The UGLY, the Bad and the gud

The reality of last night is that we played just poorly enough to let a mediocre team hang around and get a last second win.

If we scored a TD at any point earlier in the game, there was no way Dallas was going to comeback to tie/win. Their offense was hapless the entire game outside of 1 big pass play at the end.

We had chance after chance to do something/anything on offense and couldn't do anything, didn't adjust to anything Dallas was doing etc etc etc. Losing division games are always tough, but this was just embarrassing. The Cowboys had no business even being in the game with the way they turned the ball over.

I don't think that the ground can't cause a fumble is an actual part of the rulebook. In fact the NFL rules don't really go into much about it:

Really? How many times have you heard announcers say that over the years?
Its got to be a rule

It's NOT a rule. It's one of those short hand things. The more accurate way to say it is: "Once the ground causes you to be down, it cannot also cause a fumble."

If you hit the ground with your hand ONLY and no other part of the body (elbow, knee, butt), and the ball comes out, it's a fumble (That's what happened with DJax). Since most of the time, when you hit the ground you are down, the ball coming out is not a fumble.

Gud: There is nothing good to speak about after losing at home to a 3-8 team without their starting QB on national television.

Bad: See Gud.

UGLY: Offense, Defense, Special Teams, IT department

A look ahead: 0-5 record on the road this year, and 3 of the last 4 games are on the road.

Yay!

Good = defense all around, u can't ask for much more the last 2 weeks. This unit has stepped up. Kirk cousins in the 4th qtr.

Bad= offense all around especially o line which is unusual. Djax wtf man?? Jordan reed wtf where has he gone?

Ugly= wow special teams sucked and especially on the last kickoff smh. And how do u lose to the Cowboys at home on mnf without romo???

Good = defense all around, u can't ask for much more the last 2 weeks. This unit has stepped up. Kirk cousins in the 4th qtr.

Bad= offense all around especially o line which is unusual. Djax wtf man?? Jordan reed wtf where has he gone?

Ugly= wow special teams sucked and especially on the last kickoff smh. And how do u lose to the Cowboys at home on mnf without romo???

honestly, it's because it was home on MNF without Romo, that I was pretty confident we were going to lose (much like last year we won with Colt McCoy in Dallas on MNF against them). That's why these division games are rarely like Vegas would say.

AFAIC the Jackson fumble was 7/10s the reason we lost.
It was tied with 1:47 left when he coughed it up.
We were moving the ball a decent bit before that.
Gain 45 more yards, kick the field goal and we win.
I really dont care that he got a TD after that.
The eff up was a ginormous game changer.
Jackson gifted the Cowboys a TD in a game commanded by field goals.

The defense was decent but the pass pressure was very inconsistent, only one sack but considering our injuries and newbies it aint all bad.

Cousins - played pretty decent.
I have been on the fence as whether to anoint him as our "starting caliber" QB next year. I've almost fallen off the fence. I would expect to be off that fence by seasons end. I hope so....

The running game - What running game?
The other 3/10s why we lost.
I wish we had all our starting Oline guys back.

We got penalized 73 yards...WTF...thats enough yards for a scoring drive.
(although 2 of them were utter horseshit, especially the Grant clip)

I'm going to be pissed about this game for a long time.

And as soon as the football year begins (2016) I would trade Wrongway Jackson. Get him the feck off this team. (Hes contracted thru 2016, right?)

Bad and Ugly:

Play calling and/or coaching.

Cowboys vs. Redskins - Box Score - December 7, 2015 - ESPN (http://scores.espn.go.com/nfl/boxscore?gameId=400791686)

Averaging 2.8 yards per carry. DY had zero offensive snaps.

Cooley and Portis are saying on the radio today, put our best 11 players on the field. Screw the packages, put our best players on the field. Tom Compton and Ty Nseke aren't our best players.

If the LBs and ends are crashing, why wouldn't we call boot till they stopped crashing.

Good:

Echo some of the other posts. Chris Baker and the rest of the D. Really liked the energy they brought. Everybody was hitting and ball hawking. They truly looked like a different team out there on D last night.

Cooley and CP are dead on. That formation was pure shit and the Cowboys blew it up on both 2nd and 3rd and 1 that killed a drive. During that drive leave in your regular personnel. 2nd and 1 is the best down for a deep play action pass. Instead they put in that stupid formation. Why??? Wanted to put my fist through the tv screen. Just atrocious play calling. Perfect example of Gruden calling plays to just get first downs. It was the same shit last week.,

I have little confidence in Gruden as a game planner, play caller and someone that can make adjustments.

Gruden and McVay were calling the game as if they expected Dallas to play so bad that it wouldn't matter how little the offense produced and it almost worked because of our defense and yes, how bad Dallas was on offense.

The offense had so many opportunities to put the game out of reach early. I can't stand games like these where the opponent is playing so bad that you know it's just going to take a TD early on to end their night, but you just can't get it done. If we convert one of those turnovers into a TD, and another one into a FG, Dallas is toast.