2022 Cowboys Preseason Week 3 Gameday Chatter Thread | Seahawks @ Cowboys | 08/26/22

[Simpleton]

I hate the whole dynamic on offense. Moore having to stick around because he's Dak's buddy and mentor. An offensive HC having to stick with Garrett's offense just so Dak doesn't have to learn a new one. You have multiple elements of the worst of Jerry's Cowboys on that side of the ball.

Meanwhile on defense, you're halfway like a normal team. You need to overhaul the defense, so you hire a new DC with a totally different system that the HC insists upon, you devote a bunch of draft resources to that side of the ball and hit on most of them, and boom, in two years you go basically from the outhouse to the penthouse.

So your offensive HC is allowed to have much more say on the defensive side of the ball than the offensive one. You force a coach and a system on him so you can be Dak Friendly. No such restrictions on the other side because you don't particularly care about defense. And guess which side is carrying the team now.

Just stupid. We should have flushed everything on the offensive side just like we did on the defensive one. Goddammit, Jerry such is a moron.

At this point I'd prefer Quinn at HC with a revamped offensive coaching staff (ideally he'd hire someone from Shannahan's tree to coach the offense given that's when he was most successful in Atlanta) than what we have now.

McCarthy just doesn't seem to bring much relative value to make up for the listless, uninspired offense that we couldn't get out of Quinn who was nearly just as decorated as a HC if not for Shannahan fucking him with his idiocy against New England.

 

[boozeman]

 

[boozeman]

 

[1bigfan13]

I think if Brandon Smith makes that catch on 3rd down late in the game, there's a good chance he makes the team. Feels like he's still shown enough to at least make the PS again.

 

[Cotton]

This dude is going to be the real deal.

 

[1bigfan13]

This play may have saved his job. Without this INT I think there's a good possibility that he's cut.

Such a boneheaded draft pick. And practically everyone here called it as soon as the pick was announced.

 

[1bigfan13]

This dude is going to be the real deal.

He's lacking consistency right now which is to be expected from a rookie. But he's definitely showing flashes of elite playmaking ability.

 

[Chocolate Lab]

This play may have saved his job. Without this INT I think there's a good possibility that he's cut.

Such a boneheaded draft pick. And practically everyone here called it as soon as the pick was announced.

Should that save him, though? It was about the easiest pick you could ever imagine... the QB just threw it right to him.

He also had another bad PI penalty.

I doubt he gets cut though, it sounds like the coaches really like him for some reason.

 

[Cotton]

Can we flush the 60+ yard field goal attempts though? Maher might he able to make one but it's probably like 10% of the time or less.

Especially since we have Anger at punter. Let him pin them deep, and then let the defense eat.

 

[boozeman]

This dude is going to be the real deal.

He needs to quit it with the personal fouls though.

 

[Cotton]

Should that save him, though? It was about the easiest pick you could ever imagine... the QB just threw it right to him.

He also had another bad PI penalty.

I doubt he gets cut though, it sounds like the coaches really like him for some reason.

They aren't cutting Wright. If they do I would be shocked.

 

[Cotton]

He needs to quit it with the personal fouls though.

Agreed, but that shit can be cleaned up.

 

[Chocolate Lab]

Especially since we have Anger at punter. Let him pin them deep, and then let the defense eat.

Pin them deep and play defense? Y'all are going to trigger the young analytics types so bad...

 

[boozeman]

 

[1bigfan13]

If McCarthy has Maher attempt one single 60+ yarder (or really 55+) at any point other than the last 5 minutes of the game he should be fired.

With our punter being able to pin teams inside their 20 at will I'd much rather roll the dice on giving our defense an opportunity to make a play than some 40% proposition at 3 points that will likely just give the opponent the ball near midfield.

I'm more interested in his ability to make the 40-ish yarders. IIRC, that was his biggest issue his first time around with the Cowboys.

 

[Chocolate Lab]

At this point I'd prefer Quinn at HC with a revamped offensive coaching staff (ideally he'd hire someone from Shannahan's tree to coach the offense given that's when he was most successful in Atlanta) than what we have now.

McCarthy just doesn't seem to bring much relative value to make up for the listless, uninspired offense that we couldn't get out of Quinn who was nearly just as decorated as a HC if not for Shannahan fucking him with his idiocy against New England.

I hate to sound like such a McCarthy apologist, but that would be such a bum deal for him. If you're going to ditch Moore and the offensive system, why not do it now and let your HC run the offense like he wants to?

I guess we can see when the season actually starts. Maybe they'll actually integrate more WCO concepts like they talked about, but I doubt it. The whole thing should've been scrapped two years ago and they'd be ready to roll by now.

 

[1bigfan13]

I doubt he gets cut though, it sounds like the coaches really like him for some reason.

It's the Cowboys so I'm going to assume his draft status buys him at least 3 years.

 

[Cotton]

Pin them deep and play defense? Y'all are going to trigger the young analytics types so bad...

There is a place for analytics. There is also a time to just play football in a traditional manner.

 

[1bigfan13]

Preseason or not, this defense knows how to create turnovers. I don’t think last year was a fluke.

I don't know if you remember but they actually started turning corner and creating an insane amount of turnovers in the 2nd half of the 2020 season.

 

[Cowboysrock55]

His INT was actually a really good one. Jumped the route and got the pick. Some of the picks last night were just lucky or opportunistic. This pick was created by a great play.