Biggest let down so far?

[perrykemp]

The current safeties make me long for Sensy. That's how disappointed I am in the safety play.

 

[Fredd]

1. Crawford - I was really looking forward to seeing him play a lot
2. NOT drafting another OL
3. Johnson/Coale - reasons stated by all, but once pet cats, now potentially lost causes
4. Not seeing more of the 12 package

 

[Gameover]

The fact our braintrust cant find two quality guards.

 

[fifaguy]

Special teams has to be up there as well.

 

[Zordon]

1) How can OL be a letdown in the preseason? We did NOTHING to fix it other than draft one center. Did you guys expect something different? Other than what I will say below, I expected this.

2) How can the safeties be a let down? Matt Johnson was never proven and anointed on ZERO merits? Church has NEVER stayed on the field. And we drafted another guy who only played the position for one season. We knew going into preseason it would be the same old crap at S.

3) How can Orton be a letdown? He's a backup QB. He's never had starter capabilities. He's fine for back up.

4) Have y'all been watching any other NFL news this off season. Injuries have been a huge factor on almost every team. The reasons: Players fought to have less practice in the off season, and contact during TC and the regular season. They have gotten what they asked for. The weight room, the track, the hills, the sand, or the mountains are not the same as game speed and sometimes hard 2-a-days practices. The NFL is the other culprit. These rule changes will backfire on them, or will cause them to change the game even more. I see a day where you can only tackle from belt to numbers. When you won't let guys play football and tell them not to concentrate on hitting high, knees are going to get blown out. The next move is to say you can't hit the knees. SMH


With all that being said. The biggest disappointment for me has been Mo Claiborne's injury, and lack of knowledge about it. Next would be the big FAILS on bringing in any OL help once the injuries to our unproven All Pros started mounting up. There have been other teams go out and find other guys that will contribute and start for their teams. It blows my mind we can't find a way to get one or two more guys in here that are better than Livings, Arkin, Bernie, Cook, Killer, Leary, and Parnell...None of these guys would see the field on contending teams....

preach.

We've got too many fans on this site that bury their head in the sand when it comes to this oline. Having Doug Free tryout at guard and begging two retired linemen to come back and play 2 weeks before the seasons starting is NOT normal. It's pathetic and a testament to how mismanaged this franchise is run.

 

[Teague31]

The disaster that is our guard play. Our whole season may very well rest with an undrafted free agent who has never started a game in the NFL. Un freaking real.

 

[kirkjrk]

Claiborne without a doubt. I don't know if he's even made progress since last season.

He hasn't.

 

[Oh_Canada]

Matt Johnson. I really had hope that he would be healthy and fight for a starting spot this year. It looks like he might not even make the team at this point.

Bingo. I also thought he would make people eat their words, instead he has validated all the naysayers.
Guy is made of glass.....time to move on.

 

[Oh_Canada]

The disaster that is our guard play. Our whole season may very well rest with an undrafted free agent who has never started a game in the NFL. Un freaking real.

Were you one of the guys clamoring for Waters and Moore....you know those two undrafted free agents? Leary is going to be a player, you can book it. The other side is where they might have issues, but let's not throw in the towel so quickly. Frederick is going to make a significant difference inside and Free appears to be regaining his ability. The oline is going to be much improved by mid-season barring injuries.

 

[Sarge]

couldn't agree with you more, Offensive line is a disaster year after year...

This....

 

[TheCount]

The current safeties make me long for Sensy. That's how disappointed I am in the safety play.

People keep bringing up the safties like they've been getting gobbled up all preseason or something. I'm pleasantly surprised by the safety play. Who the heck could long for Sensy? The guy is retired. Go throw some money at him and he could be starting for the Cowboys tomorrow, it's not like he's playing somewhere else.


As far as the OP, I'm disappointed we didn't do more with the OL but I am expecting some stunning play from our corners, and so far I can't remember Carr's name being mentioned more than once and Claiborne hasn't done much of anything. It doesn't help that the D we're playing now doesn't require the kind of investments we've made at the position either.

 

[jobberone]

Crawford so far. Well all the injuries esp Crawford and along the OL. Haven't seen enough yet to have a lot of specific worries. Tonight's dress rehearsal will tell us something although I"m not sure we'll see the definitive starting OL tonight.

 

[HoosierCowboy]

fans jumping to conclusions--we'll have some idea after the Bengals game but really won't know until about week 8 of the reg season

 

[big dog cowboy]

So far in preseason the Cowboys still look like an 8-8 team.

My eyes!!! They may never be the same.

 

[visionary]

We had 3 major needs in the off season including OL, DL and safety

We ignored one (DL ), picked projects at one (safety) and spent 1 pick on the other area where we needed 2-3 new starting caliber players (OL )

I guess my biggest disappointment is the lack of a cogent plan from our brain trust to address the needs of the team in a rational manner

 

[xwalker]

Biggest let down so far?

Rowdy Avatars.

 

[boysfanindc]

Rowdy Avatars.

I well definitely second that!

 

[EPL0c0]

Biggest letdown for me is the safeties, particularly Barry Church. I drank too much of his kool aid but when I step back I realize he hasn't even played that much in his career so why the love fest?

Also BW Webb has been the biggest drop off from mini camp to training camp that i've ever seen. Everyone was saying he was the best or one of the best rookies at minicamp. What happened?

I never saw what people saw in Church. Then last year in preseason I thought "Wow, Ok, maybe this guy does have it" Here's to hoping that he's the kind of guy that just shows up on gameday

 

[Idgit]

Rowdy Avatars.

What? I love the Rowdy avatars. Nothing like reading a stream of Jerry-OL-Romo-Garrett bashing from a guy wearing a Rowdy mask. Cracks me up every time.

If I had my way, they'd all be Larry Lacewell masks.

 

[NickZepp]

I would like to see more of the starters before judging. All we've seen so far is a lot of backups.