Positives:
1. We won the game, no matter how pretty or ugly you play, a W counts the same
2. We had great balance on offense
3. Our run blocking was outstanding on all but a couple of plays
4. Murray beasted today
5. Romo with no turnovers
6. Dez had a huge game
7. Our defense recorded 3 turnovers, 2 ints and 1 on downs
8. We owned the ball today, over 41 minutes of time of possession
9. We ran the ball and with success in the red zone
10. Bailey is absolutely money
Negatives:
1. Romo still looks off, his throws are high or low and have far less zip than they used to
2. Murray fumbled again
3. Our D got abused again by the opposing TE
4. Though our D got some push, we just couldn't seem to get all the way to Locker to record sacks
5. Randle got hurt
6. McClain was robbed of a potential TD by a premature whistle
7. Our pass protection is quite subpar, and is magnified at the moment with Romo's current lack of mobility
8. The Wilcox stinger, though it doesn't appear to be too serious, as he came back
9. We had a poor start to the 2nd half, especially on defense
10. I don't have a 10th negative, so I will use this.....I now have to wait 7 days to see the Cowboys play again.
Great post and yes, it is nice not to have to scrape to make positive comments.
Today the defense looked like a team playing the Tampa 2. Not sure how much we played it to be honest, but we were making them throw the ball in front of us and we had several guys collapsing on the receiver immediately after the catch. The one exception was Walker's long TD but that should have been a 20 yd completion....not a 60 yd TD. Can't really nitpick any of the positives.
You didn't even mention ST as a positive, but they were exceptional in pretty much every aspect today. Randle had two nice tackles early, Harris looked great and Tenn really didn't get much in the way of positives on ST. Bailey is just ridiculously good. All decent length kicks today and what is amazing to me is that his kicks ALL split the uprights. It's pretty uncanny....I can't remember watching another kicker who consistently puts it within a yard or two either way on every kick.
I know Romo is getting a lot of grief but today is exactly what almost everyone said we needed from him. Bus driver, no critical mistakes, let the run game do their thing and get out of town with a win. We did just that but everyone is complaining. I think teams are definitely playing us more as a passing offense so they are still mainly only playing 7 in the box and playing more coverage. As we continue to have success, teams are going to have to start shifting more towards stopping our run game. This should open up the passing game. Romo does need to stretch the field some and I do think there are some concerns in that regard.
The Titans made an adjustment at halftime, opened things up and spread the field more. People were posting negative comments about how we didn't adjust for the second half. It doesn't work that way....the team that is having success generally doesn't come out with something different. So the Titans had more success initially and then we changed what we were doing and stopped them the rest of the way. The one Walker drive was pretty much it and that came on poor tackling, not because of a scheme issue.
One little thing is that I really don't see what Dunbar brings to the offense. I don't see any exceptional qualities....I really would love to see Ryan Williams brought up.
It is exciting to think that we could get some decent additions over the next few weeks with Scandrick, maybe Spencer and hopefully guys like Melton, Terrell McClain and Selvie continue to shake the rust off and get healthy.
Best thing is no major injuries.....hope Randle is just a short term thing.
