The Dallas Cowboys offense did their job to secure another victory in the Week 6 matchup with the Carolina Panthers, but unfortunately their defense was a liability that led to the 30-27 loss. With this loss the Cowboys moved to 2-3-1 on the season and still have a lot a really tough games ahead of them on the schedule. It still pretty early to suggest there season is circling the drain, but unless a defense improves things could be heading that direction.<\/p>\n
This Week 6 matchup shaped up to be a tough one from the beginning for the Cowboys. The Panthers defense is deceptively better than many people believed, and they proved to that by making things extremely difficult, especially in the running game. There was obviously more bad and ugly than we would\u2019ve liked for the Cowboys, but there was a little bit of good mixed in as well. Below we share our good, bad, and ugly from this week\u2019s matchup.<\/p>\n
THE GOOD – George Pickens<\/p>\n
Although it didn\u2019t end up making a difference, Georgia Pickens had himself a day. He was able to haul in nine catches for 168 receiving yards and a touchdown this week against the Panthers. His six receiving TD\u2019s this season is not only a career-high for him, but has him tied for the most by a Cowboys player through the first six weeks of the season since the NFL merger. Pickens has really been a difference maker with CeeDee Lamb out it\u2019s just too bad his big day didn\u2019t come with a \u201cW\u201d instead of another disappointing loss.<\/p>\n
THE BAD – Matt Eberflus\u2019 defense<\/p>\n
The Cowboys defense has been atrocious this year and there is absolutely no reason to try to suggest otherwise. They gave up 410 total yards and allowed QB Bryce Young to throw for 199 yards and three touchdowns. The worst thing was they had no answer for their former starting RB, Rico Dowdle. Dowdle completely dominated on the ground rushing for 183 yards and added another four catches for 56 receiving yards and a TD through the air. Matt Eberflus\u2019 defense was completely embarrassed and sadly there are no easy fixes.<\/p>\n
THE UGLY\u00ad – Cowboys\u2019 running game<\/p>\n
The Cowboys have been at their best when Javonte Williams can find some running room so far this season, but that wasn\u2019t the case against a Panthers in this Week 6 matchup. Carolina\u2019s interior defensive line headlined by Derrick Brown, Bobby Brown III, and A\u2019Shawn Robinson continuously seemed to get the better of Dallas\u2019 interior OL. Brock Hoffman and T.J. Bass particularly seemed to have a hard time handling them throughout the game. Hopefully things will change for the better when both Tyler Booker and Cooper Beebe are able to return to the starting lineup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dallas Cowboys offense did their job to secure another victory in the Week 6 matchup with the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":299145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,7634,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-299144","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-dallas-cowboys-roster","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-tx","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115365249318679298","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}