**Dallas at Washington** (-10.5, 45) 1:00 (1 Viewer)

[Joe Bryant]

This game isn't over.

 

[The Frankman]

WTF is happening?!

me right now

 

[Todem]

You know….the holder did a great job getting that crap snap down.

Kicker choked.

Messed up his footing. I used to be a kicker in DI-A for a bit, before it was FCS and all that. If you screw up the snap or hold, it throws the kicker’s timing off. Take a step and try to step back and then kick something. You can’t.

I get it……but I have seen kickers not choke on bad snaps. He really hooked that.

 

[Cowboysfan8]

 

[Dez]

He should not have scored that TD they are 99.9% likely to win anyway but if he falls down game over

 

[Major]

Wish I tuned into this instead of watching my Texans blow another one against a lowly opponent.

 

[Joe Bryant]

He should not have scored that TD they are 99.9% likely to win anyway but if he falls down game over

Correct. Going down was the right move.

 

[The Frankman]

uh oh never good when both teams motion to the sidelines...

 

[floods]

uh oh never good when both teams motion to the sidelines...

And no replay.

 

[Insein]

Geez this game

 

[ProstheticRGK]

Good to see he’s up. That looked real bad.

 

[ffmail4me]

I hate Dallas so freaking much

 

[ProstheticRGK]

Hail Mary to Scary Teryy

 

[Insein]

Finally

 

[ProstheticRGK]

Wow

 

[Pip's Invitation]

19 points in the first 3 quarters. 41 in the 4th.

 

[GroveDiesel]

He should not have scored that TD they are 99.9% likely to win anyway but if he falls down game over

Correct. Going down was the right move.

Crazy to see NFL players get this wrong. Treyvon Henderson from OSU went down early instead of scoring yesterday and he really didn’t need to as they would have been going up 3 scores with a TD.

 

[The Frankman]

Austin Ekeler injury


Yeah, his head hit the ground and he was out cold.

 

[Joe Bryant]

Solid win.

Cooper Rush throwing to Luke Schoonmaker to beat a really good Washington team was not something I expected before the season started.

 

[Hastur]

What a crazy 4th quarter.

 

[Snotbubbles]

Nice job Cowboys.

 

[Pip's Invitation]

Solid win.

Both teams were hot garbage, Dallas slightly less so.

 

[Cowboysfan8]

This has to be the record for most combined pts scored in the final 2 minutes or something like that, right?

41 in the 4th quarter lol

 

[Jbaldy]

I'm not ready to trust Washington's defense yet, so I think this game is closer than expected.

Washington's CBs are pretty bad, and I think Lamb is still pretty motivated to play, so he should have some success. While I won't echo the WR1 overall ranking, I think top-10 is very doable.

For Washington, I think Dallas actually wins the line of scrimmage a little bit with Parsons back. I think if he allowed to, this could/would/should be a week Daniels does a lot on the ground, but I'm not sure if that's what Washington wants. Trevon Diggs being out, should make for at least 1 long catch for McLaurin this week.

Washington-27
Dallas-20

Your prediction was almost completely spot on. I did not expect Dallas to come out in today's game and shut down Washington the way they did. Washinton should have had that game in the bag until Seibert missed the extra point. Washington definitely has been in a drought recently in games, but the team is young enough and has enough talent to bounce back and get their ducks in a row again.

As part of a college blogging assignment I'm required to link my blog.

 

[need2know]

Special teams won the game for dallas

 

[Deamon]

Washington is not a good team.

 

[fatness]

Washington's not nearly as good as they were at the beginning of the year. And they're not as bad as they showed today. They're about a .500 team, which is a big improvement over last year.

 

[fatness]

Robinson sidelined?

Hurt early in first quarter. Game back on later. Have not seen him in second half.

Shocking, has disappeared IN EVERY 2nd half this year. He's absolutely killing me.

That's Kingsbury's playcalling --- throw tons of 1-yard passes and forget Robinson.

 

[Rubi]

Commies
P.U.

 

[Joe Bryant]

Washington was #10 in Power Rankings coming into the game. https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-power-rankings-week-12-2024-nfl-season

Certainly not great. But I'm entirely comfortable calling them a good team.

 

[Cowboysfan8]

Washington was #10 in Power Rankings coming into the game. https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-power-rankings-week-12-2024-nfl-season

Certainly not great. But I'm entirely comfortable calling them a good team.

Daniels needs some weapons

 

[Ministry of Pain]

McLaurin scored an 86 yd TD
5/102 were his totals
So he was 4 rec for 16 yds prior to that completion?

 

[Cowboysfan8]

McLaurin scored an 86 yd TD
5/102 were his totals
So he was 4 rec for 16 yds prior to that completion?

Correct. The blown play td cost me a ff win

 

[Brunell4MVP]

WAS is not good yet. Simple as that. They are far far better. They made big strides, but the lack of WRs and CBs is a huge problem. Only so much can be fixed in a year. Daniels was the most important piece of talent. Which is why I hate him toughing it out these last 3 games. 0 wins to show for it and I remain convinced Mariota could have run the full offense. Even to an average Joe like me, it's obvious the play calling changed after the rib injury. It's a few games in a likely meaningless season of a guy I want playing QB for 10+ years for this team.

 

[Joe Bryant]

WAS is not good yet. Simple as that.

Where would you rank them on a Power Ranking?

 

[Judge Smails]

I hate Dallas so bad. Have Aubrey. Can’t block at all and easy blocked FG. Going against McLaurin. Has nothing all game and then they give up an 86 yard TD with 20 seconds left? I mean - how many people need to get fired here? Such a clown show franchise.

 

[Gatorade]

Even going 1-15. That one win was the redskins

After dumping Tom Landry, that was the only game I watched that year.

 

[fatness]

WAS is not good yet. Simple as that. They are far far better. They made big strides, but the lack of WRs and CBs is a huge problem. Only so much can be fixed in a year. Daniels was the most important piece of talent.

They're terribly weak on the O-line as well. They get no pressure on QB's without sending extra men, and don't stop the run well at all. Kinda like the baseball player who's a lousy fielder but he can't hit.

 

[fatness]

Judy Battista on the Commanders offense:

Commanders offense​

This rut has to be more than Jayden Daniels' bad rib, doesn't it? The Commanders lost their third straight game, but the underlying issue is an offense that doesn't look much like the one we saw before Week 7, when Daniels was hurt, and has dropped off dramatically during the losing streak. It didn't come alive until the fourth quarter against the Cowboys, scoring only nine points in the first three quarters despite starting three early drives in Dallas territory. Five drives ended after only three offensive plays, one of them when Daniels was intercepted. In Weeks 1 through 9, Daniels' completion percentage was 71.5. In Weeks 10 and 11 (both losses), it was 59.1, and on Sunday, it was 65.8. In Weeks 1-9, Daniels' touchdown-to-interception ratio was 9-2. Since then, it's 3-3. Worst of all, Sunday’s loss came against a struggling Cowboys defense and risks dropping the Commanders out of the NFC East race.

 

[STEADYMOBBIN 22]

I was at the game yesterday. It was one of the best games I’ve attended. I’ve been to a lot of good ones…

Rocket Ismail game. Bomb from Aikman to a WIDE open Ismail in OT. Had to be around 96 or 97. Was 1999.

“Murray Christmas!” game - DeMarco Murray scores a touchdown on fourth down with time expiring to win 24-23 two days before Christmas 2013.

Gus Fercrotch - head butting the stadium wall and ending his (their) season. (Because it was funny how he did it, not because he was hurt)

Yesterday doesn’t top those but it sure was fun.

 

[dgreen]

WAS is not good yet. Simple as that.

Where would you rank them on a Power Ranking?

Right now, firmly in the middle of the pack. They've had an easy schedule and impressed early with some blowouts. They have a couple wins that should have easily been losses (first NYG game and CHI) but I can't really think of any losses that I'd say should have easily been wins (PIT game is the best argument). So, 7-5 with a couple fortunate wins against an easy schedule screams "average" to me. I think they can probably get to 10-7 and hold onto that last WC spot. If that happens, I'm fine with the "good" label at the end of the season. But, they are trending in the wrong direction and I think there's a decent chance they are 9-8 and miss the playoffs, which would be pretty "average".

 

[Joe Bryant]

WAS is not good yet. Simple as that.

Where would you rank them on a Power Ranking?

Right now, firmly in the middle of the pack. They've had an easy schedule and impressed early with some blowouts. They have a couple wins that should have easily been losses (first NYG game and CHI) but I can't really think of any losses that I'd say should have easily been wins (PIT game is the best argument). So, 7-5 with a couple fortunate wins against an easy schedule screams "average" to me. I think they can probably get to 10-7 and hold onto that last WC spot. If that happens, I'm fine with the "good" label at the end of the season. But, they are trending in the wrong direction and I think there's a decent chance they are 9-8 and miss the playoffs, which would be pretty "average".

Thanks. So about #16?

 

[dgreen]

WAS is not good yet. Simple as that.

Where would you rank them on a Power Ranking?

Right now, firmly in the middle of the pack. They've had an easy schedule and impressed early with some blowouts. They have a couple wins that should have easily been losses (first NYG game and CHI) but I can't really think of any losses that I'd say should have easily been wins (PIT game is the best argument). So, 7-5 with a couple fortunate wins against an easy schedule screams "average" to me. I think they can probably get to 10-7 and hold onto that last WC spot. If that happens, I'm fine with the "good" label at the end of the season. But, they are trending in the wrong direction and I think there's a decent chance they are 9-8 and miss the playoffs, which would be pretty "average".

Thanks. So about #16?

Yeah, I guess. I don't know much about the rest of the league to do any kind of actual ranking. Just from watching the Commanders and assuming a typical distribution of teams (although, admittedly, it does appear this year is loaded with bad teams), middle of the pack is about all I can say. Whether that's 16 or 13 or 19 or something else in that range, I have no idea. My guess is there probably isn't usually a big difference in that middle tier of teams to worry about exact ranking.

 

[icehouse]

Hail Mary to Scary Teryy

Quite a few teams lost to the Terry/Daniels combo on that play.

 

[Brunell4MVP]

WAS is not good yet. Simple as that.

Where would you rank them on a Power Ranking?

Right now, firmly in the middle of the pack. They've had an easy schedule and impressed early with some blowouts. They have a couple wins that should have easily been losses (first NYG game and CHI) but I can't really think of any losses that I'd say should have easily been wins (PIT game is the best argument). So, 7-5 with a couple fortunate wins against an easy schedule screams "average" to me. I think they can probably get to 10-7 and hold onto that last WC spot. If that happens, I'm fine with the "good" label at the end of the season. But, they are trending in the wrong direction and I think there's a decent chance they are 9-8 and miss the playoffs, which would be pretty "average".

Thanks. So about #16?

Same Middle of the pack. 14-18. They don't have the consistency yet. They play up and down to their competition. A couple of their wins have been close against mediocre teams. But they've also played good teams well. They had a nice 2 week showing against ARI and CAR. But those teams were a bit confused when they played.