Yeah. We get it. You believe the coaching has nothing to do with it. That's cool. I'm not trying to change your mind here. Injuries killed the team, well at least one injury did. Romo hides the fact that this coaching staff, particularly on offense, is very average.
Without him people can see that the offense is garbage and it's not just because the QBs aren't as good.
Coaching always has something to do with it, but, yeah, we've been coached well enough to win 5 of those 7 games if the players made the plays that were right there to be made.
It's not just the injuries. We lost time to suspensions. And then we've had a ton of plays to be made that just didn't get made--many of them by our best players. I wish I had a better answer for why those plays aren't getting made. Some of it definitely *is* on the staff, because for whatever reason they're not creating a situation where that gets done. But, as I've said before, when you're getting Dez singled up on a DB and your backup backup QB hits him in the hands on 3rd and 1 on a drive you can use to help put the game away and he just drops it, I have a hard time blaming coaching for that. The same goes for the Patmon drops, or the fumble v. NE that Church didn't cover, or the unnecessary ticky-tacky block downfield on Street that might have cost us the NY game, or the touchy OPI on Williams that wasn't necessary and might have cost us the PHI game.
Sure, coaching better or just calling different plays in some of these games might have changed the outcome, too, but when you can look at the plays that were there to be made and just, weren't....at some point your highly played and highly respected players gotta play, too.
