Frustrations lead to resentment and now anger

[RunDMC]

I don't know what people expect. There is gonna be a lot of frustration when you blow one game, but to blow THREE in a row is absolutely disgraceful. Just one win and we have an entire different outlook. A good coaching staff finds a way to win one of these games. They don't let Dez Bryant get taken out of a ball game. When you start allowing pressure you adjust to a quicker passing attack. You play action on first down and try to get some big plays. Defensively you don't get beat by the same damn play over and over again. You don't stop blitzing when it's working early. Just mounting bitz of evidence to show how inept the Cowboys are.

 

[cowboys1981]

The absence of Romo leaves us with no hope while the presence of him is the exact opposite.

 

[jobberone]

My resentment begins and ends with how this franchise cannot handle "success" in the last 20 years.

Nearly after every "successful" season, there has been an unwarranted sense of pompousness and arrogance from the franchise and its players that results in a resounding disappointment the following year. "Success" is fleeing and more of the outlier than anything else.

That starts with the decision makers and bleeds down and infests the culture.

I've wondered about that and it may be true but the talent has gotten better. I don't see the team's effort looking like they are entitled. I do think they were complacent about the QB position but that is in hindsight. I put that squarely in the FO but some on Garrett. He's not perfect.

There would be no sputtering here if Romo stays on the field. Shoulda coulda woulda. I hope they learn from this.

I like the thoughtful response.

 

[jobberone]

When you play that single high safety D....it's like playing w/ 10 guys on defense. QBs love seeing that D.... all they got to do is look the FS off and throw backside. You got 1 on1 coverage...and your asking your CB to cover a guy that has almost half the field to work with. Good luck w/ that when your not getting to the QB.

Yes, but teams do use it. We don't play single high all the time.

 

[jobberone]

Last night it was the defense, the week before offense. Team always finds a way to lose. That is the mark of a bad team. BTW the back seven on defense is bereft of difference makes except maybe Jones.

It's a team effort. The offense has only scored 160 pts. That's an anemic 20PPG which won't win in this league. There are many ways to get there but mostly too few possessions with a low Sc% and RZ success and putting the defense in bad situations too often. Add in STs mistakes, lack of big plays or Big Play differential and TO differential and you are 2-6. It is enlightening our two wins came via Tony.

 

[Roadtrip635]

We've seen enough of Garrett to know what we're gonna get, he's average. He's an 8-8 coach and if everything falls just right, we might make a deep run in the playoffs. If things don't fall perfect, Garrett is the type of coach that helps to put his players in position to overcome.

Garrett as a coach is like being stuck in mud, we ain't gonna drown, but we're not going anywhere either.

 

[Floatyworm]

Yes, but teams do use it. We don't play single high all the time.

Go back and watch the 4th quarter of our last few games.....Marinelli will not play man under coverage w/ 2 safeties over the top. He just refuses to play a cover 2 late in the game.

 

[jobberone]

Go back and watch the 4th quarter of our last few games.....Marinelli will not play man under coverage w/ 2 safeties over the top. He just refuses to play a cover 2 late in the game.

I'd have to look at the All22 and I haven't the time. If I can make some I'll look at it. Generally coverages are dictated by the formation, schemes and trends of the offense but of course there are multiple ways to defend. Have you looked at the All22?

 

[jobberone]

I see you and I are close to the same age and years of fandom. We also share a similar outlook should the season go south, as it appears will happen. What else can you do, really? I no longer get so emotionally involved like I used to. Maybe that's because we've been in a near 20 draught and I've just become numb to the pain...I don't know. Oh well, let's have a great draft and an even greater 2016!

We're also Marines. Semper fi Brother.

 

[PA Cowboy Fan]

This is the first Philly-Dallas game that I've ever watched that I just couldn't get up for. Even during the bad years I could get up for a rivalry game. Not last night. I was pretty calm because I knew we'd find a way to blow it. It reminds me a lot of those 8-8 seasons when we would find new ways to lose. I'm not a Garrett fan. I never have been. I think he's a nice guy but a mediocre coach. I think he gets a pass this year because of the injuries. It's just hard to evaluate him under these conditions. You would think with all the rebuilding we have been doing that we would be able to win one game without Romo. That leaves me with the conclusion that we have no depth. Some of our players are just awful. I'm also so sorry about any negative thing I ever said about Tony. I was wrong. He is the franchise. If it wasn't for him, we wouldn't even have had the minor success we've had the last few years. I saw what he could do last year with a good running game and OL. It makes me sad because he's been wasted here.

 

[jobberone]

This is the first Philly-Dallas game that I've ever watched that I just couldn't get up for. Even during the bad years I could get up for a rivalry game. Not last night. I was pretty calm because I knew we'd find a way to blow it. It reminds me a lot of those 8-8 seasons when we would find new ways to lose. I'm not a Garrett fan. I never have been. I think he's a nice guy but a mediocre coach. I think he gets a pass this year because of the injuries. It's just hard to evaluate him under these conditions. You would think with all the rebuilding we have been doing that we would be able to win one game without Romo. That leaves me with the conclusion that we have no depth. Some of our players are just awful. I'm also so sorry about any negative thing I ever said about Tony. I was wrong. He is the franchise. If it wasn't for him, we wouldn't even have had the minor success we've had the last few years. I saw what he could do last year with a good running game and OL. It makes me sad because he's been wasted here.

Don't agree with all but thoughtful post. And yes Tony makes the boat row.

 

[Idgit]

Some of the credit has to go to Philly. They are going to wear defenses down with that offense. And they just aren't as bad as some think. They just aren't as good as some predicted. It should have been a close game with Romo out. With him we win by 7-17 pts IMO. Also, I don't see people remarking on how south the defense went with the loss of Lee then Hitchens. We aren't good enough to absorb those kinds of losses. Our secondary is just not that good. We weren't going to have a premier defense this year and railing about it is not going to help the team although venting is not a bad idea.

I didn't address the coaching problem of being able to address those pick plays better nor the offenses fault for not playing them enough to execute them. Nor that the defense is not playing the slants well and part of that is on the LBs and Marinelli. The same applies to the offense for not running more slants particularly out of the spread. So there is blame to be found in the playcalling as well as the execution by the QBs/receivers. There's more.

We can dissect this as much as we can but the bottom line is we are losing and that is primarily because we lost Romo. Any and all can think beyond that all they want.

I don't know what it was. Maybe it was Lee going out (the scoring in the second half all happened after his concussion). Maybe it was them just getting tired. I hope that explains the collapse, since not a lot of other teams in the league will take advantage of that in the same way PHI does. But it was pretty bad.

I wish I knew why we were so bad on defense when it matters most here during this stretch. I don't guy that it's the number of plays they're on the field. But something sure is going on.

 

[noshame]

After reading the title I really expected to open it up and find one sentence



And that leads to the dark side!

Good read, and although I don't totally agree, we can use a little sunshine about now

 

[CyberB0b]

Garrett has been a part of this thing for nearly a decade as the assistant head coach and now the head coach. Offense is his specialty, and he has won games with Kitna, Brad Johnson, and McGee. It's time for the excuses to stop. 0-6 without Romo isn't cutting it.

 

[texbumthelife]

We run a hybrid vertical offense like most teams in the NFL since the 70s to answer a post in another frustration thread.

We run an air-coryell offense, which most people stopped running when Bill Walsh showed how effective the West Coast offense could be, in the mid to late 80's. There have been minor tweaks since then, but most people ran versions of the West Coast until the proliferation of the spread the last few years.

This offense is absolutely antiquated.

 

[Everson24]

My resentment stems from knowing in my heart that this team, even without Romo, is better than 2-6. Every week, it seems they come up with a new way to lose a ballgame. Some of these reasons are not totally in their control, but most are. Players that make the same mistakes over and over and over (I'm looking at you Wilcox) just add fuel to the fire.

This offense shows the ability to move the ball and score points, and then kind of just shuts down and crawls in a shell.

This defense goes all out for a quarter and then spends the rest of the game on oxygen.

The coaching staff through either stubbornness or ineptitude just don't seem to make the critical in game adjustments that you see successful teams do on a consistent basis.

Two games, that's all, if they would have won two games out of the previous six, we'd be all feeling a little on edge, but still pretty confident that they can do something this season.

My resentment comes from knowing we were on the brink last year until Dean Blandino stole our season away from us. Knowing that Tony Romo and Jason Witten will be another year older next year too. Romo is and was too good a quarterback to deserve some of the stuff he has had to deal with. I'm sure he thought we would be no worse than 4-5 we he got back and now it looks like another lost season. Life is just not fair sometimes.

My further frustration comes from living in the heart of Steelers country and seeing them get wins without Ben Roethlisberger. They have a first year defensive coordinator and yet their defense rises up when Ben goes down. Mark my words; they will be in the Super Bowl. It is just that kind of season for me. Same thing happened in 2010.

 

[Floatyworm]

I'd have to look at the All22 and I haven't the time. If I can make some I'll look at it. Generally coverages are dictated by the formation, schemes and trends of the offense but of course there are multiple ways to defend. Have you looked at the All22?

No I haven't looked @ the all-22

Nor do I need too.....I can tell by just looking @ how the CBs are lining up and how many Lbers are on the field. Most of the time we are in a 4-2-5 and we are cheating Church down in the box leaving Wilcox to defend over the top. It's just asinine coaching what we ask some of our players to do. One of the worst coaching mistakes a coach can make is to put a player in a position to fail. And Wilcox playing FS is a prime example....asking him to cover from sideline to sideline when we play that single high safety....He just doesn't have the speed to do it....nor the instincts.

 

[perrykemp]

We run an air-coryell offense, which most people stopped running when Bill Walsh showed how effective the West Coast offense could be, in the mid to late 80's. There have been minor tweaks since then, but most people ran versions of the West Coast until the proliferation of the spread the last few years.

This offense is absolutely antiquated.

But man I loved watching it when it was at it's apex with Fouts slinging it to Joiner / Walker / Jefferson / Winslow and Chuck Muncie tearing up on the ground.

Yes, that era ended in 1985, a mere 30 years ago, but luckily we get to relive a facsimile of it here in Dallas every year under JG....

 

[jobberone]

We run an air-coryell offense, which most people stopped running when Bill Walsh showed how effective the West Coast offense could be, in the mid to late 80's. There have been minor tweaks since then, but most people ran versions of the West Coast until the proliferation of the spread the last few years.

This offense is absolutely antiquated.

That is not correct. Walsh couldn't run a traditional vertical offense in SF due to the lack of a QB to operate it among other things. It was initially somewhat effective but become great with the addition of Montana and Rice and then TO and their RBs. It remained a vertical offense (Air Coryell) and the name is a misnomer of the Walsh system which IS a hybrid vertical offense.

I can get into a long conversation of the development of the vertical offense from Brown to Sid Gillman to Coryell and all the variations of the vertical offense since then. It has evolved and GB, Sea and some others used more horizontal/slant routes than others do. But they all run virtually the same route tree.

All offenses today are a subset of the Brown/Gillman/Coryell system utilizing the personnel they have to their strengths. In truth there are niche players along with true X and Z wideouts and the evolution of the Y to today's version that run all variations of the VO according to personnel, down and distance, opponent etc. These are skilled players who fit certain routes better than others according to their talents. Use of the RBs differ as well.

Our offense is like others. How we use it can be a problem and of course execution is always first and foremost.

 

[DFWJC]

The offense was fine this week. That is for sure.
I'm a Romo fan, but I'm not sure he could have done much better than Cassell did this week.
About 300 yards
3 TDs, 1 ugly pick
Two 100 yard receivers

The defense just coughed it up at the end.

Oh well....hast la vista , season.

No team in history has made the playoffs after starting 2-6.
I'll still watch (and hope) though.