amazing what 1 change will do

[iceberg]

so many fans down. the hype of a repaired OL and the return of flo not panning out as hoped can be devastating when reality sets in. on paper things looked good, talk out of camp was all positive and glowing, and we brought on the biggest "show" in the NFL, TO. we slapped in a few glowing parts, got the BP seal of approval, and this year was going to be "it". we even got some love from vegas for the superbowl, which only spurs on the optimism.

7 weeks into the season things are not quite what we hoped they would be. the line has shown to be less than effective and our veteran qb who just needed 1 more shot is now shot down and sits on the bench pondering fishing and other endearing things he can do this time next year. unless something radical happens, the change has been made, and the search for a better tomorrow is now underway.

amazing what can happen in 7 weeks.

at the end of the season 2 seasons ago, we had 3 games in which to get some questions answered. we didn't do that and we let some player sit vs. giving them the experience they must get now and whatever reason keeps you warm at night, that was still a major mistake in our long term health to ignore the future for at most, 3 games in a losing season.

amazing what can happen in 2 years.

parcells mantra of never wanting to put a young guy into a bad position suddenly didn't matter as romo was thrown into the fire on monday night, while sitting down his longtime friend and player, bledsoe. it was a move that hurt just about everyone close to it but needed to be made. truth be told, it never sound have been a decision to make as we should have found out about our young players sooner.

but fans are not a patient people. winning cures all so the quicker we win the faster we can be proud of our team again. in this lack of patience we tend to think we can fix things "that" quickly - 1 player can turn it around.

we're not that close, people. romo is going to make mistakes and if you think sitting on the bench for 3+ years was adequate prep time, you were wrong. you learn NFL speed on the field, not on the sidelines. you learn by making mistakes young people make. you've got to step back and give him that time and when he falls, pick him up and put him back out there.

there is no "quick fix" in the NFL despite any marketing ploy you've heard in life. parcells tried it while revamping the defense and ignoring the offense and we're paying for that now. the defense is still "gel'ing" and the offense is the red headed step child who's time for love has come.

let's give romo the year to see what he can do. he's not likely to make the OL better and he's not likely to bear any other false hopes 1 change will change it all.

time will, and better moves than we've made so far.

while i hated bill for wasteing those 3 precious games, i applaud him now for making a move that had to hurt.

the time *is* now and we are in essence starting over as things come apart at the seems. i do think the next coach will have a stronger core to work with but will also need latitude in his decisions and staff. hopefully this round of changes will take us back to our core where we find a qb we can trust, if not romo then quit dorking around and get the best we can in the next draft, and play him because you should.

it will be a rough couple of years coming up as we figure out just who we are, but finally - we're on our way.

amazing what 1 change will do.

 

[Funxva]

Optimism from iceberg? Has the World gone MAD?!? ;-)

 

[Jarv]

Nice post Ice, it would be nice to see what 1 win will do. If we beat a winning team on the road, something we haven't done this year yet....Look and see how much we jump up on the ESPN power rankings...

Check out the national coverage on Romo if we win, I bet we get a barrage of history, like who he dated in the 8th grade...lol.

 

[WilmingtonHeel]

Honestly that was a good post. But in reality we MAY be in trouble, maybe not but we must be patient and hopefully the running game, defense and special teams pick up the pace

 

[iceberg]

Optimism from iceberg? Has the World gone MAD?!? ;-)

i told everyone specifically what i hated and why - and i stayed the course. watching cowboys games was like watching reruns where you knew what would happen and they did. i found nothing in a BP move ever since the infamous 3 game stretch where he refused to play romo or henson to find out what we had "long term".

i said it was a shotgun approach, it wouldn't work, and it will fall apart in a few years. all i ever wanted was to *try* to build long term. i agree the "project" qb idea is bad but that doesn't mean our ONLY alternative was aged vets on the way out. that was even stupider to me.

i know i've been negative for the last what - 2 years, but with reasons that are becoming apparant today. now i just get to watch the young guy play where we don't KNOW he's going to be stupid at least twice in a game. where we don't KNOW he's going to bounce 3+ passes in a game. i spent the better part of 28 years being positive about this team and only the last few being negative. but it's ok now, the change has been made and i can only hope we stay this course and we get our team back and hoping isn't tempered by the faith that it won't work.

 

[iceberg]

Honestly that was a good post. But in reality we MAY be in trouble, maybe not but we must be patient and hopefully the running game, defense and special teams pick up the pace

well that's just it. i see post after post thinking *this* is *the* change that will take us over the top and that's just not true. we've got a lot of changes that need to take place and first and foremost we need to find out if we have a foundation to build around.

if so, go OL. if not, do what we gotta do to trade up and get the best chance we have to win in the best qb we can get - THEN go OL heavy.

whichever way we go it's long since time we did (2) things right - get a top flight QB and build a hell of an OL. the rest of the offense will do wonders once you get this set right.

 

[CrazyCowboy]

At least now IMO, BP has taken a step in the right direction by starting ROMO

 

[Aikbach]

Let us not jump to conclusions, Romo has won nothing yet if he ever will.

 

[iceberg]

Let us not jump to conclusions, Romo has won nothing yet if he ever will.

i never said he would and i never said that would be the end result. *other* people seem to jump to conclusions on what was said - pretty common. : )

what i *did* say and am so happy about is we have "youth" at the most important of positions again and we simply DO NOT KNOW what he will do.

we've seen bledsoe's show for 14 years - no changes. a world of excuses, but no changes.

romo hitting the field means parcells finally realizes that was the wrong things to do, even if he felt it the right thing at the time. what i love having back into my "game" is the "excitement" of watching a player like romo develop and hopefully next year the team can get back on track of building long term, not short term causing short and long term problems along the way such has already been done, and now admitted by the removal of bledsoe.

if parcells needs help, i'll bring boxes and help pack and thank him for his years here and THEN i'll be one happy iceberg.