Divisional Round Playoff Chatter | Cowboys vs Packers | 1/11/2015

Should we have blitzed more? Yes, Rodgers shreds the blitz normally. But does a one legged Rodgers shred the blitz?

pdom said:

Outplayed, but the Packers out-sealed-the-dealed us. The Packers got the inches we couldn't.

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That's it right there.

It sucks to lose a game that we could have and probably should have won, and it's even tougher because you have so many plays to look back on that probably would have sealed it for us.

But the biggest reason why we lost is because Green Bay made more plays, and that defense's weaknesses - the lack of pass rush and poor pass coverage - finally caught up to us like most of us knew it would.

Tough loss that's gonna stung for a bit, but this was a successful and productive season and the funnest one we've enjoyed in a really long time. They built character and mental toughness that could be they key in getting to a Super Bowl next year if we can get the defensive pieces we need.

For the first time in a long time, I'm proud of my team at the end of a season, and that is what I'll remember about the 2014 Cowboys.

boozeman said:

Planning for what?

When the inner machinations of the fix in the NFL game come to show themselves from game to game?

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Resigning Dez, figuring out the running back position. Getting this defense sorted out.

1bigfan13 said:

I thought the two steps that Dez took after securing ball were football moves.

That play and our failure to recover Cobb's fumble on the KR were the two biggest plays of the game, IMO.

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I don't think he was ever even going to the ground as part of the catch. He caught the ball and then basically dove past the defender.

AND THE BALL DID NOT TOUCH THE GROUND.

Tony D said:

Should we have blitzed more? Yes, Rodgers shreds the blitz normally. But does a one legged Rodgers shred the blitz?

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Yes.

Our blitzes weren't getting there and if we couldn't cover with 7 and 8 dropping, there's no way we would've stopped them with 5 or less in coverage.

boozeman said:

Still trying to get this.

So.

The ball never touches the ground.

And it is incomplete?

Help me out here, because I am really fucking struggling here.

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The ball did hit the ground and moved, while Bryant's hands were on it. I think that it was ready secured, but they invoked that stupid rule about securing it THROUGH a football move.

The pass earlier to Cobb clearly touched the ground and hey, it was called complete.

WILL THERE BE A BUNCH OF FUCKING PUSSY FAGGOTS WHINING ABOUT THAT ALL WEEK? DOUBT IT!

GODFUCKING DAMMIT

boozeman said:

Still trying to get this.

So.

The ball never touches the ground.

And it is incomplete?

Help me out here, because I am really fucking struggling here.

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It touched the ground when he extended his arm. Ball popped loose briefly and that caused it to be incomplete. Needed to hold it tight after it touched the ground.

boozeman said:

AND THE BALL DID NOT TOUCH THE GROUND.

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That's the problem I have. You can't really tell the ball hit the ground and he ends up with the ball in his hands in the endzone. You can only over-rule that if you can see it hit the ground and I never saw that.

if I was Dez Bryant, I'd be getting drunk off my ass tonight...

dallen said:

Resigning Dez, figuring out the running back position. Getting this defense sorted out.

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Waiting for when the fix is in for us or against us.

Sorry, this game really disenchanted me.

Clear to me that the game is not decided by the competition on the field anymore.

I hope our players use this as motivation during the offseason because it's bullshit. I guess if you want to beat a team like the Packers in the playoffs you better literally beat the shit out of them because if it's a close game you know who the refs will hand the game to.

boozeman said:

The pass earlier to Cobb clearly touched the ground and hey, it was called complete.

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A lot of inconsistency on the calling. Cobb was given the benefit of the doubt and the Bryant catch was not given the benefit of common sense. Very perplexing.

The shitty thing is I actually think Bryant took 3 steps.

Which means that football move rule should be out the window.

Meanwhile, we probably lose Linehan, Marinelli and Murray this off season. Future looking bleak.

For QBs, sometimes it's a thin line between champ and chump.

Eli gets David Tyree and Romo gets Gene Steratore.

mschmidt64 said:

The shitty thing is I actually think Bryant took 3 steps.

Which means that football move rule should be out the window.

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3 feet and a knee and forearm.

Deuce said:

It touched the ground when he extended his arm. Ball popped loose briefly and that caused it to be incomplete. Needed to hold it tight after it touched the ground.

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The problem is, it was called a catch on the field, and you can't tell for damn sure that the ball hit the ground on the replay. It was a terrible call even how the rules stand now.

mschmidt64 said:

The shitty thing is I actually think Bryant took 3 steps.

Which means that football move rule should be out the window.

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Pierra said the number of steps doesn't matter...