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Sturm's Morning After: Cowboys have a coaching mess; Garrett ignores reality of the underdog
43 days ago, the Cowboys last won a football game. I am guessing a drought like that is generally a good sign that your season has gone into the dumpster.
43 days in the wilderness...wandering....looking for an answer. Somewhere. Anywhere.
Maybe it is this retread life-long QB who can save us. Nope. Let's try another one. Grab the one who has played on all of the other teams in the league. He is slightly better. Not really. Keep looking. Maybe it is that third guy who is over there on the bench and never played a snap in the NFL. Maybe he is the one who can save us.
Doubtful.
But, what could it hurt to try? That is where we are - where numerous people want to try the kid who has never taken a snap.
43 days in the football desert is enough to make a team see things off in the distance that look like an oasis of hope.
Perhaps it is the sack machine who is suspended by the league. He can save it... Or maybe it will be the return of the franchise wide receiver. Surely, when he comes back...
One of these combinations is likely to stop the bleeding, right? Hello?
This team will win another game this year. I am sure of it. Now, the question becomes whether it will happen while this team is potentially still alive. If, in fact, you are optimistic enough to think 2-5 is still alive, that is.
When Tony Romo was injured back on September 20th, the initial thought in every reasonable thinking Cowboys fans' mind was simply that the season is likely over. The one thing you simply cannot do in the NFL is to lose your starting QB for 2 months. The math doesn't work out. It can't be done.
But, then, the dust settles, and you start to try to figure out a way to break the code. The reasons are obvious. This is not a video game that you simply hit "reset" and start over. No, if you are going to start over in the NFL, it takes a year off everyone's contract and career and it requires 12 months of waiting. Nobody has time for that.
So, if you are like me, you get out the schedule and talk yourself into stealing a game here and a game there. Surely, if you must play for 2 months without Tony Romo, you can get three wins somewhere in there, right?
Or at least two? How about just a win against anyone?
This season is not what we had in mind as we stood in Oxnard looking at a very deep, talented, and confident team that seemed comfortable laying out their navigational path to the Super Bowl.
On Sunday, the Cowboys were in a very advantageous position in the game entering the 4th Quarter. They had outgained the 2-time defending NFC Champions in yardage and were going in to take the lead after that aforementioned sack machine just turned the game on its ear by batting a pass into the air that he intercepted and then tried to return to the end zone. If the offense can't score, maybe Greg Hardy can.
He tried. But, was tripped up at the 16-yard line. Down 10-9, the Cowboys now had the ball given to them inside the Seahawks 20-yard line with something any observer would label as the "golden opportunity that they simply cannot afford to waste."
http://beta.sportsdaydfw.com/dallas-cowboys/cowboys/2015/11/02/sturms-morning-garrett-ignores-reality-underdog
43 days ago, the Cowboys last won a football game. I am guessing a drought like that is generally a good sign that your season has gone into the dumpster.
43 days in the wilderness...wandering....looking for an answer. Somewhere. Anywhere.
Maybe it is this retread life-long QB who can save us. Nope. Let's try another one. Grab the one who has played on all of the other teams in the league. He is slightly better. Not really. Keep looking. Maybe it is that third guy who is over there on the bench and never played a snap in the NFL. Maybe he is the one who can save us.
Doubtful.
But, what could it hurt to try? That is where we are - where numerous people want to try the kid who has never taken a snap.
43 days in the football desert is enough to make a team see things off in the distance that look like an oasis of hope.
Perhaps it is the sack machine who is suspended by the league. He can save it... Or maybe it will be the return of the franchise wide receiver. Surely, when he comes back...
One of these combinations is likely to stop the bleeding, right? Hello?
This team will win another game this year. I am sure of it. Now, the question becomes whether it will happen while this team is potentially still alive. If, in fact, you are optimistic enough to think 2-5 is still alive, that is.
When Tony Romo was injured back on September 20th, the initial thought in every reasonable thinking Cowboys fans' mind was simply that the season is likely over. The one thing you simply cannot do in the NFL is to lose your starting QB for 2 months. The math doesn't work out. It can't be done.
But, then, the dust settles, and you start to try to figure out a way to break the code. The reasons are obvious. This is not a video game that you simply hit "reset" and start over. No, if you are going to start over in the NFL, it takes a year off everyone's contract and career and it requires 12 months of waiting. Nobody has time for that.
So, if you are like me, you get out the schedule and talk yourself into stealing a game here and a game there. Surely, if you must play for 2 months without Tony Romo, you can get three wins somewhere in there, right?
Or at least two? How about just a win against anyone?
This season is not what we had in mind as we stood in Oxnard looking at a very deep, talented, and confident team that seemed comfortable laying out their navigational path to the Super Bowl.
On Sunday, the Cowboys were in a very advantageous position in the game entering the 4th Quarter. They had outgained the 2-time defending NFC Champions in yardage and were going in to take the lead after that aforementioned sack machine just turned the game on its ear by batting a pass into the air that he intercepted and then tried to return to the end zone. If the offense can't score, maybe Greg Hardy can.
He tried. But, was tripped up at the 16-yard line. Down 10-9, the Cowboys now had the ball given to them inside the Seahawks 20-yard line with something any observer would label as the "golden opportunity that they simply cannot afford to waste."
http://beta.sportsdaydfw.com/dallas-cowboys/cowboys/2015/11/02/sturms-morning-garrett-ignores-reality-underdog
