2 minutes ago, GreenbleedinNC said:

Our star WR's aren't going to be happy with the stat lines produced in this game. I don't believe Lurie would be happy writing million dollar paychecks for 8 yards of offense(AJ). Hurts won this game with Barkley, but do we really want our QB getting into injury situations? We were 2 Lamb drops away from a possible loss. We didn't win, we escaped with a win. Dotson had the only WR catch worth noting. We need to do better.

Not to concerned with this yes needs to be improved but didn’t AJ miss like all camp with an injury didn’t really practice nothing… thought Smith missed a good chunk as well…. This will work itself out.

Once we get the outside passing game going with the WRs I did like what I seen from Geodart and getting him the ball on the inside…. Just need to get both going and the passing attack should be looking decent

2 hours ago, cunninghamtheman said:

We’ve got to come up with some kind of O plan this season

I think we had plans for BVS which went out the window after the first play

2 hours ago, joemas6 said:

Like the one that scored TDs on the first 3 drives?

I would like more players involved on who scores. We can't rely on Hurts and Barkley to be our entire offense. Since no one scored after the weather delay we won because we had the lead, if Dullaz had it we would have lost. We can thank Lamb for his 2 drops

1 hour ago, cunninghamtheman said:

Jalen Hurts had to out make happen. The plan was far from the reason.

The plan...the offense takes what the defense gives. That has worked sunce the bye week last year.

If the Defense wants to emphasize their LBs and safeties to stick back in coverage and they rush with 4... then take the easy running lanes.

As your favorite player says... his job is to win and not worry how it looks.

What we didn't see last night....any forced passes... no more he scrambled and steps out of bounds for a minus 2 yards ..he threw it away. He protected his body well.

If I could nitpick , perhaps a QB designed run would have opened up other things..perhaps he should have kept it a couple times at the end on a read option instead of having Barkley run into the heavy box.

Otherwise .. the end of the half for me is my biggest issue. Score at the end, run the clock down....amd you get the ball first 2nd half. Very simple game management.

Dotson catches and gets to the 26 yard line with 1:44 left and the clock running... why did we end up with 1:15 left and the ball at the 15? Why did we score with 51 seconds left.

Seems to me... you could snap the ball from the 26 with close to 1:04 left and run the next play with under 30 seconds.

30 seconds with 3 timeouts left is eternity to score from that part of the field.

Just bad clock management. All around...play call..Hurts, Barkley and everyone else.

You really have to go to the extreme to give Dallas 51 seconds with their 2 timeouts left at that point

1 hour ago, joemas6 said:

I think we need to assess Calcatera as an NFL level player. His blocking not so hot... might be time to use the spread and run out of the 3 WR sets. He wasn’t exactly getting open either.

The film showed some nice running lanes for Hurts as defenders had their backs turned

That is true

1 hour ago, cunninghamtheman said:

Wasn’t because of a plan. It was Hurts completely just making it happen in unfavorable situations.

Very favorable to run when they rush 4 ..play man and even double cover deep...and there are huge running lanes.

That's your guy using his brain to take the easy yards.

12 minutes ago, Bleedinggreen93 said:

Not to concerned with this yes needs to be improved but didn’t AJ miss like all camp with an injury didn’t really practice nothing… thought Smith missed a good chunk as well…. This will work itself out.

Once we get the outside passing game going with the WRs I did like what I seen from Geodart and getting him the ball on the inside…. Just need to get both going and the passing attack should be looking decent

Yeah ASG thought maybe AJ wasn't 100%. But he has so much talent even 80% should give him some stat line. Nice to see the TEs in play. That was kind of missing last year so possibly a nice addition by Patullo to the arsenal. Not everything was bad LOL

1 hour ago, Asg 15 said:

I was referring to the drive toward the end of the game to run out the clock

The one where they ran the clock out?

Or the one where they passed 4 out of the last 5 plays before they punted on the first drive of the 4th quarter that took off 6 plus minutes?

Which one?

15 minutes ago, GreenbleedinNC said:

I think we had plans for BVS which went out the window after the first play

Agree…the look on Siri face…seemed to confirm it was part of the gameplan for sure with a FB. So much…we kept with it…Granson stepped in.

I didn't see the "stop 'em cold" O line I'm used to. Hurts did ok throwing on the run, but it's not something I want to see every week. If Parsons had played it could have been worse. Thanks for trading him away Jerruh

Nice now we have extra days to look at the vids. No other team gets as many review days as we do before week 2. Losing Carter won't make Fangio very happy

So who was Q covering??? My thought was he would be all over Lamb everywhere. Pickens looked very good for them

Next up the SB rematch game. Mahomes is > than Dak

25 minutes ago, joemas6 said:

As your favorite player says... his job is to win and not worry how it looks.

What we didn't see last night....any forced passes... no more he scrambled and steps out of bounds for a minus 2 yards ..he threw it away. He protected his body well.

Very true. Hurts seemed in control even when flushed. Nice to see and what we both wanted to see over the years that got us labeled as haters LOL. I haven't had to use the word BONEHEAD for quite awhile now(but I could use it on Carter LOL)

16 minutes ago, GreenbleedinNC said:

I didn't see the "stop 'em cold" O line I'm used to. Hurts did ok throwing on the run, but it's not something I want to see every week. If Parsons had played it could have been worse. Thanks for trading him away Jerruh

Dickerson was limited all night...he is a huge part of that... Calcatera just can't block either.

7 minutes ago, GreenbleedinNC said:

Very true. Hurts seemed in control even when flushed. Nice to see and what we both wanted to see over the years that got us labeled as haters LOL. I haven't had to use the word BONEHEAD for quite awhile now(but I could use it on Carter LOL)

On the bright side....Young got a bunch of snaps. .they got to play without Carter.... and now there is a reason for Carter to grind and focus... plus... maybe it saves us some $$$ in the end here. Who knows.

Moving on ... the rest of the week one games to enjoy as a 1-0 squad.

10 hours ago, joemas6 said:

Gotta run clock at the end of the half... I want to see better clock management.. Game .management. The play calls etc.. you gotta lead in the second half, you run the ball first and keep them focusing on it.

Coach talking now....made a point to say nobody scored after the weather delay. Tonight was just off..this was the type of game they would lose back in the day.

The good thing is nobody seems happy at all.

The offensive play calling in the first half for both teams ... the defensive play calling not so much. So what happened in the second half that turned that pattern into its head. I believe there were five contributing factors.

(1) the Cowboys play calling in the first half wasn't as good as the scoreboard would lead you to believe. 50 yards rushing was modest and 127 yards passing was good, but not great. The passing benefited from two Eagles factors much more than the play calling ... Lamb's 86 yards taking advantage of Adoree's soft coverage, and the 74 yards of penalties against the Eagles which gave the Cowboys four free 1st and 10s

(2) Defensive adjustments by both Defensive Coordinators at Half Time and in the Weather Delay

(3) Dickerson's replacement after his back tightened up

(4) The weather delay effectively eliminating the "second half D-Line wear down" factor that typically happens after the constant pounding of the Eagles O-Line.

(5) In many ways, the play calling for the running plays was very similar to the play calling for the running plays in the Super Bowl. In that game AJ was a factor. In this game he was not.

JMO

48 minutes ago, joemas6 said:

The one where they ran the clock out?

Or the one where they passed 4 out of the last 5 plays before they punted on the first drive of the 4th quarter that took off 6 plus minutes?

Which one?

At the end of the game where they wanted to run out the clock

And didn't because the Cowboys put 8 in the box and sold out against Barkley

So who is the old head on the D line to keep the young guys in line?

Answer is there isn't any. In the past we had Cox and Graham

Now i guess its Davis

50 minutes ago, Asg 15 said:

At the end of the game where they wanted to run out the clock

And didn't because the Cowboys put 8 in the box and sold out against Barkley

They ran the clock out at the end... 2 minutes...Dallas with 3 timeouts ..they were able to run the clock out.

50 minutes ago, Asg 15 said:

So who is the old head on the D line to keep the young guys in line?

Answer is there isn't any. In the past we had Cox and Graham

Now i guess its Davis

Somehow after last night...I don't think it's going to be a problem. Not after the abuse Carter will get in the town. Long time before next game...this is going to stew.

Agreed

That clutch 58 yarder

43 minutes ago, joemas6 said:

They ran the clock out at the end... 2 minutes...Dallas with 3 timeouts ..they were able to run the clock out.

24-20 a FG would do them no good, they were forced to go for the TD. Lambs 2 drops sealed it. He will be sitting alone on the flight back to Dullaz LOL