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    How 'Bout Them Cowboys?

    Cowboys game changers: Dropped passes, dead cats and a beast named MarshawnLynch

    Adam Sparks
    Sep 17, 2012 | 8:00 am
    • Miles Austin scored a touchdown in the second quarter to bring the Cowboyswithin 3 points. But it never got that close again as the Seahawks outscored theCowboys 14-0 in the second half.
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    • Tony Romo had another rough go against the Seattle Seahawks. He finished 23-40for 251 yards, 1 TD, and 1 INT in the team's 7-27 loss.

    Consistency. Every coach in the NFL talks about it. The Cowboys definitely have it.

    Every year, without fail, the Cowboys consistently jump around from head-turning victories to knee-slapping losses. The Cowboys are consistently inconsistent. No other team plays as well as the Cowboys do one week, only to turn around the following week and fail in nearly every aspect of the game.

    Sure, teams that are favored to win get beaten every week in the NFL, but none in such spectacularly pitiable fashion as the Cowboys. Then, once all the analysts have forgotten there is even a football team in Dallas, here come the Cowboys, out of the blue. The boom-and-bust cycle is the one thing you can count on as a Cowboys fan.

    So when it's the Cowboys' time to lose a game, all the stars align. Against Seattle, here are the game changers that turned the Giant killers into birdwatchers:

     Bryant and Witten forgot how to catch
    It's hard to win when your two best pass catchers can't catch. Jason Witten can't blame his spleen for three balls that bounced off (or through) his hands, but you sure can blame Witten for stalling the offense in the first half. His first drop of the day on third down forced the Cowboys to attempt a punt that turned into seven points for the Seahawks.

    But his second drop later in the half was the one that really deflated the tires. With an unabated blitzer hurdling toward him, Tony Romo spins away from the tackle at the last second (a move he had to use four times during the game just to stay vertical), rolls out to his right, starts directing the play on the fly with hand signals and chunks the ball 40 yards down field to Witt. The ball went right through his hands.

    For all of the Cowboys consistency errors, Witten has never been one of them, until yesterday. Three drops, three missed opportunities to get the offense moving.

     ESPN Dallas gives Jason Garrett an F for his coaching performance yesterday, but you can't do much coaching when your star players don't show up. After running an end reverse to Kevin Ogletree in the first (which used to be Miles' play), the Cowboys followed up a few plays later with a fake end reverse, sneaking out a pass to Dez Bryant. It was his first of two drops for the day. (He also bungled a punt.)

    Five dropped balls is all it takes to lose a football game. But, for good measure, the Cowboys had other ways of losing as well.

     Felix the dead cat
    In football, you have to put contracts and draft position aside and simply put your best players on the field. Felix Jones is not one of the Cowboys' best players. The Cowboys would have been better off with Felix Jones sitting on the bench.

    Imagine if the Cowboys sent out 10 players instead of 11 on the opening kickoff. The ball goes out of the end zone, and Romo gets the ball on the 20. Instead, Jones takes it out and coughs up the ball.

    From that point on, Jones obviously cared more about clearing his name rather than the good of the team. How else can you explain choosing to return a ball caught eight yards deep in the end zone? No matter where the kickoff landed, Jones was taking it out. His longest return of the day was to the 21-yard line. The risk/reward ratio of Jones getting one extra yard on a kick return vs. fumbling the ball in the red zone is not very good.

    Jones needed to fight this offseason to try and regain some sort of role on this football team. Instead, he couldn't even pass the conditioning test to start camp. That's the kind of player you don't want to send on the field.

     How to lose to an inferior team: get beat by the run
    If Seattle coach Pete Carroll had a dream Saturday night, it would have gone something like this: Cowboys screw up twice in the first five minutes; we get some free points. Romo pulls a Romo; we get a free possession. Russel Wilson plays conservatively and does not pull any Romos. Key Cowboys fail to show up; go into halftime with a lead. Put everything on Marshawn Lynch's shoulders for the next 30 minutes and pray.

    Sometimes dreams do come true. The one part of Carroll's dream that is no fluke, however, is Marshawn Lynch. Lynch had only 20 yards in the first half. In the second half, he had 100. This is why they call it "beast mode." To turn on the running game like that — especially when you are holding a lead and the defense knows the run is coming — requires a certain kind of running back. Lynch has the shoulder-down, leg-churning style that can put away games.

    Nothing stops a potential comeback like the ground and pound. Add Wilson's scrambles to the mix, and you get a team that put up 182 yards rushing to just 133 yards passing. Had Dallas been able to stop the run in the second quarter, this would have been a very different game.

     Jason Garrett needs a killer instinct
    Garrett is successful when he turns the game into a chess match. Long drives, precise crossing patterns, running to set up the play action pass — this is what Garrett does well. What he does not do well is alter his game plan when things start going south.

    Down 13-7 on your own 45 with less than a minute to go in the first half, it's acceptable not to go for it on fourth-and-3. Sure, the Cowboys needed a spark, but Garrett thought the Cowboys' follies would take care of themselves. Down 27-7 with seven minutes left, on the other hand, you don't punt the ball — even if it's fourth-and-13.

    Garrett needs to know when all the chips are on the table. When your team is underperforming across the board and you're down 20 points, you have to make a move. A fake punt or trick play is a good start, but why not just chunk the ball down the field to no. 88 and let him make a play? What Dez lacks in route running he makes up for in sheer jumping.

    When the Cowboys dig themselves into a deep hole (which they will again this season), Garrett needs to harness the non-Princeton side of himself and go for the kill.

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    Cooper Flagg is the new Maine man for the Dallas Mavericks

    Associated Press
    Jun 26, 2025 | 8:55 am
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    Cooper Flagg, newest Dallas Mavericks pick

    Cooper Flagg is the new Maine man in Dallas. The Mavericks took the Duke forward with the No. 1 pick in the NBA draft on June 25, hoping they have found their next franchise superstar less than five months after trading one away.

    Mavericks fans were furious when Dallas traded Luka Doncic to the Los Angeles Lakers on February 1, some immediately threatening to end their support of the team.

    But the ones who stuck around may quickly love Flagg, the college player of the year who averaged 19.2 points and 7.5 rebounds while leading Duke to the Final Four. The Mavericks quickly announced that Flagg would wear No. 32 in Dallas, where fellow Duke products Kyrie Irving and Dereck Lively II are on the roster.

    “I’m really excited. I think I keep saying I’m excited to be a sponge, to get down there and just learn, be surrounded by Hall of Fame-caliber guys and just to be able to learn from them,” Flagg said. “It’s going to be an incredible experience.”

    His selection — considered likely ever since Flagg showed off his considerable game last summer after being invited to the U.S. Olympic team's training camp — was a daylong celebration in his home state for the 18-year-old forward from Newport, Maine.

    “It means a lot to me to have the support of the whole state. I know how many people showed up today and supported me at some of the draft parties back home,” Flagg said. “It feels amazing knowing I can inspire younger kids. I was in their shoes really not that long ago, so just to know I can give those kids those feelings and have the whole state behind me, it means a lot.”

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    The backstory
    Dallas Mavericks CEO Rick Welts wasn't thinking even for a second about Cooper Flagg when he started a staff meeting before the draft lottery by saying the club was entering the most important offseason in franchise history.

    The longtime NBA executive and relatively new leader on the business side of the Mavs was thinking about the lingering fallout of the widely reviled Luka Doncic trade, not the club turning a 1.8% chance into winning the rights to draft the teenaged star from Duke.

    “Never, ever did anybody in our organization ever even say what would happen if we win. That's a waste of time,” Welts told The Associated Press recently. “Like, it's unbelievable. It was hard to even get your head around.”

    The self-inflicted wounds were numerous after general manager Nico Harrison's stunning decision to send Doncic to the Los Angeles Lakers for Anthony Davis in early February.

    Fans were incensed. Season-ticket holders were canceling. Potential new sponsors were telling Welts they'd have to think about it.
    Just like that, the Mavs had a vision to sell of a potential superstar who could someday be the face of the franchise — as Doncic was, and fellow European superstar Dirk Nowitzki before him. Just like that, despair turned to hope for plenty of people, including those under Welts who had spent weeks dealing with the wrath of a spurned fan base.

    Before the Doncic trade, Welts had already made a decision to raise season-ticket prices. He told the AP he had to back off on the size of the increase as he watched the visceral reaction unfold.

    Welts has seen plenty in nearly 50 years with the NBA, including time in the league office and stints with Phoenix and Golden State. That's not to say the Doncic fallout didn't have a profound impact on the 72-year-old Welts, who had come out of retirement to replace Cynt Marshall just a month and a half earlier. It just means he has weathered a few storms.

    And now the Naismith Basketball Hall of Famer isn't so sure he's ever seen the sun come back out so quickly.

    “The thing that I learned through all of this experience was what I knew was like this amazing emotional tie between this team and these fans was even stronger than I think anybody who hadn’t lived here and been a part of it could ever imagine,” Welts said. “Just the outpouring of pure joy and the idea of a generational player that could change our fortunes for the next 15 years would land with us by pure luck.”

    Part of what made the Doncic deal so hard to believe was unloading a 25-year-old superstar in his prime nine months after leading Dallas to the NBA Finals for the first time in 13 years. The Mavs lost to Boston in five games last June.

    Harrison's reasoning was prioritizing defense, and his belief that Davis and Irving were a good enough tandem to keep Dallas as a championship contender. Flagg's potential gave that notion a boost.

    “I feel like I’m a broken record, but the team that we intended to put on the floor, which you guys saw for 2 1/2 quarters, that’s a championship-caliber team,” Harrison said. “And so you might not like it, but that’s the fact, it is.”

    Welts, who believes the Mavs have work to do to bring their basketball and business sides together, will spend plenty of time during the early days of the Flagg era sharing his vision for a new arena.

    It's a big reason Welts took the job, after spending seven years with Golden State on an arena plan that moved the Warriors across the bay to San Francisco from Oakland. He says all the talks are focused on keeping the team in Dallas.

    While the casino-centered Adelson and Dumont families of Las Vegas, in the middle of their second full year as owners of the Mavs, wanted gambling to be part of the formula for a new arena, the political realities in Texas have shifted the focus away from that idea for now.

    There's a new focus for Welts in what seems certain will be the final stop in an eventful NBA career: building everything around another potentially generational star after the Mavs jettisoned the one they had.

    “Don't make this sound like I'm suggesting that everyone is forgiven,” Welts said. “Luka will always be a big part of what this organization is. But for a large number of fans, it is a pathway — it's not a pathway, it's like a four-lane highway into being able to care about the Mavericks the way they cared about the Mavericks before.”

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