Apocalyptic nightmare brewing for Jerry

[xwalker]

I don't see us winning the division unless Lee comes back soon and is reasonably healthy when he comes back. He's not perfect, but he's really good and he covers up for a lot of mistakes, particularly for Church who looks a bit Tony Dixon-ish out there. I've spotted times on the All-22 where I'm about 90% positive that Church was supposed to take a WR and Lee ends up having to take the WR instead. Lee is really good at making those type of botched assignments not look like glaring mistakes so the offense doesn't always take advantage of it.

The counter to the loss of Lee and the state of the defense would be to have a great offense that could load up points. But, we don't have it. Romo looks like he's just about finished. What's really bad is that we keep going to the empty backfield formation and I have yet to see Romo in that formation where he could step into his throw nicely. And it's not the O-Line either. That's a formation where you have to have a QB that can move around just enough and fire the ball because the defense is going to bring more pass rushers than blockers. Romo can't do that anymore. And yet we keep going to empty backfield. And I've seen Romo audilble into that. So it's not just the coaches. Romo checks us into that play and Garrett and Callahan either don't have the gumption or are too afraid to tell him to stop doing that.

The real nightmare here is that unless we have a dramatic turnaround from Romo, we are looking at some bad teams for at least thru 2015. Last year Romo looked sluggish in the first half of the season. But, he really turned it around nicely in the second half and played as well as he ever played.

However, this reminds me a bit of Michael Jordan when he came out of retirement to play for the Wizards. You would see glimpses of his old self, maybe for a game or two, but father time got to him and he simply could not put good games together.

I fear we are seeing the same with Romo. Those struggles in the 1st half in 2012 are carrying over into 2013. This time, I just don't see him turning it around in the 2nd half of the season. And from there, it's likely to be a complete regression. Maybe a new coach could come in and devise better schemes and playcalling (I have more issues with the playcalling than the scheme) and rejuvenate Romo. But, I feel that coach is going to see the issues I see with Romo. A QB that is afraid to pull the trigger, his velocity is off, his footwork has worsened and he not nearly as accurate as he once was.






YR

You should put a disclosure in your signature that you have an anti-Romo agenda.

If you say that Romo is bad every year, eventually you'll be correct.

 

[theebs]

You should put a disclosure in your signature that you have an anti-Romo agenda.

If you say that Romo is bad every year, eventually you'll be correct.

Lol I was thinking the same thing. Every time we have lost for 6 years he has been declaring romo a bust or a backup...now he is calling him washed up.

Funny stuff.

 

[Beast_from_East]

The issue is the jones family will be hiring the replacement so it doesn't matter who the coach is.

Doesnt matter....................I just cant take that idiot standing there clapping when the other team is dropping a 50 burger.

 

[theebs]

Doesnt matter....................I just cant take that idiot standing there clapping when the other team is dropping a 50 burger.

Well gruden would be giving angry face, Zimmer would be all red yelling and swearing, lovie smith is an expressionless guy and would just stand there, Jeff fisher would have his arms crossed and his hand scratching his chin.

It's bigger than the head coach. and I say that knowing that the head coach here is not very good. describing him as not very good is actually putting it nicely but it's about the jones family.

They are never going to change.

Maybe we should be cheering for a sinkhole that swallows the stadium or an earthquake which weeks the stadium...with no people in it of course. That way the family would need another stadium.

Just think they could go play at the cotton bowl and hire real football executives.

 

[Deep_South]

Well gruden would be giving angry face, Zimmer would be all red yelling and swearing, lovie smith is an expressionless guy and would just stand there, Jeff fisher would have his arms crossed and his hand scratching his chin.

It's bigger than the head coach. and I say that knowing that the head coach here is not very good. describing him as not very good is actually putting it nicely but it's about the jones family.

They are never going to change.

Maybe we should be cheering for a sinkhole that swallows the stadium or an earthquake which weeks the stadium...with no people in it of course. That way the family would need another stadium.

Just think they could go play at the cotton bowl and hire real football executives.

Or, we could hope we can get some players healthy in the next two weeks, then go to New York and beat the Giants. That will make things a lot better for us all.

 

[NJ22]

We have been a .500 team on average since our last title. I wish it was just the last three years.

True. But this regime cant fix it. So time to roll the dice again.

 

[theebs]

Or, we could hope we can get some players healthy in the next two weeks, then go to New York and beat the Giants. That will make things a lot better for us all.

I'm glad you think that way, I'm a broken fan at this point and can't muster up any enthusiasm let alone optimism.

 

[rynochop]

People crack me up around here, all it will take is two wins over two bad teams coming off the bye and everyone will be talking playoff seedings.
I also dont see Rodgers back for our game.

 

[DFWJC]

As crazy as it may sound, the only game so far this year that Dallas did not win, but that maybe you would expect (hope?) that they would was at San Diego. And really, at San Diego is no picnic.
From what we know, almost no teams would expect to beat Denver, at KC, or at New Orleans. Both Detroit and San Diego were favored at home vs Dallas and won.
Dallas actually did win a road game where they were not favored and have not lost any games where they were favored.

None of us are happy with 5-5..and we shouldn't be. But based on the schedule played so far, it is almost exactly what most would have been expected.
It sucks, because there are at least three losses (Det, KC, Den) that could have gone either way at the end.
SOS I guess.

 

[Deep_South]

I'm glad you think that way, I'm a broken fan at this point and can't muster up any enthusiasm let alone optimism.

Yeah, were all broken to some extent after such a brutal beatdown. I'm just trying to get ahead of the curve because 99% of us are going to be up for beating the Giants in two weeks, regardless of the way we feel right now. We always bounce back, possibly because we've had so much experience in recent years. Plus, this time we won't be facing our defensive coordinator of two years who knows our players and their tendencies inside/out. That will help, along with getting some of our players back and, facing this year's version of Eli instead of Brees.

 

[Sarge]

I'm going to be very positive here. I am positive Dallas stinks. I am positive the Eagles stink. I am positive Washington stinks. I am positive the Giants stink and I am positive that whoever wins the NFC East will go nowhere in the playoffs.

Have a nice day.

 

[17yearsandcounting]

Yeah, were all broken to some extent after such a brutal beatdown. I'm just trying to get ahead of the curve because 99% of us are going to be up for beating the Giants in two weeks, regardless of the way we feel right now. We always bounce back, possibly because we've had so much experience in recent years. Plus, this time we won't be facing our defensive coordinator of two years who knows our players and their tendencies inside/out. That will help, along with getting some of our players back and, facing this year's version of Eli instead of Brees.

This years version of Eli passed for 450 yards on a mostly healthy defense on the road. I'd be careful with this "This years Eli" talk, this team made Ponder look not awful

 

[AKATheRake]

I would rather imagine this....

The Commanders beat the Eagles this weekend (Commanders 4-6; Eagles 5-6).

Dallas beats New York next weekend (tough but doable) and moves to 6-5 and is coming home against Oakland on Thanksgiving.

The Giants fall to AT BEST 4-7 (IF they beat GB this weekend). And the Deadskins lose to SF.

Your NFC East Standings would be:

Dallas 6-5
Philly 5-6
New York 4-7
Commanders 4-7

We would be in a great situation with the Raiders at home on Thanksgiving.

We don't like to get ahead so forget about that.

Our defense is toast right now. We can't stop anyone.

 

[BoysFan4ever]

I'm going to be very positive here. I am positive Dallas stinks. I am positive the Eagles stink. I am positive Washington stinks. I am positive the Giants stink and I am positive that whoever wins the NFC East will go nowhere in the playoffs.

Have a nice day.

Ha. Yea I think whatever team draws the East champ has to feel like that game is theirs to win.

 

[xwalker]

Apocalyptic nightmare brewing for Jerry

This post from from mid-afternoon. That's a little early to be hitting the hyperbole sauce.

 

[big dog cowboy]

If Opie blows the worst division in football after being in first place the majority of the season................................he has to go...............no discussion or debate...........just gone.

I'll never understand this but whatever. Hopefully he can coach players who don't get hurt at his next stop.