said<\/a>. \u201cSimple as that, anytime we were in a passing situation or passing downs and they were giving us that look, we tried to throw him just a quick smoke \u2014 not early, well late honestly \u2014 and maybe we should have done it earlier. Maybe we should have just thrown him a slant. A lot of \u2018maybes.\u2019 I\u2019m frustrated. This was one of the toughest ones I\u2019ve been a part of.\u201d<\/p>\nMaybe Prescott is right about the slant routes, though it sure felt like the Vikings \u2014 just like Detroit a week ago \u2014 were sitting on it. The Cowboys failed to have a changeup going into this one.<\/p>\n
Brian Schottenheimer\u2019s offense shut down by Cover-0 looks<\/p>\n
Prescott attributed the \u201czero\u201d looks to why he struggled to get Pickens the football, but that wasn\u2019t it. Instead, he thinks that\u2019s what overall made the Cowboys struggle in a must-win matchup.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe zero [looks] that we talked about throughout the week, gave it to us a bunch,\u201d Prescott admitted. \u201cWe didn\u2019t have a good enough answer, and when you don\u2019t have a good enough answer for that, especially against Flores, you\u2019re going to see it again and again. That\u2019s what happened.\u201d<\/p>\n
Though Cowboys players didn\u2019t execute, the lack of a good answer also falls on head coach Brian Schottenheimer and his coaching staff. After the game, Schottenheimer was willing to admit it.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey did a good job with their blitz packages,\u201d Schottenheimer said<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Throughout the week, you heard it all about the Vikings\u2019 aggressive defense led by one of the most…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91015,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,932,104,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-91014","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-dallas","9":"tag-dallas-cowboys-news","10":"tag-dallas-headlines","11":"tag-dallas-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}