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gigem1223 said:

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So was at the game yesterday and haven't had a chance to chime in. The attitude this team took on throughout the year against the officials is chicken **** and a loser's mentality. Were there questionable call throughout the year that could have attributed to losses? Absolutely, and we've all *****ed as fans about them. But bottom line is this team is the most undisciplined team in the league. We have a $40M dollar qb now that can't carry the team or overcome adversity, An overpaid rb who now says he was playing with an injured knee getting critical carries over an explosive Pollard, an OL that has some nice pieces but the coaching staff can't seem to find the right mix, and an OC who has zero clue how to make any in game adjustments. The attitude and comments of this team yesterday during the post game press conferences made me sick as a fan.

McCarthy's ass needs to be canned asap, along with the rest of the offensive staff. His leadership is almost as incompetent as his game management. Embarrassing.

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The head coach doesn't matter, the organizational arrogance and rot comes from the head down.

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Well lets all give up then.

Its so lazy to just blanketly say this... repeatedly. Objectively, this organization has fixed some of their problems namely in the team building area. This is an uber talented team. Just need to get the right coaches and/or schemes in there. This team was #1 in points and yards and yet struggled mightily against good teams. We used to never blow anyone out under Garrett. Now we do. But there's work to do.

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Have they? We have won three playoff games this century. Three.

I don't think it's lazy. I'm a life long Cowboys fan and I don't think we'll even win the NFC again much less a Super Bowl until Jerry is six feet under.

Jerry above all wants to validate his ego. He's likely going to make a multi-year mistake with respect to Kellen this offseason, but you can see it coming. He thinks he's uncovered the next young brilliant offensive mind and this is his precious find. Other teams interested in Kellen are only adding fuel to the fire.

Nevermind Kellen's offense got shut the F down for two thirds of this season, Jerry's only going to see the potential and his little diamond in the hand to tie his future to.

We are only blowing people out this year because our division sucks ass and Quinn's defense has been strong. Tell me how we did against non NFC-east teams.

They continue to overpay players because they suck at valuations and negotiations. We're currently paying a QB top six money who can't deal with adversity and make throws to win games. We're paying a RB top three money who is a glorified fullback at this point.

Two tackles getting 25 million who couldn't hold the line against four man fronts, and we're having to dumpster dive for guys like Connor Williams with predictable results because of our cap mismanagement. But we're paying top 3 money total our OL room who couldn't handle four man fronts from week nine onward while also being the most penalized OL unit in the league over that span.

Top five money to our WR room and then our fourth wideout is the only guy we feature (or Kellen can scheme open?) in our wild card game.

I agree we have some nice, talented pieces but roster management, contract management, and certainly game performance all have the same predictable problems we've had for a good 30+ years now.

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Top five money to our WR room and then our fourth wideout is the only guy we feature (or Kellen can scheme open?) in our wild card game.

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You described it perfectly in 1 sentence. Damn brutal and 100% truth. Complete waste of a season.

I agree with everything you said, but I think Dak could be an excellent QB with a good system and talent around him. We have a little bit above average system and talent in spots, which is how we get the production we have gotten out of him IMO. No doubt he and the cowboys in general are hamstrung by Zeke's deal. Such a terrible signing

I will forever second the notion that we ain't winning **** until Jerry is dead. He deserves to toil away in his own arrogance and die never winning another ring.

Something was definitely off with Dak the last half of the season. Wouldn't be surprised to hear about an injury or psych issue kept quiet until all was said and done. That said, the coaches didn't do him any favors. Every offense has weakness, just like every defense and every team in general. Good coaches play to their strengths and work around their weaknesses. If interior line was our offense's weakness, then the coaches should have schemed around it. If Dak's internal clock was off, then throw some screens and quick slants, or let him RPO.

It's just so frustrating to see a team with so many strengths and so few weakness always have the weaknesses on display in big moments. I don't even know who to blame. I'd call it coaching, but we've had a ton of different coaches since Barry and the results are the same. We all know the one common denominator for 25 years, but I can't see how that translates to what we see on the field unless it's just a culture issue

This is a really good breakdown from Kurt Warner


My takeaways here are that Moore has to go. The guy is making what I think are rookie type mistakes. Continually running man concepts into zone coverages forces Dak to be almost perfect.

Dak had plenty of errors here but nothing that can't be corrected with good coaching and getting him in the right concepts.

If Moore is back, this is a pretty depressing watch because I don't see it getting better.

Exactly. My feeling is, with Moore still on staff, it's like we've retained a worse version of Jason Garrett. It seems that he taught Moore most of what he knows.

Don't know how anyone who has been watching this team since the Denver game could ever want kellen Moore back. Since that game the offense has just looked and felt off and It never really got fixed or turned around.

Waiting for a zoom call to start so I decided to look back at the cowboys season in terms of opponents final win-loss record:

We beat 4 teams who finished above .500 this year. The best win came against New England who finished 10-7. The others were Chargers, Eagles and the Saints and they were all only 1 game above .500. Every other team with a winning record that we played (Bucs, Chiefs, Raiders, Cardinals) we lost to, albeit close losses in 3/4 of those games.

Unless I am glossing over a team that finished above .500, That brings our record against quality teams to….. 4-4. If you squint hard enough you can see Jason Garrett's specter looming behind McCarthy

If we are being fair, the NFL is a very competitive league and you could say the same about most teams. The only teams that win a majority of their games against .500+ teams are the #1 seeds every year.

You aren't going to find teams that consistently year in & year out win a majority of their games against other winning teams. It's gonna be about 50/50 for all franchises.

It's all about just getting to the playoffs and be playing your best ball at the end of the season. Cowboys accomplished 1 out of 2.

jtstanley4621 said:

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We benefitted heavily by playing 6 games against a terrible division .

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Is the NFC East that much worse than the North or South? Clearly the West is the best of the NFC, but the other 3 divisions look pretty similar.

jr15aggie said:

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Green Bay played in a division that was equally as poor as the NFC East and they went 4-2 in those games.

Point is, the NFL is tough... division games are even tougher. Going 6-0 in your division games is difficult and dang impressive in any season. You can't and you shouldn't take that away from this years team.

We deserved to be in the playoffs and be a top seed at 12-5. We also deserved to get our asses beat the way we played. Amazing that we still had a very good chance to win that game (I'm referring to the next to last possession when we should have rammed it down their throats and gone up by 1 point... naw, we'll commit more holding penalties instead).

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Even tho that game got close at the end, if Garappolo wasn't hurt and Bisa out, I think they would have pulled away in the second half easily.

Cowboys were a psycho team this year. What else is new?

Infection_Ag11 said:

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We just gonna ignore that the Packers offense looks WAY worse than ours did last week against this team?!

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Definitely the same playing conditions