When the Cowboys start slow and the excuse is that Dak is just finding his rhythm

[KJJ]

MM has been around a long time. I’m sure he knows what he’s doing.

Maybe he’s been around too long.

 

[KingCorcoran]

Maybe he’s been around too long.

I think you’re taking the narrow view.

 

[diamonddelts]

I think you’re taking the narrow view.

Wide view for MM

 

[Jstopper]

Maybe he’s been around too long.

Maybe you’re wrong

 

[Cowboys4lifeGR]

Just remember that he was allowed to sit through the preseason.
No excuse should be allowed. Every game in the NFL season is important.

100%

 

[CCBoy]

This is level one for observation starting with game one:

There are two fundamental starting points on protection. You either belong to the pocket family or the slide family. The Cowboys scheme had been something of an 'ill-legitimate' version of the two but more closely aligned with pocket protection.

McCarthy believes in slide protection. Part of him wanted to make a clean, philosophical break and throw out the pocket concepts the linemen had been working under.

“That was probably the biggest conversation early,’’ McCarthy said.

“For sure,’’ Schottenheimer said.

“I was like to hell with it, let’s just go back to the beginning,’’ McCarthy said. “Let’s teach. It will be better rehearsed. But in the short-term, we didn’t have the time we would have liked to have had.’’

https://www.bloggingtheboys.com/202...g-changes-mike-solari-pocket-slide-protection

 

[CCBoy]

Slide protection, on the other hand, is most commonly associated with zone blocking schemes. Fundamentally, a slide protection scheme asks linemen to take one gap on the line of scrimmage and protect it, rather than focusing on individual players. Slide protection schemes are less obsessed with creating depth in the pocket and more with moving the pocket laterally one way or the other.

There are advantages and weaknesses to both approaches, of course, and it appears the Cowboys have mixed the two for quite some time. Slide protection benefits a more mobile quarterback, specifically one that excels at throwing on the run. This is one of Prescott’s better features, so it makes a lot of sense for him.

It’s also advantageous in terms of making things simpler for the individual linemen. In a league where blitzing and stunting is becoming more common, having linemen just focus on their zone makes it easier to pass off defenders in that scenario. Of course, it also requires having five offensive linemen be in sync with one another, and injuries can throw off the entire unit’s groove.

https://www.bloggingtheboys.com/202...g-changes-mike-solari-pocket-slide-protection

 

[LysleE]

When QBs like Mahomes and Allen are taking reps during live preseason games, honing their edgeI think it sets an example and tone for their teams…and tells you what kind of players they are; then you have Dallas treating Dak with kid gloves, who will start the season having faced no live action…great call MM/Jerry!

 

[MyFairLady]

Dak is almost too valuable to risk playing in a regular season game. I propose Cooper Rush take the team into the playoffs then hand it over to Dak.

 

[USArmyVet]

Why don't you worry about your boy Aaron? How long do you think it will take him to have half or the Jets to despise him.....?

I give it three months......refs permitting.

Better for a leader to be hated yet guide a team to deep playoff runs than to be beloved yet can't take the team to an NFCCG.

 

[CowboysFaninHouston]

Funny how we're calling out one player here- Dak- for sitting out the entire preseason.

Not Pollard, Lamb, Cooks, Gallup, Tyron and Tyler Smith, Biadasz, Steele, Parsons, Lawrence, LVE, Diggs, Gilmore, or Kearse.

No, just Dak. Guess rust don't apply to these other guys.

 

[USArmyVet]

All QB’s throw int’s. Up until last year, Dak’s been excellent at taking care of the ball.

You do realize that in 2021Dak led the NFL in fumbles lost and in 2018 Dak tied for the league lead in fumbles lost?????

Remind me again how that is "..excellent at taking care of the ball."????

 

[CowboysFaninHouston]

Just remember that he was allowed to sit through the preseason.
No excuse should be allowed. Every game in the NFL season is important.

first of all, its not Dak's decision, its Coach's decision.
I know I know, I know that just blew your mind, didn't it? well, I don't think in prison they let you guys watch much NFL.

also curious to ask, you called out Dak specifically, and already blaming him for an upcoming potentially bad game,
but what about Pollard, Lamb, Cook, Gallup, Steele, Martin, Biadasz, Smith, Smith, Lawrence, Parsons, LVE, Hankins, and the rest who also didn't play? if we are rusty, don't they bear any responsibility for the potentially bad game?

nah, you didn't have an agenda to drive.

p.s.
once again you failed miserably and posting just TMZ craap. you have no idea what football is nor have you ever posted anything actually football related.

p.s.2

Quiz: What's a cover 1 with CB Shade? bet you don't know.

 

[CCBoy]

You do realize that in 2021Dak led the NFL in fumbles lost and in 2018 Dak tied for the league lead in fumbles lost?????

Remind me again how that is "..excellent at taking care of the ball."????

Or maybe a reflection on offensive line stability at various times, and qualities in receiver groups also for significant periods.

I'm still betting the crowd walking through still loves carnival prepared food.

 

[USArmyVet]

Or maybe a reflection on offensive line stability at various times, and qualities in receiver groups also for significant periods.

I see, so BOTH the OL and receiver group is to blame for Dak's inability to protect the football. Got it. Much appreciate the assistance as I like to keep the Dak excuses in order of importance and relevance.

 

[CCBoy]

I see, so BOTH the OL and receiver group is to blame for Dak's inability to protect the football. Got it. Much appreciate the assistance as I like to keep the Dak excuses in order of importance and relevance.

C'mon - a broad area target doesn't meet the picture one is presenting...

What I have been stating is that the 2 seconds clear being set in stone, at the snap, by the Cowboys offensive line ... and with Dak Prescott running the show the Dallas Cowboys can both run and pass the ball against any team! Have an argument?

 

[foofighters]

Something needs to change to make threads like these to stop coming up then!!

If that's the case, then yours need to be censored as well with all of your questions that you regurgitate every year. You can't just censor someone while letting someone else do the exact same thing.

 

[shabazz]

You can't just censor someone while letting someone else do the exact same thing.

although I agree with this principal, you have described exactly what Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube have shamelessly done since 2016……..

 

[shabazz]

I see, so BOTH the OL and receiver group is to blame for Dak's inability to protect the football. Got it. Much appreciate the assistance as I like to keep the Dak excuses in order of importance and relevance.

I would throw Kellen Moore, equipment manager ,and the long snapper in there for good measure…..

 

[CCBoy]

C'mon - a broad area target doesn't meet the picture one is presenting...

What I have been stating is that the 2 seconds clear being set in stone, at the snap, by the Cowboys offensive line ... and with Dak Prescott running the show the Dallas Cowboys can both run and pass the ball against any team! Have an argument?

That’s why Mike Solari was hired to coach the offensive line. He had worked with McCarthy and Schottenheimer in previous stops and would be integral in teaching the new techniques.

There was some initial hesitation on McCarthy’s part that he and Schottenheimer had changed too much. Those concerns subsided when he saw how fast and clean this group practiced from the start.

One player after another in this camp have talked about the simplicity of the system. McCarthy and Schottenheimer exchange a look of satisfaction before McCarthy states that in terms of volume of offensive scheme around the league, the Cowboys are still at the upper end of the scale.

https://www.bloggingtheboys.com/202...g-changes-mike-solari-pocket-slide-protection