bruce122767;3008558 said:
I shall agree with that and how I posted was not the intent. The intent of chewing tail was in regard to a coach showing he has some fire and that he will not accept the dumb penalties. The Boys' have been making those penalties for years and I don't get the feeling by watching this coach and the previous one that they really seemed to care.
Yeah, I can agree with this. The Cowboys' penalties and mental errors in games means one of a few things that I can think of:
a) our schemes and terminology is complex to the point of confusion, which is on the coaches to make it easier for the players to understand. This is a case that I think is realistic because it's not like it's just one dumb guy messing up, it's different players all the time.
b) our practices do not center around repetition of what "right" looks like, effectively making us sloppy on game days. You play like you practice, and while we probably run plenty of position drills, we probably don't work on basics. When I played, we used to have weekly pop quizzes on the playbook where coach would call out a play and we'd either have to diagram it, or verbally walk him through the pre-snap and the play itself. Our practices are probably plenty tough, just not the kind of tough necessary to eliminate the dumb stuff on Sundays.
We need a coach that's going to play to our players' strengths, work on the little things in practice, hold players accountable for mental mistakes (not just in press conferences) and reward players for great plays. The best we get after a good play is a fist pump.
WOW.. Definitely idiots with flags. They tried to call that taunting but he had obviously tossed the flag before the taunt. Does not compute. 
