You Are The Coach. You Trust Your QB. What's Your Call?

[Gangsta Spanksta]

I’m calling a quick slant to Pickens. Telling Dak fire that ball right into his belly.

On one hand he is supposedly a top 6 to 10 quarterback they say, on the other hand he should follow what the play caller calls, and not change the play, as if he was not a top 10 quarterback. The arguments people are giving, all the double talk, sure doesn't paint a consistent picture.

But I'm with you, even if he is not a top 10 quarterback, he should decide. But on one hand people were saying Dak was being micromanage, but on the other hand why would a top 10 quarterback let himself get micro managed. People are changing their positions, from post to post; what's going on here? Are they arguing in good faith, the same people that accuse others of agendas?

 

[GINeric]

I know you probably disagree, but Dak doesn't have the reputation of being a Big Game or Playoff quarterback because he is not good under pressure. It is your opinion it was humidity; it is my opinion that the pressure was up, because it was a 9/11 game in new york, and he wasn't ready for the big game atmosphere he got. I didn't mention humidity, because my quick search didn't show it and I thought Feels like is good enough since humidity tends to increase feels like, but since the feels like was lower than the actual temperature, I guess the humidity help cool down the the players? To me its yet another excuse, but you are free to your own opinion. My opinion is he cracked under pressure; your's is it was hot and humid and yet he didn't switch to a helmet without a shield to help himself.

How am I giving an excuse for a player sweating after working out and playing in warm weather? Thats a fact that ALL mammals sweat when exertion happens especially in warm weather.... then for the simple fact that you said maybe humidity helps cool the players down? Are you serious?

I made a case that its stupid to point out an athlete sweating, when all athletes sweat. Thats just crazy.

No where did I say Dak was elite in big games or elite in the playoffs. Thats a level he definitely has to push himself to.

To conclude, Dak was sweating in the Commanders game. So what was he pressured about then while the Cowboys were in the lead? If he's so pressured during games, why does he have some of the best production league wide when pressured by blitzes? That doesn't make sense.

I'll leave you with this. It doesn't take elite quarterbacks to help teams win playoff games. It takes elite play from teams to win playoff games. There are elite quarterbacks who've never been to or won a Superbowl.... and every quarterback who was part of a team winning a Superbowl weren't always elite.

Yes it would be great if Dak reaches that elite status in the playoffs. That would definitely increase our chances to win it all, but it definitely doesn't guarantee a playoff victory.

 

[cald0d30s0]

So this is a weird question.

What does trust means in this context? Trusting judgment? Trust his mechanics? Trust his leadership? Trust his o-line management skills? Trust his instincts?

Dak lacks some off them, so the coach should complement his lack of skills with guidance.

He is a 11 year old veteran, pro browler and mvp candidate, he should have level of trust, but the coach is there for a reason.

You may say “I trust your judgment”, but lets try this, what you think?

Is a teams sport…

 

[pitt33]

You give Pickens a chance. You can trust him to battle for the ball and not allow an interception. That's Pickens' greatest strength.

Dak knows this. It's on him. Shotty is just covering.

Dak lost his mind twice on that series:

1st down audibles out of the run.. throws a stupid *** fade.

And then the 3rd down debacle.

It’s all so tiresome

 

[Tabascocat]

Dak lost his mind twice on that series:

1st down audibles out of the run.. throws a stupid *** fade.

And then the 3rd down debacle.

It’s all so tiresome

Don’t forget him scrambling on 2nd down for two yards forcing them to use the last timeout.

 

[charron]

I just see this whole thing of well he was just following the coaches call as a bit lame. I can see it, in that Dak never looked elsewhere, but that to me isn't good quarterback play either to get a good view of the field and telegraph where you going to throw it to. But I'm just thinking who is the playcaller. I mean when he got hired, I was exactly what makes him someone special you want to hire? The reason I bring that up, is when I see that play it makes me think of the good old days of when John Madden was the color commentator. And with that much time on the clock he would always say that the QB has another shot at the endzone to take. So Madden Philosophy of having another shot at the endzone versus a no name unproven coach that hasn't done anything here.... I'm going with one more shot at the endzone, over being overly conservative, which helped to the events to lost us the game.

Then we are getting fed double narratives at the same time by the same people I think. On one hand Dak was mad at the coach and yelling at the sidlines, which I didn't get from watching the highlights. On the other hand it supposedly was the right play and Dak was a good boy and followed the play because it was situational football. Which is in? Why two Narratives. Suspicious.

Well I don't even know if I really believe shawty that deck was supposed to throw it away. I think shawty is lying trying to fall on the sword for deck but I don't know. I'm not in the meeting room so maybe cuz why call passing play? If we're just supposed to throw it away, why wouldn't you run the ball? So many questions but and again if if Doug just didn't see him, I'm okay. I get it if it was just bang bang and he thought he saw somebody over there or whatever I can accept that I can't accept. I just threw it away because that's what I was told to do that that doesn't work for me. That's not what I want. My $60 million quarterback doing out there just being a complete robot yeah and that's why I like Romo better. Yes, Romo had his issues but at least he put the game in his hands and he was either going to win or lose by what he saw in the field and what he could do and I can respect that. Cannot respect somebody who just throws the ball away without giving his team a chance to win

 

[nate dizzle]

The only wrong answer is "Automatically throw the ball away".

Which is exactly what Schotty told him.

No way in hell he told him to throw it away no matter what. 0% chance.

 

[GINeric]

No way in hell he told him to throw it away no matter what. 0% chance.

Apparently he did tell him to throw it away because you can tell by Daks reaction after that play. Dak looked piss and had a mouthful to say walking to the sidelines and walking to the bench.

Then Schotty apologized for how he called the last series. It doesn't take a rocket science to see his body language afterwards and Schottys apology.

I know some of yall don't want to believe that was Schotty's call because it would take away the normal finger pointing to the same player after every Cowboys loss, but yall can't lean on that narrative this time.

Maybe after another loss, but we didn't lose this game because of Dak this time and it angers some of you.

 

[visionary]

I do understand that there are 60 minutes in a game. And one or two plays only didn’t determine the outcome. The cowboys shouldn’t even have been in those situations.

THIS THREAD IS ABOUT ONE PLAY

ONE PLAY

ONE

PLAY

Get it?

 

[DarkVader33]

THIS THREAD IS ABOUT ONE PLAY

ONE PLAY

ONE

PLAY

Get it?

Then answer the OP without interjecting it’s the only play in the game that mattered. He’s not asking that, he’s asking what you’d do FFS.