Defense comes up small...

[Juke99]

What a fitting ending.

Yeah yeah, Romo BLEW it on that snap. No excuse for that.

But ya know, what killed us all year did it again.

On Seattle's last TD, we got ZERO pass rush. James was trailing by 3 yards in coverage and Roy got there late. TD for Seattle.

Romo screwed up the snap and Seattle was at their own ONE yard line. The only hope was to hold them there. The entire universe knows they are going to run and Alexander (Joey Galloway trade) breaks one off for 20 yards.

When the D needed to step up, they cracked again.

 

[Smith22]

What a fitting ending.

Yeah yeah, Romo BLEW it on that snap. No excuse for that.

But ya know, what killed us all year did it again.

On Seattle's last TD, we got ZERO pass rush. James was trailing by 3 yards in coverage and Roy got there late. TD for Seattle.

Romo screwed up the snap and Seattle was at their own ONE yard line. The only hope was to hold them there. The entire universe knows they are going to run and Alexander (Joey Galloway trade) breaks one off for 20 yards.

When the D needed to step up, they cracked again.

What about an offense that was MIA all night, despite the defense giving them 2 INT's, plus a KR for a TD. We had numerous fumbles on offense all night.

 

[Smith22]

Not to mention we couldn't attack replacement players in the Seahag secondary.

 

[cowboyfan4life2]

Ive seen enough of williams, bill or whoever is the coach next year needs to seriously consider putting some more weight on him and moving him to lb, because he couldnt cover a park bench.

 

[CowboyJohn]

Pete Hunter should join Romo in the Pro Bowl....they both deserve it...

 

[BulletBob]

Sorry, Juke. Normally, I agree with almost all of your posts.

Two words: Pete Freakin' Hunter! Ok, three.

You have a scrub in at CB - we should have had 28 points in front of him alone.

The only shot we took down field was the 4th down to Witten and the Hail Mary.

How in the world do you not throw a fly pattern up the sidelines every other play against this guy?

Your boy Parcells came up small with the game-day play-calling.

 

[Hostile]

The other much maligned defense playing today was the Indianapolis Colts. All year long the run has killed them and today they faced Larry Johnson.

All they did was show up big.

 

[Juke99]

My point is, regardless of what happened the rest of the game, crunch time came and the defense folded.

Look if Romo holds that snap, things MIGHT have ended differently.

But I was sitting there thinking "OH no, there's still a minute on the clock for Seattle to get into FG range."

Whatever.

The loss stunk no matter how we look at it.

 

[Woods]

Glenn's fumble,

Witten's fumble in the 1st half didn't help much either.

That said, I think we probably dropped at least 2-3 ints. Newman had one in the endzone which he should have had. Glenn also had one which he dropped. Oh, while Carp played a very good game, there's one he probably should have had as well.

In any case, I think we atleast played hard.

I'm still pissed off about the play calling on offense, however. I think we could have challenged them a lot more.

 

[bbgun]

Here's the problem: they were on the field a long time before Austin's kickoff return for the td. Then they had to go right back on the field. Glenn's fumble-turned-safety put them right back on the field again.

Who knows if they would have stopped Seattle had Romo not botched the snap.

 

[Juke99]

Sorry, Juke. Normally, I agree with almost all of your posts.

Two words: Pete Freakin' Hunter! Ok, three.

You have a scrub in at CB - we should have had 28 points in front of him alone.

The only shot we took down field was the 4th down to Witten and the Hail Mary.

How in the world do you not throw a fly pattern up the sidelines every other play against this guy?

Your boy Parcells came up small with the game-day play-calling.

Oh, maybe I should have made myself clear. I am NOT blaming the defense. I'm making a point that at the end, the things that killed us all year showed up on that last TD pass.

No pass rush. James LOUSY in coverage. Roy late in coverage.

That's the point I was trying to make.

There's enough blame to go around.

 

[CaptainAmerica]

Agree Juke. The inability to hold them at the goalline when we probably would have gotten the ball back at our 40 yard line with plenty of time was inexcusable.

Romo is sloppy but that defense is not playoff caliber by any description.

I'm actually glad they've been put out of their misery. Any team that loses to the Lions at home is not worthy of being considered a playoff team.

 

[diehard2294]

True,the second half we didn't generate as much pressure as the first half. However the offense made too many mistakes,like I have said a fitting end to a spiraling season, I couldn't stomach RW tonight,he is so awfull with angles it's really hard to watch. It was good to see Carp playing well,should have caught that int though Newman again played poorly, he should look at that dropped int and realize why he doesn't make probowls

 

[Smith22]

Agree Juke. The inability to hold them at the goalline when we probably would have gotten the ball back at our 40 yard line with plenty of time was inexcusable.

Romo is sloppy but that defense is not playoff caliber by any description.

I'm actually glad they've been put out of their misery. Any team that loses to the Lions at home is not worthy of being considered a playoff team.

Yeah, how we gave up a 20+ yard run is beyond me, especially when they are pinned down on the goalline......

 

[Juke99]

Agree Juke. The inability to hold them at the goalline when we probably would have gotten the ball back at our 40 yard line with plenty of time was inexcusable.

Romo is sloppy but that defense is not playoff caliber by any description.

I'm actually glad they've been put out of their misery. Any team that loses to the Lions at home is not worthy of being considered a playoff team.

I don't know about you but when it looked like we were going to go ahead by two, before Romo blew it, I had next to no confidence that we were going to hold the Seahawks.

As I said, there's a lot of blame to go around. BUT I just found it ironic that the last Seahawk TD encompassed everything that is wrong about the defense.

 

[big dog cowboy]

No pass rush. James LOUSY in coverage. Roy late in coverage.

All items pretty consistant all year. Sucks doesn't it?

 

[Seven]

What a fitting ending.

Yeah yeah, Romo BLEW it on that snap. No excuse for that.

But ya know, what killed us all year did it again.

On Seattle's last TD, we got ZERO pass rush. James was trailing by 3 yards in coverage and Roy got there late. TD for Seattle.

Romo screwed up the snap and Seattle was at their own ONE yard line. The only hope was to hold them there. The entire universe knows they are going to run and Alexander (Joey Galloway trade) breaks one off for 20 yards.

When the D needed to step up, they cracked again.

Not to mention two dropped interceptions by Henry and Aaron Glenn. 1 by Carp I believe.We had the dropsies all year. Today was no different.

 

[chinch]

My point is, regardless of what happened the rest of the game, crunch time came and the defense folded.

Look if Romo holds that snap, things MIGHT have ended differently.

But I was sitting there thinking "OH no, there's still a minute on the clock for Seattle to get into FG range."

Whatever.

The loss stunk no matter how we look at it.

we would have let them march right down and kick a 45 yard FG and lost anyways.

Roy got burned so bad it was absurd on those TDs. they adjusted to our coverage and were abusing the D late

 

[Juke99]

All items pretty consistant all year. Sucks doesn't it?

Yep...and add to it that it came at the worst time.

The offense didn't play well tonight BUT they mostly carried this team the entire year.

Honestly, I figured the Seahawks were going to march down the field with one minute left a kick a winning FG anyway.

 

[CaptainAmerica]

I don't know about you but when it looked like we were going to go ahead by two, before Romo blew it, I had next to no confidence that we were going to hold the Seahawks.

As I said, there's a lot of blame to go around. BUT I just found it ironic that the last Seahawk TD encompassed everything that is wrong about the defense.

Totally agree. I had ZERO confidence that our D would hold them to win the game. That's why I'm not that upset.

I get upset when Dallas is actually good enough to win it all like in the '95 NFC Championship loss to San Fran. This team had no business being in the playoffs and I'm ready for the Parcells "error" to end!