Wow! I've never seen so many people with such a general lack of knowledge expound their "expertise" on a subject that they know so little about in my life.
First of all, to all the Bill bashers: you must have enjoyed the days of Dave Campo and 5-11 seasons with absolutely no hope for the future. I'm not sure if you realize this, but the signing of Parcells didn't guarantee any one of us a Super Bowl appearance/victory. If it did there's a chance that we wouldn't have even been in the running to hire him. Parcells is the most legit coach the Cowboys have had since Jimmy Johnson, yet all I'm hearing is that Parcells doesn't have a clue...from yet another message board roaming "expert". Bill has hit on some things around here and he's missed on some things. Just like.......gasp..........every other coach in the entire league. For every low round success in the league there are 100 low round failures.
And, as far as Rob Petitti goes he was, in a little way, a success. If for nothing else than the experience that he/we gained. Was his performance less than desirable? Sure! We all wanted better, but better wasn't on the roster! No one could have predicted that Rivera would injure himself and struggle throughout the year. Most Cowboy fans were ecstatic that we were getting Rivera and the leadership he would bring to the O-line. This year he's crap and we could have gotten one player for him another "career backup". As far as that career back up goes, if you have the resources, go back and look at how that "career backup" handled our boy Demarcus Ware during the Lions game. Kosier was moved to LT during that game due to an injury and the guy that some of you have appointed as the next GOD became a non-factor because of this "nobody career backup". But, never mind that, he wasn't a big name overpaid FA so he must be crap. And while we are on the subject of overpaid lineman, how about our own Larry Allen? 7 million dollars for the production we are getting out of Larry Allen are you kidding me? Yet some of you will say that he's the "only solid piece to the o-line that we have". Well that's neat, but keep in mind that the cap hit we take for him precludes us from dumping ***loads of money on these guys that some are crying rivers about not getting (LeCharles Bently rings a bell)
I also hear some rumblings of why we didn't draft some O-linemen high in the draft in previous years. WOW! What a fantastic idea! So now we can kiss goodbye Terrance Newman or Ware or Spears or, how about Whitten, see ya later Jullius Jones? Rogers and Peterman looked like very good draft picks at the time. Who knew that Rogers would end up being such a p*ssy or that Peterman wouldn't find a different position to play (make no mistake: Peterman sits because Larry Allen is still on the roster). And, while we're all busy patting Larry Allen on the ***, maybe we could ask him if he's going to start dominating opponents as his contract would suggest because if what he's been doing lately is called dominating then I guess we have a different idea of what domination is. And, if he's got enough "team" in him maybe he would restructure his contract to match the levle of his play. We all talk a lot of ***** about the Commanders (and as well we should we arer Cowboys fans), but half of their roster was heading into the front office to resrtucture deals to put themselves in a postition to compete this year. I have and always will hate the Skins, but as a sports fan in general (especially in these "show me the money" days) that was a pretty class act by a group of guys that truly veiwed themselves as a TEAM. A little bit of that mentality would go a long way around Valley Ranch..........and maybe in the fan clubs as well.
Peace,
SS
