2026 Season | Week 1 | Gameday Chatter Thread | Cowboys @ Giants | 09/13/2026

Cowboysrock55 said:
The good news is I don't think Parker is an idiot. I think he will figure some shit out. And I do think he has some players to work with.
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The talent level is definitely higher this year, and I'm sure they'll get better, but the issue is that getting better from possibly the worst defense in the league currently might just mean you're the 25th best in the league.

That's nowhere near good enough to even sniff the playoffs, so they're going to need to make basically a quantum leap just to be average.
 
I dont want to be too harsh on the defense because I understand it’s week one, but in this day and age? It’s literally better to gamble and give up a big play than get smashed in the mouth with runs and throws to the flat until your offense never gets the ball. That’s just bad. (And I don’t mean last year when teams could go long on us or run us over by choice)

Oh well, stupid penalties, caused I think 3 fumbles and recovered none of them. Miss a somewhat easy int. Dropped passes.

Bad luck, bad coaching, bad playing. Hoping this is the low point of the season.
 
Stars said:
I dont want to be too harsh on the defense because I understand it’s week one, but in this day an age? It’s literally better to gamble and give up a big play than get smashed in the mouth with runs and throws to the flat until your offense never gets the ball. That’s just bad. (And I don’t mean last year when teams could go long on us or run us over by choice)

Oh well, stupid penalties, caused I think 3 fumbles and recovered none of them Miss a somewhat easy int. Dropped passes.

Bad luck, bad coaching, bad playing. Hoping this is the low point of the season.
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They deserve all the blame, when it's 2nd and 15 with 3 minutes left and you let a simple RB draw that any HS team could anticipate pop for 12, that's just being a bad defense.

Not sure who or what to blame, but there's no way around it. No measure of schematic decisions would help when the players don't know what they're doing.
 
Also Simpleton, you may be right. I’ve kinda liked Schott but he may not be it. We definitely do a lot of stupid things still.
 
This is literally a carbon copy of last year's defense at its lowest:

1st drive - TD
2nd drive - Punt
3rd drive - Fumble recovered inside the red zone, would've been at least a FG if not for an amazing but flukey play from Quinnen
4th drive - TD
5th drive - TD
6th drive - TD
7th drive - end of game after 12 plays and multiple 1st downs

Last year I remember being amazed at how the defense would consistently go entire games getting maybe 1-2 stops and giving up points on every other drive, and this shit is exactly the same.
 
they did what they wanted… plain and simple. What pisses me off the most is not getting beat by their best player in Nabers.. we got beat my Isiah Likely…really? … this was a lazy , gutless performance to start a season …

Offense ( C ) : offense had some bright spots. We didn’t run the ball very well. Dak didn’t look comfortable. A couple of drops by Pickens and 2 bonehead plays on the Dak pick and the Javonte unsportsmanlike cost us 8 points .

Defense ( F ) : no answer against the run or pass…got beat by a second string TE all night long . People wide open running free. Making the same mistakes over and over.

Special teams ( F ) : Turpin was nonexistent…and Aubrey misses a extra point ( I know it was further out than usual but he bangs that all day )

Coaching ( F ) : this team was not physically or mentally prepared for this game . Stupid mistakes, poor play calling …a completely listless effort
 
Well, the good news is we finally got our preseason work out of the way.

The bad news is it cost us a loss to get it. To a division rival we should have handled easily, no less.
 
SaveAHorseRideACowboy said:
they did what they wanted… plain and simple. What pisses me off the most is not getting beat by their best player in Nabers.. we got beat my Isiah Likely…really? … this was a lazy , gutless performance to start a season …

Offense ( C ) : offense had some bright spots. We didn’t run the ball very well. Dak didn’t look comfortable. A couple of drops by Pickens and 2 bonehead plays on the Dak pick and the Javonte unsportsmanlike cost us 8 points .

Defense ( F ) : no answer against the run or pass…got beat by a second string TE all night long . People wide open running free. Making the same mistakes over and over.

Special teams ( F ) : Turpin was nonexistent…and Aubrey misses a extra point ( I know it was further out than usual but he bangs that all day )

Coaching ( F ) : this team was not physically or mentally prepared for this game . Stupid mistakes, poor play calling …a completely listless effort
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Yep. Spot on
 
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