Arlington, Texas – Emotionally, Sunday evening was not a football result. Instead, he won a million dollars in the lottery and then discovered that you divide him with three million people.
Exciting. Deflation. Unsatisfactory. But in the realities of football, so revealing.
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This is what 40-40 Equalities between the Cowboys of Dallas and Green Bay Packers I felt like Monday evening. There were two changing rooms where none of the two teams was sure of what it should have felt. Two chief coaches sorted a shared guard of defensive problems in the hope of finding a silver lining. Two quarters were dueling through a masterclass of punch and offense. Two fans bases – and probably most football fans in general – who just wanted a resolution that counts only Two columns: a victory or a loss.
As defensive packers Rashan Gary said, “it’s not a victory. It is not a loss. But it doesn’t feel good.”
Or the quarter of the Cowboys Dak Prescott: “I don’t care about statistics. I don’t care about ups and downs, reflux and flows. I just care about the final result and get a victory. When you don’t understand this, it is difficult for me to make my head. We won.
Dak Prescott and Micah Parsons share a moment after the match after an equality of 40-40 Sunday evening. (Photo of Sam Hodde / Getty Images)
(Sam Hodde via Getty Images)
And yet, as unsatisfactory and empty as an impasse of the NFL can be, it is also extremely educational. It was most certainly when it was Cowboys (1-2-1) and packers (2-1-1), which both jointly set up the most exciting and impressive offense-offs that we have seen this season. Between Prescott and Jordan Love from Green Bay, there was a total of 656 yards by the pass, with six affected and not a single interception. Eighteen different players caught at least one pass in the match. The two precipitated attacks had impressive stretching.
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It was mainly naked point boxing – with two teams that were hitting themselves tirelessly in the face. Defense was more an idea than a real functional part of the repertoire.
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This is the educational part of Sunday evening. This is the lesson that tells you that in the middle of the draw, it was exhilarating and constantly how easily the offenses of cowboys and packers mounted and descended the ground when they needed it. Because as brilliant as these groups were Sunday evening, the reverse was a pair of defenses that were just as horrible.
Of course, we can discuss some of the officers. Prescott may have committed an intentional landing in the fourth quarter and left. And the packers may have lacked time at the end of the regulation, but had the chance of a apparently slow last second on the clock. The two games seemed to take a break here and there throughout the match. None of these breaks explained the gentle resistance of each franchise.
Indeed, neither has played the kind of defense which should inspire those who live inside the franchises. If we want to know who has won Micah’s trade between these two, the answer at the moment could be no one. At least, not yet.
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The two secondary people seemed unable to stop the pass in various essential moments. Wideout George Pickens smoked packers for his best match as a cowboy, up to 134 reception yards and two affected. And the Wideout Romeo Doubs packers could not inexplicably managed by Dallas in the red zone, catching three touched passes which varied on a completely wide covered scale.
The cowboys always aspire the wind on the rush towards the pass, dismissing love once and carrying its total of season to five in four games. And Prescott? It was dismissed once by the packers – by go in a moment of late extension which was essential enough to be considered as a touched game which could have transformed a defeat into equality. Not that Prescott believed it was counting.
“They did it (count it like a bag) for you all – for the theater,” said a smiling Prescott. “For the script. Like a tie.”
Maybe it was perhaps it wasn’t. But it was certainly the moment that fans of the packers had parsons – with the star Edge Rusher coming to the rescue when Green Bay had to have it. And to make it couple at a quarter pressure on the following game, which led Prescott to throw the ball in third row, preserving only a basket, was not softer for the faithful of the packers.
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But that hasn’t transformed Green Bay’s efforts into Super Bowls either. Not for a defense that has been billed by many as being made by the acquisition of parsons. There are weaknesses there. Admittedly, Dallas’s offensive was the team’s bright point this season, but it lacked Ceedee lamb and had an offensive line struck, but still managed to move the ball through very impressive and creative game games of the cowboys head coach, Brian Schottenheimer.
There was the increase in both teams. Equality of 40-40 which could provide mathematics in eliminatory series at the end of the season can also be celebrated to show that there is a generous offensive ceiling for the two franchises. Packers are balanced with a racing game and a stable of rotation receivers that should improve as the season is advancing. And Dallas finds players like Jalen Tolbert and Kavontae Turpin to intervene for Lamb – Improve their value and the depth of cowboys later in the season.
But defensive failures are also worrying for both.
You could see it in the behavior of Parsons thereafter, which has described itself as “angry”.
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“I am very disappointed in the whole of the way we played,” said Parsons. “I even said to Jordan (love) aside:” Thank you for having our back today. This is why it is so crucial that you play complementary football.
Conversely, you can read it between Schottenheimer’s lines looking for positive points in the tie.
“We have to learn to win,” he said. “This is the first year of our program. But when you have the fight that these guys make – when they are ready to fight more than 70 minutes two weeks in a row – we build something special here. No one in this locker room is happy. No one in this locker room is accomplished. We did not win.
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More specifically, obtaining victories is difficult. And lasting links are brutal. Especially when he puts a pin in the argument on which has won the parsons trade.
“They played, what, 3 1/2 hours – and tied,” said the owner of the Jerry Jones team. “They have Micah and we have what we have. And we have linked.
“We are going to try again.”
