What were your impressions of Prescott

[theebs]

I don't disagree. It would be nice to see a little more creativity on offense to help him out.

i have never been a fire garrett guy or whatever but I think the time is coming. The pats are about to blowout the cardinals on the road with what they are missing and this staff can't find a way to get Dez Bryant the ball.

I was shocked they didn't do something to get the ball to dez. on the 1st and 20 in the fourth quarter the corner was off I thought they would at least just snap it and throw it to him there let him go get 5-10 yards and get into the game.

Dez never felt like he was even part of the game. It was frustrating sitting in the stadium and dez was not a happy dude in the second half. How this continues to happen when romo is out I will never understand. Shouldn't everything go through dez until its just impossible to get him the ball.

oh well. Like I said last year, Tony Romo makes a lot of people a lot of money in this organization. Watching everyone throw him under the bus the past two weeks has been beyond disappointing once again we saw during the game today we can not without him.

Its come to the point that Jason Garrett can not win without Romo and to me that is unacceptable regardless of circumstance.

the downside to even thinking this way is that we will end up with head coach dave campo again when he is gone.

 

[SuspectCorner]

he was better than any backup we've had since Kitna, but after the Giants adjusted, that pretty much shut him down

did they shut down Dak - or did they shut down the receivers Bryant and Williams? Witten and Beasley looked to be running roughshod through the Giants backfield. those two late-game drops by Witten and Bryant as each lost sight of a good pass coming from Prescott inside a nasty patch of sunlight and glare. smh

 

[tyke1doe]

I thought he did well for a rookie. He had no turnovers and put the Cowboys in position to win. That's all you can ask for, realistically.
I thought he should have used his legs a bit more, but I can understand if he's trying not to be primarily a running quarterback.

 

[Boyzmamacita]

When you dominate the game like that and hold the ball nearly the entire first half you shouldn't have to worry about a couple of bit players running out of bounds to stop the clock for a game winning FG, The reason why it was such a close game is because the QB wasn't capable of exposing the defense for selling out entirely on the running game. They lined up daring Dak to beat them and he couldn't do it. A capable QB would have gashed them down the field early for big plays and points.

I wouldn't expect any rookie QB to do this right now. That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying this is why we lost, it's understandable, but I don't think this player will ever be good enough to be an elite franchise QB.

Oh please. They dropped several of his passes. He played well under the circumstances, but it's too early to say what the future holds.

 

[DFWJC]

That will haunt us all season if our play makers don't step up. We are going to need to score in the thirties to win games.

Yes.
If you told me NY only scores 20 though, I would've assumed Dallas had won the game.

I just don't want to get to far behind the division in the standings early in the season.
Washington hopefully will lose tomorrow, but I wouldn't bet on it as it in Washington and Pittsbugh missing a lot.

 

[ScipioCowboy]

I don't think we'll go winless with him, and I'm not convinced Romo won't be back after game 4 or so.

I think the magic number is three. If Romo is out seven games, the Cowboys need three wins.

 

[theebs]

Depends on how many games Romo misses. I seriously doubt we'd be talking about how good their defense was if we had Romo under center. I think their defensive line is very good though.

I think its excellent and they showed it today. They took away the edges completely and forced dallas to run inside right into their strength.

I think after seeing what I saw today from prescott that romo will play somehow someway against the bengals. I heard danny white on the pregame and he mentioned that he thinks romo is going to come back a lot sooner than people think.

 

[Boyzmamacita]

I saw a rookie QB who played like a reasonable bus driver. I'm hoping he has a high ceiling because at this point ... I'm looking at Quincy Carter, Chad Hutchinson, Brandon Weeden, Matt Cassel ... all over again.

I don't believe he's our savior or our next franchise QB.

Would you still feel that way if the receivers caught the ball? Dak wasn't perfect, but the rest of the team let him down.

 

[NorthwestDallas40]

I'd like to see the all 22. But did anyone see Dez running wide open down the field or across the middle? Did anyone see Witten wide open up the seam? Did anyone see TWill up the sidelines beating his man deep? I think we all know the answer is no. Which means Dak took what the defense gave him. And did not turn the ball over. And to me that is a huge success. And if Beas and Dez held onto those 2 balls, we'd all be as excited as the preseason.

Where we failed was with the O line play and game plan. As usual, saw no creativity in the game plan to move Dez around and get him the ball And called only one RB screen that I can recall. Fact is we dont have many playmakers at WR and our coaches did not game plan to free them up. And where were the stretch runs? It was obvious that Snacks Harrison was clogging the middle. So why not stretch them out? Finally, our O line was awful and read too many of its press clippings. No push. And Free was a turnstile at times.

 

[JoeyBoy718]

Hard to really judge. I saw the same mistakes with this team today I've seen the past 10 years. Dak didn't make any mistakes but he also didn't make any plays. And a few of his passes were sloppy enough to have been interceptions. He couldn't even break a 70 QB rating without any INTs. Imagine what his rating would've been if some of those were picked off. Hard to judge if it's the QB or if the team is just awful. And it's not like our backups last year were getting us blown out. Weeden was completing 80% of his passes and bringing us to a bunch of 3 point losses. The fact that we only lost by 1 doesn't mean we did well.

 

[CrownCowboy]

Overall, I'm not going to hate on the game Dak played. As has been mentioned, the effort and play of his teammates on the offensive side of the ball were something that they should be ashamed of.

The bottomline is that this isn't the SEC. You have to run an NFL offense predominately from under center. You have to be able to turn your back to the defense and run an NFL pro style offense. Now Dak Prescott didn't come up with the gameplan today and I've just about had it with this coaching staff and how they have been outcoached for years now, but I digress. He was in the shotgun all day and that pretty much took away our stregnth on offense and that's running the football between the tackles. They were stacking the box with 8 and 9 guys and he couldn't back them off even dropping back in the shotgun. Now it's his first game and he'll learn, but that was your ballgame right there, folks.

I didn't like playing out of the nickle formation during the Giant's last drive. You are not going to stop the run when you have two linebackers on the field. We should be used to that crap though. Marinelli has been doing it the whole time he has been here.

In the end I'm not sure Dak is a long term answer. I love his poise. It just depends on if he progresses and learns and the only way to judge that is over time. I think the ballgame would have went differently had Tony Romo been in the ballgame and I am hopeful that he can stay healthy when he returns. Sooner rather than later I hope.

 

[JDSmith]

I think the magic number is three. If Romo is out seven games, the Cowboys need three wins.

I also think the magic number is 3, but it's a different magic number. I think we'll be OK if Romo misses 3 more games. Anything more than that I I'm going to get more pessimistic every week.

 

[DFWJC]

Beasley saved Dallas' tails several times today. He had 8-9 catches and many 1st downs.
Those two high and hard passes over the middle were tough catches for a little 5' 7 guy....and the type that end careers due to injury.

Can't believe anyone would point at him at all. Without him and Witten, Dallas gets routed.

For a first game, I was happy with Dak. That was his first real game.

But if it was a regular NFL starter, a 69 passer rating with no TDs and a 5.0 ypa would generally not be considered winning football without a totally dominant defense.

In the end though, I think the coaches and front office still, rightly, believe they might have a longer term solution.

 

[ScipioCowboy]

i have never been a fire garrett guy or whatever but I think the time is coming. The pats are about to blowout the cardinals on the road with what they are missing and this staff can't find a way to get Dez Bryant the ball.

I was shocked they didn't do something to get the ball to dez. on the 1st and 20 in the fourth quarter the corner was off I thought they would at least just snap it and throw it to him there let him go get 5-10 yards and get into the game.

Dez never felt like he was even part of the game. It was frustrating sitting in the stadium and dez was not a happy dude in the second half. How this continues to happen when romo is out I will never understand. Shouldn't everything go through dez until its just impossible to get him the ball.

oh well. Like I said last year, Tony Romo makes a lot of people a lot of money in this organization. Watching everyone throw him under the bus the past two weeks has been beyond disappointing once again we saw during the game today we can not without him.

Its come to the point that Jason Garrett can not win without Romo and to me that is unacceptable regardless of circumstance.

the downside to even thinking this way is that we will end up with head coach dave campo again when he is gone.

I'll be honest. I've been critical of Garrett in the past. But even after last year, I didn't think firing him was the answer.

I'm where you are with him. Schematically, offense and defense, this team is incredibly basic. That's not a bad thing (and can, in fact, be a good thing) if you have overwhelming talent on both the sides of the ball. However, in this age of parity, I don't think any team can be stacked on both sides of the ball. Somebody somewhere needs to be innovative.

 

[JDSmith]

Would you still feel that way if the receivers caught the ball? Dak wasn't perfect, but the rest of the team let him down.

I don't think all of the receivers turned bad. I look to the common denominator, the guy throwing the ball. Why doesn't Romo have 7 drops a game? I find it hard to believe it's just bad luck or that everyone let Dak down.
His ball placement and velocity were not great on a lot of his passes. Particularly when he was moving. A couple were caused by the sun, but I'd say that accounted for 2.

 

[JDSmith]

Beasley saved Dallas' tails several times today. He had 8-9 catches and many 1st downs.
Those two hard and hard passes over the middle were tough catches for a little 5' 7 guy....and the type that end careers due to injury.

Can't believe anyone would point at him at all. Without him and Witten, Dallas gets routed.

For a first game, I was happy with Dak. That was his first real game.
But if it was a regular NFL starter, a 69 passer rating with no TDs and a 5.0 ypa would generally not be considered winning football without a totally dominant defense.

Exactly. Spot on.

 

[wileedog]

For a first game, I was happy with Dak. That was his first real game.
But if it was a regular NFL starter, a 69 passer rating with no TDs and a 5.0 ypa would generally not be considered winning football without a totally dominant defense.

This. Yeah, some balls were dropped but overall Dak was 2 for 10 on passes over 15 yards. And no, not all of those balls were dropped.

Until that changes the much vaunted running game is going to be in for tough sledding.

 

[Kevinicus]

I thought he was okay. Didn't make any really dumb mistakes and didn't look overwhelmed, but he didn't really look like anything special either. He also got worse as the game went on. Started 13-16 and was 9-29 after that. Looked like a backup.

 

[Super_Kazuya]

Instant sensation who cannot win a playoff game. Much less rarely get there.

Today he cannot even finish a game. He's pointless to discuss at this point.

I'm sorry that you said all week long that Dak was an instant star and now you look stupid. Doesn't mean you get to rewrite history. You can go crawl back under your rock and cry now.

 

[DFWJC]

Did he not have a 100+ QB rating?

69 QB rating