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I expect a similar performance, maybe not as thorough. SF has a run game that will pose a huge threat. If we contain Mc Caffrey, it will go a long way to winning .
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Why Dak Prescott – not the Cowboys defense – is key to slowing down Brock Purdy, 49ers
Prescott balled out against Tom Brady and the Bucs. Can he do it again?
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Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott (4) celebrates his econd quarter touchdown run against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers during a Wild Card Playoff game at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida, January 16, 2023.(Tom Fox / Staff Photographer)
By Jean-Jacques Taylor
10:26 AM on Jan 18, 2023 CST
Dallas Cowboys
The most disrespected good quarterback in the NFL totaled five touchdowns Monday night.
Dak Prescott turned in a performance worthy of showing the naughtiest of his fingers to his collection of critics. He threw four touchdown passes and ran for another as the Dallas Cowboys won their first road playoff game in 30 seasons.
Hallelujah.
Now, we can talk about something else. Just like we don’t have to talk about the Cowboys not having consecutive 10-win seasons since 1995-96 or making the playoffs in back-to-back seasons since 2006-07.
Against Tampa, he was a star in every sense.
Now, Dak must do it again to extend the season and vault the Cowboys into the NFC Championship for the first time since the 1995 season.
If we’re honest, Dak was better than Tom Brady just about all season.
Obviously, we’re not talking about the opener when Tampa blew out the Cowboys, 19-3, and the season seemed doomed after Prescott’s injury. But Brady was just a guy for much of the season, while Dak directed one of the league’s best offenses when he returned from his broken thumb.
On Monday, he made the GOAT look like he was ready for the retirement home.
Dak passed for 305 yards with touchdown passes of 22, 18, 11 and two yards. He also ran seven times and scored a touchdown that gave Dallas a 12-0 lead.
We saw his mindset in the second quarter when he scrambled for 11 yards and dove for a first down. We saw him try to deliver a block on a run on the goal line. We saw a player who was committed to winning and willing to sacrifice his body to do it.
We know Dak is better than Brock Purdy, who has played well for San Francisco to close out the regular season.
After taking over in Week 12, Purdy averaged 218 yards per game passing, throwing 13 touchdowns with three interceptions and a passer rating of 112.0 in six games (five starts).
Purdy, like Prescott, shined in the wild-card round, throwing for 332 yards with three touchdowns and no picks in his win over Seattle. He also rushed for a touchdown.
Still, he’s a rookie, literally the last player taken in the draft, and at some point we should expect him to play like a rookie.
So far, he hasn’t.
Part of the reason is he has the best combo of running back (Christian McCaffrey), receiver (Deebo Samuel) and tight end (George Kittles) in the playoffs. San Francisco also has a terrific defense. So, he ain’t playing from behind all that often.
That’s where Dak comes in. While he’s not technically playing Purdy, if Dak plays at an elite level against San Francisco’s defense, he can put pressure on Purdy to match him point for point. He can make Purdy experience some uncomfortable emotions that he hasn’t had to deal with at the NFL level.
We saw the best Dak has to offer against Tampa once the game slowed down for him.
He was decisive in the pocket, he ran with purpose and his ball-handling on play-action was sublime. He played with confidence and looked nothing like the dude who stunk up FedEx Field the week before.
In a word, he was everything Tom Brady was supposed to be but wasn’t Monday night.
Prescott was 6-0 this season when he had a better passer rating than the opposing quarterback.
So, you see, that’s why it’s about Dak outplaying Purdy. It’s about him protecting the ball against San Francisco because turnovers will get Dallas beat this week.
The Dak we saw against Tampa is capable of beating San Francisco.
Think about some of the terrific throws he made like the touchdown pass to Michael Gallup along the back of the end zone. Think about how he can make plays with his legs like he did on a couple of scrambles. Think about how he can extend plays like he did on Dalton Schultz’s second touchdown or the way he manipulated the safety with his eyes on Schultz’s first.
The regular season is good, but it’s the playoffs where Dak can elevate himself with the NFL’s most iconic.
Prescott balled out against Tom Brady and the Bucs. Can he do it again?
Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott (4) celebrates his econd quarter touchdown run against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers during a Wild Card Playoff game at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida, January 16, 2023.(Tom Fox / Staff Photographer)
By Jean-Jacques Taylor
10:26 AM on Jan 18, 2023 CST
Dallas Cowboys
The most disrespected good quarterback in the NFL totaled five touchdowns Monday night.
Dak Prescott turned in a performance worthy of showing the naughtiest of his fingers to his collection of critics. He threw four touchdown passes and ran for another as the Dallas Cowboys won their first road playoff game in 30 seasons.
Hallelujah.
Now, we can talk about something else. Just like we don’t have to talk about the Cowboys not having consecutive 10-win seasons since 1995-96 or making the playoffs in back-to-back seasons since 2006-07.
Against Tampa, he was a star in every sense.
Now, Dak must do it again to extend the season and vault the Cowboys into the NFC Championship for the first time since the 1995 season.
If we’re honest, Dak was better than Tom Brady just about all season.
Obviously, we’re not talking about the opener when Tampa blew out the Cowboys, 19-3, and the season seemed doomed after Prescott’s injury. But Brady was just a guy for much of the season, while Dak directed one of the league’s best offenses when he returned from his broken thumb.
On Monday, he made the GOAT look like he was ready for the retirement home.
Dak passed for 305 yards with touchdown passes of 22, 18, 11 and two yards. He also ran seven times and scored a touchdown that gave Dallas a 12-0 lead.
We saw his mindset in the second quarter when he scrambled for 11 yards and dove for a first down. We saw him try to deliver a block on a run on the goal line. We saw a player who was committed to winning and willing to sacrifice his body to do it.
We know Dak is better than Brock Purdy, who has played well for San Francisco to close out the regular season.
After taking over in Week 12, Purdy averaged 218 yards per game passing, throwing 13 touchdowns with three interceptions and a passer rating of 112.0 in six games (five starts).
Purdy, like Prescott, shined in the wild-card round, throwing for 332 yards with three touchdowns and no picks in his win over Seattle. He also rushed for a touchdown.
Still, he’s a rookie, literally the last player taken in the draft, and at some point we should expect him to play like a rookie.
So far, he hasn’t.
Part of the reason is he has the best combo of running back (Christian McCaffrey), receiver (Deebo Samuel) and tight end (George Kittles) in the playoffs. San Francisco also has a terrific defense. So, he ain’t playing from behind all that often.
That’s where Dak comes in. While he’s not technically playing Purdy, if Dak plays at an elite level against San Francisco’s defense, he can put pressure on Purdy to match him point for point. He can make Purdy experience some uncomfortable emotions that he hasn’t had to deal with at the NFL level.
We saw the best Dak has to offer against Tampa once the game slowed down for him.
He was decisive in the pocket, he ran with purpose and his ball-handling on play-action was sublime. He played with confidence and looked nothing like the dude who stunk up FedEx Field the week before.
In a word, he was everything Tom Brady was supposed to be but wasn’t Monday night.
Prescott was 6-0 this season when he had a better passer rating than the opposing quarterback.
So, you see, that’s why it’s about Dak outplaying Purdy. It’s about him protecting the ball against San Francisco because turnovers will get Dallas beat this week.
The Dak we saw against Tampa is capable of beating San Francisco.
Think about some of the terrific throws he made like the touchdown pass to Michael Gallup along the back of the end zone. Think about how he can make plays with his legs like he did on a couple of scrambles. Think about how he can extend plays like he did on Dalton Schultz’s second touchdown or the way he manipulated the safety with his eyes on Schultz’s first.
The regular season is good, but it’s the playoffs where Dak can elevate himself with the NFL’s most iconic.
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Brock Purdy, 49ers stand between Cowboys and elusive trip to NFC title game
On top of that, San Francisco has a two-day head start in preparing for Sunday’s game.
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San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy (13) holds a cell phone as he walks on the field after an NFL wild card playoff football game against the Seattle Seahawks in Santa Clara, Calif., Saturday, Jan. 14, 2023. The 49ers won 41-23.(Josie Lepe / ASSOCIATED PRESS)
By Tim Cowlishaw
1:46 PM on Jan 17, 2023 CST
https://www.dallasnews.com/organization/f8b877f7-ef7c-4a41-b284-99f4d54d8abd/Dallas-Cowboys/
Even if it seemed like a slightly miraculous performance Monday night, the Cowboys beating Tom Brady for the first time ever was actually an NFL team beating Tom Brady for the 10th time this season.
Dallas’ reward for that long-sought playoff road win is to try to become the first NFL team to beat Brock Purdy.
A seventh-round pick from Iowa State whose tale just may be starting out much like Brady’s did a generation ago, Purdy has led the 49ers to six straight wins, his team scoring at least 35 points in all but one. With Dallas traveling to San Francisco on a short week, somewhere Lamar Hunt is laughing.
The longtime Kansas City Chiefs owner (and Cowboys rival from his days operating the Dallas Texans) sought owner support year after year for his contention that the Cowboys’ Thanksgiving tradition provided them a competitive advantage. Fellow owners never really backed him, possibly noting the lack of Lombardi Trophies or even Super Bowl trips for Detroit, which started hosting the holiday games in 1934.
I have argued that the Cowboys’ real benefit comes from having never been forced to travel for a Thursday night game after playing on a Sunday. They came close this year with a Thursday-after-Saturday game in Tennessee. But there’s no question the league has gifted the 49ers in this case by giving them more than two full days between games than the Cowboys will enjoy. San Francisco was done with Seattle late Saturday afternoon, more than 48 hours before the Cowboys even kicked off in Florida.
A year ago when the league tossed a Monday night game into the wild card mix, the two Saturday games were both AFC contests. That assured that the Monday night winner (Rams over Arizona) would only be shortchanged one day in preparation, not the two-plus that the Cowboys have been handed.
The Cowboys will most likely choose to say little about it publicly this week while keeping the focus on beating a much more formidable opponent than Tampa Bay. But I’m betting the league makes sure next season that no team is given the opportunity to host the first playoff game Saturday afternoon and then host the Monday night winner.
It’s mindless scheduling, but we move on.
The Cowboys‘ next order of business is to do to Purdy what they did to Brady, which, of course, sounds ridiculous. How could defending a rookie taken with the 262nd pick compare to playing the most decorated quarterback in NFL history?
The answer, of course, is that the 49ers do everything better — and mostly a lot better — than Tampa Bay. Purdy’s 6-0 record since replacing an injured Jimmy Garoppolo (who had replaced an injured Trey Lance) has much to with Christian McCaffrey fitting snugly into a 49ers’ running game that is head coach Kyle Shanahan’s pride and joy. The 49ers have a talented offensive line, game-breaking receivers willing to both carry the ball and block and the best defense in the NFL, not to mention the recent memory of eliminating Dallas in the postseason at AT&T Stadium last year.
I won’t say that none of that matters because, of course, it does. But on Monday night, the Cowboys held a 24-0 lead before the Bucs got on the board. It should have been 28-0 but we know Dallas is also wrestling with a kicker with the yips, which could mean nothing in the next game or it could mean the end of the season if those kicks matter. Regardless, we saw the return of the team that beat Minnesota into oblivion, 40-3, back in November.
Now that particular Cowboys team can line up and play with anyone. But Dak Prescott, coming off his own magical night after that weird 0-for-3 start, needs a little support. The Cowboys’ running game has to continue to find its way back. It was getting there Monday, although if coaches are going to insist on giving Ezekiel Elliott equal opportunities to Tony Pollard, it’s not going to reach its peak. Pollard ran for 5.1 yards per carry against the Bucs while Zeke tacked on 2.1. It’s nothing but bizarre if Dallas offensive coordinator Kellen Moore maintains this pattern of alternating on an even basis going forward. The 49ers defense will eat it up.
But having erased a couple of long-standing streaks that troubled the franchise, we know the one that really matters is on deck — no NFC Championship Game appearances since the 1995 season. To earn a ticket to Philadelphia (or a home game against the Giants ... wouldn’t that be something?), the Cowboys face the franchise they have beaten in the playoffs more times (five) than any other club. Four of those playoff wins got Dallas to Super Bowls.
The Cowboys aren’t asking for that this time. Just a more competitive performance than they delivered last year. This is a better San Francisco team. After Monday night, we know that Dallas can emphatically say the same.
On top of that, San Francisco has a two-day head start in preparing for Sunday’s game.
San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy (13) holds a cell phone as he walks on the field after an NFL wild card playoff football game against the Seattle Seahawks in Santa Clara, Calif., Saturday, Jan. 14, 2023. The 49ers won 41-23.(Josie Lepe / ASSOCIATED PRESS)
By Tim Cowlishaw
1:46 PM on Jan 17, 2023 CST
https://www.dallasnews.com/organization/f8b877f7-ef7c-4a41-b284-99f4d54d8abd/Dallas-Cowboys/
Even if it seemed like a slightly miraculous performance Monday night, the Cowboys beating Tom Brady for the first time ever was actually an NFL team beating Tom Brady for the 10th time this season.
Dallas’ reward for that long-sought playoff road win is to try to become the first NFL team to beat Brock Purdy.
A seventh-round pick from Iowa State whose tale just may be starting out much like Brady’s did a generation ago, Purdy has led the 49ers to six straight wins, his team scoring at least 35 points in all but one. With Dallas traveling to San Francisco on a short week, somewhere Lamar Hunt is laughing.
The longtime Kansas City Chiefs owner (and Cowboys rival from his days operating the Dallas Texans) sought owner support year after year for his contention that the Cowboys’ Thanksgiving tradition provided them a competitive advantage. Fellow owners never really backed him, possibly noting the lack of Lombardi Trophies or even Super Bowl trips for Detroit, which started hosting the holiday games in 1934.
I have argued that the Cowboys’ real benefit comes from having never been forced to travel for a Thursday night game after playing on a Sunday. They came close this year with a Thursday-after-Saturday game in Tennessee. But there’s no question the league has gifted the 49ers in this case by giving them more than two full days between games than the Cowboys will enjoy. San Francisco was done with Seattle late Saturday afternoon, more than 48 hours before the Cowboys even kicked off in Florida.
A year ago when the league tossed a Monday night game into the wild card mix, the two Saturday games were both AFC contests. That assured that the Monday night winner (Rams over Arizona) would only be shortchanged one day in preparation, not the two-plus that the Cowboys have been handed.
The Cowboys will most likely choose to say little about it publicly this week while keeping the focus on beating a much more formidable opponent than Tampa Bay. But I’m betting the league makes sure next season that no team is given the opportunity to host the first playoff game Saturday afternoon and then host the Monday night winner.
It’s mindless scheduling, but we move on.
The Cowboys‘ next order of business is to do to Purdy what they did to Brady, which, of course, sounds ridiculous. How could defending a rookie taken with the 262nd pick compare to playing the most decorated quarterback in NFL history?
The answer, of course, is that the 49ers do everything better — and mostly a lot better — than Tampa Bay. Purdy’s 6-0 record since replacing an injured Jimmy Garoppolo (who had replaced an injured Trey Lance) has much to with Christian McCaffrey fitting snugly into a 49ers’ running game that is head coach Kyle Shanahan’s pride and joy. The 49ers have a talented offensive line, game-breaking receivers willing to both carry the ball and block and the best defense in the NFL, not to mention the recent memory of eliminating Dallas in the postseason at AT&T Stadium last year.
I won’t say that none of that matters because, of course, it does. But on Monday night, the Cowboys held a 24-0 lead before the Bucs got on the board. It should have been 28-0 but we know Dallas is also wrestling with a kicker with the yips, which could mean nothing in the next game or it could mean the end of the season if those kicks matter. Regardless, we saw the return of the team that beat Minnesota into oblivion, 40-3, back in November.
Now that particular Cowboys team can line up and play with anyone. But Dak Prescott, coming off his own magical night after that weird 0-for-3 start, needs a little support. The Cowboys’ running game has to continue to find its way back. It was getting there Monday, although if coaches are going to insist on giving Ezekiel Elliott equal opportunities to Tony Pollard, it’s not going to reach its peak. Pollard ran for 5.1 yards per carry against the Bucs while Zeke tacked on 2.1. It’s nothing but bizarre if Dallas offensive coordinator Kellen Moore maintains this pattern of alternating on an even basis going forward. The 49ers defense will eat it up.
But having erased a couple of long-standing streaks that troubled the franchise, we know the one that really matters is on deck — no NFC Championship Game appearances since the 1995 season. To earn a ticket to Philadelphia (or a home game against the Giants ... wouldn’t that be something?), the Cowboys face the franchise they have beaten in the playoffs more times (five) than any other club. Four of those playoff wins got Dallas to Super Bowls.
The Cowboys aren’t asking for that this time. Just a more competitive performance than they delivered last year. This is a better San Francisco team. After Monday night, we know that Dallas can emphatically say the same.
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JJT is quite possibly the worst writer in Cowboys journalism.Why Dak Prescott – not the Cowboys defense – is key to slowing down Brock Purdy, 49ers
Prescott balled out against Tom Brady and the Bucs. Can he do it again?
Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott (4) celebrates his econd quarter touchdown run against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers during a Wild Card Playoff game at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida, January 16, 2023.(Tom Fox / Staff Photographer)
By Jean-Jacques Taylor
10:26 AM on Jan 18, 2023 CST
Dallas Cowboys
The most disrespected good quarterback in the NFL totaled five touchdowns Monday night.
Dak Prescott turned in a performance worthy of showing the naughtiest of his fingers to his collection of critics. He threw four touchdown passes and ran for another as the Dallas Cowboys won their first road playoff game in 30 seasons.
Hallelujah.
Now, we can talk about something else. Just like we don’t have to talk about the Cowboys not having consecutive 10-win seasons since 1995-96 or making the playoffs in back-to-back seasons since 2006-07.
Against Tampa, he was a star in every sense.
Now, Dak must do it again to extend the season and vault the Cowboys into the NFC Championship for the first time since the 1995 season.
If we’re honest, Dak was better than Tom Brady just about all season.
Obviously, we’re not talking about the opener when Tampa blew out the Cowboys, 19-3, and the season seemed doomed after Prescott’s injury. But Brady was just a guy for much of the season, while Dak directed one of the league’s best offenses when he returned from his broken thumb.
On Monday, he made the GOAT look like he was ready for the retirement home.
Dak passed for 305 yards with touchdown passes of 22, 18, 11 and two yards. He also ran seven times and scored a touchdown that gave Dallas a 12-0 lead.
We saw his mindset in the second quarter when he scrambled for 11 yards and dove for a first down. We saw him try to deliver a block on a run on the goal line. We saw a player who was committed to winning and willing to sacrifice his body to do it.
We know Dak is better than Brock Purdy, who has played well for San Francisco to close out the regular season.
After taking over in Week 12, Purdy averaged 218 yards per game passing, throwing 13 touchdowns with three interceptions and a passer rating of 112.0 in six games (five starts).
Purdy, like Prescott, shined in the wild-card round, throwing for 332 yards with three touchdowns and no picks in his win over Seattle. He also rushed for a touchdown.
Still, he’s a rookie, literally the last player taken in the draft, and at some point we should expect him to play like a rookie.
So far, he hasn’t.
Part of the reason is he has the best combo of running back (Christian McCaffrey), receiver (Deebo Samuel) and tight end (George Kittles) in the playoffs. San Francisco also has a terrific defense. So, he ain’t playing from behind all that often.
That’s where Dak comes in. While he’s not technically playing Purdy, if Dak plays at an elite level against San Francisco’s defense, he can put pressure on Purdy to match him point for point. He can make Purdy experience some uncomfortable emotions that he hasn’t had to deal with at the NFL level.
We saw the best Dak has to offer against Tampa once the game slowed down for him.
He was decisive in the pocket, he ran with purpose and his ball-handling on play-action was sublime. He played with confidence and looked nothing like the dude who stunk up FedEx Field the week before.
In a word, he was everything Tom Brady was supposed to be but wasn’t Monday night.
Prescott was 6-0 this season when he had a better passer rating than the opposing quarterback.
So, you see, that’s why it’s about Dak outplaying Purdy. It’s about him protecting the ball against San Francisco because turnovers will get Dallas beat this week.
The Dak we saw against Tampa is capable of beating San Francisco.
Think about some of the terrific throws he made like the touchdown pass to Michael Gallup along the back of the end zone. Think about how he can make plays with his legs like he did on a couple of scrambles. Think about how he can extend plays like he did on Dalton Schultz’s second touchdown or the way he manipulated the safety with his eyes on Schultz’s first.
The regular season is good, but it’s the playoffs where Dak can elevate himself with the NFL’s most iconic.
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It all comes down to Shanahan's kid and how he attacks. There are a lot of occasions where he has schemed the WRs open for very easy throws for Purdy to execute. McCaffrey is an issue, but so is Deebo. Then you worry about Kittle, Aiyuk and even Mitchell, just a bunch of tough outs.
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Yeah, you have to get the 49ers out of dink and dunk mode. They make things extremely easy on Purdy with their schemes. That's easy to do when you're leading in a game. But you start jumping that shit, get Purdy to make a mistake or two and suddenly the 49ers are in catchup mode and out of their plan. I think things would fall apart for them.
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That's an interesting stat.
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Also, never stop scoring, just like against Tampa.
Chiefs proved the 49ers are out of their comfort zone in a game like that.
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Because the 49ers can't strike fast.
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Maybe, but if we win the NFCC would surpass it.
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No kidding. Could you imagine the ratings of a Cowboys/Eagles/Giants NFCC game? You're talking classic rivals and Cowboys team that always pulls huge ratings.
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Bills/Cowboys, could you imagine all the flashbacks to the early 90's Superbowl wins.
Anyway, first up, a pretty fucking historical matchup with the 49ers. I just hope we play near perfect again.