Flag That Says Oh No Not Again
thank you to penalties, fumbles and the similar; including getting nailed for nine penalties; including finding about iii different spots in the fourth quarter lone that would take accounted for those last five seconds not always being there; and including two damning fourth-quarter calls, one made and one remade, which volition make the Cowboys absolutely sick when they see them on tape.
So I'm sure the defense is going to come up nether burn down for allowing an opponent to either bulldoze into scoring position in the final seconds or score the winnings points in the last seconds after shutting them downwardly for 58 minutes for the fourth time this flavour.
But come on, even with that 81-yard touchdown drive to necktie the game 10-10 with 46 seconds left, the Seahawks, the league'south No. 1 criminal offence, could gain merely 289 yards - 208 in 58 minutes. They could convert only iii of 13 tertiary-downwards opportunities, running the Cowboys total to but eight-of-51 in the past iii games. And they could run for just 72 yards later rolling for 320 just terminal calendar week.
Yeah, become alee. Scream. This is merely maddening.
"Information technology'due south tough human being . . . it's tough . . . tough, tough, tough," Keyshawn Johnson stuttered.
"We played great for I don't know how many minutes," said linebacker Scott Shanle, "simply not 60 minutes."
Now this is going to sound like a broken record, but when you let a team hang around, hang effectually, you simply never know when you will get nailed for an 18-chiliad pass interference telephone call with both the receiver and corner hand fighting down field, causing the assessed culprit, Aaron Glenn to say, "I never question the calls by refs, merely today human being, we knew we played in Seattle."
Yous simply never know when the back estimate will be talked out of an interference call in the cease zone, this crew picking up the flag thrown on a falling Marquand Manuel for grabbing Jason Witten, saying the contact was inadvertent, causing Witten to say, "They said he slipped, and my caption to them was he slipped because of the motion, and it was similar, 'Oh crap,' and he grabbed my leg. It was incidental because he fell to his knees on the route."
Meet it'southward keen to play great defence, and the Cowboys did over again, giving upwardly merely 13 points - half dozen on l-one thousand field goals later on turnovers - and giving up merely their third touchdown in the by 17 quarters and giving up no more than than 289 total yards in their third consecutive game to the league's pinnacle offenses and elevation scoring offense at the fourth dimension.
But y'all gotta score more than thirteen points to win games in this league, especially when you hog the ball for 34 minutes. You lot just gotta, and while the Cowboys were licking their wounds on this long flying home Sunday night, they know they are iv-3 instead of a believable 7-0 because three times this year they could not score more than than thirteen points - and actually could be 3-iv for beingness unable to practise so if not for winning the money flip and kicking that overtime field goal a week ago Dominicus.
Yep, four times now the Cowboys take failed to score more than 13 points in regulation, and have scored no more than one touchdown in three of the by four games.
Xiii own't enough. Never volition be.
"You gotta score touchdowns to win," said Johnson, who scored the Cowboys simply touchdown on a beautifully-executed lob into the cease zone he caught over his head while dragging his feet on the sideline. "Field goals own't going to get it done, man. The last few weeks we merely oasis't figured out how to score.
"Merely can't proceed to continue doing this."
But they take, and perchance that's the point of all this. Because after seven games, the Cowboys aren't good plenty - notwithstanding - to be any improve than 4-3 and aren't bad enough to be whatsoever worse. We accept proof - vii games of proof.
And at some point, you are what you are, no matter who you lot play, where you play or who you play without, Seahawks thirteen, Cowboys ten undeniable and maddening proof.
Been there, washed that.
MICK SHOTS
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