The why this offense continues to hum
East Rutherford, NJ -Do not let the obvious end result obscure the means on a glorious Sunday afternoon hot and without wind here in the northeast.
Believe me, and you will do it if you had watched with 81,738 people at the Metlife Stadium, the majority that would occur to the jets without victory was about to offer Aaron Glenn his first NFL head coach victory while thousands of others hoped against the hope that the cowboys would not be their victims.
But study why, oh, why Cowboys 37, New York Jets 22 – The result really not as close as the difference of 15 points suggests – could send tremors through at least the NFC East.
For example, why these Cowboys 2-2-1, a defeat behind the Eagles of Philadelphia Now 4-1, in the loss column, and just this timid equality of second place of the commanders of Washington 3-2?
Why this offense, having already collected 40 points in two of its three previous games, a total of 416 yards in total and hung five affected on a defense of the jets previously abandoned only three affected per game?
Why could Dak Prescott have the Cowboys quarter-arre, been able to accumulate four touched passes and increase his QB Stellar coast to 101.1 in five games?
Why could the Ballon bearer Javonte Williams run for 135 of the 180 yards in total of the cowboys, while making his fifth hit on the season and adding another reception of this day?
Good God, why did the second year receiver Ryan Flournoy, did his first start to the season and the second in his career since the beginners Ceedee Lamb and Kavontae Turpin had left with injuries, capable of shocking the jets with four catches for 114 yards, including the establishment of a touch with a reception of 46 yards?
And why could George Pickens humble Gardner sauce with a reception of a touch of 43 yards while the corner of the jets played on the blanket of the jets? Not to mention the tight winger of Jake Ferguson, the two TD receptions now giving him three in the last two games.
Well, I’m going to go ahead and tell you the essential components behind the Sunday’s success of this team, the cowboys head coach, Brian Schottenhe, calling that completely “unique”, saying that he does not remember having something like that has happened:
- Nate Thomas, left tackle, starting her first NFL match.
- Hakeem Adeniji, left guard, starting his first match for the cowboys, with a little help from Trevor Keegan.
- Brock Hoffman, starting his third game at the center this season, just the fifth there in his three-year career.
- J. Bass, right -wing guardian, starting his second of the season, and just the sixth of his young NFL career.
Backups, be careful, as well as the only group’s remaining offensive line starter, Terence Steel, right tackle.
Come on, all these above -mentioned statistics with cowboys missing four -fifths of their starters of offensive line? Who does the devil does this? And win? Incredible.
Now also give large Boys attacked at these three tight ends, Ferguson, Luke Schoonmaker and Brevyn Spann-Ford, as well as Hunter Luepke. And there are no statistics of the day of the match officially held to qualify what the naked eye – mine – could see.
Something that I warned here Friday, more sounding the alarms in this game on the road, because Lamb and Turpin could not play either, joining the four missing offensive lines: Tyler Guyton, Pro Bowler Tyler Smith, Cooper Beebe and the choice of first round Tyler Booker.
“This testifies to these players,” said Schottenheimer. “Mentality of the following man.”
Hey Coach, “Next Men Up”, please.
With EM or Sithout ‘EM, the Cowboys ran over 100 meters in their fifth consecutive match. They had not done so since 15 consecutive in 2016, the recruit season of Ezekiel Elliott. And the fifth affected on the ground of Williams alone is one less than the cowboys totalized last year, and they have already exceeded it with seven, another 12 games to play.
Dak was dismissed but once and for zero yards, and it is questionable that it was really a bag since he deployed and decided not to throw football, and not because of the pressure of the jets. New York recorded only three strokes of QB, three plated for losses and fears the defensive platform Quinnin Williams with only three plated.
This rare performance than even I like my ribeye.
“This is the time you spend throughout the year,” said Dak about these backups, motivating these guys with his history in the way he became the quarter-arre starting from the cowboys, who had the opportunity for injuries to Tony Romo and Kellen Moore.
“Go ahead and trust, let him go. I trusted these guys.”
Dak told this post-match vignette to amplify at least one of these performances, who was told Thomas, who had not played football since 2023 in Louisianna until 17 shots the previous game, replacing a series for Steele, then taking over for Guyton, we suffered from his concussion.
“I came to me and said to me,” I can do better “,” said Dak.
I could not have done much better than teaming up with Hoffman on the 66 yarn race of Williams at Jets 1, eliminating a huge path, then Williams having a sense of out of the limits with 19 remaining seconds in half-time. If he had not done so, the cowboys, with the clock being executed and out of waiting times, might not have obtained this entire line of 66 yards below to increase the ball before the end of half-time.
And these guys had to do something special by giving enough time to Dak (4 seconds) to discharge this 43 -year -old pass pass to Pickens, which gives the five wide scores in five games, already one less than Lamb had last year and two behind the Flournoy of Jalen Tolbert, seven in 2024. Or the 46 yards in Flournoy (3 seconds) Williams ‘Willis’ Wiching’s 5-Yard Touchdown.
And if I thought these cowboys assistants with an offensive line coaching expertise had paved the way for cowboys to score 40 points to equalize packers, it was an even more impressive job – Klayton Adams, Conor Riley and Ramon Chinyoung. They had their backups ready to play as a unit, which is difficult to coordinate in a short time. Do not forget the tight curls, a good job by the coach of the tight ends Lunda Wells.
Think about the performance of this coherent cowboys offensive line, this individual all playing together for the first time.
“It is the merit of these coaches, it is the merit of the players, it is the merit of the organization and everyone,” said Prescott. “There are not many teams in the league who can put four guys who do not start in the match and do not feel confident to go and win the match, especially on the road.”
There had been thoughts that the cowboys could not continue to score more than the 30 points necessary per game to be able to win with the way the defense had played. Well, five more games, cowboys have an average of 30.2 points per game, only throwing a 14 -point clunker against the Bears.
And, of course, while the distinctions always go to the quarter-Arrière, a group of cowboys fans gathered above the Dak serenade tunnel while running below the locker room with “MVP! MVP! MVP!”
He smiled saying, “I mean, my ears work. I heard it but I did not hear it. … I am the beneficiary of all these guys in the locker room.”