I would go back and watch the game again.
Especially the first half.
Dallas drive stalls at midfield and they go for it on 4th and 3.
Philly has a decent drive and gets a half field TD.
Next drive Dallas stalls and punts to the Philly 24.
Philly was going to go 3&out but Dallas roughed the punter and extended the drive for Philly.
Then the next drive Dallas goes down to score and fumbles.
Then Philly had a decent drive to score aided by a long 41 yard pass that was poor defense.
Then Dallas held them in check the rets of the way. Then Dak did his thing.
You cannot run on Dallas like you could last year. That is one of the good things about trading Parsons away.
Philly is not a great passing team.
They were lucky in that spot they actually did not get beat from start to finish fairly easy. If Dallas had scored on their first drive, not roughed the punter, or fumbled -- they could have blown Philly out. Philly only had 1 good drive.
The 21-0 early was somewhat deceptive.
I will say Philly has good enough defense that they should have held a spotted 21-0 lead. But it is hard to hold Dallas below 21 for an entire game. They needed help from their defense in the 2nd half and did not get it.
As far as tonight Carolina has an okay defense. The game was a good under game.
But going for 2 early after a MADE extra point was idiotic. Now you are FORCED to go for 2 the next time to tie it.
Purdy is always slinging it.
The issue was always going to be how Young would play with a clean pocket. SF cannot rush the passer. Young had a clean pocket most of the night. But only kept dumping the ball off. He has the worst numbers in the league from a clean pocket.
Then after he finally made one good throw for the TD -- you are going to go for 2 from the 1-yd line and not run it. That is crazy to expect Young to make TWO good throws in a row.
Awful decision and that changed the entire game. The Carolina defense did enough to keep them in the game. But their offense never stepped up because of Young. He had time and had some open guys. One of the INTs was clearly not his fault because the WR was held and grabbed going into his break. On one of the others he was not on the same page with the WR it looked like.
But they were both normal games to me they way they played out. Bad plays here and there; good plays here and there. And adjustments made and adjustments not made.
