Brett's Cowboys Corner

Another loss for Dallas at AT&T Stadium, 34-6, this time against Philly. For the first time in NFL history the Cowboys have trailed by 20+ points in their last five home games.

The 2nd half of this game fell apart quickly for Dallas, but there was a moment where the Eagles were playing into the hand of Dallas and leaving the door open. Going into the half it was 14-6, multiple turnovers from Philly caused this.

In my keys I mentioned the turnover battle being important here, but Dallas just kept giving the ball right back. Even things as simple as not being able to handle the snap, poor mental errors that you can’t have. A disciplined team would never have.

We will start with the defense, and then offense, and also take a look at the controversy of AT&T Stadium.

Defense

The Cowboys defense saw the return of Micah Parsons, and his impact was immediate.

The Cowboys forced 5 sacks in the first half. 2 from Parsons, 2 from Overshown and a split from Lawson and Osa. They didn’t have a sack in the 2nd half.

The defense forced punts. Trevon Diggs makes a great play to intercept Hurts in the endzone. Also a fumble recovery that set the Cowboy offense up 6 yards from the endzone. But the offense failed to get a touchdown.

The only piece of negative from the defense, Caelen Carson was being attacked throughout the entire game. There was a time where he was targeted on four straight throws that led to an Eagles TD. A.J. Brown had 5 receptions and 109 yards against Carson.

Offense

There was none.

The Cowboys started with Cooper Rush and tried to integrate Trey Lance, a little too late in the day, but it didn’t seem to help anyways.

The Cowboys finished with 49 passing yards as a team. Atrocious.

They were too protective and scared of the deep ball. Rush was too quick to get to the dump off. Dallas couldn’t move the ball and found themselves in 3rd and long a whole bunch.

The running game was fine, but you need some passing offense to have the run game exist. Rico Dowdle had a nice drive where he ran the ball down the field and we got inside the 10, just to bring in Zeke, who immediately fumbles it into the endzone.

The Cowboys had 5 turnovers, and were booed off the field by fans many of times.

What’s Wrong at AT&T Stadium?

In 2009, Jerry Jones opened a 1.3 billion dollar palace where the Cowboys have played their home games for 16 years.

The building has one flaw that has been talked about before, but this may be the first time players are making comments openly about it.

The sun.

AT&T Stadium was build east to west facing, meaning the beautiful glass windows in both endzones has a beam of sunshine coming through around 4pm, when the Cowboys are generally playing.

There has been requests from media for many years to put curtains up, the same curtains that are used for concerts or any non-football event in the stadium. Jones has always been against the idea, and believes that sunshine is part of the game.

Which to his point, sure, he is right. Sunshine, rain, snow and wind are all apart of the game. But that raises the question, why did you pay 1.5 billion for a stadium?

The Vikings paid 1 billion dollars for a stadium, now they never have to worry about playing a home playoff game in a blizzard during the winter.

The point of a closed stadium is to keep those outside elements away, but instead you pay 1.3 billion to blind your players.

A play in the 2nd quarter where Dallas attempts to take the lead, a ball goes in between Jake Ferguson and Ceedee Lamb. Ferguson said he let up on the high ball because he knew Lamb was crossing and that was “his” ball.

Lamb was asked about the play and had an honest answer, “I couldn’t see the ball. Couldn’t see the ball, at all. The sun.”

A follow up was asked, if Lamb would be in favor of adding curtains.

“Yes. One thousand percent.”

Your $136 million dollar receiver has made his complaints heard, let’s see how the GM responds.

Now in fairness, I don’t know if that was the GM or the Owner talking.

Regardless, it looks like no changes will be made and the team will just have to continue to fight through it.

To end with a bit of humor.

Coach McCarthy had a press conference yesterday.

I’ll leave you with this.