Yahoo Sports’ Jason Fitz, senior NFL reporter Charles Robinson, and senior NFL writer Frank Schwab discuss that even in the Cowboys win over the Giants on TNF, Dallas still has a lot of holes to fill. Hear the full conversation on “Inside Coverage” – and subscribe on , , or
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I feel worse about the Cowboys.
Now, even with a win, I feel worse about the Cowboys.
They couldn’t put away the Giants.
They really, they couldn’t cover Malik Neighbors.
That’s gonna be a problem for everybody.
Malik Neighbors is awesome.
They couldn’t run the ball.
They couldn’t, they just, they just look like a really, really mediocre team that just beat a worst team.
That’s all it was.
They got to win.
Good for them.
It’s better to do that at two and two than one and three.
But I, I came out of that game and said, yeah, you won.
But it’s, it kind of reiterated.
This is not a good Cowboys team.
It just, maybe it gets better.
It’s always September.
We’ve seen teams improve after September, but I come out of this game really, really lukewarm on the Cowboys.
I guess.
My, my, my problem is what, what I can’t make sense of, let me say it this way is that to everybody’s comments all summer about the running game they really didn’t have.
I mean, Tony Pollard a averaged 61 games, uh, uh, 61 yards a game last year.
So I kept looking at and saying all they gotta do is replace 61 yards.
Like that doesn’t seem like that is to and they can’t.
Right.
It, it is.
It’s impossible to me how bad their running game has got and then the flip side of it last night, I mean, I, I’m not gonna sit here and say that the Cowboys fixed their run defense but the Giants could, can get anything done.
And when you think about like, what a short week looks like, you know, you play on Sunday, Monday, everybody’s in the facility, Tuesday, Wednesday at best.
You have a light practice and a walkthrough and then you are in the game.
So the Cowboys did not suddenly fix their run defense by having a light practice and a walkthrough.
Let’s not get it twisted.
That means the Giants just couldn’t do anything.
And I’m looking at this Giants team just amazed by that.
Look, I don’t want to take that off the table for the Cowboys, but I will say this when I went through training camp there, right?
I sat there and I looked at it and, um, CD LAM wasn’t in practice and when you would watch the Cowboys in practice, part of the conversation, I remember having with someone in the sidelines, I was like, man, these wide receivers do not look really very good at all.
But once you take CD Lamb out of this equation, they look pretty vanilla and then I I said the offensive line doesn’t look like it’s better, it looks worse and the running backs look like they’re gonna be a problem all season long.
So literally every single thing that looked like on offense that looked like what’s going to be a problem when you stood there with your 10 toes down on the sideline on day one is still a problem now, almost through a month of the season.
And, and that’s, to me pretty indicative of there was, there were things that did not happen in the off-season that needed to.
And that is why Jerry Jones when he comes out and puts the responsibility on himself for the Cowboys being where they are.
I buy into that.
It is his responsibility.
The roster is kind of jacked up right now and you knew it pretty early on with this team that they could be in this position.