Do people realize

[blindzebra]

The Green Bay packers are playing with their 4th string practice squad QB!!!

I get it, it's been hard this year. But, it's 17 years of..........excuses......

Just stop. Stop making excuses....

No they aren't. Flynn was there stud back up who signed for big money in Seattle but bombed outside of GB's system.

 

[DMX690]

Show me another team that has started 18 different players on the DL and you might have a point.

New England lost there two best players on defense in Wilfork, and Mayo plus Tommy Kelly . The defensive has still been able to be respectable.

 

[blindzebra]

New England lost there two best players on defense in Wilfork, and Mayo plus Tommy Kelly . The defensive has still been able to be respectable.

Is that 18?

 

[ScipioCowboy]

No they aren't. Flynn was there stud back up who signed for big money in Seattle but bombed outside of GB's system.

Flynn was a street free agent who played one monster game against Detroit.

 

[Tabascocat]

The Patriots have been hit hard with injuries, they are over-coming them. On both offense and defense.

 

[ShiningStar]

Is that 18?

do you think all injured players would be starting on other teams? if we had 23 guys out and all couldnt start for a team, would it count? How many of our 18 are a big reason the D isnt working?

 

[Nav22]

No way is there another front 7 that has even had close to as many injuries as ours. Injuries matter. Especially when you're also trying to implement a brand new defensive scheme.

 

[blindzebra]

do you think all injured players would be starting on other teams? if we had 23 guys out and all couldnt start for a team, would it count? How many of our 18 are a big reason the D isnt working?

The Tampa 2 is based on getting pressure with your front four. Having a revolving door on the DL is beyond huge.

 

[tecolote]

No way is there another front 7 that has even had close to as many injuries as ours. Injuries matter. Especially when you're also trying to implement a brand new defensive scheme.

There is a very good chance our front seven for next week is:

Selvie Hatcher Hayden Ware
Sims Lee Carter

Thats not terrible, Selvie has been solid.

 

[Beast_from_East]

That Garrett has this team controlling their own destiny overcoming a defense that has started 18 different players on the DL? All of our LBs have missed time. We have been dinged on the back end too.

The Eagles have NO PLAYERS ON IR and have only lost 30 GAMES by injured starters.

Dallas has 7 PLAYERS ON IR. And God knows how many lost games but the DL alone has surpassed the Eagles total.

With guys on D that should be at Home Depot giving up yards and points at a record pace we have somehow gotten ourselves to 5-0 in the NFC East and a win and you are in on Sunday night.

Sorry but that is not bad coaching.

I for one would love to see what this team could do with a defensive minded draft and some luck for once on the injury front. Because with even a middle of the pack defense this team would not be playing Sunday for a spot in the playoffs, they'd be playing for the #1 seed.

We lose to Philly and he Is gone

No excuses

 

[DWhite Fan]

With better clock management and better play calling (running the ball), this team could be playing for the #1 seed as well...that is on the coaching staff...

 

[ShiningStar]

The Tampa 2 is based on getting pressure with your front four. Having a revolving door on the DL is beyond huge.

you are just fighting hard to protect mediocrity and i wont bother with it..

 

[Seven]

You mean the opening day defense with Spencer and Ratliff? Try again.

Fail.

 

[DMX690]

There is a very good chance our front seven for next week is:

Selvie Hatcher Hayden Ware
Sims Lee Carter

Thats not terrible, Selvie has been solid.

Sims shouldn't be anywhere near the field next week. Go with wilber instead

 

[Blackspider214]

Also, with this logic, no coach should ever get fired. Because every team every single year goes through injuries.

You know where we haven't had injuries? The offense. Minus Murray missing his usual time. OL was healthy all year. Romo healthy the whole time. Who runs and designed this offense? Carrot Top. Which unit is vastly under achieving? That side of the ball.

 

[Idgit]

As I've said repeatedly, injuries are not an argument to keep Jason Garrett. They may be a mitigating circumstance in the presence of a legitimate argument, but they do not, in any way, speak to his quality as a coach. Regardless of the injury situation, after three years, we should have some evidence Garrett is a good coach. We don't. Instead, we have specious game management and a series of highly improbable losses that have kept the Cowboys out of the playoffs.

What's clear as day now is that Garrett should not have been hired in the first place. This was the wrong situation for him. If the Cowboys had been a team in complete rebuilding mode without a franchise quarterback, the Garrett hire might have made sense. He could've grown with them. Unfortunately, the Cowboys weren't that team. Instead, they were a team loaded at the skill positions and fielding the most prolific passer in franchise history in the prime of his career-- a career that's been squandered waiting for Garrett to "figure it out."

That's criminal.

Getting to division championship games in three consecutive seasons is nothing to crow about, but it's an accomplishment of sorts. Doing so with a bottom-ten passing defense three years in a row is more impressive yet, though it also says a lot that he wasn't able to improve the passing defense. It's ok to say that game management probably cost us the GB game. That and the holding penalty on a running down that cost us Detroit mean we have to play a meaningful game this week against the odds when we could be resting starters. Some of that's definitely on the head coach. At the same time, this team and this coach are nowhere near as bad as they're made out to be. We've led the division from the starting gun until week 14 or whatever it was, and we're still in contention and control our destiny. To hear some talk, we've been a laughingstock and a dumpster fire all year, and that's just not the case.

And, one note about the improbably losses: this is what happens when you have top-heavy talent allocation on your team. You have to count on players who don't have the skills available to other teams. It bit us under Wade in 2007 and 2009, too. And it bit us under Parcels. Remember when he said we were a dumb team that beat ourselves by mental errors, and one of the reasons he left was because he didn't know how to fix it? This problem has been going on for a lot longer than just under Jason Garrett. At least right now, the problem is largely related to our pass defense, and can be pretty much directly tied to S play and DL and coverage LB decline and injury. We *know* what's wrong. That doesn't mean we can fix it, but I still prefer a positive diagnosis and addressing that aggressively in the offseason to a tear down/rebuild process where we can have a 4th consecutive coach who leads us to 2-3 improbably losses each season that keep us out of the serious playoff hunt.

 

[ScipioCowboy]

Let's consider the injuries along the defensive line. Crawford and Bass have no more NFL experience than the players who replaced them. In fact, Selvie has been a pleasant surprise. Ratliff was never going to play for this team again--everybody knew that--and the guy I'm seeing in Chicago wouldn't have helped much.

Anthony Spencer is the only proven player the Cowboys have lost, and I have news for you: He's not the difference between the worst defense in Cowboys history and even a middling NFL defense.

The fact that New England hasn't been through 18 different defensive linemen is a testament to their depth and their ability to find replacements.

 

[blindzebra]

Fail.

What fails is your ability to understand an obvious point that two of our best players were out from the beginning.

 

[jnday]

That was my point. We began the season without half our DL and the top back up, Crawford, all out.

Injuries are part if the game, and coaches know that and have to work around it. It is not an excuse.

 

[Common Sense]

What fails is your ability to understand an obvious point that two of our best players were out from the beginning.

So what? Excuse making is obnoxious.