Pokes12;2997081 said:
Have you noticed that:
* The Offense Shows NO Positive Energy in or coming out of the huddle
* When Tony is preparing to call the signals, he is consumed with pointing, yelling, moving people around and telling players where they should or should not stand
* The Offense does not look like they have practiced together
* Route running is p*ss poor. See Miles on the intercept
* You do not have to be a speedster to get separation. Good route running and good play calling will do the trick. We have neither.
* Tony looks like he is carrying the load all by himself
* He has been forced to take a "no lose" attitude. We don't have that good of a team. We need Tony to attack the defense
* The running game is spectacular but Red Ball goes away from it at just the wrong time
* Red Ball has not found a way to incorporate a dink and dunk offense with the big receivers that are outstanding (why throw to Hurd twice in a row and have Witten and Bennet out of the action)
* Wade is a colorless, inspires not confidence and does not get anything out of this team that they would not give in a "mail it in" performance
* This team needs a Positive Mental Attitude, they do not. It comes from the top and the top is teetering waiting for the inevitable ax to fall on a balding pate.
Go Cowboys!!! What I would give to see what Jimmy Johnson could do with this talent.
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Excellent post. I've been wondering while watching if they even practice half the plays they're trying in the game. People never seem to be lined up right. Romo is always having to tell them they're in the wrong spot. So by the time he's at the line reading the defense he's got about 6-7 seconds left on the play clock. We look completely and totally disorganized most of the time. It's grating for sure.
One thing that is concerning is that Bennett said, after the Carolina game, that the fade routes in the endzone they are throwing are plays that they don't even actually practice during the week. Why on Gods Earth would we be running plays that we're not even practicing? That's stupid.
I heard something on Talking Cowboys recently that I'm starting to believe might be the best bet. I think maybe Garrett is trying to run too many different plays and they're not practicing them enough to run them well. It might be time to scale back the number of plays and just run things, mixing it up of course with pass and run and all that, a certain amount of plays until they're to the point that they can run them really well.
While this team isn't at all the Nineties teams, and everyone knows that, but one of the things the 90's teams did great was that they didn't need a crap ton of plays to be great. I mean two of their best plays was the lead draw and then the slant to Irvin. I mean everyone knew we were going to run it. They knew it. But they couldn't stop those plays cause we just ran them so well.
This team needs to get to that. It needs to get to where it has a handful of plays that they just run to perfection to where even if the defense knows what we're running they still can't stop it.
Chocolate Lab;2997209 said:
I shouldn't even ask this... But when players don't know where to line up on offense, how is that Wade's fault?
Are you serious? If they're not lining up right in the game the chances are that they line up wrong in practice as well. I mean I seriously doubt that we're showing up on Sunday and people just suddenly don't know where to line up. That is something that has to be a problem when they're in practice. If it's still a problem in games it means Wade, and his staff, are not doing their job of getting it down and fixed in practices.
Bach;2997241 said:
Start one, I'm sure you can make something up.
Oh come on. Now while there is plenty to be upset about there is no way you can sit there and say that people would have to make something up to be positive about. There are some posititves on this team.
You're going to tell me how hard Ratliff, Bradie and Brooking are playing are not positives? Those are huge positives. I wish we had a few more guys on defense playing just as hard as those 3.
Choice, Barber, and Felix when they've been given the chance, though Garrett seems hell bent on taking as many chances away from them as possible, have been totally positive. They're running hard, well, and doing their job.
The special teams has been absolutely amazing to this point. How is the improvement on special teams not a positive? The speical teams are so much better thus far than they've been in recent memory. Another quality positive.
So there is no need to make anything up. It's just a matter of being willing to admit the positives along with all the negatives.
