Twitter: Demarco Murray Media Tweets - 08/26/13

[5Stars]

How so?

Interceptions are usually the result of a throw that shouldn't have been made. A mistake.

Just as fumbling is a result of not holding onto the ball well enough. A mistake.

Why should one be tolerated but not the other? The both yield the same negative result.

Are you serious? Really. Are you serious?!

 

[SDCowboy]

No, but I also don't think DeMarco should have been benched for a single fumble in preseason either. It's just preseason, after all. Like I said before, when did this benching business start? This team has been sloppy for years. We're just now benching someone for making a mistake? Think of all the false start issues and other problems this team has had.

I don't think he should have been benched either.

 

[5Stars]

They aren't apple and oranges but they are different things. Naturally, because this team is going to likely pass a heck of a lot more, more interceptions are going to be made. You have less control over a ball in flight than you do the one in your hands. It seems reasonable to think the two should be handled differently. However, if Romo is chucking picks and making mistake after mistake or really poor decisions? I honestly wouldn't be all that offended if he was temporarily benched for a quarter. Sometimes you have to play it safe and be a bus driver. We've had situations where games have been thrown away before because of Romo and his poor decisions. If they can't get it across to him any other way, perhaps a temporary and short benching would do it.

Yeah, it would cause media waves, but who cares. This team has always had the media all over it. If Romo has handled the criticism thusfar he can handle pretty much any other criticism that will come his way. I think the message should be clear and fair and applied equally, even if the punishment isn't necessarily equal. Everyone on this team should be held accountable, including Romo.

smh

 

[Doomsday101]

So you think franchise QBs everywhere should be getting benched for INT's? That would lead to a lot of losses.

True. QB and the nature of the position is taking risk. The windows these QB have to put the ball in are often small a QB can't be afraid that if he throws a bad pass or an int that he is going to get pulled. Normally for a QB to get benched takes multipul bad games where the team then determines to make a change at the position. Benching a RB or WR for a series or 2 is different but no team out there is pulling a QB that easy

 

[tupperware]

True. QB and the nature of the position is taking risk. The windows these QB have to put the ball in are often small a QB can't be afraid that if he throws a bad pass or an int that he is going to get pulled. Normally for a QB to get benched takes multipul bad games where the team then determines to make a change at the position. Benching a RB or WR for a series or 2 is different but no team out there is pulling a QB that easy

I did say in one of my previous posts that fumbling and interceptions are not equal and I don't want to make it seem like I think Romo should be benched for throwing a single interception in a game.

At the same time, I don't think Murray should have been benched for his fumble.

 

[Doomsday101]

I did say in one of my previous posts that fumbling and interceptions are not equal and I don't want to make it seem like I think Romo should be benched for throwing a single interception in a game.

At the same time, I don't think Murray should have been benched for his fumble.

I think given last weeks turnover fest that it was the right thing to do. I think if coaches preach all week long about securing the football and right out of the gate your RB fumbles it, yeah I think you do pull him. In reg season it may not be for as long as what it was in pre season conditions but I do think a point needed to be made by Garrett that we can't do that and expect to win

 

[Galian Beast]

How so?

Interceptions are usually the result of a throw that shouldn't have been made. A mistake.

Just as fumbling is a result of not holding onto the ball well enough. A mistake.

Why should one be tolerated but not the other? The both yield the same negative result.

It is apples to oranges. Passes inherently have a higher risk reward factor to them. When Murray can average 8+ yards per attempt and have an equal TD percentage, it'll be okay for him to fumble at the same rate that Romo throws interceptions.

 

[Galian Beast]

I did say in one of my previous posts that fumbling and interceptions are not equal and I don't want to make it seem like I think Romo should be benched for throwing a single interception in a game.

At the same time, I don't think Murray should have been benched for his fumble.

Not only did he fumble, but he ran out of bounds before a first down, and he missed a blocking assignment that lead to a sack and then a punt. His head clearly wasn't in the game.

 

[Future]

Again, if JG practices what he preaches, than ALL players should be held accountable.. not just the ones we think we can afford to hold accountable.

That's all i was saying.

What about the dozens of picks Romo has thrown over the years b/c of poor route running? Do we bench WRs every time they run the wrong route?

 

[Nightman]

I did say in one of my previous posts that fumbling and interceptions are not equal and I don't want to make it seem like I think Romo should be benched for throwing a single interception in a game.

At the same time, I don't think Murray should have been benched for his fumble.

Sometimes a coach sees something he doesn't like and picks a target that doesn't seem to make sense. Maybe Murray walked thru some practice reps earlier in the week or maybe Garrett just felt everyone was a little lazy. You make a statement benching a starter that the rest of the team notices. Garrett knows that Murray is strong enough mentally to take it the right way, which he did.

 

[Ken]

Not all players get the same treatment. See Jimmy Johnson.....

 

[RoyTheHammer]

And no one including Romo fumbled in the last preseason game after a 6 turnover performance other than Murray. So you really keep speculating and calling something a double standard over absolutely nothing. Lol

I think there's clearly a double standard.. i thought that was pretty obvious by everyone's replies in this thread?

Anyway.. when i look up and see 10 alerts over a relative non issue like this.. its time to stop talking about it. lol

 

[Little Jr]

Lol I can't even debate this anymore. If you don't get you never will. All playes aren't treated the same. Pretty simple or atleast I thought it was

 

[RoyTheHammer]

I can't believe people would actually try to make an arguement that benching murray and romo is the same thing. Smh

Learn to spell argument first..

lolbrb#smhfwiwtnt

 

[Doomsday101]

I think there's clearly a double standard.. i thought that was pretty obvious by everyone's replies in this thread?

Anyway.. when i look up and see 10 alerts over a relative non issue like this.. its time to stop talking about it. lol

Then it is a double standard that QB get around the league but then the position is such that a QB has to take more gambles, you can't have a QB who is afriad to make a mistake because you end up with a QB who is not making plays

 

[Nav22]

Why does everyone keep comparing entirely different situations to the one we have here right now?

Says the guy comparing benching a RB for an awful fumble vs benching the franchise QB. Those are also "entirely different situations".

1. Jimmy Johnson has some skins. I trust his judgment whether I agree with it or not. Garrett does not and has a history of poor decision making.

Jimmy had NO skins on the wall as an NFL coach when he made that decision. It came during the '92 season.

DeMarco Murray is not a backup RB who fumbled twice in the same game.

No, but he IS a starter who hasn't been all that productive lately. He burst onto the scene as a rookie and has been pretty average since then.

You mentioned "skins on the wall" when comparing Jimmy and Garrett. So now compare Murray's skins to Romo's.

 

[RoyTheHammer]

Then it is a double standard that QB get around the league but then the position is such that a QB has to take more gambles, you can't have a QB who is afriad to make a mistake because you end up with a QB who is not making plays

No doubt. I think there's a difference in what kind of interceptions are thrown, like i said earlier.

 

[RoyTheHammer]

.No, but he IS a starter who hasn't been all that productive lately. He burst onto the scene as a rookie and has been pretty average since then.
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Huh?

He had a 4.1 ypc last year behind a rancid OL and doubled his TD production in less carries than his rookie year.

 

[cowboys2233]

I don't think he should have been benched either.

If this had been a real game, Murray wasn't getting benched for an entire half. Preseason can be good for a lot of things, one being the ability to send a message without hurting the team's chances.

 

[Doomsday101]

No doubt. I think there's a difference in what kind of interceptions are thrown, like i said earlier.

Even Peyton Manning has thrown stupid passes he should not have throw, hell Sean Lee picked him twice one on a pass that Peyton damn well knew he should not have thrown it is part of the position. However you can't play QB scared and when a QB gets benched again normally it is not to send a message it is because you feel another is more capable to do the job.