Dallas vs Denver

Cowboys forced to eat humble pie

Record 6-2

By Mark Halpern

Well, Dallas Cowboy fans were riding a massive high after last week’s win over the Vikings. That win drilled it into everyone from fans to sportswriters that this Dallas team is legit. The fans got the great news that star Quarterback Dak Prescott would be returning from injury and ready to play the Broncos.  The atmosphere was unreal, with fans enjoying the high the Cowboys were on, and the feel for the players had to be euphoric. Dallas lost the coin toss and had an impressive return from Pollard to start the game, and then it began.

    Dallas took their first two offensive drives and drove down into field goal range, and instead of putting the points on the board, Mike Mcarthy decided to go for it on 2 consecutive 4th downs, and both of them resulted in the loss of downs. If you are willing to pay for a kicker as good as Zuerlein to kick field goals, use him. I understand that he has had a rough start to the year, but points on the board are points. You could see that Dak was still not 100%; Zeke took a shot to his right leg and had been considered questionable to return did come back in the middle of the 4th quarter to help finish the day. Still, with the cowboys down 30 points, I felt he should have been let rest his injury and live to fight another day. The receivers did their best to get open and, at times, made it possible for Dak to make good throws, but they weren’t there for them. Dak threw for less than 50% completion percentage. His throws were all over the place; whether he was high, low, or just way off didn’t help that there were numerous drops on this game. The high-powered offense we had come to know looked like a team that should have been 1-6.

   Now the offense couldn’t take all the blame. The Dallas defense gave up 190 yards rushing to Melvin Gordon and Jevonte Williams. The Dallas defense had been doing pretty well against the run. However, once a solid rushing game is established, it’s hard to cover the receivers correctly, and that’s what just happened. With the success of the running game, the Denver passing game started to emerge and take advantage. This defense reminds me of the defense from last year.

    If there was a Brightside to this game, Micha Parsons continued his reason why he will win defensive rookie of the year. Parsons tallied 10 tot tackles with 2.5 sacks and three tackles for loss. On the offensive side, Malik Turner caught 2 touchdowns from Prescot with about 6 minutes to go.

    Look, Cowboys fans, if you think we weren’t going to lose again this season, your eyes are too big for your stomach. I would rather have a loss like this happen now than much later in the season. The Cowboys will face a stingy Atlanta team next weekend and should rebound nicely.