I’ve been doing some research on what’s been going on in these playoff meltdowns. So I’ve looked at a few of our playoff like games since 2011 and TEAMS RUN THE FOOTBALL DOWN OUR THROATS, with Dallas having a very minimal run game Pay attention to the team rushing attempts I. These games
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This front office is very incompetent and hasn’t fixed this issue for all these years, there’s a clear method teams choose to use and we don’t even commit to running the ball like this regardless of the RB
The 2022 loss wasn’t SF running the ball down our throats at all…
Well yes, they dont want to spend big money on fat guys so they dont bother with them until theyre late in their careers and when they draft a fat guy they make him not a fat guy
They got lucky with finding the 1 dude who could play nose at 300 and then assumed they could just do that forever to justify the paycheck.
Another big issue is our team has zero mental toughness. Whenever our opponent has the chance to punch first we just don’t know how to recover.
I don’t think our organization has had mental toughness since the 90s. We’re too country club and I think that will hurt us for years to come until we get an owner that changes that.
Something you’re not seeing with just box scores is we were down 10+ early in pretty much all these games so yeah they’re gonna run the ball a lot. We have struggled to stop the run for years though. Hopefully Zimmer runs more run stopping coverages as opposed to Quinn who wanted a sack even on run plays.
Bingo! It’s not a dak issue and a huge defensive issue. When Dallas has 30 rushes or more, dak is like 53-7. That’s an INSANE conversion rate. With less than that, he’s only won 9 games. So all you smooth brains who think dak isn’t good enough, don’t know anything about football. Only person who has better stats than that is mahomes… But the owners and front office know better than everyone and anything else, so they don’t focus on giving dak the best running game possible.
It’s Daks fault. His lateral movement as a tackler is slow and he’s a terrible down hill tackler who doesn’t fill the gaps and blows coverage all the time leaving other receivers open in zone coverage.
A huge issue is the other team having more points at the end of the game.
I would love for the Cowboys to run more if they didn’t suck at running the football. But if they’re as bad at it as they were last year, then keeping it in the air is really the only option.
They didn’t stop rushing because they didn’t want to; McCarthy wouldn’t shut up last off-season about how he wanted to turn Dallas into a run-first team and let Dak be a play-action, game manager type QB. They stopped rushing the ball because they were awful at it. We got lucky that Dak had the best regular season of his career or else the offense would’ve been nonexistent. It wasn’t about not trying establish the run, it was about Pollard being a step slower for two thirds of the year coming off injury and the o-line being in shambles (and bad play calling and scheming and et cetera)
Their QBs did not turn the ball over, thats what I see.
Although I agree that run defense has been our Achilles heel for quite some time, it’s important to note the statistics can sometimes look worse than they are. For example, in games where we needed to get the ball back, we probably tried to force a fumble or a run blitz and it backfired
that Rams game was especially brutal being done in by CJ Anderson like that
In almost each of these losses, we were plagued by some combination of a few factors: opponents running the ball well and ours getting nothing on the ground, offensive line penalties, no takeaways, dropped passes, missed kicks, average starting position inside our own 20, opposing DBs predicting routes pre-snap.
As much as people like to blame one player, these are generally team losses. The defense lacks discipline and composure when we can’t force the opponent to abandon the run. The offense is overreliant on Dak and CeeDee to overcome a list of issues. Special teams tries to make big plays but ends up giving away yardage and taking penalties because of bad decisions.
We literally let Alfred fucking Morris run for 200 tf???
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This front office is very incompetent and hasn’t fixed this issue for all these years, there’s a clear method teams choose to use and we don’t even commit to running the ball like this regardless of the RB
The 2022 loss wasn’t SF running the ball down our throats at all…
Well yes, they dont want to spend big money on fat guys so they dont bother with them until theyre late in their careers and when they draft a fat guy they make him not a fat guy
They got lucky with finding the 1 dude who could play nose at 300 and then assumed they could just do that forever to justify the paycheck.
Another big issue is our team has zero mental toughness. Whenever our opponent has the chance to punch first we just don’t know how to recover.
I don’t think our organization has had mental toughness since the 90s. We’re too country club and I think that will hurt us for years to come until we get an owner that changes that.
Something you’re not seeing with just box scores is we were down 10+ early in pretty much all these games so yeah they’re gonna run the ball a lot. We have struggled to stop the run for years though. Hopefully Zimmer runs more run stopping coverages as opposed to Quinn who wanted a sack even on run plays.
Bingo! It’s not a dak issue and a huge defensive issue. When Dallas has 30 rushes or more, dak is like 53-7. That’s an INSANE conversion rate. With less than that, he’s only won 9 games. So all you smooth brains who think dak isn’t good enough, don’t know anything about football. Only person who has better stats than that is mahomes… But the owners and front office know better than everyone and anything else, so they don’t focus on giving dak the best running game possible.
It’s Daks fault. His lateral movement as a tackler is slow and he’s a terrible down hill tackler who doesn’t fill the gaps and blows coverage all the time leaving other receivers open in zone coverage.
A huge issue is the other team having more points at the end of the game.
I would love for the Cowboys to run more if they didn’t suck at running the football. But if they’re as bad at it as they were last year, then keeping it in the air is really the only option.
They didn’t stop rushing because they didn’t want to; McCarthy wouldn’t shut up last off-season about how he wanted to turn Dallas into a run-first team and let Dak be a play-action, game manager type QB. They stopped rushing the ball because they were awful at it. We got lucky that Dak had the best regular season of his career or else the offense would’ve been nonexistent. It wasn’t about not trying establish the run, it was about Pollard being a step slower for two thirds of the year coming off injury and the o-line being in shambles (and bad play calling and scheming and et cetera)
Their QBs did not turn the ball over, thats what I see.
Although I agree that run defense has been our Achilles heel for quite some time, it’s important to note the statistics can sometimes look worse than they are. For example, in games where we needed to get the ball back, we probably tried to force a fumble or a run blitz and it backfired
that Rams game was especially brutal being done in by CJ Anderson like that
In almost each of these losses, we were plagued by some combination of a few factors: opponents running the ball well and ours getting nothing on the ground, offensive line penalties, no takeaways, dropped passes, missed kicks, average starting position inside our own 20, opposing DBs predicting routes pre-snap.
As much as people like to blame one player, these are generally team losses. The defense lacks discipline and composure when we can’t force the opponent to abandon the run. The offense is overreliant on Dak and CeeDee to overcome a list of issues. Special teams tries to make big plays but ends up giving away yardage and taking penalties because of bad decisions.
We literally let Alfred fucking Morris run for 200 tf???