THE OFFICIAL 2023 DALLAS COWBOYS OFF-SEASON THREAD || Cowboys Gonna Cowboy

[eazye 804]

Im still proud of our OFFENSE yesterday

 

[slicknick951]

Those high res pics are crazy. I can see the band aid on the cheerleaders leg they tried to cover up

 

[Remy LeBeau]

Those high res pics are crazy. I can see the band aid on the cheerleaders leg they tried to cover up

terrible

 

[mpire]

First and foremost, what a WONDERFUL time at the game yesterday. I absolutely was not expecting us to keep it THAT competitive. I'm glad to have witnessed the best game of the NFL season thus far in person. Had an absolute blast with my first time at the Death Star.

Onto the game, I'm not even gonna bother with the 'Week In Review' thread because there's too many idiots in there comparing Scahub, and Cutler to Romo .

Romo is not absolved from any criticism. However, to put the loss squarely on his shoulders is laughable. I know you are all still in shock at the loss considering how close we came, but there's many things to note here.

"Romo does this all the time." Really? Is that so? Because Romo has 18 4th Quarter comebacks in his NFL career, 5 of which came last year. But lemme guess NT, those don't count? Yesterday was only considered a big game because we lost. Had Romo pulled off the win, it would have been swept under the rug with the "Welll well lets see him do it in the playoffs" rebuttal. The list of times Romo has thrown a "game ending INT/fumble" is actually only in the single digits. I'll point em out for you:

Seattle botched snap (even though this isn't him playing QB, but NT is dumb so we'll give em that one)
2011 week 1 against the Jets (although Dez ran the wrong route but whatever, I'll give you that one)
2012 final week at Fed Ex (middle LB game up the middle untouched, but it was a poor decision regardless).

Giants INT in the playoffs was a 4th and 17 with no time left on the clock and was essentially a hailmary. You can't count that as a "game ending pic" unless we're gonna always say someone chokes when they chuck up a prayer at the end of the game. Then again, people will undoubtly put it on Romo anyways just because

I could go and post that in the Week in Review thread but what's the point? We already know what the perception is and the casual fan doesn't care about the truth. Lebron got the same treatment in Cleveland. Now, in no way am I comparing the talent level of Romo to Lebron, but what I am stating is that at some point, like Lebron, Romo needs help. Perfect example: Yesterday, Colin Kaepnerick was 6/15 and had thrown incomplete passes for almost 2 quarters and did not complete another pass until the third quarter. However, San Fran was up by 3 possessions. Now ask yourself this: Do you honestly believe that Romo could EVER be 6/15 missing multiple receivers and not completing another pass until the 3rd quarter and the Cowboys still be up by 3 possessions?

Romo played one of the best games any QB has ever played. Watching him in person was amazing. He was literally houdini back there making something out of nothing. What has flown complettely under the radar is the end of the the 1st half when Romo ducked, weaved, dodged lineman, and found terrence williams deep which led to a FG and had us only down 28-20. HUGE momentum gainer for us that again, its Romo so no one gives him credit.

The last play: Go back and watch the tape. Romo had a 300lb Lineman on his foot and Ron Leary grazing across his face, preventing him from stepping into that throw which led to the INT, WHICH BTW, was a HELL of a play by that LBer.

Again, not absolving Romo from any criticism, but to put the blame all on him is ridiculous. The defense has given up 1100 yards in two games. The defense has not had a sack since the first quarter of the Chargers game. The defense has given up 64 points in 6 quarters. Rivers/Manning have a combined 89% completion percentage. When your QB throws for 500 yards, 5 Tds, has a QB rating of 140.9 and you STILL lose, the problem is not the QB and has never been. What about the oline being clutch? Where is Demarcus Ware? No seriously, WHERE IS HE? Have you seen him? It's so easy to just put the blame on Romo. At the end of the day, this is what it is. He has to win a chip for people to leave him alone, just like Lebron.

Fellas, the defense is a huge problem. We are on pace to give up 45 TDs this year and we are slowly on pace of giving up a total of 5500 yards, an NFL franchise record. The defense should be thanking the football Gods for that Romo INT being used as deodorant to cover up their stink.

The beauty of all this is that the NFC East is loaded with teams with garbage defenses. The problem is that we tend to play down to the level of our competition. The game plan we implemented yesterday should be used throughout the rest of the season. We have to outscore opponents and we are more than capable.

P.S. The reason Romo was able to throw down the field more and looked more like the "old Romo" is that, according to Ed Werder, his back and ribs are completely healed.

 

[blackboyfly]

SN to all of this. After Peyton Manning, as of right now, Romo is playing like the second best QB in the league. 1500 yards, 13 touchdowns, 2 picks 71 completion% 114 QB rating

With the QB play in they division right now and the defenses in the division Romo should light all of them up in route to a division title. The Giants, Skins and Eagles are all much worse on defense than Denver.

And Dez looks like a top 3 Wr right now. Hopefully Mo gained some confidence after his pick and FR & and will start playing better. In the past Mo would've been garbage all game after getting beat like he did early by Decker, but he bounced back and had one of his better games in a while.

 

[mpire]

SN to all of this. After Peyton Manning, as of right now, Romo is playing like the second best QB in the league. 1500 yards, 13 touchdowns, 2 picks 71 completion %

With the QB play in they division right now and the defenses in the division Romo should light all of them up in route to a division title. The Giants, Skins and Eagles are all much worse on defense than Denver.

And Dez looks like a top 3 Wr right now. Hopefully Mo gained some confidence after his pick and FR & and will start playing better. In the past Mo would've been garbage all game after getting beat like he did early by Decker, but he bounced back and had one of his better games in a while.

I hear you. The problem is we don't know if the coaches are going to follow a similar script going forward. I'm glad Romo is completely healed though. Those passes down the field were absolutely flawless.

The defense won't get better. The injuries haven't hit us yet and we are on pace to giving up the most yards in NFL history. Ratliff has been confirmed to be done for the year.

We will have to outscore opponents going forward. We have no other choice.

We CAN'T play conservative. We have to go through the kill every single week going forward.

By the way, where was the intentional grounding on our God Peyton?

Where was the horse collar call on Romo?

Refs...

 

[mpire]

Just so people can see a little bit more clearly what happened on that play.

Its also a damn shame that our OL can't stop a 3 man rush

 

[blackboyfly]

Wow

 

[slicknick951]

The other two are playing ring around the rosey in the back damn fools

 

[ackdaquick]

Where was the PI against Witten in the end zone?

 

[mpire]

The other two are playing ring around the rosey in the back damn fools

just peeped that. I'm literally laughing out loud.

Where was the PI against Witten in the end zone?

Or the horse collar? Or the intentional grounding on Peyton? Or their center getting away with drawing us offsides.

Its all good though. Another of the many things we aren't taking from this loss is that it was against an AFC opponent. Matter of fact, all of our losses have come against the AFC which has no bearing on NFC chances for a wildcard or division title.

 

[slicknick951]

The other two are playing ring around the rosey in the back damn fools

just peeped that. I'm literally laughing out loud.

I need to stop watching replays because i get pissed. Now i know how my hs coach felt when people messed up.


Granted I have no idea what the call was but if waters kept his shoulders somewhat square he could watch his gap and stick the the nose with his left hand giving the center help. Him running around the back left a hole anyone could get in

 

[blackboyfly]

We have to win these next two games. I'm positive Denver will beat Washington and KC should too. If so with them already beating all the other NFC East teams those losses could essentially mean nothing. Not like we were ever competing for a top 3 seed. After seeing that game I think we can compete offensively with anybody.

 

[eazye 804]

The other two are playing ring around the rosey in the back damn fools

 

[blackboyfly]

Man I can't stand ******** fans. They best a bad Raiders teams missing their best offensive player and starting QB and all of a sudden they're 'back' They care so much about playing us. "Dallas week" I've never seen a Cowboys fan refer to the weeks we play the Skins as Washington week.

 

[essential1]

If we can figure out how to get Demarco involved and not have awful games when he is.. Offense would be unstoppable

 

[chiacrack]

i'm sorry but you dont throw that ball there

Murray was wide open just standing there in the middle, easy 5-8 yards and then its a reasonable third down

not blasting Romo at all, just saying I will not defend stupid mistakes with the game on the line, no doubt we are not in that game without him, but once again he makes a crucial mistake where he could have been the hero

 

[mr s j king]

We need to finish the rest of this season 10-1 or 9-2.
Five division games should be wins.
Vikings, Bears, Lions, Raiders are wins. That's 9 wins right there.
Packers don't look that good, and it's a December home game so that's a W.
Saints can score with us but we want it more than they do, W.
Highly unlikely Garrett won't blow a couple of those games for us, so 9-2 is the most probable outcome.
Just not sure which games it will be.

 

[Betonblck]

The only people that need to be blasted are on defense. Anytime the defense is so bad that you are better off declining a holding penalty if the play results in no yardage means that the defense is to blame.

 

[essential1]

We need to finish the rest of this season 10-1 or 9-2.
Five division games should be wins.
Vikings, Bears, Lions, Raiders are wins. That's 9 wins right there.
Packers don't look that good, and it's a December home game so that's a W.
Saints can score with us but we want it more than they do, W.
Highly unlikely Garrett won't blow a couple of those games for us, so 9-2 is the most probable outcome.
Just not sure which games it will be.

3-2 over next 5. Saints will be a loss. And a "Wild Card" Loss
3-3 over the 6 after that. Packers loss, Bears loss, Giants loss.

 

[jthagreat]

We need to finish the rest of this season 10-1 or 9-2.
Five division games should be wins.
Vikings, Bears, Lions, Raiders are wins. That's 9 wins right there.
Packers don't look that good, and it's a December home game so that's a W.
Saints can score with us but we want it more than they do, W.
Highly unlikely Garrett won't blow a couple of those games for us, so 9-2 is the most probable outcome.
Just not sure which games it will be.

lolol

and im a fan.

 

[blackboyfly]

We need 7 more wins to make the playoffs I think. We'll beat Washington at least once, we'll sweep Philly, that's 3 more wins. We'll beat Minnesota and Oakland at home, that's two more. Home vs Green Bay, @ New York, @ Chicago, @Detroit are all winnable games, just need two of those.

 

[blackboyfly]

We need to finish the rest of this season 10-1 or 9-2.
Five division games should be wins.
Vikings, Bears, Lions, Raiders are wins. That's 9 wins right there.
Packers don't look that good, and it's a December home game so that's a W. [/SIZE=6]
Saints can score with us but we want it more than they do, W.
Highly unlikely Garrett won't blow a couple of those games for us, so 9-2 is the most probable outcome.
Just not sure which games it will be.

lolol

and im a fan.

Same, and I'm REALLY not understanding that part

 

[essential1]

We need 7 more wins to make the playoffs I think. We'll beat Washington at least once, we'll sweep Philly, that's 3 more wins. We'll beat Minnesota and Oakland at home, that's two more. Home vs Green Bay, @ New York, @ Chicago, @Detroit are all winnable games, just need two of those.

The way NFC East is going.. It may take 8-8 to get in.

We have to rattle off 3-4 in a row to have a shot 5-3 is a good start. 4-4 means we are in trouble.

Cannot drop 1 game in the next 4. Have to beat Skins, Eagles, Lions, Vikings.

Then we can lose to Saints without it being a problem.

Then need to pull off the sweep of Giants (If we lose this game, I think it will bode badly for us).. Then pick up win vs. Oakland.

Would put us at 8-4.

That's best case. But over next 7, have to rattle off a 6-1. Anything worse may work badly for us making the playoffs.

 

[mr s j king]

Same, and I'm REALLY not understanding that part

That's because you don't believe we are a better team.
This team has the potential to win out if they want to.
Other teams with lesser talent have done it.
Next five- Wash, Philly, Lions, Vikings, Saints.
I see 4-1 easy.
Next five - Giants, Raiders, Bears, Packers, Washington.
Survey says! 5-0.
Eagles at home to close out the regular season.
Starters probably will sit because the division is wrapped up so this game could go either way.