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As I posted in another thread last night, anybody could have walked up to me and offered me a bet of any kind that this team would 0-2, and I'd have taken it. And today, I'd have nothing to my name.
Is the season over? No it isnt. Is the team the laughingstock of the league and in deep crap? Yep. 0-2 is not unrecoverable from, but we'll be a signficant underdog at Houston, a team that is FAR better than either of the two we just lost to. 0-3 certainly looks like a strong possibility, not sure what the stats are on 0-3 teams making the playoffs, but the odds are certainly long.
1) Simply put, this is a poorly coached team. Offense, defense, even special teams this year. The blocking is terrible. The tackling is terrible. Fundamentally, they just arnt very good. You constantly see confusion on offense and defense. Players dont know where to line up. Some appear to not even know the plays. I think there's probably a large % of players that either dont respect the coaching staff and/or have no confidence in them.
2) Tony Romo doesnt look right to me. I think some of it might be mental, because he fears being lit up at almost anytime by a mediocre OL. But some of it might be physical. He threw alot of balls the past couple of games that just dont have the same accuracy or zip on them as we're used to seeing. I thought the same thing early last yr too, and after 5-6 games he got back to normal. Perhaps its a shoulder or elbow issue, we seem to see stories annually in camp about how he has a "dead" or "sore" arm, and perhaps it drags into the regular season. Some people will point to his yardage total yesterday and maybe even his comp% and claim otherwise, but he didnt play well. He threw alot of poor balls yesterday, some when he didnt have any rush.
3) What a bunch of pansies this OL is, especially yesterday. They couldnt block their way out of a wet paperbag on run plays. They let players go by them or shove them back into the backfield constantly. Kosier and Colombo's return were not improvements. I know both may be rusty from the layoff, but I thought Holland played alot better last week than Kosier did yesterday and DEFINITELY generated more push in the run game. Colombo had two false starts and Davis had one, why would we have MORE false starts than the other team? Especially a team playing on the road with a lousy OL of their own, and that was shuffled all around?
4) Offense, more of the same. Mistakes, turnovers, penalties, drops, bad passes. These are things that have nothing to do with playcalling, but are still the responsibility of the offensive coaching staff. These guys should be better than this fundamentally.
5) Defensively, also a clunker. Not sure why Wade is calling so much soft zone coverage these first two weeks, but they suck at it. Only 2 sacks in 2 games vs teams with mediocre at best OL's. No forced turnovers. Very few plays on the ball. No forced fumbles. Lousy tackling and an inconsistent pass rush. How many times yesterday did we see guys who seemed to have no clue where to line up?
6) Ball and Sensabaugh are a lousy pair of safeties. Or maybe its the way they are used in the scheme. Whatever it is, they are both basically invisible vs the pass and the run. Jones is crazy as hell if he signs either of these guys to long term deals IMO.
7) Back to the OL, Doug Free is the only guy on this line who I'd say has a longterm future here. I dont know what the cap situation will be next yr once a new deal gets in place, but I'd probably have Free and 4 new starters here based on what I've seen in preseason and the first two regular season games. Bright might have a future as a starting guard, and maybe Brewster can eventually start at RT or inside at one of the guard spots, but they'll need some new bodies here.
8) Miles Austin dropped a gimmee and caused an INT on another ball but otherwise had an outstanding game. I thought Roy Williams had a good game and is a different player this yr compared to the last two. Not sure why people are bashing him today. I know he fumbled late, but he was fighting and the play should have probably been blown dead with forward progress stopped anyway. He's running good routes and catching everything. Dez Bryant is going to be a star. Martellus Bennett very quietly caught 7 passes yesterday. Some boneheads in CZ want him gone, but if he ever gets a chance as a #1 he is going to be really good (whether thats here or somewhere else)
9) Hopefully we get more good news on Mike Jenkins today, he says he's ok, but with how things are going so far this yr you never know. We cant afford to lose him, although if Wade and Campo are going to have him line up 10 yds off the WR most plays, he's being wasted anyway.
10) Buehler missed another one, though I am encouraged that he nailed the other two attempts. We didnt lose the game because of him though so I wouldnt be giving up on him too quick, especially in light of the fact that the rest of the team is more of an issue than he is. 90% of the people in CZ couldnt wait for them to release Nick Folk, who was absolute money for two years. He might melt down again, but right now he's 5/5 I think for the Jets. You'd think at some point some of you would learn about being so quick to pull the trigger and kill people off here.
11) Add block in the back on kick/punt returns and roughing the QB to the list of penalties I guess I will never understand.
12) Hopefully they will surprise us all and with their backs up against the wall, put on a solid performance and figure out how to beat Houston. If not, at 0-3 they're going to have to make some interesting decisions in weeks to come. A few guys might need to be replaced by younger players, and they might need to approach the trade deadline with a different attitude. Even if they do get to 0-3, finishing 10-6 isnt out of the question with the talent here and the state of the NFC East right now. None of these teams appears to be world beaters, though none of them look like teams that can make any kind of run in the postseason either.
13) Jerry' staring at a disaster scenario right now. He has that mammoth stadium to fill and a lousy product on the field. It's an extremely discouraging sign when with an extremely talented team, you cant even fill your own stadium with a majority of your own fans for its initial home game. If they lose a few more games and continue this ho-hum type play, that stadium is gonna have 20-30-40k in empty seats later this year. Easily.
Is the season over? No it isnt. Is the team the laughingstock of the league and in deep crap? Yep. 0-2 is not unrecoverable from, but we'll be a signficant underdog at Houston, a team that is FAR better than either of the two we just lost to. 0-3 certainly looks like a strong possibility, not sure what the stats are on 0-3 teams making the playoffs, but the odds are certainly long.
1) Simply put, this is a poorly coached team. Offense, defense, even special teams this year. The blocking is terrible. The tackling is terrible. Fundamentally, they just arnt very good. You constantly see confusion on offense and defense. Players dont know where to line up. Some appear to not even know the plays. I think there's probably a large % of players that either dont respect the coaching staff and/or have no confidence in them.
2) Tony Romo doesnt look right to me. I think some of it might be mental, because he fears being lit up at almost anytime by a mediocre OL. But some of it might be physical. He threw alot of balls the past couple of games that just dont have the same accuracy or zip on them as we're used to seeing. I thought the same thing early last yr too, and after 5-6 games he got back to normal. Perhaps its a shoulder or elbow issue, we seem to see stories annually in camp about how he has a "dead" or "sore" arm, and perhaps it drags into the regular season. Some people will point to his yardage total yesterday and maybe even his comp% and claim otherwise, but he didnt play well. He threw alot of poor balls yesterday, some when he didnt have any rush.
3) What a bunch of pansies this OL is, especially yesterday. They couldnt block their way out of a wet paperbag on run plays. They let players go by them or shove them back into the backfield constantly. Kosier and Colombo's return were not improvements. I know both may be rusty from the layoff, but I thought Holland played alot better last week than Kosier did yesterday and DEFINITELY generated more push in the run game. Colombo had two false starts and Davis had one, why would we have MORE false starts than the other team? Especially a team playing on the road with a lousy OL of their own, and that was shuffled all around?
4) Offense, more of the same. Mistakes, turnovers, penalties, drops, bad passes. These are things that have nothing to do with playcalling, but are still the responsibility of the offensive coaching staff. These guys should be better than this fundamentally.
5) Defensively, also a clunker. Not sure why Wade is calling so much soft zone coverage these first two weeks, but they suck at it. Only 2 sacks in 2 games vs teams with mediocre at best OL's. No forced turnovers. Very few plays on the ball. No forced fumbles. Lousy tackling and an inconsistent pass rush. How many times yesterday did we see guys who seemed to have no clue where to line up?
6) Ball and Sensabaugh are a lousy pair of safeties. Or maybe its the way they are used in the scheme. Whatever it is, they are both basically invisible vs the pass and the run. Jones is crazy as hell if he signs either of these guys to long term deals IMO.
7) Back to the OL, Doug Free is the only guy on this line who I'd say has a longterm future here. I dont know what the cap situation will be next yr once a new deal gets in place, but I'd probably have Free and 4 new starters here based on what I've seen in preseason and the first two regular season games. Bright might have a future as a starting guard, and maybe Brewster can eventually start at RT or inside at one of the guard spots, but they'll need some new bodies here.
8) Miles Austin dropped a gimmee and caused an INT on another ball but otherwise had an outstanding game. I thought Roy Williams had a good game and is a different player this yr compared to the last two. Not sure why people are bashing him today. I know he fumbled late, but he was fighting and the play should have probably been blown dead with forward progress stopped anyway. He's running good routes and catching everything. Dez Bryant is going to be a star. Martellus Bennett very quietly caught 7 passes yesterday. Some boneheads in CZ want him gone, but if he ever gets a chance as a #1 he is going to be really good (whether thats here or somewhere else)
9) Hopefully we get more good news on Mike Jenkins today, he says he's ok, but with how things are going so far this yr you never know. We cant afford to lose him, although if Wade and Campo are going to have him line up 10 yds off the WR most plays, he's being wasted anyway.
10) Buehler missed another one, though I am encouraged that he nailed the other two attempts. We didnt lose the game because of him though so I wouldnt be giving up on him too quick, especially in light of the fact that the rest of the team is more of an issue than he is. 90% of the people in CZ couldnt wait for them to release Nick Folk, who was absolute money for two years. He might melt down again, but right now he's 5/5 I think for the Jets. You'd think at some point some of you would learn about being so quick to pull the trigger and kill people off here.
11) Add block in the back on kick/punt returns and roughing the QB to the list of penalties I guess I will never understand.
12) Hopefully they will surprise us all and with their backs up against the wall, put on a solid performance and figure out how to beat Houston. If not, at 0-3 they're going to have to make some interesting decisions in weeks to come. A few guys might need to be replaced by younger players, and they might need to approach the trade deadline with a different attitude. Even if they do get to 0-3, finishing 10-6 isnt out of the question with the talent here and the state of the NFC East right now. None of these teams appears to be world beaters, though none of them look like teams that can make any kind of run in the postseason either.
13) Jerry' staring at a disaster scenario right now. He has that mammoth stadium to fill and a lousy product on the field. It's an extremely discouraging sign when with an extremely talented team, you cant even fill your own stadium with a majority of your own fans for its initial home game. If they lose a few more games and continue this ho-hum type play, that stadium is gonna have 20-30-40k in empty seats later this year. Easily.
