Dallas has pretty much no pass rush this season. It really sucks because they have a lot of talent on defense, just one guy doesn't make that big of an impact. Ware and Lee are monsters and deserve to be with 9 other guys who are competent.
I understand Carr getting beat by CJ, because everyone will get beat by CJ. Even if you are defending him well, a high thrown ball can still easily be brought down by him. Stafford is accurate enough to put the ball close enough CJ can beat the defenders on it.
And every Cowboys fan hates Jerry Jones. Ever since Jimmy Johnson left (because of Jones), he has refused to hire a real leader for that team and it has shown. They've been mediocre with only a few playoff appearances to show for it. And it isn't the Cowboys organization or the fans that thinks Romo's INTs are keeping them out of the Superbowl. That is all of the armchair football analysts that hate on the Cowboys.
Sadly, at the end of the day, they will win the division and get eliminated in the playoffs by < 3 points, as usual when they play a good team. It is like Dallas musters up enough to play almost as good as the good teams they are playing, but never quite enough to beat them. Although, they did beat SF on their 1 loss season a couple years ago.
I can't blame the defense. Look at the front 4 and who is playing now vs. who was supposed to be playing. Ratliff, Ware, Spencer are all probowlers, and the only one playing is Hatcher and he's playing well. Now we have all sorts of unknowns and while players like Selvie are playing great the line is getting exhausted by a very very shitty offense.
The defense forced 4 turnovers and the only way the offense gets any points out of it was because the defense then put them on the Detroit, what? 2 yard line? And it still took a miraculous catch by Dez Bryant to get a touchdown.
When the defense gets 4 turnovers and the offense only scores 10 points or whatever at that point, it's all on the offense. You have to control the ball, you have to drive it and you have to score touchdowns. That's how you keep the other offense from tiring out and lighting up your defense. If you go and punt punt punt and go 3 and out constantly all you're doing is wearing out your own defense.
The game was lost not because of the defense, they did their job, the offense simply gave the ball back to a Detroit offense that can light people up. Hold the ball. Take time off the clock, let your tired defense rest. Instead we get a Dallas offense that can't even take 1:30 off the clock to seal the game when the defense forces a turnover on downs.
I really think the offensive playcalling is the fault here. It's been horrid. We all blamed Garrett, but now we have an offensive coordinator and play calling is still bad. Fire the OC and get a new one. I think the Cowboys should have signed someone like McGahee to help out instead of relying on rookies and untrusted/fumbling backs. He's older and wasn't going to need to be an every down back but he's dependable. That's on Jerrah though and he needs to know his place, he's an owner, not a GM. A chain of accountability is a pretty well established and proven method for running and organization, he needs to hire a GM he can fire. A real GM might have seen the worth in getting more dependable depth at RB when your starting RB has never played a full season.