If you have watched the Dallas Cowboys’ first three games and come away believing Dak Prescott is the problem, it may be time for you to reevaluate this organization.
Dallas, now 1-2 on the 2025 season, has shown us who they are in record time.
The blame can be spread across many people, but this team reads like a carbon copy of the 2020 squad: no defense, and usually not enough offense, despite the best efforts of an All-Pro quarterback and his star wide receivers.
If yesterday’s game and these first three weeks in total have taught us anything, it should be to stop the blame and focus on Prescott in favor of the real problems facing this slumping franchise. Let’s get serious, folks.
The Top Problem: No Defense = Few Wins, No Matter What The Offense Does
Simply put, when your defense is bad enough, it really does not matter what the offense does; you are not going to overcome the weak unit all the way to the playoffs.
That is what the 2025 Dallas Cowboys are running into.
At the end of the day, the defense on this team is so poor that the rare 40-point game will need to become commonplace if the Cowboys want to come away with wins. Unfortunately, that’s just not realistic in the NFL.
Dallas got lit up by Caleb Williams and Ben Johnson on Sunday, and that’s an offense that had struggled mightily heading into Week 3.
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If the Chicago Bears could outright abuse the Cowboys’ defense as badly as they did, imagine what good, great, or elite offenses can and will do. I’ll give you a spoiler: it will be uglier than you can even imagine,
This is why the blame-the-quarterback game is so silly. Unless Dak Prescott and his weapons can explode for 500-yard performances, like they did against the Giants, they are cooked.
The Underlying Issue: Badly Built Homes Crumble Under Pressure
The Cowboys’ front office built a bad product defensively. Now, it’s failing, and some of us are surprised, and/or blaming the quarterback?
They traded away a top-three pass rusher in the league, and now they can’t generate pressure on quarterbacks. They have committed nearly $200M to two cornerbacks who can’t stay healthy, and now have one of the worst secondaries in football.
What we’re seeing is not a reflection of poor offense, but rather, poor team building on the defensive side, followed up by lackluster coaching.
Matt Eberfus is showing major weaknesses already, and has fans calling for his firing just three weeks in. That doesn’t happen if things are going well.
Dallas’s defense seems disjointed and lacking in talent.
But yes, let’s focus on Dak Prescott and his inability to get stops on the defensive side of the ball?
Once again, I applaud you for taking this point of view!
Dak is not the problem. The offense is not the problem. The OL is not the primary problem. And honestly, the team is talented enough, that the front office may not even be the problem (willing to give on that).
The problem: a STUBBORN DC that is forcing square pegs into round holes. There are 2 ways to play defense. 1. Strong secondary that hold up enough to allow the rush to get home. Or 2. Gifted pass rush that covers a weak secondary. They’ve clearly chosen option 1 when they traded Micah.
BUT this secondary is built for Man Coverage and this DC has called zone like 90% of the time. Its too predictable. The fortunes of this team will not change until Eberflus stops banging his head against the wall and calls 25-30% Man with some Zone blitz concepts mixed in. Vanilla is not working.
Yes, the defense is bad right now. That’s been talked about ad nauseum. But to say that this “All Pro QB” led offense can’t score more than 14 points against a bad Bears defense and doesn’t play a part in this embarrassing loss, is also kind of silly.
a Dallas Cowboys fan, since the 70’s Dak Prescott is just part of the problem the main person to blame is Jerry Jones and all the sports media groups are too scared to say anything at least I’m telling the truth as a long suffering Cowboys fan
You are not a Cowboys fan, so stop lying to yourself and everybody else!! I unfortunately read most of your comments and you tell it yourself!! Every comment you make has something to do with the media, and every time it’s something different that contradicts what you say in other comments!! The facts are that you don’t know what your talking about, you don’t know anything about football, and your definitely not a Cowboys fan!! That’s all there is to it!!
And like I ask every time you come out with one of your stupid comments…. What does the “sports media” have to do with anything!? Do you actually think what they think or say matters to anybody…. Well other than you!? It doesn’t, nobody but you cares about what the “sports media” has to say!!
And just to point out a couple of crap things you say…. First you say the sports media is all over Jerry and talking good about him and how good his team is!! And then days later it’s the opposite!! And now your saying they’re too scared to say anything!! So which is it!? And btw, that’s a rhetorical question…. You don’t have to answer it!! Just stop with the stupid comments!! And stop making your comments off of stuff other people say and learn football yourself so you can make your own comments from your point of view and not comments from other people!!