2022 Season | Divisional Round Gameday Chatter Thread | Cowboys @ 49ers | 1/22/23

[Cotton]

I would like to see Turpin try and fail instead of ad nauseum plodding Zeke, no effort to try Malik and that assinine asinine failed final play.

There.

 

[ravidubey]

Bottom line you win with star players.

We lost because our best, Pollard, got hurt, and Lamb didn't have enough help.

Joe Burrow used Chase, Mixon, and Higgins to rape the Bills in their own stadium all with a patchwork OL. Purdy has Kittle, McCaffery, and Samuel. Hurts has Brown, Smith, Sanders, and a monster OL.

Players win games, we wore down, pure and simple.

OFFENSE:

• Lamb -- CHECK
• Pollard needs to return at full speed-- RE-SIGN
• Zeke and Schultz are not elite CUT
• Dak, we are stuck-- RESTRUCTURE. His 49 million needs to be pushed into future years if we are to have a shot in 2023

Free agency

• Sign a TE with a catch radius who wins one-one battles, Hayden Hurst would be a beast with Dak.
• Sign a reliable every down RB with some jets, Josh Jacobs would be an excellent addition

Draft

• Draft the best WR we can in round 2, trade up as many as ten spots if needed

DEFENSE

Free Agency

• Sign Dalvin Tomlinson. Just do it Jerry
• Resign both Donovan Wilson and Kearse if possible, but we are deep here, honestly

Draft

• BPA front seven
• Corner depth

 

[Simpleton]

Bottom line you win with star players.

We lost because our best, Pollard, got hurt, and Lamb didn't have enough help.

Joe Burrow used Chase, Mixon, and Higgins to rape the Bills in their own stadium all with a patchwork OL. Purdy has Kittle, McCaffery, and Samuel. Hurts has Brown, Smith, Sanders, and a monster OL.

Players win games, we wore down, pure and simple.

OFFENSE:

• Lamb -- CHECK
• Pollard needs to return at full speed-- RE-SIGN
• Zeke and Schultz are not elite CUT
• Dak, we are stuck-- RESTRUCTURE. His 49 million needs to be pushed into future years if we are to have a shot in 2023

Free agency

• Sign a TE with a catch radius who wins one-one battles, Hayden Hurst would be a beast with Dak.
• Sign a reliable every down RB with some jets, Josh Jacobs would be an excellent addition

Draft

• Draft the best WR we can in round 2, trade up as many as ten spots if needed

DEFENSE

Free Agency

• Sign Dalvin Tomlinson. Just do it Jerry
• Resign both Donovan Wilson and Kearse if possible, but we are deep here, honestly

Draft

• BPA front seven
• Corner depth

Losing Pollard was a bigger blow than I think most want to admit because of how Dak played. We were on track to score two TD's in the first half until Pollard broke his leg with Dak throwing arguably the worst INT of his career on the very next play.

Does he do that if Pollard is still in there? Who knows, but we were like 2-3 plays away from a two TD first half when Pollard went down and that would've honestly far exceeded my expectations.

On track for 28 points (pending Maher dumbassery) on the road against probably the best defense in the league? That's excellent.

Like you said, Pollard and Lamb are our only two true playmakers on offense and losing Pollard was exacerbated by the fact that we basically can't have a functional running game without him with Elliott as broken down as he is.

Completely unrelated, there's no chance that we'd be able to sign Josh Jacobs while also retaining Pollard, that's just nonsense.

 

[boozeman]

h a catch radius who wins one-one battles, Hayden Hurst would be a beast with Dak.

Interesting. Hurst does have a bond with Prescott since they are mental health accountability buddies.

 

[Chocolate Lab]

Interesting. Hurst does have a bond with Prescott since they are mental health accountability buddies.

Really?

 

[ravidubey]

 

[Texas Ace]

Small consolation.

But a consolation nonetheless.

 

[ravidubey]

Completely unrelated, there's no chance that we'd be able to sign Josh Jacobs while also retaining Pollard, that's just nonsense.

As nonsense as paying Zeke 90 million to play second to Pollard?

Pollard as c-rock pointed out might be easier to resign as as result of his injury (two years in a row with lower leg/foot injuries)

 

[Texas Ace]

Lamb went for 100 yards in that game with a shit QB and a dumbass OC.

That to me was the icing on the cake of what was a very good season for him.

I'm convinced now that he can be a legit #1.

 

[Texas Ace]

Resign both Donovan Wilson and Kearse if possible, but we are deep here, honestly

Kearse signed a 2 year deal so he's still good till 2024.

 

[Chocolate Lab]

Lamb went for 100 yards in that game with a shit QB and a dumbass OC.

That to me was the icing on the cake of what was a very good season for him.

I'm convinced now that he can be a legit #1.

One of the best developments of the year IMO.

 

[L.T. Fan]

Regular Season Stats
Games (G)

DeMarco Murray	99
Ezekiel Elliott	95

Games Started (GS)

DeMarco Murray	86
Ezekiel Elliott	95

Rushing Attempts (Att)

DeMarco Murray	1,604
Ezekiel Elliott	1,759

Rushing Yards (Yds)

DeMarco Murray	7,174
Ezekiel Elliott	7,829

Rushing Touchdowns (TD)

DeMarco Murray	49
Ezekiel Elliott	60

Rushing Yards per Game (Y/G)

DeMarco Murray	72.5
Ezekiel Elliott	82.4

Rushing Attempts per Game (A/G)

DeMarco Murray	16.2
Ezekiel Elliott	18.5

Rushing Yards per Attempt (Y/A)

DeMarco Murray	4.5
Ezekiel Elliott	4.5

Pass Targets (Tgt)

DeMarco Murray	376
Ezekiel Elliott	383

Receptions (Rec)

DeMarco Murray	306
Ezekiel Elliott	291

Receiving Yards (Yds)

DeMarco Murray	2,161
Ezekiel Elliott	2,257

Yards per Reception (Y/R)

DeMarco Murray	7.1
Ezekiel Elliott	7.8

Receiving Touchdowns (TD)

DeMarco Murray	6
Ezekiel Elliott	12

Receptions per Game (R/G)

DeMarco Murray	3.1
Ezekiel Elliott	3.1

Receiving Yards per Game (Y/G)

DeMarco Murray	21.8
Ezekiel Elliott	23.8

Yards from Scrimmage (YScm)

DeMarco Murray	9,335
Ezekiel Elliott	10,086

You were saying......

You are using totals for each and this doesn’t give an accurate parity of individual performances because Elliot has a longer tenure and that skews a comparison. If you want to use this approach then you would need to extrapolate averages to equal time played. Also the visual approach clearly shows that Murray was faster and more effective on the perimeter than Elliot. They way Dallas gets Elliot on the parameter is usually with a passing play but with Murray he could turn the corner with a pitch.

 

[NoDak]

tried to tell you, p1

 

[Simpleton]

As nonsense as paying Zeke 90 million to play second to Pollard?

Pollard as c-rock pointed out might be easier to resign as as result of his injury (two years in a row with lower leg/foot injuries)

Elliott got that extension when Pollard was a rookie.

Even if we can re-sign Pollard cheaper than we could have, we're still looking at about $8M/year, you want to turn around and give Jacobs $10-$12M/year?

He led the league in rushing last year and is going to get at least $10/year.

 

[data]

yeah, but we'd get the championship game drought off our backs

Small consolation.

…and further fuel the blue jersey jinx? No way, man

 

[boozeman]

Lamb went for 100 yards in that game with a shit QB and a dumbass OC.

That to me was the icing on the cake of what was a very good season for him.

I'm convinced now that he can be a legit #1.

He is still going to be held back if we trot crap out there with him. And yes, this includes Gallup.

 

[Cowboysrock55]

Elliott got that extension when Pollard was a rookie.

Even if we can re-sign Pollard cheaper than we could have, we're still looking at about $8M/year, you want to turn around and give Jacobs $10-$12M/year?

He led the league in rushing last year and is going to get at least $10/year.

Nope just draft someone. I would like Pollard to pair with whoever we draft but short term. One or two year deal. By the end of that deal I'll hopefully have another seasoned RB and then can draft a speedy guy to pair him with.

 

[Bipo]

I see people are starting to call for the banning of "hip drop tackles" like the one Pollard got hurt on.

 

[L.T. Fan]

Better than Linehan and Garrett?

So what?

So he’s made the offense better. Why would you fire him. What has Linehan and Garrett to do with an assessment of Moore?

 

[Cotton]

So he’s made the offense better. Why would you fire him. What has Linehan and Garrett to do with an assessment of Moore?

Don't do it, Booze.