Twitter: John Fassel defends CB Amani Oruwariye

[loublue22]

If you watch the play again, I don't think Mingo (#81) had any clue either. He saw the block and still ran over there to get close to the ball. And unlike Oruwariye, he saw the block so he should have been communicating to him to stay away. Just a complete choke by the players AND Fassel!

Bengals obviously strategically let us block the punt to get the ball back.

 

[DandyDon52]

Loser coach defends his loser player, loser owner about to chime in too. Dysfunctional loser organization does dysfunctional loser stuff. More at eleven.

there you go lol !
if only we could put that on a bill board by ATT stadium !

 

[DandyDon52]

Bengals obviously strategically let us block the punt to get the ball back.

lol and it was brilliant new strategy !!!!!!!!!!!
And it worked like a charm!
They knew some cowboy player would be dumb enough to try and grab it.

 

[Mk2_Cowboys]

The care bear attitude that “ Fossil” is displaying here is part of the reason we have a losing culture.

 

[Gonzomandela01]

I hope coaches defend players to the press but in private let them know how the cow ate the cabbage!

 

[RoboQB]

Except, he did lose the game.
Anyone who thinks otherwise is soft.
The ST coach is part of the problem if he's spewing this nonsense. Cut the player or fire the ST coach. He's a goof that belongs in the "spring league" anyway.

 

[RoboQB]

Like Belichick would say,
"If you don't do your job, if you make a mistake, you could ruin it for everyone."

 

[Beaker42]

The guy tries to make a play on the ball and fails to do so…not like he is the only player that has failed to catch a ball in a crucial situation.
Sure…Dallas lost the game, but does it really matter in the overall scheme of things?

Do you have any idea how ignorant you sound in this post?

 

[stinkface]

That bone head mistake is on the coaches.

 

[DuncanIso]

Fassel can go to the unemployment line with.him.

He’s trying to build up the players confidence.

if a player thinks the coach doesn’t have their back, it’s over.

 

[DuncanIso]

Great job standing up for your player, Coach. I respect it.

But, the kid lost the game. He has been taught since Pop Warner not to touch the ball on a blocked punt or FG when it goes past the line of scrimmage. Every coach preaches it throughout every level of football.

He blew the game due to a mental fart. It happens. Don't expect the coaches or his teammates to say it publicly. Good on them.

Gotta stand behind your players.

 

[DuncanIso]

I'm sorry but if you think burying the practice squad player who messed up somehow makes the team better than you are delusional. All it does is try to gloss over every other mistake made that game and would look impulsive and childish.

Agree.

Our QB made more mistakes.

 

[UncleOscar]

Question: When Jerry hires Kellen Moore as HC, will he force Kellen to keep Fassel as ST coach?

 

[John813]

Sorry, but I can't get on board with the coach throwing a player under the bus or blaming him for the loss publicly.

It's a 60 minute game. Rush threw a pick, missed open targets in the redzone.
The defense gave up a 40 yard TD to Chase after the recovery etc...

It's like blaming a kicker for missing a 55 yarder at the end of the game but the QB threw 3 picks and escapes the blame due to recency bias.

 

[Cowboys5217]

How did so many of you get so damn soft?

Protecting player confidence? Player feelings? Not wanting idiot players that cost you games to be thrown under the bus?

THESE ARE GROWN MEN GETTING PAID LOTS OF MONEY.

These are not pee wee football players. Sheesh, my 9th grade football coach didn't coddle us like this.

I guess I shouldn't be surprised at soft fans defending a soft team with a soft culture. Sign of the soft times we live in.

No way in hell Landry would coddle idiot fringe players costing you games, nor would Jimmy Johnson as I have mentioned in other, related topics.

 

[Cowboys5217]

Sorry, but I can't get on board with the coach throwing a player under the bus or blaming him for the loss publicly.

It's a 60 minute game. Rush threw a pick, missed open targets in the redzone.
The defense gave up a 40 yard TD to Chase after the recovery etc...

It's like blaming a kicker for missing a 55 yarder at the end of the game but the QB threw 3 picks and escapes the blame due to recency bias.

Ridiculous. This guy was a fringe player off the PS. And you cut kickers that blow games for you. That has been standard forever.

Demand excellence, and stop enabling this soft team culture. We can never dream of winning titles if you are willing to accept this crap.

 

[Typhus]

Yeah, back in the day you would've found him butt naked taped to the shower walls.
If he was lucky.

Back in the day there was no Gorilla tape.
Top tape today is waterproof and will keep a grown man bound to the ground, in the rain.
Truth.

 

[Cmac]

He should do that in the media. Fassel been protected/covered up.......all year.

Outside of Aubrey, Anger & Turpin, our ST fake punts have been atrocious and ill-timed.

All year we've had Fall Guys (Dak/Zeke) to take the blame, so why not defend the young guy?

You don't build by tearing down.......you get a mirror to look into, first.

 

[Cmac]

Ridiculous. This guy was a fringe player off the PS. And you cut kickers that blow games for you. That has been standard forever.

Demand excellence, and stop enabling this soft team culture. We can never dream of winning titles if you are willing to accept this crap.

....sounds like the bully taking lunch money from the 3rd graders until the bully catches a knuckle sandwich.

 

[John813]

Ridiculous. This guy was a fringe player off the PS. And you cut kickers that blow games for you. That has been standard forever.

Demand excellence, and stop enabling this soft team culture. We can never dream of winning titles if you are willing to accept this crap.

So, do we cut Aubrey for missing a few kicks recently? Or is he safe cause the misses weren't in the dying minutes of the 4th quarter? He is at 85% for the year, good for 22 overall.
Adios, loser.

Cutting a guy for a freak brain fart won't change anything with this team and how it's run. This isn't some Jimmy Johnson trick that will get all 53 guys heads on a swivel. He's a practice squad player that was called up.
This isn't a running back fumbling for the 5th time on 50 carries, or ignoring the coaches for jumping over a pile when told not to(Randle). This was a situation that occurs very rarely and he made a split second mistake.

You think Jerry cutting the guy will change the country club mindset he's made here?
I'm all for cutting players that repeatedly make mistakes. Or show a failure to learn from them. This isn't a repeated issue from the player.
Or if the DB back unit is fully healthy and we don't need that many guys on the 53+ PS.

But hey, agree to disagree.

To cut a player, based off one mistake isn't being soft, it's making a scapegoat.

Should the team cut defensive players who try to scope a fumble and miss instead of falling on it?