Our defense is good but it is not great. Parsons is obviously a beast but he has not been consistent. I actually wonder if he’s being used properly. Quinn has built a good defense but it still lacks the ability to impose its will without a big lead.
• The OL is inconsistent. Tyron Smith is a shell of what he was and completely unreliable, Terance Steele is either not fully healed or has digressed, Zack Martin is still very good but no longer great.
• The running game is sub par. Is it the OL problems? Is Pollard not suited for the role he’s playing? (That’s what I think) It’s obvious they don’t have enough depth and punch in the running game. Not addressing this in the draft or at the trade deadline was mistake.
• Mike McCarthy is an upgrade from Garrett. Thats obvious. But his teams lack discipline and attention to detail. This is the third year in a row we have seen the same problems with sloppy play, penalties and problems executing early in games.
• Our front office is way too comfortable not taking chances. This is a good roster. But if any of us are honest, we aren’t in the same league as eagles and niners with roster depth.

There are certainly lots more to this team. And we’re just about halfway through the season. But this team seems strikingly similar to so many of the other Cowboys teams we’ve seen the last 15 years; there’s talent, but not enough. The coaching is good at times but not consistent. The only consistency in this organization if the old face dominating this franchise.

I agree 100% on all points. It’s just always something that gets in the way of winning, esp big games. The fuhrer hasn’t put together a winning roster on both sides of the ball since Jimmy put that dynasty together in the 90’s.

 

[ArtClink]

Other possible theories:

Jerry made a deal with the devil for the last SB and this is the cost.

The fans made a deal with the devil for the last SB and this is the cost.

The government is running some sort of psychological operation on Cowboys fans, and Jerry is secretly a Fed who's in on it.

I love all those theories!

 

[Cowboys5217]

I think thing with cowboys is they can never win the big game. This game had the potential to at least give us some hope that narrative was changing and instead it just reinforces it. I have no doubt we will get in playoffs and choke it away like always.

If they had pulled this game out it would have been the kind of victory you build a championship run off of.

 

[ArtClink]

Our last qb was exactly the same. Undrafted qbs and 4th round qbs can only get you so far

This

 

[Hennessy_King]

Parsons has not been consistent? do you expect two sacks a game?

If he's not putting up numbers, it means he's taking double and triple teams. 1.5 sacks and 9 tackles against an elite OL today.

Tyron played a solid game. Get some new glasses, bro. Steele was certainly a problem -- you probably got that part of your post from commentator comments in game.

Our front office is not comfortable taking chances? No, it seems like our front office does take chances. And everyone here complains about any chance that did not turn out.

The chances never work out. We have happenstance work out in spite of jerry. Even Bell at Lber was a hail mary move that happened to work out. And moves you know are bad are always bad.

 

[jazzcat22]

If they had pulled this game out it would have been the kind of victory you build a championship run off of.

Or the loss gives them a sense of urgency now, and they build a championship run off it.

 

[Hennessy_King]

Or the loss gives them a sense of urgency now, and they build a championship run off it.

Delusional

 

[jazzcat22]

Delusional

Yes you are.

 

[Cowboys5217]

Or the loss gives them a sense of urgency now, and they build a championship run off it.

I want to believe...

 

[spice]

I actually wonder if he’s being used properly

Where or how would you use differently. I personally like the way this is starting to go let him pick his spots jmo

 

[jazzcat22]

I want to believe...

Fox Mulder approves this.

 

[kskboys]

Where or how would you use differently. I personally like the way this is starting to go let him pick his spots jmo

Get better personnel at DE and UT and watch him take off.

 

[CowboysFanSince88]

After an incredibly disappointing loss, and after the emotions of frustration and disappointment subside, there are plenty of opportunities to assess what this game and this point of the season reveals about the Cowboys.

The Cowboys are what their record shows it to be. At 5-3 they are a good but not great team with some obvious strengths and weaknesses. Here are some of my assessments about this team - good and bad:

• Yeah our fans are frustrated with the refs BUT - this team has an obvious problem with penalties. It is undisciplined. Lining up offsides, false starts, delays of game, and a tackle failing to report as an eligible receiver are not “bad calls” by the refs. They are signs that this team lacks attention to detail.
• We have a good enough QB to win with. I don’t want to spend any time on the most tired topic on this forum but QB is not THE problem here.
• We have found an outstanding K in Brandon Aubrey. He’s the most reliable player on the team currently.
• Cedee Lamb is the best offensive weapon we have.
• Our defense is good but it is not great. Parsons is obviously a beast but he has not been consistent. I actually wonder if he’s being used properly. Quinn has built a good defense but it still lacks the ability to impose its will without a big lead.
• The OL is inconsistent. Tyron Smith is a shell of what he was and completely unreliable, Terance Steele is either not fully healed or has digressed, Zack Martin is still very good but no longer great.
• The running game is sub par. Is it the OL problems? Is Pollard not suited for the role he’s playing? (That’s what I think) It’s obvious they don’t have enough depth and punch in the running game. Not addressing this in the draft or at the trade deadline was mistake.
• Mike McCarthy is an upgrade from Garrett. Thats obvious. But his teams lack discipline and attention to detail. This is the third year in a row we have seen the same problems with sloppy play, penalties and problems executing early in games.
• Our front office is way too comfortable not taking chances. This is a good roster. But if any of us are honest, we aren’t in the same league as eagles and niners with roster depth.

There are certainly lots more to this team. And we’re just about halfway through the season. But this team seems strikingly similar to so many of the other Cowboys teams we’ve seen the last 15 years; there’s talent, but not enough. The coaching is good at times but not consistent. The only consistency in this organization if the old face dominating this franchise.

You say the QB is not the problem but continues to throw 5 yd passes on 3rd and 15

 

[spice]

Terance Steele is either not fully healed

My opinion again He just looks to have lost so much strength in his lower half and it is becoming problematic

 

[ShortRound]

Seems like like have a lot of good pieces but I've never felt we had a good team.
Not until the first two games when the defense played well. It felt like a good unit.

But it's feels like it's fallen apart.