If losing in blowout fashion to the Saints wasn’t enough, they had the same exact thing happen to them when they played the Ravens until the 4th quarter, and again against the Detroit Lions.
Both Dak Prescott and Mike McCarthy have taken hits to the chin, but sometimes the words that come out of big Mike’s mouth just make me scratch my head.
I read something this morning about the way that this team practices, and it matters! It looks like they don’t even do so the way they start football games.
The fact something like this is even being addressed in the first six weeks of the season is unacceptable.
Jerry Jones also had some interesting comments for the head coach of the group.
Spare Me
“We’ve got to practice harder, simple as that,” Prescott said. “You can’t turn it on, on Sundays.”
“There’s a difference between practicing hard and practicing well,” McCarthy said. “They practice hard. We’re not practicing well enough.”
I saw that some close to the team said McCarthy is going to take a new approach on how they practice! That will fix it all, won’t it?
In a staff meeting on Monday morning, McCarthy took a new approach to how the team will practice and prepare moving forward, beginning with position meetings on Monday afternoon.
The Cowboys are on the road after the bye this week to take on another team that has had their number of the last five years, the San Francisco 49ers.
They are just as injured as the Cowboys, so there is no reason this team should look as bad as they have coming out of a week off. If they do, I am sorry, how do you keep McCarthy around?
Jerry Jones Taking Shots?
After Jerry Jones lit the world on fire after his comments toward the reporters on 1053thefan last week. Now he is taking shots at big Mike.
“We’re designing bad plays, we’re designing bad concepts.”
He added: “There’s some of that, but there’s also some of execution, some of the talent, I like our talent but young talent has a few more mistakes associated with it than if you’re dealing with a veteran player.”
McCarthy is in a contract year, as we all know, and today was the first time I have never heard Jerry Jones kinda say the wrong thing about his guy that he has backed since the playoff loss to the Packers.
McCarthy and the players are both going to start feeling the pressure of Jerry. I sometimes wish he would just let players play and coaches coach. He is more interested in giving his thoughts and comments to the media than anything else and it sucks for all of us fans.
Brutal Couple Of Weeks Ahead
The Cowboys’ next two games are on the road against the 49ers and then the Falcons, both teams who have looked better than Dallas the entire year regardless of the record.
Then they then welcome the Eagles to town, followed by the Houston Texans. This could get ugly in a hurry.
If this team wants any chance to make the playoffs, they have to win three out of the next five games, and honestly, the only win I could see is at home against the Eagles.
They don’t match up with the 49ers, the Falcons will probably throw all over them, and we know what the Texans are going to do to them. They will want to prove that they are now the big dogs in Texas.
You can tell all of this is finally getting to Jerry Jones, and Mike McCarthy might be the next Wade Phillips and be fired in the season, regardless of what he has said about not changing anything.