BAD News Keeps On Coming In For The Dallas Cowboys…

[Music] Welcome back into the Cowboys report. Tom Downey here. The bad news just keeps on rolling in for the Cowboys following a ugly 30-27 loss against the Carolina Panthers. A putrid showing in particular on one side of the ball. We’re going to focus a lot on the defensive issues this Cowboys team is facing. Before we dive into that, I don’t think today’s video is going to get a push notification because there’s been multiple uh regular videos, a live show within the past 24 hours. So, I don’t think this one’s going to get a push. If it does, sweet. That’s even better. But help us out by sharing today’s show and we can point out how bad things are on that side of the ball. A lot of stats I want to mention. And guys, remember the Mike Trout uh Show Otani tweet of like, you know, Showy Otani and Mike Trout did this. It hasn’t been done since Oil can Johnson and the Angels lost 5 to2. We’re kind of entering that territory right now with the Dallas Cowboys. NFL’s NextGen stats pointed this out. The Cowboys are the sixth team in NFL history to score 175 points or more with no more than two wins in their first six games of a season. joined the Saints twice in 2016 2012. The Bengals in 1985, Boston and Houston. Yeah, those two teams in 1961 back when football didn’t even have the forward pass. I think only Houston, by the way, which doesn’t feel like counting, made the Oilers made the playoffs back in 1961, which yeah, if you’re in the middle of the Cold War, pre-Cold War, like those don’t even count as stats in reality. Todd Archer tweeted this one out last night from ESPN Research. since se uh starts were first tracked in 1950. Dak Prescott is the first quarterback to have 11 or more passing TD or rushing TDs, zero turnovers, and a nonwinning record in a three-star span. So Dak putting up numbers that normally give you at least always give you at least two wins normally means you’re 3 and 0. You’re just wasting a bad offense right now. Like that that’s all you’re doing at this moment. You’re you’re just you’re taking an offense that is putting up honestly MVP numbers for Dak Prescott, awesome numbers for George Pickkins, and you’re just doing nothing when it Ed Warner on these stats. Another example from ESPN Research, the Cowboys are the first team in NFL history to average 30 plus points per game without a turnover over a three-game span and not have a winning record during that time frame. Congratulations, Cowboys. You are historically incompetent. I hope you’re happy, Jerry, cuz you have put together a really good contending offense and a defense that makes it impossible to be anything than a laughingstock around the NFL. It’s It’s a joke. So, how mad are you at this Dallas Cowboys defense? Cuz I I think it is a 10. I think it is a 10. Let me know in the comments section of today’s show. 1 to 10 is your scale. My big concern here is that this is just Mike Nolan all over again. I I get very similar vibes. Maybe it was just the the terrible run defense that we saw which was plaguing Mike Nolan’s tenure in Dallas. The first six games from 2020 under Mike Nolan and 2025 under Matt Eberloose. Cowboys are allowing fewer points per game. 36.3 verse 30.7. They’re actually allowing more yards per game overall and more yards per game in the passing defense. The takeaways are one higher in four, but whenever we’re already at 30 plus points per game allowed, you got a big freaking issue. In fact, it actually got better allowing 30 against Carolina. I’m running out of ways to say that this defense sucks. Like I I I’m I’m kind of like getting limited on like, yeah, this is this is putrid. You should feel bad about yourselves and your family. like I I don’t have they’re terrible. They don’t do anything right at this moment. They can’t stop the run anymore. That went away after the first couple weeks. I think was a player we’ll get to later on that I’m like, “Oh boy, you miss him somehow.” It It’s a mess. It is a mess in every single phase on defense and I have yet to see consistent signs of it getting better. Now, today’s show is made possible by prize picks. You and I make decisions every single day. But on Prize Picks, being right can get you paid. Don’t miss any of the excitement this football season on Prize Picks where it is good to be right. It is the only app that offers stacks. You can pick the same play up to three times in the same lineup. You want to pick more on Josh Allen, passing yards, rush yards, touchdowns on Monday Night Football, feel free to do so. You can also follow other prize picks players directly in the app with one simple click. This is the Monday Night Football Little Prize picks slate that’s been cooked up here. Uh Bejian Robinson more than 15 and a half carries. Keon Coleman less than receiving yards. Caleb Williams uh half interception and Jakori Kroski Merritt more than a half rushing touchdown as well. So go download the Prize Picks app today and use code CLNS to get $50 in lineups after you play your first $5 lineup. That’s code CLNS over at prizepix.com/lns to get $50 in lineups after you play your first $5 lineup. Link will be in the comments section and the description of today’s show. Prize picks. It’s good to be right. Remember when Jerry and Steven got up there and spun that’s what it was the Micah Parson trade of? We’re going to fix our run defense now. Well, no you didn’t. It’s bad. It’s broken again. um like it can’t they can’t do anything right. Rico Dattle just told you he was going to attack you and that you better be buckled up and you weren’t. And there there’s a lot of things that are wrong right now with this run defense. It’s it’s multiple. It’s the schematics and the execution and the personnel, but the numbers have now gone wildly in the wrong direction. The Cowboys run defense this year, they are now 11th in run rate face. They’re not facing that many runs. Despite that, they are 29th in yards per game. They are bottom 10 touchdowns allowed. The second most explosive runs of 10 plus more yards. 30th in stuff rate. They were doing good and it’s all kind of collapsed for them. They’re 29th in EPA per carry. A positive number is a good thing for the offense, not for you. They’re dead last in success rate. They’re averaging a successful run about every other time. The Cowboys defense can’t even load up the box right now because then they’re going to get cooked downfield. And this is the crux of the issue right now, I think, that the Cowboys defense is facing. They don’t want to do stacked boxes to stop the run because all that’s going to do is is is invite vertical shots from the opposing passing offenses and they’re so crappy in the back end, it’s going to lead to 40 yard chunk plays. So now what the hell do you do? You’re not blitzing. You’re not playing, man. You’re playing this bend but don’t break soft zone And they’re just bending you over their knee. It’s all they’re doing. Look at these numbers. Passing and rush defense, EPA per play. You’re You’ve almost You’re in your own quadrant, actually. You’re You’re the only ones over there in the bottom left. The worst place to be. You you you have been terrible this season. You’re right there with the Miami Dolphins who also look like terrible. Your defense is terrible. They are a mess in every single way. And I was worried about, okay, you’re doing good on the run defense, but you’re so bad in the passing defense. Probably going to trickle down to your run. Here we are two weeks later. What is the bigger issue right now? Both is the right answer, but you got to pick one. Bigger issue right now. P for the pass defense, R for the run defense. Let me know in the comments of today’s show. Let’s talk about what I think is a pretty clear player coach disagreement uh between I think it’s not just Trayvon Diggs but several Cowboys players and Matty Rlu Trayvon Diggs has already publicly stated he wants to play more man coverage. He thinks that is what they are better at, that that is where they are more efficient, that that is what they should be doing. Um how has Matt Rafoose responded to that? 85.2% zone on Bryce Young drop backs this past week. Essentially went, “Nope, we’re doing what I I want to do.” I don’t believe that Diggs is the only one expressing frustration with the personnel and the way they are deployed and the coverage schemes in this Cowboy secondary. I I would be surprised if that was the case. Diggs did say this postgame, “It’s very frustrating. It’s all of these points given up. The receivers are running wide open down the field. Too many busted coverages. It’s a lot. I feel like we’re all over the place and we really don’t have any identity. Now look, I think there’s plenty of blame for Diggs. I know that that is maybe a messenger issue going on right now for the Cowboys and we don’t like the way Trayvon Digs played. That is perfectly fine. Is he wrong? Is Diggs wrong? We might not like the messenger necessarily, but I don’t think he’s wrong. Actually, I think he’s right. I think there’s very clearly friction right now between the Cowboys players and the coaching staff. You got Brian Shottenheimimer saying this asked this past week, “Do the players trust the scheme?” He said, “I hope so.” Well, how do you not I think so. How do you not know that may I I don’t think that they do. And players get some blame for not trusting it, too. But it ain’t working. The the coverage bust is a weekly borderline every other drive occurrence right now from this Dallas Cowboys team. It’s zone. It’s not that hard and it’s not being deployed or taught properly or something. Bryce Young on deep passing plays this year beyond 20 plus yards going into week six one to five was 79 yards total. In week six, 89 on three plays. They were three of three beyond 20 yards. Busted coverages left and right. Good, bad, ugly, everything else in between. We will have you covered here on the Cowboys Report. Do not miss out. Hit that sub button. YouTube.com/cowboys TV. We kind of mentioned this one previously. Uh you you’ve allowed some just like historically bad numbers here to begin the campaign. Great tweet here from John Pota. The Cowboys have faced Bryce Young, Justin Fields, Jordan Love, Caleb Williams, Russell Wilson, and Jay Herz. Combined, they completed 72% of their passes, 270 yards per game, 15 TDs, two gifted INTs with a combined pass rating of 117, which is the highest in the NFL. And guess what? It’s going to get wor worse. You got Jaden Daniels in week seven, Bon Knicks, but also Shawn Payeyton in week eight. Feel like Courtland Sutton might pop off for a nice little game for you, you know. Then week nine, the Cardinals might be in a bit of a train wreck status, but they’ve got Kyler Murray. The Raiders are a mess. Maybe Gino probably has a good game for them or the other quarterback in there. Got to face Herz again. Got to face Mahomes. Got to face Jared Goth. I assume JJ McCarthy, Justin Herbert, and then Jaden Daniels again. And then Jackson Darn if if he’s not concussed again because he’s taking too many shots. But like the defense might get better. The level of competition you’re going to face is is going to get harder. So, will the Cowboys defense get better this year? Why for yes and for no? Let me know in the comments section of today’s show. My final bit of bad news is this. And quite simply, your linebackers stink. Uh because I hate myself. I did go back and watch uh the game, focus on the defensive side and some offensive plays. I don’t think you have a single playable NFL linebacker right now. I’ll be honest, I don’t think you have a single one. Um, Kenneth Murray is the same Kenneth Murray we’ve seen year in and year out. He doesn’t trigger properly and he’s not in the right spot. Jack Samborn’s hurt. We’ll come back to him in a little bit here. Maurice Leaf has been put as a SAM linebacker. He’s not very good in coverage. I think he actually is a little bit better in run support, but he has been inconsistent this year. Deone Clark’s bad. Shamar James is athletic, but man, Shamar James is a bull in a china shop and he sees ready. He’s going at it and it’s not right half the time. Like you can go back and watch the I put I put the highlight up there of like the big explosive runs from Carolina. Your linebackers are not fitting their run fits properly. They’re not going to the holes they’re supposed to go to. They’re trying to go around blocks and taking themselves out of the play. The average depth of tackle this year on run plays only. So no no like 15 yard catches hurting you in coverage. Run plays only. Kenneth Murray is averaging 4.2. That’s 57th out of 87 qualifying linebackers. Damone Clark is uh 4.5 tied for 61. Jack Sandborn is 4.9 to 69. Nice. Murice Leaf is 6.4 79. Shamar James, all those tackle numbers, he’s a 6.7 average depth of tackle on run plays. 82nd out of 87 linebackers. This next number was actually shocking to me. The onoff splits against the run for Jack Sanborn are startling. When he is on the field, opposing offense is averaging 3.86 yards per carry. When he is off the field, it’s 6.35. EPA per play is minus0.14. That’s solid. On the off field, it’s 1.68. That’s terrible. The success rate defensively, which you want a higher number there, is 57%. Off the field, it’s 35.5. You’re not getting stops against the run. Now, it’s been the the when he’s been out, it’s been the Jets when they ran the ball well in Carolina. But that’s that’s startling differences. He’s not a great athlete. I don’t love him in coverage. He’s at least where he needs to be. And frankly, the rest of your linebackers are not right now. [Music]

Cowboys news continues to be bad for the Cowboys following their 30-27 loss against the Carolina Panthers in NFL Week 6. Cowboys Report host Tom Downey breaks it down on today’s show thanks to PrizePicks! Visit https://prizepicks.onelink.me/LME0/CLNS and use code CLNS and get $50 in lineups when you play your first $5 lineup! Here are the Cowboys news items discussed today:
– Cowboys stats that show how bad this defense is
– Is this the Matt Eberflus defense just Mike Nolan all over again?
– The Cowboys run defense is broken again
– Cowboys coaches and players disagree and there’s friction?
– The Cowboys linebackers stink

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3 CRAZY Cowboys stats show how bad this defense is:
– The Cowboys are the sixth team in NFL history to score 175-plus points with no more than two wins in their first six games of a season (2016 New Orleans, 2012 New Orleans, 1985 Cincinnati, 1961 Boston, 1961 Houston).
– The Cowboys are the 1st team in NFL history to average 30+ points per game without a turnover over a 3-game span and not have a winning record during that span.
– From ESPN Research: Since starts were first tracked in 1950, Dak Prescott is the 1st QB to have 11 or more Pass TD/Rush TD, 0 turnovers and a non-winning record over a 3-start span.

Trevon Diggs has already publicly said he wants to run more man coverage. After the Cowboys ran 85.2% man coverage against the Panthers, he again expressed frustration. “It’s very frustrating. It’s all these points (given up), the receivers are running wide open down the field, too many busted coverages. It’s a lot. I feel like we’re all over the place and we really don’t have no identity.”

The Cowboys defense is looking more and more like Mike Nolan’s…
1st 6 games of 2020: 36.3 PPG, 410.0 YPG, 236.7 PYPG, 173.3 RYPG, 3 Takeaways
1st 6 games of 2024: 30.7 PPG, 411.7 YPG, 269.5 PYPG, 142.2 RYPG, 4 Takeaways

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Cowboys run defense stats:
Run Rate Faced: 45.8% (11th)
TDs Allowed: 6 (T-22nd)
Yards Per Game: 142.2 (29th)
Yards Per Carry: 4.7 (26th)
Explosive Runs: 27 (T-31st)
Stuff Rate: 13.7% (30th)
EPA/Carry: +0.06 (29th)
Success Rate: 49.7 (32nd)
Yards Before Contact: 1.55 (28th)
Yards After Contact: 3.16 (19th)

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The Cowboys linebackers are getting tackles … but way downfield against the run. Here’s the stats and where they rank out of 87 LBs:
– Kenneth Murray: 4.2 (T-57)
– Damone Clark: 4.5 (T-61)
– Jack Sanborn: 4.9 (69th)
– Marist Liufau: 6.4 (79th)
– Shemar James: 6.7 (82nd)

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41 comments

  4. Everyone that wants to take on your third defensive coordinator in a little over TWO years, not such a great idea imo. Eberflus has skins folks, our players suck. Flus isn't missing tackles and taking bad angles and not understanding plays happening in front of him and he's not jumping routes trying to play hero ball and getting torched.
    I don't understand the reaction to our defense. What did you expect, outside of fantasy Island?
    BTW, Nolan tried installing a complicated defense also with poor personnel and tried installing it ONLINE during COVID lock down. Let's not skew history here.
    Here's what you got.
    Flus walking into a defense built by a pass rush fixated coach that built teams great at the pass rush. And absolutely nothing else, ask the 49ers and GB. Fluses history backs up his system's effectivenes. So what's taken the field this year are FIFTEEN new starters or heavy rotational players. Plus a brand new scheme for everyone. You're SIX games into trying to do that, with way too many dismal players. More distance from injury will help the walking wounded and soon Overshown, Revel, and Butler (our future 2 CBs?) will take the field. I never thought this team was built for this year, it's obvious they have a 3 year plan, or 2 with a bonus via Parsons. And for the love of God, move Wilson to LB. Maybe Elam to Safety

  5. Are secondy leavse somebody wide open no linebacket help. Pay these guys the money and they went home with the money and dont FUCKEN CARE !!!!!!!!!!!!! THEY JUST SUCK I CANT STAND THIS SHIT ANYMORE GRT YOUR HEADS OUT YOUR HEADS AND PLAY FN FOOTBALL. MATT EBERCULES IS STUIPED!!!!!! I HATE HIM!

  7. Diggs gives up a perfect passing rating on long balls when playing man so he can shut up. He is a 1 legged mouth. Yes Diggs is wrong, man doesn't win in the post season, defensive scheme over player, install the system, swap out players that can't play it. Not happening in 6 games ffs.

  17. The stats are meaningless. You know this is a bad defense personnel wise as well as a coaching problem. Dallas chose to build up it's offense to the detriment of the defense. Not the first team to do this.

  20. Mr. Downey, I am proud to say you finally say some real stuff viol letting people know that this falls all on Jerry Jones. He was in his feelings when he traded Micah because he did not. Want to deal with his agent🤔 now what is he going to do with George Pickens who has the same agent?🤔🤦🏼‍♂️ it just shows you that Jerry Jones, Mr. Jerry Jones, when it comes to him trying to be a GM he reminds me of a.🤡 someone who takes everything for a freaking joke. Meanwhile, we have these die hard, cowboy fans like myself wasting money, losing money and putting money in Mr. Jerry Jones bank account every year.🤔 when does season be over with Mr. Jerry Jones is not mad😂😂😂 he’s laughing at us. Oh cowboy fans are being laughed at behind closed doors because the person who runs the Cowboys is a.🤡 money hungry🤡 that has been shitting and lying to the cowboy nation about wanting to win a Super Bowl. The cowboy nation needs to stand up boy can’t Jerry Jones from being a GM and boy caught him from being the coach. The Cowboys would be in a better place if they had a different owner, someone that knows how to mind their business and allow these coaches that knows football to coach the players and allow the GM to come in and pick the players. Jerry Jones Mr. Jerry Jones needs to sit his old tail down and get out the way and give some of these cowboy fans their money back 30 years of your bull crap🤔😎👌🏼 food for thought Cowboys for life

  23. I hate to say this Dallas fans but I know quite a bit about defense but I Dallas defense is scared pussies I give it a 10 Dallas cowboys defense is pussies y is Wilson defending deep ball put Wilson in the box make Wilson stop the run Kenneth Murray I'm sorry he has to be on chopping block let him go kneeland Fowler let them go need a edge rusher I will play Jadenvon clowny y Dallas not putting Jadenvon clowny bullshit

  27. I didn’t think this team was playoff capable before the season started so this isn’t a huge surprise but the defense being this bad is laughable

  29. 🤔 so if George Pickens has the same agent, I guess we’re gonna trade him to Green Bay too🤔 who knows when you have a clown🤡 running the show you don’t know what to expect. He might shoot water out the flower on his shirt.🤔 so when it’s time to pay George Pickens🫣 i’m just saying nothing surprises me now when it comes to Jerry Mr. Jerry Jones, so what he’s gonna try to make a deal with George Pickens without his agent or do you think George Pickens is going to be told to release or fire the agent I’m quite sure Mr. Jerry Jones thought about that🤔😎👌🏼 food for thought Cowboys for life

  33. When does Jerry Jones start to realize that HE needs to make a change.
    Jerry Jones must be mentally ill. Here's a thought….make Al Harris the new defensive coordinator.
    How about getting Stephon Gilmore? he might be old BUT what do we have to lose? Our defense is lousy

  34. The defense is to blame…THEY are the ones costing us wins. Diggs AND Bland have looked like pure garbage. Dont even get me started on Elam. Wilson cant cover a bed with a blanket. Linebackers dont even look good. In fact…this is the very worst Cowboys defense i have ever witnessed in my entire life. Even the 1'15 Cowboys from 1989, had a better defense.

  35. If i started to drive a Big Rig for a living. And when I get behind the wheel I wreck the rig. I would personally make the decision to quit being a truck driver. BUT Eberflaus finds a way to stick doing a job that he sucks at.

  37. Only way to get the cowboys defense to step up is gambling. If you gamble and bet the house on all the QB's the Cowboys face and also one of their receivers and RB to pop off for 150+ yards, the league will step in. Because right now you're 6 for 6 if you bet on opposing QB's having their best game against the Cowboys defense. It's free money.

  40. How in the H E double hockey sticks are we NOT hearing that Eberflus has been FIRED!! If not now, when? We're almost at the halfway point …time is of the essence …DO IT NOW!!!

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