Mike McCarthy calls baffling gameplan in loss to Houston Texans

The Dallas Cowboys misplaced one more sport on Monday, this time shedding to the Houston Texans 34-10. The Cowboys had been underdogs heading into the sport, as they probably can be for each sport the remainder of the season besides possibly towards the New York Giants on Thanksgiving and the Carolina Panthers on December 15. When a crew is going through the landslide of accidents that Dallas is, it’s essential to have a well-coached sport to beat the shortage of expertise out there. Mike McCarthy did every little thing in his energy to make life tougher for the Cowboys on Monday.

The primary obtrusive mistake was operating a pretend punt early within the first quarter. On their very own 30-yard line, punter Bryan Anger threw a go wanting the road to realize which set the Texans up for the primary landing of the sport.

His second obtrusive mistake got here within the second half when he took factors off the board however did not re-capture these factors when the chance introduced itself. Kicker Brandon Aubrey had simply drilled a 64-yard discipline purpose, bringing the Cowboys inside seven factors. Nonetheless, McCarthy selected to just accept a penalty dedicated by the Houston Texans which took the sphere purpose off the scoreboard and gave Dallas a brand new set of downs. They had been then unable later to transform a fourth-down try, finally coming away with zero factors on the possession. Realizing how unhealthy the Cowboys offense had been as much as that time, it felt questionable to not take the sphere purpose the second time and make it a one-possession sport as a substitute of going for it on fourth down.

Essentially the most obtrusive drawback with McCarthy on Monday wasn’t a single play. Nor was it the constant penalties and poor play-calling. QB Cooper Rush completed the sport with 55 go makes an attempt. That’s merely absurd. When Rush had success as a starter the final time Prescott was damage, it was as a result of he was capable of be a dependable ‘game-manager’ on the place. He didn’t throw for a ton of yards, however he made the appropriate performs. Forcing any quarterback to throw 55 occasions in a sport is a recipe for failure, however Rush hasn’t proven that he has the arm expertise to persistently stretch the ball down the sphere. Regardless of McCarthy saying earlier within the week that RB Rico Dowdle would obtain extra carries, he completed with only a mere 10 on Monday evening.

The Cowboys run sport wasn’t very efficient in equity to McCarthy, however they didn’t scheme methods to get guys like KaVontae Turpin the ball in area on jet sweeps. They did make the most of CeeDee Lamb a bit of on this manner, however they might have been extra inventive operating the ball then calling the identical stale scheme. And that doesn’t even point out the probabilities if they might have given Trey Lance some alternatives.

The Cowboys are going through an uphill battle the remainder of the season with out their beginning quarterback. Nonetheless, their head coach continues to harm them greater than assist them, and is making his seat even hotter come this offseason.