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uhh....looked pretty vanilla to me on the backend. Maybe upfront we're doing crazy shit.
2020 Random Cowboys Stuff Thread...
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On Monday, defensive coordinator Mike Nolan said the Cowboys have not used a lot of their scheme through two games. On Thursday Mike McCarthy said because of mental errors, the defense could simplify things. “I think that's page 32 of the Head Coach 101 manual,” McCarthy said. “When your team has too many mental errors, you cut the volume back. It's definitely part of the conversations you have as a staff and it's definitely something we talked about.”
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This just further proves that the previous coaching staff ran schemes that were so simple they were easily predictable. The players aren't use to running anything complex.
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And maybe if some people studied film and their playbooks a little more, that might help too?
When it's not too inconvenient for being an 'entrepreneur'...
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Jaylon sure isn't!
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I get what y'all are saying.
Losing LVE impacted the defense, we have no field general. Wonder if Joe Thomas could take over, Jaylon is a slow reactor.On Monday, defensive coordinator Mike Nolan said the Cowboys have not used a lot of their scheme through two games. On Thursday Mike McCarthy said because of mental errors, the defense could simplify things. “I think that's page 32 of the Head Coach 101 manual,” McCarthy said. “When your team has too many mental errors, you cut the volume back. It's definitely part of the conversations you have as a staff and it's definitely something we talked about.”
Todd Archer, ESPN Staff Writer
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Wow.
A coaching staff that not only recognizes and acknowledges that maybe the fault is theirs and does so in a short amount of time.
What a fucking concept.
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Not just recognizes the fault, but fixes the shit instead of digging in their heels and refusing to change.
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Then he needs to work a little bit fucking harder at the ball security drills.
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There's just so much that is refreshing about that statement with the #1 thing for me being accountability.
Garrett never ever ever took the blame for anything. He never took it on himself or even as a staff. Every single time there was an obvious fuck up on his/their part, he'd let off one of his patented -- "We try to look at all of the blah blah blah...." with we meaning the team type of responses. As if it was collective failure when in fact it was not.
So McCarthy has already done in just 2 weeks what Garrett never did in 10 years -- shoulder the blame for an issue.
But what's even better is that they both identified the problem after just 2 games and that they aren't arrogant to the point that they won't address it like our old staff.
Even when it was clear something wasn't working, they either didn't recognize it or were so damn arrogant about it.....like it couldn't be them so they kept insisting on the players just working through whatever the issue was.
Have fun with Garrett, New York.
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Yeah that last game was a disaster. But I also don't think drills change anything over night. You could drill it all week long but it's usually something players are either good at or bad at. For so many different guys to all fumble in the first quarter is very odd. And then no more fumbles the rest of the game. I'd almost have to mark this one up as a freak occurrence.
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Amari Disappointed With His One-Handed Catch
Sep 24, 2020 at 04:15 PM
Jonny Auping
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"I thought he missed him. I thought he overthrew him."
That was former Cowboy Daryl Johnston's call on FOX of Amari Cooper's 58-yard catch in the third quarter seconds after it happened. Cooper managed to reach out and tip the ball with one hand before bringing it in. Down 12 points, the Cowboys needed a big play from their highest paid, most lethal downfield threat, and Cooper delivered in highlight fashion.
Minutes before Cooper's catch, the Falcons had tricked the Cowboys' defense with a pass from wide receiver Justin Gage to Julio Jones over the top of the defense. It could have potentially finished off the Cowboys, but Jones uncharacteristically dropped it. On one hand, you could say this proves that even the best receivers are human. But on the other hand, you might argue this is why Cooper belongs in every single conversation about who is the best receiver in football. In the first two games of 2020, Cooper has logged 16 receptions for 181 yards.
But the Cowboys didn't sign Cooper to a historically lucrative contract last offseason because he might make plays that would invite comparisons to other great players. They invested in Cooper because of how he personally reacts to a play like his highlight against the Falcons: With disappointment.
"I wish I would have been able to run full speed," a frustrated Cooper said on Thursday. "I couldn't do what I wanted to do. Obviously it would have been a touchdown."
Cooper said that a lingering foot injury decreased his speed and was the explanation for what seemed like an overthrow. "It's a lot better [now]," Cooper updated the media on Thursday. "I've been running full speed."
Cooper has proven that he's thrived to get better since he arrived in Dallas via trade from the Raiders, and his progress and chemistry with Dak Prescott has surely helped the quarterback's young career as well. Cooper's ability to make a catch like the one he made against Atlanta wasn't luck and athleticism. It was the result of conscious and deliberate practice.
"I practice one-handed catches [as if] I can only catch them with one hand," Cooper explained. "Usually it sticks. But it didn't stick. So I had to bobble it and catch it."
If improvement is a constant goal of Cooper's then this Sunday's game in Seattle will be a great opportunity. Throughout his career, he has performed drastically better at home than he has on the road. Despite playing one less game at home, he has nearly 1,000 more receiving yards at home than he does on the road. His catch percentage is worse on the road. He has exactly half as many touchdowns in opposing stadiums.
But he caught 10 passes against the Rams in Los Angeles in the season opener. A great showing against an undefeated Seahawks team could signal he's turning the corner as a road player, which would only make the Cowboys more dangerous.
Cooper knows that he's part of what could be the most effective receiving core in the league, and in a game when that gets fully unlocked, there might not be a team in the NFL that can keep up. CeeDee Lamb's 100-yard game against the Falcons was a reminder of just how dangerous they might be. Cooper, too, recorded 100 receiving yards in his second NFL game, and it was something he thought about in terms of Lamb's confidence after last Sunday. "That 100 yards is the code where a receiver can claim he had a good game," he said.
According to Cooper, a game that features a touchdown from him, Lamb, and Michael Gallup as well as 100-yard performances from all three is more than possible.
"I know it can happen," Cooper said. "I know it can happen often. And when it does, I know how lethal we can be."
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