When the pre-season with all its hype and predictions ended, we as fans and the Cowboys sports media all pointed out the many strengths of this team coupled with the areas of the team where we are vulnerable. This is a very talented football team. But, like all NFL teams, it does have problems.
In my view the three biggest vulnerabilities and question marks about this team showed up yesterday:
- The OL depth is a concern- we all knew go into the season that Tyron Smith is a ticking time bomb for an injury. Then Tyler Biadz went down and Zack Martin too. Suddenly having 3 backup lineman for one game was a problem. Edoga looked awful at LT. Apparently Tyler Smith’s ham is still too tender to allow him to play LT. We all have loved TJ Bass and his UFA story. But he’s still very raw with a lot to learn.
- The inability to stop the run has dogged this team for years- are we back to this being a problem? This team gave up 185 yards in the first half! And our LBs looked out position or easily blocked by the cards most of the day. I don’t think we’re as bad against the run as we saw yesterday but it has been a problem for so long, it does make you wonder.
- This team has been mentally soft for most of the last 27 years, regardless of coaches. For far too long, the Cowboys have been soft. Especially mentally. Adversity strikes and this team stumbles. Not 100% of the time of course, but far too often.
It’s a long season and we still have 14 games left. No need to push any panic buttons. But the above problems are not a surprise. This team’s ability to improve in those areas will say a lot about our chances of post season success.
that's the thing about offensive linemen if you have to use 3 BUs all at once is a concern for any team period end of story... which typically is all you have to do is use one at a time , mixed in with a bunch of starters is OK...
I'll challenge you to tell me where every TEAM has offensive lineman depth that deep that could have covered up missing 3 PB lineman in the same game and succeed?
in my opinion there is no such depth anywhere.... i'm not concerned about the depth right now we just have to adjust... we didn't adjust well but how could we? now we can watch the film go back to adjust and hope we arent missing 3 lineman at the same time every game.
and yes the defense got ran over , killed TOP limited drives for the, O once again and yet that last INT was all many talk about? hard to throw with max coverage and immense Pass rush.. not blaming any one player or group BUT its D first, OL second, and yes the penalties on the ST put the nail in the coffin over and over and over.
it's so missing 4 pro bowl players they didn't adjust well... that would happen to many teams.. however the ridiculous amount of pen....chance we had of staying in this game..
IMHO the penalties is what caused us to lose this game... we had no room for error and we made all the errors.... remember 2021 the playoff game against the 49ers 14 penalties.. all people talk about was the offense and #4.....yup here we are agin.. 3 PB OL gone no time to throw or get open and so many penalties i lost count and that what we erae dog signlaing out a payer or 2?? nope team lost this but D and penalty's top of the list., that d was nearly Nolan bad given who we played.
TEAM failure time to move on.
who cares who's exempt and who's not?? but if you want to be critical of the p....t with missing 4 pro bowlers, 3 up front, what that does is allow a team that can get to your QB. with a 4 man line and muddle up the back end.. it allowed their DBS safeties to play max coverage.... so no time to throw to no open players equal bad passing game.... they were harassed all night and hard to blame play calls or players as they had no time or room top throw. Cant get open in 2 secs with so much coverage. Then bam pass rush all over Dak. Wake up people geez
no what it means is we lost one game and that's it..it mean we played a single bad game missing 4 PB players...this is become much a giant headache they lost a game get over it move on!..
