Dallas Cowboys: Depth is a surprising concern

Saturday’s Preseason game against the San Francisco 49ers didn’t go very well for the Dallas Cowboys and this area in particular is a concern.

As all of us know, it’s not about the final score in preseason football. If you’re like me, you’re unbelievably annoyed when a fan of another team asks me in the preseason, “so did the Dallas Cowboys win yesterday?” – knowing full well they did not. And ultimately exposing their ignorance of preseason football at the same time.

So while the final score may not matter, “scoring” kinda does. And as the nine points indicate, Dallas failed to score single touchdown all day. Not exactly what we want to see from a team that struggled in the red zone all last season. And not something we expected from what we considered to be the deepest Dallas roster in recent memory.

Not play-calling

In the preseason, offensive coordinators call an extremely vanilla game. They don’t scheme to specific opponents like the regular season, and they’re operating from a script in order to evaluate specific players.

In a battle of the backups, we expected our squad to dominate.

As such, we shouldn’t be worried when the Dallas Cowboys call a play that runs right into the strength of the opponent. We shouldn’t worry when drives stall here of there either. It comes with the territory of the preseason.

Depth a problem

Instead of the play-calling, the blame largely falls on individual execution. Again, this is concerning because many of us in Cowboys Nation consider this to be the deepest team we’ve had in over a decade. In a battle of the backups, we expected our squad to dominate.