First, not hitting in practice is why the cowboys are in trouble, they are now not used to slobber knocker football. The nfl east now is slobber knock football, thats how the Commanders beat the cowboys, heads up one on one player, thats how the cardinals beat the cowboys rushing 3 to 4 players and beating the blocking offensive line of the cowboys with 5 blockers, thats 5 count them.
When you dont get physical in practice and get the players used to the tempo of slobber smash football, then you will lose. Thats one of the reasons why the steelers are losing some games, besides injuries, and yes, the injuries they have had have been in games not practices.
As far as newman, getting injured, again i point to wade phillips not doing his job. why do i say this, last year, newman was used on some occassions in preseason for punt returning, newman got hurt doing this, and what did good ole wade do this year, again he put newman back at practicing returning punts, and again newman got hurt,
newman is too old now to be returning punts. And you cant tell me that out of 81 players that the cowboys had in training camp, that you couldnt find a punt returner, thats the head coaches job to find one, parcells did.
Parcells found punt returners when he was with the giants, and when he was with the patriots and the cowboys. That goes back to what one player said about wade, your special teams will be awful because good ole wade doesnt work enough on it.
now back to hitting, again i point to the late november december run, no pads were used at all in practices, none. A pro bowl player that has played the game, and a guy that has worked in the strenght and conditioning even said this, if you dont get your body used to hitting and stay in shape, after 3 weeks the body starts deteriotaing in muscle mass etc, and getting used to the absorment of hits.
When the cowboys played under jimmy johnson, where the cowboys would win the game was the 4th quarter, they knew if they could stay in the game till then, their big offensive line would run over teams and 90 percent of the times they did.
Thats slobber knocker smashmouth football, just look at the eagles, sure they are beat up, but they play smash mouth, look at the Commanders now, they play smash mouth, and the giants do too on offense and defense.
If you arent prepared to go a full 60 minutes with these teams, with smash mouth football and the only way to do that is keep toned in shape used to hitting.
I back this up by the cardinal game first, what did the cardinals coach say after the game, they said something to this effect. We saw the cowboys body language on special teams and we felt that they couldnt play hard etc and we could get some big plays on special teams, then what did keith davis say, the players have to want to play on special teams, how do you get players playing on special teams you hit hard in practice and you play hard, when you dont play hard your body language shows.
Now on to the rams game what did steven jackson say, we saw the cowboys body language and felt that we could get on top of them and break their morale, they played one on one on offense and defense, smashmouthed the cowboys then they buried them.
Your body language shows if your intent on real hard hitting and wanting it. The cowboys are not showing that with their body language due to fact they are sloppy in practices, why are you sloppy in practices, you dont practice hard with hitting etc in practices.
Till that is addressed, and fixing the penalities, this team isnt going anywhere. The word is out now, play one on one with the cowboys, and you can beat them, their not physical.
