MacMahon: Why not ride DeMarco Murray in overtime?

[BipolarFuk]

It wouldn't be too much to ask to expect the supossed ELITE WR on the roster to make more than one play against a rookie fuck wad DBS and various other scrub DBs.

 

[Genghis Khan]

I do too...but it is more fun to run around like a bunch of fags right now. This loss sucks big time, but if you told me we'd be 6-2 at the midway point I would take it every time.

True. It's disappointing because I have no doubt we would have had a much better chance of winning had we stuck with the formula last night.

But 6-2 is still great. If Romo stays healthy, nothing happened last night that would indicate that we can't go as far as we want to go.

 

[Texas Ace]

We got out-coached. It's as simple as that.

Yup.

Outplayed and out-coached.

And I don't know how many 2nd and shorts we passed out of, but it was way too damned many.

 

[Genghis Khan]

I'm not so sure about that.

It would be easier to believe that if Philly wasn't coming off a loss presenting us with the opportunity to take sole possession of first place in the division. If we overlooked the Skins even with this opportunity, then this team is no different than before and we were wrong about them.

But we have sole possession anyway. The immediate consequences of losing that game were basically zilch.

Couple that with playing a struggling division rival on monday night, an opponent who has nothing to lose and nothing else in the season to play for.

Classic letdown game.

 

[NoDak]

It wouldn't be too much to ask to expect the supossed ELITE WR on the roster to make more than one play against a rookie fuck wad DBS and various other scrub DBs.

You're like a retarded broken record.

Hurr durrrr....sccchh...Hurr durrr....sccchh....Hurr durrr...sccchh..

 

[skidadl]

It is 2nd and 2 on OT. At that point you basically have 3 downs to run the ball to get a first. Run it.

 

[L.T. Fan]

Haslett tends to give us problems. Jay shouldn't.

He was the difference. He had nothing to lose by taking an all or nothng approach. I knew he would do this and I said so before the game.

 

[Clay_Allison]

True. It's disappointing because I have no doubt we would have had a much better chance of winning had we stuck with the formula last night.

But 6-2 is still great. If Romo stays healthy, nothing happened last night that would indicate that we can't go as far as we want to go.

We can go as far as our commitment to the run takes us.

 

[Genghis Khan]

We can go as far as our commitment to the run takes us.

Exactly.

 

[L.T. Fan]

We can go as far as our commitment to the run takes us.

Pretty much. Murray da man.

 

[Jiggyfly]

I don't buy that we were looking past the Skins either. The Cardinals aren't some elite franchise who you look to measure yourself against like you would a New England or Green Bay.

They're the Arizona Cardinals. They're not a bad franchise....but they're certainly not a team where you'd circle the calendar and get fired up to play them.

We got whipped. Plain and simple.

We reverted back to the bad habits that we've frequently seen from the Cowboys under Garrett.....too much passing and poor tackling.

I don't think we looked past them, but its hard keeping that mental edge every week, there are going to be letdowns.

This is not a great team they do not have a lot of room for error and it caught up with them last night.

 

[ravidubey]

This is not a great team they do not have a lot of room for error and it caught up with them last night.

Despite Murray's success, they rely alot on the passing game. Haslett's blitzes made a huge difference last night.

 

[VA Cowboy]

It is 2nd and 2 on OT. At that point you basically have 3 downs to run the ball to get a first. Run it.

Makes too much sense. Romo didn't come back in the game just to hand off ya know.

 

[data]

Hurr durrrr....sccchh...Hurr durrr....sccchh....Hurr durrr...sccchh..

Props for getting this to translate into type.

 

[Smitty]

Nothing to see here Schmitty....move along.

Well, we were 7 of 15 or something passing on 2nd downs. It was not bad at all.

It was third downs that killed us.

 

[Clay_Allison]

Pretty much. Murray da man.

Yep, and besides that, I'd keep at least a 50/50 run pass ratio, AT LEAST, with Randle starting too. Call me Marty Schottenheimer, but you have to run the damned ball.

 

[L.T. Fan]

You're like a retarded broken record.

Hurr durrrr....sccchh...Hurr durrr....sccchh....Hurr durrr...sccchh..

You could be an effects voice for cartoons.

 

[ravidubey]

Makes too much sense. Romo didn't come back in the game just to hand off ya know.

You could also look at 2nd and 2 as an opportunity to make big yards passing, only everything was covered and the checkdown to Murray lost yardage. Did they even try play action?

Then with the yardage loss, they are in a passing situation again. They should have run even then, because Haslett got in their heads a bit.

 

[Texas Ace]

http://mmqb.si.com/2014/10/28/dallas-cowboys-washington-redskins-tony-romo-back-injury-nfl/

Running back DeMarco Murray is the biggest weapon the Cowboys have this season. With 1,054 rushing yards through eight games, he’s officially on pace to set the NFL’s all-time single-season rushing record (2,105, Eric Dickerson, 1984). But that wasn’t good enough to carry the mail with the game on the line Monday night.

On the last 13 plays of regulation and the last three plays of overtime, Murray didn’t get a rushing attempt. All of this despite the fact that Murray’s last five runs Monday night were for 51, 3, 5, 9 and 8 yards. Here’s where the play-calling mismanagement really cost Dallas: Trailing 20-17 in overtime, the Cowboys took over at their 20 with 9:43 left. Murray went over right tackle for eight fairly easy yards. Then the Cowboys called a pass in the flat to Murray (loss of one), and then threw incomplete passes to Witten and Dez Bryant. Second-and-2 at the 28 is where you just want Murray to take over the game, which he’d shown every sign of being able to do … and he never got the ball with a head of steam again. Awful play-calling by the Dallas coaches.

It's not rocket science.

We should have run the ball a lot more on 2nd and short than we did. I still can't wrap my mind around what the coaches were thinking when they kept on calling passes on 2nd and short.

 

[Rev]

It was inexcusable. You have built your identity and then go away from that with the game on the line. Just baffles my mind.