C-O-W-B-O-Y-S. Cowboys! Official game thread.
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F the Cowboys and the horse they rode in on
Serious question. Is Dak the guy who can lead the Cowboys to a Super Bowl win? I just don't see that he's that guy.
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
That said, your Subject line makes no sense.
I'm pretty sure only two teams in the NFL have cheers that spell out their names, the Eagles and the Jets. So the Subject line that I use for Eagles game threads is something that you'll hear constantly at an Eagles home game, and year-round when Eagles fans are talking about the Birds.
I can't think of a single time that I heard anybody, Dallas fan or otherwise, use C-O-W-B-O-Y-S Cowboys when cheering for, or discussing, the Cowboys.
I didn't realize Terry Killens was now an NFL official until I heard it mentioned during the game that he was the umpire. Good for Terry.
Keep your head up, Cosmos. Next week they play the Jets and I'm giving Dallas at least a 50/50 shot at winning.
We needed that loss to keep pace with the Iggles in the division.
I agree!
And I don't really care for you!
Lessons learned here which can be applied to any given Saturday. Don't wait for 30 minutes to get your offense engaged in the game.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nf...s-from-jerry-jones/ar-AAInKc3?ocid=spartanntp
Sure, the Cowboys are talented. They're also soft
see from the Cowboys: They're unquestionably talented, more offensively creative and good enough defensively to throttle bad opponents. Without a doubt, there is potential to live up to some very lofty expectations in 2019." type="text">fter five weeks, here is what we see from the Cowboys: They're unquestionably talented, more offensively creative and good enough defensively to throttle bad opponents. Without a doubt, there is potential to live up to some very lofty expectations in 2019.
They're undeniably soft when lined up against playoff-caliber opponents — as likely to self-inflict problems as they are to impose chaos across the line of scrimmage. They can be sluggish, out-of-rhythm and remarkably inconsistent. The coaching preparation and play-calling can be questioned and some of the young cornerstones can look highly overrated." type="text">
When you pull back and absorb all of that, it becomes easier to dial in Dallas for what it is. On one hand, the Cowboys are a three-win team that had its victory total pumped up on creampuffs who are now a collective 2-12. On the other hand, Dallas is a two-loss team that looks incapable of beating playoff-caliber talent. This is a special kind of conundrum that drives Cowboys fans crazy. Not because they know they have a gifted team, but because they know they have a gifted team and now they have to rely on head coach Jason Garrett to program the buttons correctly the remainder of the season.
New Orleans Saints or Packers (or both) could have provided some sense that Dallas is a legitimate playoff or Super Bowl contender." type="text">Sometimes it's difficult to tell what is harder to swallow in Dallas — a bad roster with no hope, or a good roster with the hope largely leaning on a head coach the fan base has never really come to trust. The latter is what Dallas has now, meaning fans will be left to grapple with whether Garrett can coach the roster into cohesion and consistency. Up to now, the simple truth is he hasn't. Not the last two weeks, anyway. They’re the only weeks that matter now, since a big win against either the New Orleans Saints or Packers (or both) could have provided some sense that Dallas is a legitimate playoff or Super Bowl contender.
The offense? Inside it, you have Prescott, who hasn't quite established himself on the spectrum of the league's elite starting quarterbacks. He has spent two games against good teams looking familiarly uncomfortable, largely because of an offensive line that is talented but infrequently healthy. All of which has created an underrated learning curve for offensive coordinator Kellen Moore, whose play-calling seems to find a peak rhythm coming out of halftime — suggesting that he's still better at adjusting to a defense than scripting for it out of the gate. That makes sense, given that this is always the biggest jump for players who transition into coaching roles, where the new terrain is in the pregame scripting and not the in-game adjusting.
If that struggle for Moore is real (and I think it is), it places the onus on a Dallas defense when facing equally talented teams. Because the Cowboys have already had several games where the defense has been forced to hold the fort for the first quarter or beyond, while Moore has dialed in his offense. You can do that against bad teams, but it becomes more difficult when it's a talented team like the Packers, who showed a capability to both run over Dallas and set a tone in the process. In turn, the resulting hole put additional pressure on Moore and Prescott, who reacted with mistakes and a largely one-dimensional offense that was playing catch-up from start to finish.
In the process, some of the Cowboys' defensive breakdowns became evident, either from missed tackles, missed assignments, bad reads or lack of pressure. Frankly, the talent up front on the defensive line didn't look good enough at times. And the tandem of talented young linebackers — Jaylon Smith and Leighton Vander Esch — alternated between scintillating and maddening from the beginning of the game to the end. By the time the group found a late groove against an offense that didn't have star wideout Davante Adams, the Dallas offense couldn't be perfect enough to make up the gap.
And if that wasn't enough, the special teams failed, too — from missed field goals to costly penalties that can't happen against quality opponents. Failures that would have resonated significantly if the game had been closer. But it wasn't, thus providing a little bit of cover for kicker Brett Maher as he attempts to get himself on track moving forward.
If all of this sounds like Dallas has got a litany of problems, that's because it does. The bottom line: It has the talent to have gone into New Orleans and have beaten the Teddy Bridgewater-led Saints, but it looked lost on offense and fumbled the game away late. And it certainly has the kind of roster that should never have fallen into a pitiful 31-3 hole at home to a Packers team that lacked its most dynamic wideout. Don't let the late-game comeback erase the litany of mistakes that typically define bad teams.
There is no getting around the past two weeks for Dallas. They were the measuring-stick games. Not the wins over the hapless Miami Dolphins or Washington Redskins. Or the victory over the New York Giants, who hadn't yet replaced Eli Manning with sparkplug rookie Daniel Jones. And next week's road tilt against the New York Jets? That won't be much of a barometer, either.
In truth, Dallas has two weeks to get itself together for the Oct. 20 game against the Philadelphia Eagles, in a matchup that should put one of the franchises alone atop the NFC East. The Jets game should be nothing more than a solid tuneup for that divisional showdown with the Eagles. If it isn't — if Sam Darnold returns for the winless Jets and they suddenly become a handful — then this becomes a whole other conversation around Dallas. A very familiar conversation about Garrett and the coaching, and when ownership is going to attach some action to expectations.
Five games in, those expectations shouldn't have lessened, even if the faith in the Cowboys has. As Jones said: What you see is what you get with this team. And right now, that's just good enough to not be considered bad.
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Prescott is a unique situation for the Cowboys. On one hand, he’s been pretty productive overall when surrounded by great offensive talent. On the other, he’s never proven he can rise up and beat the great NFL teams.
Dallas seems to want to pay him based on the latter dynamic and that isn’t jibing with Dak’s views. This could be Kirk Cousins part 2.
Dallas seems to want to pay him based on the latter dynamic and that isn’t jibing with Dak’s views. This could be Kirk Cousins part 2.
That happened about 8-10 years ago. I think just egos were bruised (edit - my memory was wrong)
Edit - found this awesome recap. UT’s announcer had just done a high school playoff game and reported on it. It was all over the news
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.www.complex.com/sports/2015/12/dallas-runaway-golf-cart
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Hopefully Danny Amendola’s father - who was lifted up by the cart and then bailed - didn’t win his $1 m lawsuit. Said he was “dragged”.
