I'm just numb to it at this point. I still watch every game but I don't get my hopes up anymore in the playoffs. Used to have this attitude of anything can happen.
Now it's just, how are they gonna mess it up? Just numb to it all honestly. Will always love them but it is what it is. The franchise just chokes when it really comes down to it
Until Jerry Jones is gone this is my exact mentality. I had been burned too many times and still had faith but after last year I've genuinely just expected the worse. Them beating the Bucs was a shocker to me.
But there is for Stephen, who will be our Mark Davis, just like Jerry is our Al Davis. Unwilling to change with the game and apparently ok with eating shit as long as it makes money.
Oh I did, I feel like this was worse, Schultz not understanding basic rules to the game, like needing to go out of bounds forwards to stop the clock, Schultz being lazy and not getting both feet down when he caught the ball over a full yard in bounds, and one of the worst last plays I've seen since the spike lol
Schultz is the prime example I tell everyone what is and has been wrong with the Cowboys for so long. Look at any other NFL team, even the worst ones, they still put more effort into getting every yard they can on every play. When you watch Schultz make a play, as soon as he catches and gets touched by the opponent, he collapses. This boils down to the coaching and up. Lack of discipline from the top trickles down to the players.
That drive with 2 1/2 minutes left.
Dak should have thrown a pick 6
Dak misses a wide open gallup who beat his man deep.
Dak has a ton of time and takes a sack.
Team takes forever to get on the field to punt.
Cowboys football.
That throw to Gallup was where I started losing hope. They got all the momentum with a lucky big play, and we had Gallup over the top on what should have been a game defining TD bomb. And instead it's way off and we just end up punting the ball away after a back breaking sack.
That kittle circus catch was really the turning point
Before that the 49ers couldn't move the ball well, then suddenly after the catch the defense couldn't get a stop, offense struggled, but the defense on that catch changed
Absolutely. Had he kept his head up and on the player, initiates contact of any kind while the juggle was on going, that would not be a catch.
Instead he’s played soft and been a bad tackler past few weeks. He also tried to cheat catch an easy int on that 49ers td drive. He had a BAD day.
That’s how Diggs braces for contact — we’ve been watching him try to tackle ball carriers with the back of his helmet all season.
He’s great in coverage, but is absolutely making business decisions as a tackler this season. He used to be far more aggressive as a tackler.
that catch , diggs can't get a decent hit on kittle then during the drive he drops the int ....game went down hill from that point , Dak needed to play better as well
Turning point was definitely that interception late in the second quarter in 49er territory. Had the opportunity to go up, plus we would’ve gotten the ball to start the third. Could’ve gone up by 2 scores
Worse than that, he misses or throws behind receivers all game long.
F'n Brock Purdy, #262, knows how to get the ball out in front of his guys and let them run into it and keep going.
Dak, throws behind them and then wonders what happened when they can't make the catch and when they do, someone is on them immediately.
Or underthrows receivers on deep passes. That amazing Lamb catch was ALL Lamb because Dak underthrew it. You can argue that he was trying to draw the PI but that still shows that Lamb deserves more credit because he made the extra effort to catch a pass he didn't have to catch.
I'm not trying to say Purdy is the best QB ever but.......he is a far smarter QB than Dak, has better mechanics and actually gets the ball where it needs to be for his receivers to make the catch. That big pass to Jennings before halftime was proof of that.
And it sucks to say that about Dak but it was really noticeable in this game. Dak played like a rookie while Purdy played like a vet.
This actually is what upsets me. I see Mahomes picks and I’m like yeah he thought his guy could get that or thought he could make a throw he couldn’t. Dak is chucking it into double coverage and somehow not seeing dudes. Like basic don’t do this shit, so frustrating and that used to be his one strength was not throwing picks.
Micah, Tank, Armstrong, the D line played phenomenal. Really proud of those dudes.
But what has been up with Diggs lately? He's playing so soft. Really avoiding contact. There was that one play where he could have blown Kittle up over the middle and instead he pees down his leg and whiffs the hit?
Haven't bought any merchandise since about 2011 for this very reason, rotating players, incompetence from the ownership down to the coaches, very indifferent to it. I thought the NFC was so shitty this year that maybe we can sneak in like the eagles in 2017 but nope.
First of all, I want to say I’ll always root for the Cowboys and I love (almost) all of the players as people. I don’t wish bad on any of them and I wish them nothing but luck and success in life.
Now that I said that, I’ve finally accepted that this core of players on offense simply aren’t going to get us to the promised land. I hope I’m wrong, and thanks to their contracts I’m sure they’ll get plenty of chances to prove me wrong, but I don’t believe anymore. Dak had a horrible first half and then straight up froze at the end of the game, Zeke was completely ineffective, Schultz fucked up twice in incredibly stupid ways. It’s just the same old story with these guys.
So no, I’m not a hater. Yes, I hope I’m wrong, because I’ll always love these dudes and the Cowboys as a team. But fuck me, my faith is gone.
I’m 25 years old and only know the Cowboys post glory-era. I’ve never seen them win a divisional round game, and can’t imagine what’s it’s like to be in the nfc championship. I think the struggle of the Gen-Z Cowboys fans needs to be acknowledged because we’re running on straight hopes and dreams. I just want to see something before I die. Even a super bowl appearance
The defense played good enough to win. The offense on the other hand was disastrous. Looks like I will be rooting for a team in the AFC. Would much rather have Mahomes or Joe Burrow win.
trying to understand how in a game that was never a blowout …how they didnt lean on elliott like the bengals were somehow able to do…with mixon…in the snow
When Dak is on, he is an amazing QB. When Dak is off, he buries the team. I do not believe that Dak can be on for 4 straight games in January.
We are in for many more brutally disappointing playoff exits.
Mr. Irrelevant in his rookie season now has more playoff wins in a single season and more conference championship appearances than any Dallas QB in my entire lifetime.
Dak threw two dumb picks. Missed a wide open TD to Hilton, then failed to connect with a wide open Gallup. Dak squandered all the good our team achieved tonight with terrible decision making. We lost because of him.
So many missed opportunities
1. Only a fg after fumble.
2. Pick inside 30 yard line.
3. Turpin not going outside
4. Diggs dropping easy INT.
5. Blocked PAT.
6. Penalty to extend drive and led to TD.
PS. I hate Kittle now. He’s a fool.
Edit: 7. Diggs whiffing on purpose instead of blowing up Kittle on game changing circus catch.
On the subject of Kittle: Let's be honest, 49ers are the NFC darling this year and as such is giving it's players the full PR job to make them more likeable/marketable.
That being said, a Dallas player acting like Kittle did today would be lambasted in the media as not focusing on the game or not being serious during a playoff match.
Kittle will be called hilarious and quirky.
Yet people on this sub will excuse or defend his mistakes and downvote criticism to shit. Dak isn’t the worst QB but he’s inconsistent and that’s hard to put trust in on big plays. Dak at his best is great, at his worst he’s his own team’s worst enemy.
Two picks. Probably should have been four. Just horrendous. Dude has gotten so many more shots than Romo with much better squads. This loss is squarely on Dak.
There was absolutely no defense for the 2nd interception. Hopefully it's so obvious that the FO office takes note, the dude panics under pressure, he's a huge fucking liability on offense
Yep. He gets paid to be “the guy” but he ain’t. Mahomes finds ways to win games with one leg, Dak sets up a hospital ball for his fellow overpaid running back to end the game 80 yards from anything.
Hire a GM, it’s been over a quarter century and nothing has changed while other teams have gotten to the SB, tore down, and rebuilt multiple times in that same period. The Jones are the problem
Cowboys have done well adding talented players for a while. The problem is the HC & the QB. You can’t pay a QB 40 mil per year and get a C- from him in the playoffs.
Well this year fun despite the loss. Remember to stay off social media yall. Have a nice rest of the day, I’m gonna go watch the new Last of Us Episode
He looks so lost and scared. That whole narrative his fans say of him pushing through adversity is bullshit. The defense saves his ass until he can be saved by his receivers. Under pressure he plays some of the worst QB in the league.
Anyone defending him is fooling themselves.
He’s nowhere near clutch enough to recover from throwing 2 interceptions like that in a playoff game. You could put a hall of fame all star team around him and he’d still lose. His decision making fucking sucks
You know, every year I see the pessimism on this subreddit and I don't like to partake, because I'd rather enjoy the regular season for what it is. But come playoff time I always understand why. Our 7th year, 42 million dollar QB got outplayed by a rookie, and we spent another year since 1995 not at an NFC Championship. While other teams can have the chance at improvement season by season. And every year it's supposed to be different but it never is. I'm never gonna stop watching but this loss just sucks.
At this point virtually every team in the NFC has risen, fallen, and risen again, or passed us by in the playoffs, or ended our season, while we toil year after year only to end the season at the same spot, in the same comically inept way, without fail. Losing is in this team's DNA. They're a bunch of losers man, that's all they are and that's all they're going to be for the foreseeable future.
The sad reality is that the eagles are going to win multiple more super bowls before we ever get to a NFC championship game. The eagles are an example of a well run organization. They won a Super Bowl, scrapped their team and 5 years later are hosting a NFCCG. The cowboys are an embarrassment and it sucks watching the most hated team in all sports outperform and outclass your team in every way.
I've always said this but what holds Dak back from consistently playing at a high level is his lower half mechanics. I notice how it starts off well to start the season but progressively gets worse as the season goes on. I know Dak started working with guys on his mechanics but it's not second nature to him. If it doesn't become second nature he will always be inconsistent. So many throws left on the field because of poor throws due to his mechanics.
Getting outplayed by a rookie QB is a bad look. As soon as Pollard went down it was up to Dak to win it and he just isn’t that dude. D Law played his ass off. Micah is another great talent that will get wasted on this team. Ceedee is so underrated.
Defense and special teams showed up. Lamb showed up. Maher hit his kicks. Coaching and play calling was solid.
The Pollard injury sucked, but we moved the ball too well to only walk away with 12 points.
I know it’s cliché to blame the QB, but it’s objectively hard not to look at those 2 INTs as the main factor in the loss. The first handed SF 3, and the second was a 6-10 point swing. Oh well. I still think we can win with Dak, but like we say every year, “maybe next year”.
E: Allow me to clarify. Dak has never been the type of QB to put this team over the top. He relies on strong support and efficient play. This was true in 2016 and it’s true today. He’s a good QB with weekly top 5 upside and a top 20 floor, which makes him too inconsistent to be truly great.
With the right supporting cast (AKA a complete team), we can win with him under center so long as he doesn’t throw games away (kinda like he did tonight). Having witnessed the Romo years, I’ll rarely say Dak doesn’t have enough help because the Cowboys since 2016 have been more complete than in most years between 1996-2015.
So this one is on him. But if he can efficiently drive the bus, we can win. It just never all comes together - again, inconsistency.
I've defended Dak a lot. But tonight really soured my opinion on him. He has not shown that he can beat great teams when it matters. It's been 7 seasons and he has put up nothing but Wild Card wins. That's not good enough. Both SF and Philly went to the Super Bowl, became shit, and then now are back to greatness.
Dak just ain't it.
Literally can’t because of the contract. You let him go and you won’t be able to afford a QB and will also have to let guys like pollard, Shultz and Terrence steele go all are UFA.
Schultz is average and can easily be replaced by our other TEs or in the draft. Did you see him balling out tonight? Nope. When the games on the line he's dropping passes, not Kittle though. Kittle really showed us what a good TE looks like.
Why on earth would we even consider moving on from Dak only to hamstring our new QB with mega contracts for mediocre talent? Zeke needs to go and we should end the Gallup experiment right now. Dude's done.
This loss is on Dak. Dan Quinn and the Defense played great ball, special teams showed up. Scheme looked okay, but Dak fell short. This was completely on Dak Prescott
This is worse than last years playoff loss. Hopefully some team “steals” Kellen Moore from us this offseason, but man, it’s gonna be a longgg offseason. Terrible loss.
This is not on Kellen moore, this is squarely on Dak, you can have the best coach in the world doesn't matter if you can't execute, Brock Purdy just made Dak look like a clown
We will not win with Dak. That's just how it is. It's the same result every time he has to get it done, except he looked even worse this year. Those INTs were unforgivable, and he could have easily thrown 3 more.
Defense played GREAT. Lamb played GREAT. Offensive line, pretty much GREAT. Moores play calling, really freaking good.
There’s one piece to this puzzle that we are missing and it’s a franchise qb. Imagine what Romo would’ve done with this squad.
But it’s ok. Dak will have some good regular season games next year and all the apologists will climb out of their off-season hole and start spouting the same exact crap they’ve been spouting this year. They will call us non-fans and idiots for knowing Dak will never be the guy.
Imagine going to the NFC Championship with a 3rd string QB.
Dak is not the answer, and I can't wait to move off from the Dak/Zeke Era. It's such crap to watch.
Fire McCarthy. Bring in Sean. And make a change at QB.
This Dak/Elliott shit is a losing formula, and 2 coaching staff have proven it.
I much rather watch Sean Peyton/Tom Brady (or another competent QB) with this defense than Mike McCarthy/Dak Prescot. At least I know we would have a competent coach and and QB to at least bus drive some shit.
I’m pleasantly surprised seeing that most of the fanbase has come around to realize that Dak isn’t the guy after tonight.
Even a week ago, saying that would have gotten you crucified in here.
The discussion has to be had. It’s time to move on from Dak. Sadly, it’s going to be at least two more years of misery before we realistically can.
I hate how the Joneses made Dak a hill to die on. Jerry Jones would literally go back in time and remove Tom Landry's Super Bowls if meant that Dak could win one. Dak is gonna retire a Cowboy because anything else will be admitting they were wrong about the 2016 Hot Hand decision.
How come pro Dak threads were allowed after we crush the bucs who didn’t belong in The playoffs, but anti Dak threads are deleted on sight after he played like dog crap?
Well there’s always the next 30 years.
Why does it hurt even when you expect it?
I'm just numb to it at this point. I still watch every game but I don't get my hopes up anymore in the playoffs. Used to have this attitude of anything can happen. Now it's just, how are they gonna mess it up? Just numb to it all honestly. Will always love them but it is what it is. The franchise just chokes when it really comes down to it
Until Jerry Jones is gone this is my exact mentality. I had been burned too many times and still had faith but after last year I've genuinely just expected the worse. Them beating the Bucs was a shocker to me.
Exactly. I expect this, but it just hurts seeing it over and over.
I was thinking about this today. It has been so long that I probably won’t get my hopes up until they are up by 50 in the Super Bowl.
Sign of being a loyal fan. Despite the pain always gunna root for dem boys
Proly not for Jerry Jones....
But there is for Stephen, who will be our Mark Davis, just like Jerry is our Al Davis. Unwilling to change with the game and apparently ok with eating shit as long as it makes money.
What the fuck was that
Cowboys playoff game
Yep, quintessential post 90's cowboys playoff game.
CLASSIC COWBOYS FOOTBALL BABY! Fucking kill me...
Cowboys football brother. You new here?
Legendarily bad last play
Zeke got pancaked lol
Zeke's a bad offensive lineman, who could have predicted that?
15 mil per year goal line back lmao
Just like last year lol. Comically bad play to end the game
That has to be the worst game ending drive I've ever seen in my life lol
Clearly you haven't watched last year's playoff game
Oh I did, I feel like this was worse, Schultz not understanding basic rules to the game, like needing to go out of bounds forwards to stop the clock, Schultz being lazy and not getting both feet down when he caught the ball over a full yard in bounds, and one of the worst last plays I've seen since the spike lol
Not that a comeback was likely. But Schultz single handedly slammed that door shut. That was fucking embarrassing
I know Kittle was being a bit of a tool, but that guy's intensity is 100x higher than Schultz's.
Schultz is the prime example I tell everyone what is and has been wrong with the Cowboys for so long. Look at any other NFL team, even the worst ones, they still put more effort into getting every yard they can on every play. When you watch Schultz make a play, as soon as he catches and gets touched by the opponent, he collapses. This boils down to the coaching and up. Lack of discipline from the top trickles down to the players.
Seriously, what the fuck was Schultz doing? I couldn’t believe it. You’d think after one sloppy play you’d be like “ok, I need to be more diligent”
Sell everyone to Newcastle, Chelsea, and Real Madrid
Hello darkness, my old friend
My recurring friend*
That drive with 2 1/2 minutes left. Dak should have thrown a pick 6 Dak misses a wide open gallup who beat his man deep. Dak has a ton of time and takes a sack. Team takes forever to get on the field to punt. Cowboys football.
That missed throw hurt so much
That throw to Gallup was where I started losing hope. They got all the momentum with a lucky big play, and we had Gallup over the top on what should have been a game defining TD bomb. And instead it's way off and we just end up punting the ball away after a back breaking sack.
Dak should have been sacked for a safety that first play too
Perfect summarization of the last 27 years of Cowboys football… can never break through in the big moments, instead they just embarrass themselves.
But hey, we are up to 6 playoff wins in 27 years!
4th and 5. Gotta go for it. That was the turning point.
That kittle circus catch was really the turning point Before that the 49ers couldn't move the ball well, then suddenly after the catch the defense couldn't get a stop, offense struggled, but the defense on that catch changed
The one where Diggs lowered his head, took his eye off the player and missed. Yeah that one.
Yeah gotta punch that out if you’re Diggs.
Absolutely. Had he kept his head up and on the player, initiates contact of any kind while the juggle was on going, that would not be a catch. Instead he’s played soft and been a bad tackler past few weeks. He also tried to cheat catch an easy int on that 49ers td drive. He had a BAD day.
That’s how Diggs braces for contact — we’ve been watching him try to tackle ball carriers with the back of his helmet all season. He’s great in coverage, but is absolutely making business decisions as a tackler this season. He used to be far more aggressive as a tackler.
that catch , diggs can't get a decent hit on kittle then during the drive he drops the int ....game went down hill from that point , Dak needed to play better as well
Diggs dropping that pick as well. Gotta make that play.
Turning point was definitely that interception late in the second quarter in 49er territory. Had the opportunity to go up, plus we would’ve gotten the ball to start the third. Could’ve gone up by 2 scores
And that was the worst miracle play I've ever seen. Wtf embarrassing
It at least gave me chuckle. The last two drives were a joke.
I'm rooting for the AFC to win this. Fuck both the Niners and Eagles.
This is the way.
Joe Burrow is the guy
Those 2 INTs were the main difference maker.
Should have been more as well
Worse than that, he misses or throws behind receivers all game long. F'n Brock Purdy, #262, knows how to get the ball out in front of his guys and let them run into it and keep going. Dak, throws behind them and then wonders what happened when they can't make the catch and when they do, someone is on them immediately.
Or underthrows receivers on deep passes. That amazing Lamb catch was ALL Lamb because Dak underthrew it. You can argue that he was trying to draw the PI but that still shows that Lamb deserves more credit because he made the extra effort to catch a pass he didn't have to catch.
Yeah, he's terrible throwing deep. It's either underthrown or 10 yards over their head.
I'm not trying to say Purdy is the best QB ever but.......he is a far smarter QB than Dak, has better mechanics and actually gets the ball where it needs to be for his receivers to make the catch. That big pass to Jennings before halftime was proof of that. And it sucks to say that about Dak but it was really noticeable in this game. Dak played like a rookie while Purdy played like a vet.
Purdy knows how to play in the system, dak doesn't Let's not forget the teams cooper rush beat playing in the system
You bring up a good point.......that Bengals win looks REALLY good on his resume all these weeks later.
Dude is legit blind. All of his picks are sooo bad. Like not even 50/50 balls they are straight up hand offs to the defense
He tried to throw a pick 6 with about 4 minutes left, that was graciously dropped. It was truly awful.
This actually is what upsets me. I see Mahomes picks and I’m like yeah he thought his guy could get that or thought he could make a throw he couldn’t. Dak is chucking it into double coverage and somehow not seeing dudes. Like basic don’t do this shit, so frustrating and that used to be his one strength was not throwing picks.
Yep, at least 4. I don't remember his decision making being as bad as it was over the 2nd half of the season
Yep. Should’ve been a pick 6 on that 2nd to last deive
We were insanely lucky it wasnt 4 INTs.
And a safety. I don’t know what the hell he was doing on the first play of that last drive.
I’m a dak sympathizer and have to agree with this. Defense kept it a close game but there’s only so much they can do.
Micah, Tank, Armstrong, the D line played phenomenal. Really proud of those dudes. But what has been up with Diggs lately? He's playing so soft. Really avoiding contact. There was that one play where he could have blown Kittle up over the middle and instead he pees down his leg and whiffs the hit?
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exactly. and then he drops the pic in the redzone. You can't avoid tackles AND drop pics. COME ON BRO
Bro!!! If he would have connected it would have been incomplete
Easily! Even if he just like gets his arms in there, its incomplete.
This one hurt
I’m tired man…
Literally the message I sent to my group chat of buddies. I'm tired
Honestly I'm pretty numb to it at this point. When it happens this often, you get used to it somewhat. Still sucks but I don't get as invested anymore
Haven't bought any merchandise since about 2011 for this very reason, rotating players, incompetence from the ownership down to the coaches, very indifferent to it. I thought the NFC was so shitty this year that maybe we can sneak in like the eagles in 2017 but nope.
Last year hurt, this year was annoying
First of all, I want to say I’ll always root for the Cowboys and I love (almost) all of the players as people. I don’t wish bad on any of them and I wish them nothing but luck and success in life. Now that I said that, I’ve finally accepted that this core of players on offense simply aren’t going to get us to the promised land. I hope I’m wrong, and thanks to their contracts I’m sure they’ll get plenty of chances to prove me wrong, but I don’t believe anymore. Dak had a horrible first half and then straight up froze at the end of the game, Zeke was completely ineffective, Schultz fucked up twice in incredibly stupid ways. It’s just the same old story with these guys. So no, I’m not a hater. Yes, I hope I’m wrong, because I’ll always love these dudes and the Cowboys as a team. But fuck me, my faith is gone.
Couldn’t have said it better myself man… boys for life, but fuck me
I’m 25 years old and only know the Cowboys post glory-era. I’ve never seen them win a divisional round game, and can’t imagine what’s it’s like to be in the nfc championship. I think the struggle of the Gen-Z Cowboys fans needs to be acknowledged because we’re running on straight hopes and dreams. I just want to see something before I die. Even a super bowl appearance
The defense played good enough to win. The offense on the other hand was disastrous. Looks like I will be rooting for a team in the AFC. Would much rather have Mahomes or Joe Burrow win.
Old reliable. Another year of the Cowboys blowjobbing the season away
Tony Romo died for this.
It’s crazy that one good 13 game run earned Dak and Zeke millions
Remember how everyone was saying Jerry NEEDS TO PAY THEM! He was right not to give in so easily.
Elliott died just so that super elaborate flag football play could be… a slant lmaooo
trying to understand how in a game that was never a blowout …how they didnt lean on elliott like the bengals were somehow able to do…with mixon…in the snow
Brett Maher had as many points as Dak.
Zekes last snap as a Cowboy was him getting pancaked as a center
He was trying out for offensive line since all he can do is block and run 2 yards like a lineman.
When Dak is on, he is an amazing QB. When Dak is off, he buries the team. I do not believe that Dak can be on for 4 straight games in January. We are in for many more brutally disappointing playoff exits.
Who would’ve thought running it back with the same exact team would end the same exact way. Groundbreaking discovery.
Worse, considering we lost amari
Exactly this. The team was arguably worse on paper thanks to that dumbfuck move.
That last attempt was weak
We got beat by rookie mr irrelevant.
Mr. Irrelevant in his rookie season now has more playoff wins in a single season and more conference championship appearances than any Dallas QB in my entire lifetime.
Not really. Got beat by their defense.
Dak threw two dumb picks. Missed a wide open TD to Hilton, then failed to connect with a wide open Gallup. Dak squandered all the good our team achieved tonight with terrible decision making. We lost because of him.
I'M ONE STEP CLOSER TO THE EDGE
Pretty sure we’re all past “about to break”.
So many missed opportunities 1. Only a fg after fumble. 2. Pick inside 30 yard line. 3. Turpin not going outside 4. Diggs dropping easy INT. 5. Blocked PAT. 6. Penalty to extend drive and led to TD. PS. I hate Kittle now. He’s a fool. Edit: 7. Diggs whiffing on purpose instead of blowing up Kittle on game changing circus catch.
On the subject of Kittle: Let's be honest, 49ers are the NFC darling this year and as such is giving it's players the full PR job to make them more likeable/marketable. That being said, a Dallas player acting like Kittle did today would be lambasted in the media as not focusing on the game or not being serious during a playoff match. Kittle will be called hilarious and quirky.
I’m so done with Dak
Yet people on this sub will excuse or defend his mistakes and downvote criticism to shit. Dak isn’t the worst QB but he’s inconsistent and that’s hard to put trust in on big plays. Dak at his best is great, at his worst he’s his own team’s worst enemy.
Two picks. Probably should have been four. Just horrendous. Dude has gotten so many more shots than Romo with much better squads. This loss is squarely on Dak.
Yup. Been a Dak backer but this one is solely on him.
Same here, I like Dak. But this shit is indefensible.
I've tried to support him but this is on him, his two interceptions were on him, horrible
The man missed 4 games on the season and still led the league in interceptions. Hard to support that.
There was absolutely no defense for the 2nd interception. Hopefully it's so obvious that the FO office takes note, the dude panics under pressure, he's a huge fucking liability on offense
After last game I really thought he could take us all the way, what a terrible choke job
All these people replying saying Tampa sucks were the same people praising Dak all week saying this is our year. At least you’re honest
He always plays well against bad teams
Washington notwithstanding.
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Yep. He gets paid to be “the guy” but he ain’t. Mahomes finds ways to win games with one leg, Dak sets up a hospital ball for his fellow overpaid running back to end the game 80 yards from anything.
Go Bengals
25 and never seen the NFCCG. It’s so tiring. I can’t imagine what it’s like for the fans who remember the last one.
Hire a GM, it’s been over a quarter century and nothing has changed while other teams have gotten to the SB, tore down, and rebuilt multiple times in that same period. The Jones are the problem
Cowboys have done well adding talented players for a while. The problem is the HC & the QB. You can’t pay a QB 40 mil per year and get a C- from him in the playoffs.
50 mil next year btw
That C- is generous.
Biggest mistake cowboys made was giving zeke and dak those monster contracts
Being a cowboys fan is fuckin exhausting
Well this year fun despite the loss. Remember to stay off social media yall. Have a nice rest of the day, I’m gonna go watch the new Last of Us Episode
Same, at least we aren’t living through a zombie apocalypse!
In all honesty, I just can't stand to look at McCarthy's and Dak's faces anymore. Two fucking goofheads.
He looks so lost and scared. That whole narrative his fans say of him pushing through adversity is bullshit. The defense saves his ass until he can be saved by his receivers. Under pressure he plays some of the worst QB in the league.
Franchise truly feels like it’s in No Man’s Land. Too good to rebuild but nowhere good enough to win it.
I really wanna see the Dak gaggers defend him. He is the absolute reason we lost this game.
Anyone defending him is fooling themselves. He’s nowhere near clutch enough to recover from throwing 2 interceptions like that in a playoff game. You could put a hall of fame all star team around him and he’d still lose. His decision making fucking sucks
You know, every year I see the pessimism on this subreddit and I don't like to partake, because I'd rather enjoy the regular season for what it is. But come playoff time I always understand why. Our 7th year, 42 million dollar QB got outplayed by a rookie, and we spent another year since 1995 not at an NFC Championship. While other teams can have the chance at improvement season by season. And every year it's supposed to be different but it never is. I'm never gonna stop watching but this loss just sucks.
At this point virtually every team in the NFC has risen, fallen, and risen again, or passed us by in the playoffs, or ended our season, while we toil year after year only to end the season at the same spot, in the same comically inept way, without fail. Losing is in this team's DNA. They're a bunch of losers man, that's all they are and that's all they're going to be for the foreseeable future.
Losing pollard changed the game. Nobody is scared of zeke any more. We were one dimensional man.
He’s a great guy, but the divisional round is as far a Dallas gets with Dak at qb.
The defense was sooooo good and then they got gassed 😫
This defense was Super Bowl bound. Dak was not.
The sad reality is that the eagles are going to win multiple more super bowls before we ever get to a NFC championship game. The eagles are an example of a well run organization. They won a Super Bowl, scrapped their team and 5 years later are hosting a NFCCG. The cowboys are an embarrassment and it sucks watching the most hated team in all sports outperform and outclass your team in every way.
I've always said this but what holds Dak back from consistently playing at a high level is his lower half mechanics. I notice how it starts off well to start the season but progressively gets worse as the season goes on. I know Dak started working with guys on his mechanics but it's not second nature to him. If it doesn't become second nature he will always be inconsistent. So many throws left on the field because of poor throws due to his mechanics.
Getting outplayed by a rookie QB is a bad look. As soon as Pollard went down it was up to Dak to win it and he just isn’t that dude. D Law played his ass off. Micah is another great talent that will get wasted on this team. Ceedee is so underrated.
Diggs should be embarrassed by the way he plays
Another year, another disappointment. So jealous for the ones that have watched the Cowboys win Super Bowls.
I feel sorry for our defense. To ball out like that and be let down by the offense is so demoralizing. Oh and Lamb played like a star
that was fucking worse than the game loser last year
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Dak is so incredibly inconsistent. It just makes my blood boil, man.
27 years and Jerry Jones is the only common denominator…. He needs to go as GM
Wtf was that play design!?!?
Dak is great if you want to stay relevant and in the media but he is not the guy to take us over the edge.
I’m never going to see them win am I?
Typical Cowboys for the past 20+ years. What is the one constant through all that time? I will always blame Jerry Jones for the Cowboys’ problems.
Defense and special teams showed up. Lamb showed up. Maher hit his kicks. Coaching and play calling was solid. The Pollard injury sucked, but we moved the ball too well to only walk away with 12 points. I know it’s cliché to blame the QB, but it’s objectively hard not to look at those 2 INTs as the main factor in the loss. The first handed SF 3, and the second was a 6-10 point swing. Oh well. I still think we can win with Dak, but like we say every year, “maybe next year”. E: Allow me to clarify. Dak has never been the type of QB to put this team over the top. He relies on strong support and efficient play. This was true in 2016 and it’s true today. He’s a good QB with weekly top 5 upside and a top 20 floor, which makes him too inconsistent to be truly great. With the right supporting cast (AKA a complete team), we can win with him under center so long as he doesn’t throw games away (kinda like he did tonight). Having witnessed the Romo years, I’ll rarely say Dak doesn’t have enough help because the Cowboys since 2016 have been more complete than in most years between 1996-2015. So this one is on him. But if he can efficiently drive the bus, we can win. It just never all comes together - again, inconsistency.
I've defended Dak a lot. But tonight really soured my opinion on him. He has not shown that he can beat great teams when it matters. It's been 7 seasons and he has put up nothing but Wild Card wins. That's not good enough. Both SF and Philly went to the Super Bowl, became shit, and then now are back to greatness. Dak just ain't it.
We aren't winning shit with Dak at QB.
The QB that didn’t turn it over won the game, pretty simple
That was worse than last years dumbass play
Horrible way to go out
He ain’t it but can’t replace him with better currently. Don’t know what to do.
100% on Dak. Can’t say it any other way.
Dak needs to go. Too much talent on the Cowboys to be wasting it with Dak
I promptly threw my jersey in the trash. Then retrieved it because I know I'll root for this dogshit team next year.
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Literally can’t because of the contract. You let him go and you won’t be able to afford a QB and will also have to let guys like pollard, Shultz and Terrence steele go all are UFA.
Schultz is average and can easily be replaced by our other TEs or in the draft. Did you see him balling out tonight? Nope. When the games on the line he's dropping passes, not Kittle though. Kittle really showed us what a good TE looks like. Why on earth would we even consider moving on from Dak only to hamstring our new QB with mega contracts for mediocre talent? Zeke needs to go and we should end the Gallup experiment right now. Dude's done.
I don’t know how much more evidence anyone needs to know Dak is not the right fit for this franchise and is not a championship level QB
This loss is on Dak. Dan Quinn and the Defense played great ball, special teams showed up. Scheme looked okay, but Dak fell short. This was completely on Dak Prescott
This is worse than last years playoff loss. Hopefully some team “steals” Kellen Moore from us this offseason, but man, it’s gonna be a longgg offseason. Terrible loss.
This is not on Kellen moore, this is squarely on Dak, you can have the best coach in the world doesn't matter if you can't execute, Brock Purdy just made Dak look like a clown
Also shoutout to all you Dak lovers for downvoting us pointing out his excessive interceptions this year. Turns out we were right.
We will not win with Dak. That's just how it is. It's the same result every time he has to get it done, except he looked even worse this year. Those INTs were unforgivable, and he could have easily thrown 3 more.
-2 INTs -Pollard going down -Diggs dropped INT -Only getting 3 off the fumble -Bad clock management Those are the reasons we lost.
At least the eagles won't have a chance to really embarrass us....
I’ve officially given up on Dak
#LMAO HAVING NO LINEMEN IS BIG BRAIN
Dak and kirk is the same qb, some good moments but when you need them most they fail you
raider nation here throw crybaby carr in that league of extraordinaly weak gentlemen
Offense let the defense down big time, what a waste. I suspect Kellen Moore and Zeke will not be a part of this team next year.
Defense played GREAT. Lamb played GREAT. Offensive line, pretty much GREAT. Moores play calling, really freaking good. There’s one piece to this puzzle that we are missing and it’s a franchise qb. Imagine what Romo would’ve done with this squad. But it’s ok. Dak will have some good regular season games next year and all the apologists will climb out of their off-season hole and start spouting the same exact crap they’ve been spouting this year. They will call us non-fans and idiots for knowing Dak will never be the guy.
What's worse? Cousins throwing a check down on 4th down or Cowboys drawing up this joke
Remember when everyone was saying Dak turned a corner last week? We'll.... It was actually a U turn.
I can’t even defend Dak. Fuck him, fuck this team
Defense played well at least. Until they got tired
What an absolute pathetic showing from Prescott.
Dak threw two picks Purdy threw none. That’s the game right there. Dak and Diggs deserve 90+% of the loss.
I'm just realizing the truth that our offensive line was so good in 2016, it gave Dak a completely undeserved 7 year starting career.
Get rid of Dak!!!
dak is so fucking mid bro
And here I am wearing a Prescott jersey like a 🤡
Imagine going to the NFC Championship with a 3rd string QB. Dak is not the answer, and I can't wait to move off from the Dak/Zeke Era. It's such crap to watch. Fire McCarthy. Bring in Sean. And make a change at QB. This Dak/Elliott shit is a losing formula, and 2 coaching staff have proven it. I much rather watch Sean Peyton/Tom Brady (or another competent QB) with this defense than Mike McCarthy/Dak Prescot. At least I know we would have a competent coach and and QB to at least bus drive some shit.
I’m pleasantly surprised seeing that most of the fanbase has come around to realize that Dak isn’t the guy after tonight. Even a week ago, saying that would have gotten you crucified in here. The discussion has to be had. It’s time to move on from Dak. Sadly, it’s going to be at least two more years of misery before we realistically can.
I hate how the Joneses made Dak a hill to die on. Jerry Jones would literally go back in time and remove Tom Landry's Super Bowls if meant that Dak could win one. Dak is gonna retire a Cowboy because anything else will be admitting they were wrong about the 2016 Hot Hand decision.
This. We won't be good until the Jones' are gone. Too many bad decisions.
2 years in a row where Dak had chance to tie or take the lead and he whiffs on both.
Dak Prescott is not it and you cannot convince me other wise. All he had to do was out duel BROCK PURDY.
How come pro Dak threads were allowed after we crush the bucs who didn’t belong in The playoffs, but anti Dak threads are deleted on sight after he played like dog crap?