Sound Off: Can a Madden Rating Encapsulate the Cowboys Collapse?

[ANDROMADA 1]

Ifd they do they need to make sure they lower it for each and every qb that loses in december.

Such as manning, Manning, Breesus, Brady. Yup, they all threw picks and lost in December.

Should Dallas have ran the ball more? Of course. Is that the reason why they lost nope......


No defense. Over thirty points is plenty points to win. Just limit turnovers. The Madden devs would just find a way to mess that up too by trying to implement such a system. They should fix what they have now before tinkering with something else.

[J7066]

They should leave them alone. They are mediocore on the game just like they are in real life. I play with the Cowboys a lot on Madden 25 and their Defense already sucks really bad. I win every game I play with the 49ers or the Seahawk. But, the Cowboys I'm about .500 just like their 7-7 record indicates. It is a usless point trying to play man to man d with Dallas corners! The offense is #4 in the league and the defense is last. They have been ravaged on defense by injuries. 80 percent of the defensive unit was unemployed as NFL players before the season started. They have had 20 different D-lineman since the season has started and are going into the next game with all back-up linebackers. Playing with a make shift front 7 makes your corners cover for too long leading to a defensive collapse. They lost to Green Bay because their whole starting defense except Carr and Church were on the sideline injuried. And their coach Jason Garrett stop running the ball even though they were averaging 7 yards a carry in the 2nd half. They seemed better on the game because the user is coaching not Garrett. P.S. Claiborne and Leary are not as sorry as the game has them.

[RumbleCard]

Obviously Romo could have thrown the ball away vs. forcing it into tight coverage but in my opinion isn't wasn't a choke job by Romo but a choke job by the defense.

The defensive failures constantly put Romo in a position where he's forced into a pass only offense.

It never should have come down to a Romo pass or interception.

Currently the Cowboys defense is on pace to be the 2nd worse defense of all time. That's not just the worst or 2nd worse this season but historically.

If if wasn't for the high level of play of guys like Romo this team would be well below .500.

You can't have the second worst defense of all time and expect to win. Romo doesn't shoulder that burden.

Coaching is horrible but this falls squarely on Jerry Jones. He's destroyed this franchise post Jimmy Johnson and wasted the careers of Whitten and Romo.

[Hassan Darkside]

If anything it should be a coach trait that directly impacts the team's ratings or other traits. Romo's picks were more of a product of poor coaching which ultimately put him in that position where he subsequently turned the ball over. Part should fall into some sort of coach's clutch trait and also the aggressive/conservative rating.

[PioneerRaptor]

Really great points and not to be a homer but it's the same for players coming in like Nick Foles.

No one could have predicted he would come in and throw 19 touchdowns with no interceptions. However, in Madden you can guarantee that won't happen because his ceiling is already determined until you can get more experience too raise it.

[FedExPope]

Should be a franchise-affecting signature skill like they have for players in the NBA 2K series. "Legacy of Jerry" and the icon for it is Jimmie Johnson facepalming/Barry Switzer fist pumping. I mean seriously..why in the WORLD did he make that coaching change???