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Huge win yesterday. The season wasnt over with a loss, but historically once your 0-3 your a good bet to be sitting home in January.
1) Props to Wade and the entire coaching staff yesterday. After two lackluster efforts and poor preparation in general, yesterday was a really solid effort. The team was ready to play and responded to whatever it was they did during the week. Hopefully the same sense of urgency the coaches (and players) displayed yesterday will continue.
2) I said it yesterday and its worth repeating today, we have the best trio of WR's in the NFL right now. Roy Williams is a different player this year. THIS is the guy Jones thought he was trading for. He had a great game and is having a very good season. Dez Bryant has superstar written all over him. The long pass that didnt count was a sensational catch, and it should have drawn a PI call. Miles Austin is already a superstar.
3) After Romo appeared off to me last week, he was really on yesterday. There were really only one or two off throws the entire game. He brought the A game yesterday. Appeared to have more zip on the ball, and the ball seemed to have more of his trademark spiral to it.
4) I dont know what it is, but I hate the Texans. I cant stand their team or their fans, and I dont even live there. Some of the junk they said was just really comical. But hey, you guys got that Governor's Cup.
5) Do we really have idiots in this forum who think DeMarcus Ware and Jason Witten are overrated? How many posts were there this week of people genuinely HOPING the team would lose? Some days I come here and read some of this stuff and cant believe how incredibly moronic it is. There's alot of good posters here and some are really knowledgeable about the game, but alot of the good is offset by the pinheaded threads/posts that we have to weed through.
6) What a bunch of goofs that officiating crew was yesterday. That head official is the epitome of what I think of when picturing NFL officials right now. They missed a ton of stuff during the game too. Bryant should have gotten a defensive PI on that long catch he had, and the refs blew the call on his TD too, there should have been an offsettting call for illegal contact because the Hosuton DB looked like he chucked Bryant out of bounds well past 5yds.
7) Buehler nailed two field goals, very encouraging. That said, he is kicking hurt. Maybe someone can remember the details, but wasnt there a story about him hurting himself late in preseason or training camp? The guy absolutely destroyed the ball on kickoffs during most of preseason. I think he only had a couple of kickoffs that were retornable all preseason. Most were 5-8 yds deep in the endzone. He's still getting it to the endzone or just inside, but its not booming deep into the endzone like it was last yr or especially in preseason. I think the bye week will be good for him.
8) Janikowski missed 3 (albeit one was from 58) including a chip shot game winner. The Saints kicker totally gagged on a 28yd FG and REALLY cost them a game. Surely the coaches of those teams must cut those guys and find replacements asap.
9) I think the bye week coming early is going to end up being good for us. We still have alot of guys nicked up or playing through some stuff. I think the staff can also look at these first 3 games and start making some adjustments to the schemes and the personnel groupings too. One of the major adjustments I think they have to look at is Brooking and James playing so much in pass defense, especially Brooking. Hopefully Sean Lee is getting closer to 100% and can get alot of practice time in for the nickel, we need him.
10) Hopefully Kosier is ok, but this is another knee injury for him and he's in the last year of his contract. Holland has performed very well IMO, but if they find out Kosier is going to miss significant time today then maybe its worth making a call to New England about Mankins. Holland will also be a free agent I believe too and Davis has been ok, but not much better than ok. Guard is gonna be an area of need. I wouldnt give up a 1st rd pick for him, but if the price was a 2nd or perhaps a player (maybe one of our DE's or Tashard Choice) and a pick (middle rounder) I'd think about it. The Pats need defensive help bigtime.
11) A few disappointments for me after 3 games (other than the record): FS Alan Ball, who's been a 100% clone of Ken Hamlin on the field. DE Stephen Bowen, who appeared ready to take the next step but has been mostly invisible IMO. And Anthony Spencer has been decent, but he was another I thought was really going to take that next step and maybe get into that extremely good/dominant class of OLB. Still plenty of time for these guys to pan out, and I'm not worried about Spencer. But in the case of Ball, I'd start looking at other options if I was the team. If they dont make a play for Mankins, maybe finding a FS is an option.
1) Props to Wade and the entire coaching staff yesterday. After two lackluster efforts and poor preparation in general, yesterday was a really solid effort. The team was ready to play and responded to whatever it was they did during the week. Hopefully the same sense of urgency the coaches (and players) displayed yesterday will continue.
2) I said it yesterday and its worth repeating today, we have the best trio of WR's in the NFL right now. Roy Williams is a different player this year. THIS is the guy Jones thought he was trading for. He had a great game and is having a very good season. Dez Bryant has superstar written all over him. The long pass that didnt count was a sensational catch, and it should have drawn a PI call. Miles Austin is already a superstar.
3) After Romo appeared off to me last week, he was really on yesterday. There were really only one or two off throws the entire game. He brought the A game yesterday. Appeared to have more zip on the ball, and the ball seemed to have more of his trademark spiral to it.
4) I dont know what it is, but I hate the Texans. I cant stand their team or their fans, and I dont even live there. Some of the junk they said was just really comical. But hey, you guys got that Governor's Cup.
5) Do we really have idiots in this forum who think DeMarcus Ware and Jason Witten are overrated? How many posts were there this week of people genuinely HOPING the team would lose? Some days I come here and read some of this stuff and cant believe how incredibly moronic it is. There's alot of good posters here and some are really knowledgeable about the game, but alot of the good is offset by the pinheaded threads/posts that we have to weed through.
6) What a bunch of goofs that officiating crew was yesterday. That head official is the epitome of what I think of when picturing NFL officials right now. They missed a ton of stuff during the game too. Bryant should have gotten a defensive PI on that long catch he had, and the refs blew the call on his TD too, there should have been an offsettting call for illegal contact because the Hosuton DB looked like he chucked Bryant out of bounds well past 5yds.
7) Buehler nailed two field goals, very encouraging. That said, he is kicking hurt. Maybe someone can remember the details, but wasnt there a story about him hurting himself late in preseason or training camp? The guy absolutely destroyed the ball on kickoffs during most of preseason. I think he only had a couple of kickoffs that were retornable all preseason. Most were 5-8 yds deep in the endzone. He's still getting it to the endzone or just inside, but its not booming deep into the endzone like it was last yr or especially in preseason. I think the bye week will be good for him.
8) Janikowski missed 3 (albeit one was from 58) including a chip shot game winner. The Saints kicker totally gagged on a 28yd FG and REALLY cost them a game. Surely the coaches of those teams must cut those guys and find replacements asap.
9) I think the bye week coming early is going to end up being good for us. We still have alot of guys nicked up or playing through some stuff. I think the staff can also look at these first 3 games and start making some adjustments to the schemes and the personnel groupings too. One of the major adjustments I think they have to look at is Brooking and James playing so much in pass defense, especially Brooking. Hopefully Sean Lee is getting closer to 100% and can get alot of practice time in for the nickel, we need him.
10) Hopefully Kosier is ok, but this is another knee injury for him and he's in the last year of his contract. Holland has performed very well IMO, but if they find out Kosier is going to miss significant time today then maybe its worth making a call to New England about Mankins. Holland will also be a free agent I believe too and Davis has been ok, but not much better than ok. Guard is gonna be an area of need. I wouldnt give up a 1st rd pick for him, but if the price was a 2nd or perhaps a player (maybe one of our DE's or Tashard Choice) and a pick (middle rounder) I'd think about it. The Pats need defensive help bigtime.
11) A few disappointments for me after 3 games (other than the record): FS Alan Ball, who's been a 100% clone of Ken Hamlin on the field. DE Stephen Bowen, who appeared ready to take the next step but has been mostly invisible IMO. And Anthony Spencer has been decent, but he was another I thought was really going to take that next step and maybe get into that extremely good/dominant class of OLB. Still plenty of time for these guys to pan out, and I'm not worried about Spencer. But in the case of Ball, I'd start looking at other options if I was the team. If they dont make a play for Mankins, maybe finding a FS is an option.
