Had Jerry known this defense would be this good

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I repeat, I don't think Jerry and company anticipated the defense would come togetehr this quickly. Because if we had, we would not have entered the season this raw and young on offense. Because as we watch how the rest of the NFL is playing out, this defense combined with an offense that could do something other than kick FGs, or one that could at least be an average running team, would put Dallas right in the hunt for a Super Bowl. Yes, I said Super Bowl.

First I will address Garrett. This is his FOURTH year as OC. And all you people defending where we rank or how many point we have scored over that period are not even worth arguing with if you cannot see that this STILL does not have a clue of what he wants to do in the redzone. Love him as the head coach, but he has taken on too much trying to handle both HC and OC. And his playcalling when we got the ball with about 4 mins left in the game was him obvisouly announcing that he was NOT going to lose this game on offense. He caved to outside pressure. His JOB (whether it was against Detroit OR New England) was to get first downs. And HE built this team to be a passing team, so he cannot decide with this personell that HE CHOSE, to pull what he pulled on that drive. And had he got ONE first down when got the ball, we win this game. So he decides to run the ball with a rookie and this terrible run blocking OL? Give Romo (your most experience offensive player) a chance to redeem himself from the Lions. Give Miles a chance to redeem himself from the drops he had on the prior drive. And you could tell Romo did not even want to speak to him on the sidelines as Tom Brady was adding to his legacy.

I keep reading people dicussing how young on offense. And we are (OC and the players). But this was a CHOICE. We did NOT have to go this route. And I am not suggesting we should have kept Davis, Gurode, Columbo, Holland etc...but it is the JOB of the front office and coaches to put players on the field that allow players in their prime (Romo, Miles, Witten etc...) to take us where we want to go. Too often Romo is not sure if our WRs are going to be where he thinks they should. I mean how much game experience do we have at WR outside of Miles? Whose bright idea was that? And there are not a lot of holes in the running game, but I see our INEXPERIENCED RBs miss holes time after time after time. We really don't have ANY players in the OL meeting room, WR meeting room, RB meeting rom to teach other players the "tricks of the trade" The veterans are Doug Free, Felix and Miles. Ponder that for a second. A 4th round pick, a RB whose last time as a full time starter was high school. And an undrafted free agent from the U (Monmouth U that is)

As I have said, HELP Romo and he can win. Did you see Brady's WRs drop the ball on the game winning drive? Did you see his OL get false starts and holding penalties? When Brady threw picks (oh my gosh he threw a pick)..did his players let the guys score, TWICE like we did? When Bradie forced the fumble, if Welker was not playing like a heads up veteran WR passionate about winnng the game, Newman would have scored. But instead he got maybe 5 yards. That is what I mean by helping your teamate out when a mistake was made. If Dez gets Revis out of bounds immediatley in week one, the Jets are not in position to kick the game winning FG. If we don't let Bobby Carpenter look like Jim Brown after Romo throws a pick, we probaby force them to kick a FG. If Miles does not drop 2 passes on our second to last series last night, we at least score a FG and we all would feel different now. Murray dropped a TD in the 4th quarter that eventually we kicked a FG on. THIS IS WHAT I MEAN BY HELPING ROMO. Brady gets help, Romo does not. Brady is the LEGEND, and Romo has to keep being told he cannot win the big games. It is just sickening right now! Continued dissapointing losses like this will eventually break guys mentally. And the core of this team (Ware, Newman, James, Witten, Romo, Miles) have seen a TON of them
 
I believe Jerry counted on the defense being quite good which would compensate for any youth inexperience on the offensive side. I think that's why they were willing to let the veteran offensive lineman go so easily.

That being said, the Cowboys are about 5 plays away from being 5-0 and about 5 plays away from being 0-5.

Sometimes, things go your way and sometimes they don't. Sometimes you guess right and sometimes you don't.

When you win, no one micro-analyzes anything. When you lose, everyone micro-analyzes everything.

It's just the way it is.

#reality
 
Reality;4184581 said:
I believe Jerry counted on the defense being quite good which would compensate for any youth inexperience on the offensive side. I think that's why they were willing to let the veteran offensive lineman go so easily.

That being said, the Cowboys are about 5 plays away from being 5-0 and about 5 plays away from being 0-5.

Sometimes, things go your way and sometimes they don't. Sometimes you guess right and sometimes you don't.

When you win, no one micro-analyzes anything. When you lose, everyone micro-analyzes everything.

It's just the way it is.

#reality

i agree
 
Reality;4184581 said:
I believe Jerry counted on the defense being quite good which would compensate for any youth inexperience on the offensive side. I think that's why they were willing to let the veteran offensive lineman go so easily.

That being said, the Cowboys are about 5 plays away from being 5-0 and about 5 plays away from being 0-5.

Sometimes, things go your way and sometimes they don't. Sometimes you guess right and sometimes you don't.

When you win, no one micro-analyzes anything. When you lose, everyone micro-analyzes everything.

It's just the way it is.

#reality
Well Jerry did not send Garrett the memo. I am not looking at this after one game. This defense with an offense that is average in the redzone would be 5-0. And with Romo, Miles, Dez, and Witten on offense, it is not too much to ask this offense to be a little better in the redzone. I think we are close to the bottom of the NFL in redzone TD% You saying Jerry anticipated THAT?
 
We will go on a Run.....it will be a nice 1...we wont lose next week, and we will beat the eagles
 
bbailey423;4184589 said:
Well Jerry did not send Garrett the memo. I am not looking at this after one game. This defense with an offense that is average in the redzone would be 5-0. And with Romo, Miles, Dez, and Witten on offense, it is not too much to ask this offense to be a little better in the redzone. I think we are close to the bottom of the NFL in redzone TD% You saying Jerry anticipated THAT?

I think everyone can agree that there is a lot of room for improvement with the play calling in all areas, not just the red zone. There is no question that the play calling the red zone was highly questionable and definitely needs the most work.

#reality
 
I don't even know what to say anymore. This game frustrated me more than any loss this season. I will not be in a good mood until we play and WIN again.
 
Clove;4184609 said:
I don't even know what to say anymore. This game frustrated me more than any loss this season. I will not be in a good mood until we play and WIN again.
I thought this would be a 10-6 team. still do. Just hope this team keeps its head up. Because we need to go 8-3 now.
 
Clove;4184609 said:
I don't even know what to say anymore. This game frustrated me more than any loss this season. I will not be in a good mood until we play and WIN again.

Man your going to be mad for a long time! :laugh2: j/k
 
8-3 just seems impossible for this team, just impossible. 6-5 maybe, makes us 8-8 sounds about right.
 
Reality;4184602 said:
I think everyone can agree that there is a lot of room for improvement with the play calling in all areas, not just the red zone. There is no question that the play calling the red zone was highly questionable and definitely needs the most work.

#reality

i agree with this, but I will add that execution is still a major problem. Everyone has to do their job as assigned and too often one player misses his assignment and it screws up the play.

For example, if Austin makes one of those two catches, we win. We would of continued the drive and burned off 3 or 4 minutes more. But I think, in spite of the very bad OL play, we will put it together very soon and make a run. By the end of the year we will playing really good , to great football. I just hope its not to late to make the playoffs. A lot of folks will miss out on this because they jumped off the bandwagon before halftime yesterday and swore off the Cowboys.
 
Mr Cowboy;4184634 said:
i agree with this, but I will add that execution is still a major problem. Everyone has to do their job as assigned and too often one player misses his assignment and it screws up the play.

For example, if Austin makes one of those two catches, we win. We would of continued the drive and burned off 3 or 4 minutes more. But I think, in spite of the very bad OL play, we will put it together very soon and make a run. By the end of the year we will playing really good , to great football. I just hope its not to late to make the playoffs. A lot of folks will miss out on this because they jumped off the bandwagon before halftime yesterday and swore off the Cowboys.

How can you even say we will be playing great football, this team has not played great football in a very very very long time. 6-10 ring a bell? I see a team with some skilled players but thats about it. They dont line up and take it to another team, and if they get ahead they find a way to give back the points.

This team is about as average a team as you could get.
 
as Harvey Keitel said in Pulp Fiction "let's not go blanking each others blanks just yet"

they have given up 24 points a game, that is not good
 
Reality;4184581 said:
I believe Jerry counted on the defense being quite good which would compensate for any youth inexperience on the offensive side. I think that's why they were willing to let the veteran offensive lineman go so easily.

That being said, the Cowboys are about 5 plays away from being 5-0 and about 5 plays away from being 0-5.

Sometimes, things go your way and sometimes they don't. Sometimes you guess right and sometimes you don't.

When you win, no one micro-analyzes anything. When you lose, everyone micro-analyzes everything.

It's just the way it is.

#reality

I agree. I also do not think Jerry was counting on Ausitn, Dez, Jones, Romo, Dockery, Naggy, Costa and some of the others to all get banged up at the same time.

It's amazing to me the line has played as well as they have with all the moving parts since preseason.
 
If we can just learn to take care of the football, we would be fine. Seriously, if we had that under control, we would probably be 5-0 right now.
 
ABQCOWBOY;4184859 said:
If we can just learn to take care of the football, we would be fine. Seriously, if we had that under control, we would probably be 5-0 right now.

We won the TO battle yesterday by 2. You don't get much better than that. That is not the reason we lost Sunday although 0 TOs would have been better obviously.
 
bbailey423;4184567 said:
First I will address Garrett. This is his FOURTH year as OC. And all you people defending where we rank or how many point we have scored over that period are not even worth arguing with if you cannot see that this STILL does not have a clue of what he wants to do in the redzone. Love him as the head coach, but he has taken on too much trying to handle both HC and OC.

Well said. Garrett needs to devote full time to HC and have an OC who does the same for the offense. Garrett can still set the tone, and call for certain plays when he feels that he needs to, but what he absolutely needs, what the TEAM needs, is an OC to fill the role and work with the offense full time.
 
ABQCOWBOY;4184859 said:
If we can just learn to take care of the football, we would be fine. Seriously, if we had that under control, we would probably be 5-0 right now.
the Pats did NOT take care of the football yesterday...and they WERE fine. Turnovers happen. But instead of letting the guy score after Brady throws a pick...they tackle the guy. I had a poster tell me last week after the Lions game that the offense should not have to practice takcling. And of course they don't. But this is FOOTBALL. If your QB throws a pick, tackle the guy. Did you see Wes Welker after Bradie James forced a fumble on the TE...Welker made a heads up play...the play of a pro...if he does not...Newman very well could have been off to the races. And that has nothing to do with practice. It's called a professional football opereation that has one goal...WINNING!
 

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