2025 Season | Week 4 | Gameday Chatter Thread | Green Bay Packers at Dallas Cowboys | 9/28/2025

[Genghis Khan]

I hate the college rules of giving the teams the ball at the 25 yard line.

The rules and format should remain identical even going into the OT periods.

Yep. I hate the shootout and I hate the runner at 2nd base.

Just play the actual game.

 

[Genghis Khan]

To be fair, that's that it becomes if neither team scores on their first possession of OT.

But then time runs out like last night and each team only got one possession. Last night they never got to sudden death.

Keep the clock at 15 minutes for the OT period and that's unlikely to happen.

 

[Tony D]

Either the CBs have just completely shit the bed in the offseason losing the ability to track the ball in the air, or we just have had terrible luck on these bombs away plays. The LBers aren’t helping either. Has to be some of the worst tackling, slowest group I’ve ever seen.

I honestly don't think Diggs and Bland are 100%. Diggs came back to fast and even Bland last night was hampered.

 

[bbgun]

wut?

 

[Texas Ace]

Yep. I hate the shootout and I hate the runner at 2nd base.

Just play the actual game.

Exactly.

I hate the 2nd base thing for the same reasons.

 

[Texas Ace]

I honestly don't think Diggs and Bland are 100%. Diggs came back to fast and even Bland last night was hampered.

I agree, so I think it's realistic that we get better CB play as the season goes on, but I don't know what we're going to do about Safety or LB.

 

[Genghis Khan]

wut?

I admittedly didn't focus on it but I noticed maybe 2 or 3 pressures. He didn't seem to be in the backfield all game or affect things much. No way he had 10.

 

[Chocolate Lab]

I admittedly didn't focus on it but I noticed maybe 2 or 3 pressures. He didn't seem to be in the backfield all game or affect things much. No way he had 10.

That's why pressures are a bullshit stat. Who even determines what exactly qualifies for one anyway?

 

[Cowboysrock55]

wut?

Who the hell came up with 10 pressures? I seriously think someone is padding the numbers to create something that isn't reality. Just like the phantom sack.

 

[kidd]

wut?

I would like to see video of these pressures.

Mike Fisher talked about that this morning. He had read that there were 8. Said he was at the game taking notes and didn’t see them.

 

[Cowboysrock55]

That's why pressures are a bullshit stat. Who even determines what exactly qualifies for one anyway?

Somehow the number has grown substantially from last time I saw it. I don't think it's an official stat so everyone has different numbers. Dak was maybe pressured 10 times the entire game. Maybe.

 

[kidd]

I admittedly didn't focus on it but I noticed maybe 2 or 3 pressures. He didn't seem to be in the backfield all game or affect things much. No way he had 10.

I’m not sure what counts as a pressure but while watching, anytime Dak was in trouble, I looked for #1 and only saw him a few times.

Speaking on that. It was pretty amazing how Dak seemed to sense Micah taking a swipe at the ball. He pulled it down just in time.

 

[Simpleton]

If you asked me off the top of my head I'd say Parsons had maybe 4-6 pressures, there's no chance it was 10.

 

[bbgun]

 

[Simpleton]

Take your time, please.

 

[Newt]

I would like to see video of these pressures.

Mike Fisher talked about that this morning. He had read that there were 8. Said he was at the game taking notes and didn’t see them.

I saw a few where Dak had to get the ball out quick, but not 8, and certainly not double digits.

 

[Cowboysrock55]

Take your time, please.

He was playing RT for Steele before that. I'd prefer to have Guyton back with Thomas at RT. But Thomas might be the best OT on the roster regardless.

 

[ravidubey]

I still think there should be a 2nd OT where the first team to score wins.

Then you kind of end up with the same problem, that a coin flip decides the winner a majority of the time.

Currently: The 10 minute OT period allows the first team to use almost any amount of clock as a counter-balance to the second team being able to go for it on 4th down every set of downs.

Proposal: Change to 15 minute OT. Downside-- if both kicking and receiving teams score equally, the new kickoff rules would give the kicking team a big advantage to win with a FG on their second drive.

That said, I do prefer a 15 minute period vs a second OT. It allows for the possibility of multiple punts.

 

[bbgun]

 

[Chocolate Lab]

"He was awesome"?

How many points would we have scored if he weren't so awesome? Fifty? Sixty?