agreed. the prob for the cowboys/their fans is that they want to focus on that last play... To the rest of us who are casual Dak fans who watch their games, we see the absolute cluster that is that team the other 90% of the time when Dak is unable to play at an absurdly high enough level to carry them.
The truths are this.
McCarthy is a joke.
The Defense is terrible
Kellen Moore is a 'genius' only when Dak is playing out of his mind.
Zeke is a mediocre back in a league that places no value on the RB position anymore.
Jerry Jones is easily in the bottom half of worst Owner/GMs in the league,
And I have ZERO idea why anyone praises that OL as being one of the best in the league. They are not good. THey have not been good. They are only good when Dak has the ability to get the ball out fast.
I don't think anyone has been praising that OL this year.
Kellen Moore's shtick is running a play or two early for limited gain with the intent of running it again later but tweaking it to catch the D expecting the earlier play and burn them for a big play. Teams have caught on, it's not working for him anymore, since about mid-season. The rest of his game plan is about putting a defensive player in a spot of having to defend two possibilities and getting a good gain either way. That doesn't work if you can't block for shite. When your blocking sucks, football becomes about figuring out who you can overpower, not who you can out think. Double teams and don't let the LB stand you up. Jimmies and Joe's, not Xs and Os. Moore doesn't know that, and keeps running plays that are designed to trick a 2nd level player when his play maker can't get past the 1st level. It's not hard to run for 3 yards at any level of football, when that is your goal and you have a credible passing game. But Moore consistently can't, and it's because his goal is to trick that 2nd level defender and run for 10. Thus he has less focus on blocking the DL and setting the RB up to make a play on the LB, which ends up with the RB not getting past the DL. Teams moved to 7 and 8 man zone passing Ds, and still stopped the run with it, and still got great pressure on the QB. They were relying on a 4 man DL front to stop the run, and it did because Moore never countered it by playing smashmouth football until he didn't have to anymore.
When Dallas has been able to block the other team, they've put up 30+ pretty dang easily. But when they struggle to block, they barely score at all. That feast or famine result is magnified with them beyond what is typical, and that's why. If they stick with Moore they should probably let Cooper go for cap space and spend it on the OL, then after next year cut Zeke (30M is dead money if cut for 2022) for 2023 and also spend it on OL.
