Definitely have to give a game ball to Miles Austin...Really gave the return game a spark for what has typically been a lackluster aspect of the team.
The defense?...Where do you begin?...Ratliff probably had the most consistent effort out there...RW again was a nonfactor and Hamlin gave no indication he deserves any kind of extension...If I had to choose one guy in the secondary, I guess I'd say Newman played the 'best' but even he failed to back up his rhetoric (Funny or not) with anything other than a questionable overall performance...And while DWare and Ellis provided marginal pass pressure throughout the game, this was against a Lions OL that was getting killed each week by pressure...Gotta think that can't be looked at as anything but a serious failure on the DL...But more than anything else, for me, the blame has got to go to the coaching staff and failure to do much of anything to abate the Lions offense...They played soft zone coverage and pretty much let them run up and down the field at will...No way to go through a season hoping your offense simply outscores your defense giving pts away...And the tackling?...How many times did we see the LBs get knocked back at the point of contact?...And not just by Duckett, mind you...Next time the subject of needing a better tackling ILB comes up, perhaps other zoners won't be quick to scoff...It remains a need...The tackling was pathetic.
Not surprising they bottled up TO like they did but why weren't there many attempts down the field?...I thought Miles Austin was going to be used a little like he was against GB...Strange.
How good did Greg Blue look for the Lions?...He had a couple of key plays and actually stood up the bigger Barber on a couple of plays...Sure would be nice to see some of our Safeties record plays like that....He was a late addition to the Lions, too.
If you're a Lions fan, gotta be lickin your wounds right about now and wanting Shaun Rogers tossed from the team...That dude really better stay out of sight in Detroit...Shameful from him.
Kitna...Looked pretty good and pretty accurate about his 'joking' around comments, eh?...Let's just hope the rest of Dallas' opponents don't give any bulletin board material that turns into these kinda games.
And doesn't it seem like each week an opposing punter seemingly outplays our very own McBriar?...Crazy, seems like they all seem to have career days against the boys.
