I Expect Us To Go On A Run

[CF74]

You all have seen me calling for the benching of Romo but he seems to be progressing all of a sudden, perhaps shaking off a secret injury I dunno but we played arguably the best team in the NFC and we hung in there.

The sky is rolling back folks....

I believe the ship is slowly turning right but still just a few issues in the passing game:

1) Romo still missing open receivers leaving points on the field but not quite as bad.
2) Receivers dropping passes not keeping the drive going and missing first downs but not quite as bad.
3) The D played well but came up short at the end by missing key tackles. (Least of the issues) but I'm a tad irritated with Scandrick. Aside from that they played lights out in my book...

The good news is we got an easy schedule ahead and should go on a run.. The only team that could beat us is the SteA-lers but i think we take em..

Worst case scenario 6-2 down the stretch which puts us at 9-7 but the rest of our schedule is full of teams struggling worse than us.....



This coming from a bench Romo fan folks, I see hope....

 

[The Quest for Six]

said the captain of the Titanic

 

[jday]

You all have seen me calling for the benching of Romo but he seems to be progressing all of a sudden, perhaps shaking off a secret injury I dunno but we played arguably the best team in the NFC and we hung in there.

The sky is rolling back folks....

I believe the ship is slowly turning right but still just a few issues in the passing game:

1) Romo still missing open receivers leaving points on the field but not quite as bad.
2) Receivers dropping passes not keeping the drive going and missing first downs but not quite as bad.
3) The D played well but came up short at the end by missing key tackles. (Least of the issues) but I'm a tad irritated with Scandrick. Aside from that they played lights out in my book...

The good news is we got an easy schedule ahead and should go on a run.. The only team that could beat us is the SteA-lers but i think we take em..

Worst case scenario 6-2 down the stretch which puts us at 9-7 but the rest of our schedule is full of teams struggling worse than us.....



This coming from a bench Romo fan folks, I see hope....

Please explain though what it will prove when the Cowboys beat bad teams? The same thing happened last year in November. We hit a patch of bad teams and magically went on a winning streak, only to be abruptly stopped by above-average teams which hindered our ability to actually draft Claiborne naturally and keep our second round pick.

 

[Muhast]

I feel the same. We will win a lot of games coming up!

 

[Vanilla2]

I hope you're right.

 

[cml750]

Be careful. You are setting yourself up for a big fall. This team WILL let you down.

 

[CF74]

Please explain though what it will prove when the Cowboys beat bad teams? The same thing happened last year in November. We hit a patch of bad teams and magically went on a winning streak, only to be abruptly stopped by above-average teams which hindered our ability to actually draft Claiborne naturally and keep our second round pick.

Hey I didn't say we would go deep in the post season c'mon now but aside from Green Bay, nobody really scares me. Well maybe the Bears..

The Packers could possibly out score us but their D is bad. Our D might be able to hold them a bit. We can put up points on them it will be up to our Defense, I like our chances...

The Bears on the other hand have a good D which cancels out ours. Their offense has been lighting it up a great deal more than ours has but if Romo continues to improve we might have a shot, maybe.

We did well against the Falcons so it can go either way...

The Bears play Houston next this should be very interesting...

 

[CF74]

Be careful. You are setting yourself up for a big fall. This team WILL let you down.

LOL!! I feel ya man but I really like how well they played against the Falcons...

 

[jayhouston12]

You honestly see this 3-5 team coming out every week with a never say die attitude and play serious football?

i've been down that road and i've seen some things man

i wouldn't recommend it

 

[kristie]

I hope you're right.

me too.

 

[Shinywalrus]

Please explain though what it will prove when the Cowboys beat bad teams? The same thing happened last year in November. We hit a patch of bad teams and magically went on a winning streak, only to be abruptly stopped by above-average teams which hindered our ability to actually draft Claiborne naturally and keep our second round pick.

This is a wrong point that I think a lot of people continue to make.

The sign of a good team is NOT that they win the hard games, the close games. The sign of a good team is that they soundly win the games they are supposed to win.

I think a run to 9-7 is entirely possible. 10-6 feels very unlikely to me.

At 9-7, I don't think we make the playoffs this year. That loss to Seattle will come back to haunt us.

 

[OklahomaCowboy88]

We're going to go into each game at a major disadvantage from the coaching stand point. And coaching is key in the NFL. You need to remember, we're 3-5 for a reason. While you look at the schedule and see a bunch of winnable games against 3-5, 2-6 teams, fans of those teams are looking at our game and thinking how likely it is their team can win against us.

That said, I expect us to go 5-3 or 6-2 down the stretch for no other reason than to ruin the draft for me, to where we're picking just outside where the elite blue chip talent lies.

 

[bud42]

The only run we are going on is the dash to one of the better draft picks! I have been a Cowboy fan fan for 42 years. I have never seen a team with such lack of focus. Coupled with the fact that they are one of the more penalized team in the league year in and year out! I got spoiled watching the team under the great Tom Landry and and for a few years under Jimmy Johnson! After 15 years, they are longer the team that other teams circle on their schedule. It starts from the top down. Every fan needs to take their blinders off!

 

[AMERICAS_FAN]

Too many flaws will prevent that.

The only way this team goes on a run is if they start eating at White Castle.

 

[jday]

This is a wrong point that I think a lot of people continue to make.

The sign of a good team is NOT that they win the hard games, the close games. The sign of a good team is that they soundly win the games they are supposed to win.

I think a run to 9-7 is entirely possible. 10-6 feels very unlikely to me.

At 9-7, I don't think we make the playoffs this year. That loss to Seattle will come back to haunt us.

I'm still not exactly sure what is wrong with my point, but, nevertheless, to your point I would argue that the sign of a good team is that they win the majority of the time. At 3 and 5, the Cowboys are clearly not a good team. But I will concede that could change...I'm just not going to jump to the conclusion that they are now a good team, should they go 3 - 0 over the next three weeks against teams they should beat.

 

[jday]

Hey I didn't say we would go deep in the post season c'mon now but aside from Green Bay, nobody really scares me. Well maybe the Bears..

The Packers could possibly out score us but their D is bad. Our D might be able to hold them a bit. We can put up points on them it will be up to our Defense, I like our chances...

The Bears on the other hand have a good D which cancels out ours. Their offense has been lighting it up a great deal more than ours has but if Romo continues to improve we might have a shot, maybe.

We did well against the Falcons so it can go either way...

The Bears play Houston next this should be very interesting...

There are internal issues that have absolutely nothing to do with talent that plague this team. Specifically, this team lacks discipline and accountability. Oh, Garrett talks a heck-of-alot about it, but does very little to foster environment were those necessary intangibles can flourish. And I don't believe Jerry Jones grants Jason the authority to have that type of environment. When players make mistakes, get penalized or run the wrong route, they need to sit on the bench, regardless of their starting status. But Jerry will never allow that and therefore this team, in the end, will always dissappoint.

 

[Idgit]

There are internal issues that have absolutely nothing to do with talent that plague this team. Specifically, this team lacks discipline and accountability. Oh, Garrett talks a heck-of-alot about it, but does very little to foster environment were those necessary intangibles can flourish. And I don't believe Jerry Jones grants Jason the authority to have that type of environment. When players make mistakes, get penalized or run the wrong route, they need to sit on the bench, regardless of their starting status. But Jerry will never allow that and therefore this team, in the end, will always dissappoint.

Cowherd and Woodson were just talking about this topic. I'm curious if there's any evidence that Jerry doesn't allow Jason to discipline players or take away starting snaps from them, or if it's all part of the Cowboys urban legend.

If it's true, it's a direct criticism of the job Jerry does as GM, and a fairly damning one in my book. An actual significant criticism of him above and beyond the usual general 17-years-of-futility stuff.

If not, then the blame falls all on Garrett for not imposing sufficient consequences for turnovers and mental errors. That's where I put it until I see actual evidence to the contrary.

 

[jday]

Cowherd and Woodson were just talking about this topic. I'm curious if there's any evidence that Jerry doesn't allow Jason to discipline players or take away starting snaps from them, or if it's all part of the Cowboys urban legend.

If it's true, it's a direct criticism of the job Jerry does as GM, and a fairly damning one in my book. An actual significant criticism of him above and beyond the usual general 17-years-of-futility stuff.

If not, then the blame falls all on Garrett for not imposing sufficient consequences for turnovers and mental errors. That's where I put it until I see actual evidence to the contrary.

I believe this very well could be the reason why Jerry does not want a GM in place. It is in this area, where Jerry would have friction. Why? Because Jerry is a fan and he knows what sells tickets and merchandise is his big players making big plays...and they can't do that on the bench.

He mentioned in a recent interview that he intends to stay the GM, further stating that he has had success with this model. I don't think anyone looks at 1 playoff win since 1997 as successful...unless he was talking about the money they have made. Routinely staying in the top 5 in terms of net worth in the world is, however, a success.

 

[Diogenes]

I believe this very well could be the reason why Jerry does not want a GM in place. It is in this area, where Jerry would have friction. Why? Because Jerry is a fan and he knows what sells tickets and merchandise is his big players making big plays...and they can't do that on the bench.

He mentioned in a recent interview that he intends to stay the GM, further stating that he has had success with this model. I don't think anyone looks at 1 playoff win since 1997 as successful...unless he was talking about the money they have made. Routinely staying in the top 5 in terms of net worth in the world is, however, a success.

No, Jerry was strictly speaking about football success. He's still trying to sell the notion that he was the architect behind 90's SB run to anyone who will listen. Unfortunately there are still plenty who will listen. Of course most reasonable people understand that Jimmy built those teams and when his players had run their course, the decline was steep. The results after Jerry was assembling the talent, as you pointed out have been 1 playoff win since 1997.

 

[Dodger]

There are internal issues that have absolutely nothing to do with talent that plague this team. Specifically, this team lacks discipline and accountability. Oh, Garrett talks a heck-of-alot about it, but does very little to foster environment were those necessary intangibles can flourish. And I don't believe Jerry Jones grants Jason the authority to have that type of environment. When players make mistakes, get penalized or run the wrong route, they need to sit on the bench, regardless of their starting status. But Jerry will never allow that and therefore this team, in the end, will always dissappoint.

Absolutely, positively dead on balls accurate. And it doesn't matter one bit if Jerry's behind it or not. The fact of the matter is that players are not in fear for their jobs, and because of that, players on this team will almost always fail in the moments when they absolutely must succeed.

Go on a run? I wouldn't put money on it.