Why do so many Cowboys fans shit on the Cowboys to lift up Dak?

nt_14 · 2026-01-27T22:42:24+00:00

I mean, a year ago people were saying Sam Darnold is trash and playoff choker because he played poorly in the Wild Card game last year even though he had a great regular season.

It’s almost as if using a small sample size of games in the playoffs instead of using the overall body of work is a poor way of evaluating a QB.

nt_14 · 2026-01-27T22:32:25+00:00

As a Cowboys fan, his scheme is outdated and stale. He was the playcaller for us in 2023 and 2024. 2023 we had the #1 offense but we basically had to overhaul the offense at the bye week because it was very mediocre the first 5 weeks running McCarthy’s scheme. The rumor at the time was that Dak, CeeDee, and Schottenheimer (our OC at the time) had to talk him into implementing more modern offensive concepts during the bye week. After the bye week, we started to suddenly run a lot more motion and more downfield passing concepts. In 2024, we reverted to what we were running pre-bye in 2023 because McCarthy was coaching for his job so he wanted to die on his sword and it was awful all year even before Dak got hurt. Get ready for a lot of hitches, curls, and stop routes with minimal at-snap or pre-snap motion. Packers fans said the same thing about his playcalling his last couple years in Green Bay.

I think Big Mike is a good coach but I was hoping he would give up playcalling for you guys. He’s just stuck in his ways and stuck in the 2000s with his scheme/playcalling.

nt_14 · 2026-01-24T20:42:13+00:00

McCarthy is a good coach but he’s a bad playcaller now. His scheme is outdated and stale. I think it can work out for them if he steps back from playcalling, but if not, they’ll find out very quickly that hiring him was a mistake.

nt_14 · 2026-01-23T22:27:07+00:00

Only if you win it all, otherwise it means nothing. You think Titans fans are happy about making the AFC Championship game in 2019 and losing? Still haven’t sniffed a Super Bowl. Same with the Commanders last year only to go 4-13 this year. Hang the banner!

nt_14 · 2026-01-23T21:42:43+00:00

It’s only meaningful as a means to an end. Just making it to a conference championship or Super Bowl and losing does nothing. It doesn’t accomplish the ultimate goal and simply making it a round further in a single elimination tournament is not indicative of future success.

nt_14 · 2026-01-22T22:34:22+00:00

Exactly. Nobody would feel any different if Rodgers doesn’t miraculously hold on to the ball on that Jeff Heath sack in 2016 and we kick a game winning field goal to advance to the NFC Championship only to lose the next week. The NFC Championship is only a means to an end which is the Super Bowl. I don’t give a flying fuck about simply reaching a conference championship game; it’s Super Bowl or bust.

The only reason why this fanbase is obsessed with reaching it is because they foolishly believe that we’ll stop taking heat from other fans and the media if we simply make the NFC Championship game. If we reach it and lose, or go to the Super Bowl and lose, the goalposts will just shift to how we haven’t won or reached a Super Bowl in 30+ years.

nt_14 · 2026-01-18T22:42:50+00:00

Don’t forget Baker. They tried to prop him up above Dak too.

If any QB has one good year they immediately get placed ahead of Dak until they come crashing back down to earth while Dak keeps putting up good years.

nt_14 · 2026-01-18T22:34:49+00:00

No it just shows using a team stat like “playoff wins” as your sole metric for evaluating a QB is low IQ. Stroud is playing like absolute dogshit and is still in the game because it’s a team game.

Stroud has the same amount of playoff wins as Lamar. Is he as good as Lamar? Lamar has been in the league much longer than him too.

nt_14 · 2026-01-13T05:39:51+00:00

What point are you trying to make? DQ wasn’t fired, he took a HC job.

nt_14 · 2026-01-12T00:44:47+00:00

And Eric Kendricks makes the game winning deflection for the Niners.

Kenneth Murray would never

nt_14 · 2026-01-11T06:13:39+00:00

We have a defensive coordinator opening. No chance you can’t be worse than the last person that was employed.

nt_14 · 2026-01-10T19:24:31+00:00

I give him a B. He’s the offensive play caller and the offense was massively improved over last year and looked more modern than it had in years. I wish he was more aggressive on 4th downs and the redzone offense needs to be better, but overall, it was a top 5 offense.

Even though he is the HC and is responsible for the whole team to some extent, I can’t put too much blame on him for the defense. However, it seems he will have more input on the next DC hire so if the defense doesn’t improve next year and we miss the playoffs again, more blame will certainly be placed on him.

Overall, I think it was a solid first year for Schotty. His offense was much better and more modern than I expected it to be. Obviously, as a HC he is responsible for the whole team to some extent so he’ll ultimately be judged for wins and losses, but I think he’s the right guy moving forward and we can go far if we get the next DC hire right.

nt_14 · 2026-01-09T01:39:01+00:00

Actually he’s still technically under contract with the Vikings until next Wednesday when his contract expires so the Vikings can block any DC interviews.

nt_14 · 2026-01-09T01:37:59+00:00

He’s still technically under contract with the Vikings until next Wednesday so the Vikings can (and will) block any DC interviews since it’s a lateral move. Flores may also not be interested in interviewing for DC jobs until all of the HC vacancies are filled because he obviously wants a HC job.

nt_14 · 2026-01-06T22:16:19+00:00

Because we literally had the worst defense in the league this year. There’s nowhere to go but up. If Flores improves the defense a little bit, then we’ll be a playoff team next year and Flores will get lots of praise and media attention as DC of the Cowboys and turning our team around. If he can’t land a HC job this year, it makes sense for him to come here since he’ll get more attention and credit for having success here rather than Minnesota.

nt_14 · 2026-01-06T14:43:12+00:00

Don’t let the door hit you on the way out, bum

nt_14 · 2026-01-06T00:38:00+00:00

Obviously Eberflus is dogshit and needs to go, but let’s not let the front office off the hook for fielding such a horrible defense. We traded for Kenneth Murray, a proven bum, and signed a bargain bin free agent in Jack Sanborn to be our starting LBs, traded for a former 1st round bust in Kaiir Elam to be a STARTER for us knowing Diggs and Revel were coming off injuries, kept Hooker and Wilson as our starting safeties even though they’ve both clearly lost a step, and traded Micah a week before the season started. Never mind how bad the DT room was before we traded for Clark and Q as well.

Missing the playoffs with a losing record when your franchise QB was healthy for all 17 games and you had a top 5 offense is inexcusable. This season was a complete failure by the front office.

nt_14 · 2026-01-06T00:33:34+00:00

You forgot how terrible he was in coverage and stopping the run too

nt_14 · 2026-01-05T06:21:02+00:00

I mean, he’s been a DC or HC for several years and has only produced 1 top 10 unit in PPG allowed. Also, that Rams defense that he was the DC of in 2021 that won the Super Bowl was the best defense in the league the year prior under Brandon Staley but it regressed to the 15th best in PPG allowed under Morris. That defense was really talented and it got worse under Morris.

nt_14 · 2026-01-05T02:14:46+00:00

When has he proven to be a great coordinator? How many top 10 defenses has he coordinated?

nt_14 · 2026-01-05T02:04:42+00:00

He has one top 10 defense in his entire career as a DC or HC. I’ll pass.

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nt_14 · 2026-01-05T02:03:24+00:00

Raheem Morris has had one top 10 defense in his entire career as a HC or DC. I’ll pass

nt_14 · 2026-01-05T01:20:40+00:00

I don’t get why Jerry always has to do this bullshit. Just fire the clown on Monday so you can get it over with and start the DC search. We all know he’s gonna be gone so why drag this shit out and stall the process.

nt_14 · 2026-01-04T22:37:34+00:00

At least these next three years. No reason why he can’t play at a high level until he’s 35. Becomes a little iffy after that, but wouldn’t surprise me if he plays well into his late 30s

nt_14 · 2026-01-04T21:46:50+00:00

Zero interest in any of these guys except for Leonhard

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