Game Day ***Cowboys vs Bucs post game thread***

[visionary]

Some quick thoughts:

- Byron Jones is our future FS. Heath is a rotational backup at best. Looked pretty good out there today except for the horrendous penalty. Need a SS to go alongside Jones.

- We lost this game because of horrendous playcalling. The Bucs started to send the blitz figuring that Cassell couldn't read it well and they were right. But, by the same token, the Bucs were leaving Dez 1-on-1 and for some reason we still think going to Witten on a pivot route or a flare and asking him to pick up the first down will actually work when it has *never* worked his entire career. And we still feel the need to try and throw a deep pass to Williams in a jump ball situation which again....has never really worked in his career.

We get the ball into the Bucs red zone and on 1st down we run shotgun. The same on 2nd down. No sense of keeping the defense honest because...why would we ever want to do that?

I'm sure the O-Line will get ragged on, but when a team is sending 6 or 7 and you only have 5 to block, somebody is getting free. It requires the receivers and QB to beat the blitz, not the O-Line. And Cassel and the receivers could not do it, but by the same token...there was no change in the gameplan to figure this out.

I've really grown tired of Garrett this season. He's all about technique and player development which is great, but he and Linehan have zero ability when it comes to managing a game and seeing the overall big picture when it comes to play calling and how to help out talent when they have inferior talent at a position.

The players didn't deserve to lose this game. They played hard. But Garrett deserved to lose the game with that amount of ineptness in the play calling and adjustments. I usually hate to talk about play calling when it comes to a team's failure, but it was an embarrassment to watch today and it didn't deserve my fandom today.






YR

Don't let @Idgit see this because he will be on you about how it is not the HC or the OC or the DC or the players or the GM

No one is to blame
No one should be accountable
Let's move on

 

[AzCowboysFan]

saddest thing is, Eagles lost and the Giants are gonna lose. Everything worked out in our favor. We can't win one game to save our life!

 

[JoeyBoy718]

I know.

Those things tend to happen for you when you have a guy like Romo. A few more plays break your way, and maybe your team treads water until they figure it out a bit later in the season. As it is, we're out of time, and the rest of the team isn't where it needs to be, for sure. Romo's good for a few extra big plays/game, but it might not matter if the rest of the team doesn't play well. And I'm not talking about climbing into contention anymore. I'm just talking about ending the losing streak.

We have been in 6 of the last 7 games. I definitely see a few of them being wins if we had Romo. Unfortunately, the teams we play for the remainder of the schedule are not teams you can beat without playing mistake-free. We can probably beat Miami and Washington and maybe squeeze out a win against the Bills, but we're not competing with Carolina, Green Bay and the NY Jets.

 

[KB1122]

You guys need to chill. Once we lost Romo for a lengthy period, losing out was the best course, or pretty close to it.

 

[SultanOfSix]

The refs are not going to throw a flag when the receiver doesn't even put his hands up to catch the ball.

For $70 million, I expect at least one hand to go up to at least pretend you are trying to catch the ball.................but maybe that is just me.

I'm sorry but it's hard for me to negatively judge Dez in this pathetic offensive system that doesn't know how to utilize him.

 

[Deep_South]

Eli fumbles and Pats recover.

 

[Sydla]

Why isn't he the FS of now?

Marinelli still isn't sure he can't win without his veteran leadership at FS and SS with Wilcox and Church.

 

[Wolfpack]

Same predicable play calling out of the same predicable formations with the same predicable route combos. I was calling the plays out...it's horrid. A high school team could defend this offense with matching talent.

 

[ScipioCowboy]

Don't let @Idgit see this because he will be on you about how it is not the HC or the OC or the DC or the players or the GM

No one is to blame
No one should be accountable
Let's move on

Dude, seriously.

None of this calamity is Idgit's fault.

 

[Aven8]

Saban

 

[Sydla]

You guys need to chill. Once we lost Romo for a lengthy period, losing out was the best course, or pretty close to it.

I agree if that losing out resulted in Garrett getting fired. But he likely won't be and we are staring at 3-4 more years of frustration IMO.

 

[PoundTheRock]

The fact that Jerry is so committed to JG makes this even harder. Usually you try to find the sliver of hope in a bad situation. Some fans get excited over the draft ect...

There is zero chance the clapper is replaced. This makes it hard because it will be hard to get excited going into next season knowing that Romo is always just 1 play away from going down and taking our season with it again.

Romo is the only QB that could succeed with this offensive system.

Let's not get crazy. Most good QBs could, but the kicker is that there are a small number in the NFL. The Cowboys have one and are absolutely squandering him because we have a clown running the show. Whether you take to mean Jerry Jones, Jason Garrett or both that's fine with me.

 

[Yakuza Rich]

Why isn't he the FS of now?

He was playing there today. There's a lot of 3 safety personnel because teams go with 11 personnel and can throw or run out of that. So, if you have 3 safeties, it will help against the pass and the run. He was out there today with Heath, Wilcox and Church (who looked horrendous, again).






YR

 

[visionary]

As I suspected. Probably for the best. Enjoy the rest of your Sunday.

When you actually take a position instead of the usual 'yeah but' I'll be interested

 

[TRUTH87]

something looks off w the giants unis.
white pants? usually grey

 

[rynochop]

Payton

Well he.s not exactly setting the world on fire with a HOF qb in the twilight of his career. Skins lay 47 on them today, can't believe rob Ryan is still there

 

[Amy50632]

Get Sean Payton on the phone. At least he's better then Garrett and won something.

 

[Idgit]

Don't let @Idgit see this because he will be on you about how it is not the HC or the OC or the DC or the players or the GM

No one is to blame
No one should be accountable
Let's move on

YR's comments are always really good. You could learn a lot about how to contribute on a forum from him, in my opinion.

And intentionally mis-characterizing me makes you look bad, visionary. Not me. I have issues with just about every area of this team after 7 straight losses. We all do. I just argue that we address them systematically, and in the order of their relative importance.

 

[StarBoyz83]

We have been in 6 of the last 7 games. I definitely see a few of them being wins if we had Romo. Unfortunately, the teams we play for the remainder of the schedule are not teams you can beat without playing mistake-free. We can probably beat Miami and Washington and maybe squeeze out a win against the Bills, but we're not competing with Carolina, Green Bay and the NY Jets.

It's just so frustrating because dallas would be 8-1 right now with romo.

 

[DandyDon1722]

I'm imagining the mods sitting around a table right now doing Fireball shots lamenting the loss.

"Well - should we open it up?"

"Nah, screw 'em. Same old threads over and over - how 'bout another round."

I don't blame them.