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It was a bad outing all around for the Cowboys on Sunday.
With about five minutes left in the first half, the Cowboys’ defense could have gotten off the field but on third and long, the Bears ran a screen pass to set up a FG to make it 17-14.
After a punt by Dallas, the defense once again could not even hold them to three to end the half. Dallas found themselves in the hole 24-14 at the end of the half.
The Bears scored on every single possession of the half outside of maybe the first drive.
The second half wasn’t much better, and after Pickens drop a ball right off his hands when they could have cut it to 10 that resulted in a INT, you knew it was over
The moment Lamb got hurt, you had to figure out whether it was going to cause an issue.
When teams don’t have to worry about anyone other than George Pickens, you saw it coming.
This defense is worse than 2020 when Mike Nolan was running it.
Chicago put the final nail in the coffin when the Bears took nearly 10 minutes off the clock and scored another touchdown on the worst defense in football to make the score 31-14.
The Cowboys’ offense was driving in an attempt to cut it back to 10, but after a wide open drop by George Pickens that resulted in a Dak INT, the game was all about over.
The Eberflus experience is off to a poor start.
There is nothing enjoyable about calling for someone’s job. And we haven’t gone that far. Eberflus deserves a couple more games to get things turned around.
It also can’t be overstated that the defense traded away Micah Parsons before the season. You have to think Eberflus thought he’d have Parsons wreaking havoc off the edge when he took the job. The pass rush has been nonexistent without Parsons, but the defense is also without DaRon Bland and DeMarvion Overshown, and Trevon Diggs is playing banged up and struggling mightily as a result.
Eberflus was dealt an unfortunate hand, but he is trying to force square pegs into round holes. His personnel, however talent-deficient, clearly isn’t equipped to play zone coverage on every down.
Between cornerbacks playing 10 yards off on 3rd-and-short, D.J. Moore standing free in the end zone without a defender within 10 yards of him, and allowing poorly executed flea-flickers to result in huge gains, Cowboys fans are out of patience after Sunday’s debacle.
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