Top 10 Frustrating Things From Cowboys Loss to Redskins
Cory Mageors | @intheMageors
DALLAS, Texas (105.3 THE FAN) - You're mad. You're upset. You're now indifferent.
Either way you feel something about the Cowboys 20-17 OT loss to the Redskins.
It's a loss to a team that clearly had a great game plan to beat the Cowboys. More than that, they stuck to it and believed Colt McCoy could get a win for them.
A lot of other teams have been beaten at what they do best by the Cowboys lately, and Monday night at AT&T Stadium, Washington took it to Dallas.
It was frustrating because we saw some old habits churn up throughout the game, and because the outcome wasn't one that set the Cowboys on their way to 7-1.
Here are the top ten reasons I'm frustrated, with influence from Twitter and Facebook. No particular order here:
1. The tackling was terrible. If you can't tackle, you can't stop people from converting and keeping your defense on the field.
2. Inability to convert on third down. The Cowboys were 5-12.
3. Last drive in OT. We all know pass plays were a bad idea. If Murray converts a first down on that play in the flats it's a different story, but Romo (ailing) floated one over a hands up lineman and it hung in the air too long. Murray caught it, but was immediately met by defenders who had time to get there. Was it Romo's back that made him float it? Was it just good D?
4. Overconfidence. Washington looked like they had a plan and executed Cowboys looked like they didn't know how to beat a blitz.
5. Lack of protection on blitz.
6. Fumbles. Though as you may hear, that might be might fault as I said "What Murray needs to do is fumble and everything will be right with this team." Moments later Randle fumbles, and then Murray does too.
7. Weeden doesn't hit back hip on TD route. Dez coming across the middle finds a perfect pocket in front of the cornerback no defenders between him and Weeden, Weeden fires a perfect strike to a receiver if this were practice. But he knows it, if he had placed that ball on his back left hip instead of up on the right shoulder pad, the Washington defender doesn't knock it loose and Cowboys have a TD.
8. McCoy ran for too many yards – seen this a number of times – why didn't they slow him down.
9. Why not 30 carries. You were averaging 7.45 yards per carry. I'd have run it 50 times. Weird stat Cowboys win games win Murray has 20 carries, Murray had 19, Cowboys lose.
10. That a clearly hobbled Romo went back into the game. I'm a hindsight guy here. I loved the romanticism of Romo coming back, showing he's tough, winning the game, willing the Cowboys to victory. But you could see it. The guy was hurting, he was out of rhythm and he didn't have his stuff. That he came back in and the Cowboys tried to go gunslinger instead of protecting him and running the ball frustrates the crap out of me.
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