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The Cowboys defense is hardly even giving their offense a chance to be competitive right now.
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.
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.
QB1 still believes in the Cowboys offense, despite the pressure they’re under and now being without CeeDee Lamb.
That the Cowboys defense couldn’t get a stop in the critical moments made things tough. But with only a three-and-out from the Dallas offense breaking up the Bears’ scoring drives before intermission, their lone third-quarter possession going nowhere, and interceptions halting their final three drives, Prescott knows his unit also didn’t have any answers.
Yet he refused to let that shake his belief in his guys.
“I wouldn’t say anything in this game is demoralizing,” he told reporters. “It’s hard. It’s frustrating. But I love that. That’s what life’s about: adversity, fighting back, not being in the best position and trusting yourself and trusting others around you. And I think, just as a team, we’ve got to be better in that position. We’ve got to be better when things get hard.
“I believe in our offense and I don’t think people can stop us. I think you can even go back and look at these possessions. We stopped ourselves. … I don’t know if they’ve done a lot to stop us, honestly. And that’s what’s frustrating.”
The Cowboys were indeed supremely frustrating to watch- on both sides of the ball- on Sunday. But Prescott knows that he can only worry about affecting his side of the equation, as both the offense and defense search for answers before the...
