Ir's sickening to see the fanbase tonight

[Tusan_Homichi]

These goofs cant get any kind of pressure on the QB unless Rob sends the house. It's either do that, or let Eli sit back and pick you apart.

I just think you have to make them take more time. We just let them shred us in back to back drives. At least try and use the clock to our advantage.

 

[Everlastingxxx]

Nothing like a slobbering drunk giving advice, lol.

Whenever someone tries to put a loss on any single individual on a team sport that shows their ignorance. The OP has decided to do this, ie Rob Ryan. As a sober individual i saw a number of issues tonight. Most i don’t feel like going into. As Garrett says, there are 3 phases to a game. They all failed to do enough to win and so did the coaching staffs.

 

[windward]

it really is sickening how complacent some of our fans have become.

it's like the losing has made them forget the standard, the tradition this franchise was built on.

There's a lot of work to be done on this team.

Nothing wrong with high expectations, but you have to have the talent to consistently win like the Pats, Steelers and Pack.

Hopefully we can get there in the next couple years

 

[Dodger]

These goofs cant get any kind of pressure on the QB unless Rob sends the house. It's either do that, or let Eli sit back and pick you apart.

That's what I've been saying all night.

Though CajunCowboy has a point...play your safeties deep and take away the quick strike. Yeah, at least the Giants won't score quickly, but with the JAGs on this defense, I think they still would have scored.

So again, what does Ryan do? Send the blitz and try to disrupt Eli or just sit back and watch Manning carve you up as he checks his email while waiting for receivers to get open?

 

[Cowboys&LakersFan]

Nothing like a slobbering drunk giving advice, lol.

Whenever someone tries to put a loss on any single individual on a team sport that shows their ignorance. The OP has decided to do this, ie Rob Ryan. As a sober individual i saw a number of issues tonight. Most i don’t feel like going into. As Garrett says, there are 3 phases to a game. They all failed to do enough to win and so did the coaching staffs.

We failed in 1 area DEFENSE.

 

[Everlastingxxx]

We failed in 1 area DEFENSE.

No the Cowboys failed in all 3. Offense failed to ice the game. Special teams had the poor punt and blocked field goal. Defense failed to hold a lead.

 

[Eskimo]

That's what I've been saying all night.

Though CajunCowboy has a point...play your safeties deep and take away the quick strike. Yeah, at least the Giants won't score quickly, but with the JAGs on this defense, I think they still would have scored.

So again, what does Ryan do? Send the blitz and try to disrupt Eli or just sit back and watch Manning carve you up as he checks his email while waiting for receivers to get open?

His blitzes and coverages were too obvious.

Eli knew he had favourable one on one matchups. It was easy to see who has manned up and he delivered the ball so his guys could make the plays and our guys couldn't defend it.

Did you notice how he totally avoided Jenkins. He went after Tnew over and over again whenever he had that matchup. Ryan should have never given it to him.

 

[el_chevo]

Nothing like a slobbering drunk giving advice, lol.

Whenever someone tries to put a loss on any single individual on a team sport that shows their ignorance. The OP has decided to do this, ie Rob Ryan. As a sober individual i saw a number of issues tonight. Most i don’t feel like going into. As Garrett says, there are 3 phases to a game. They all failed to do enough to win and so did the coaching staffs.

I appreciate your particular adherence to a view bereft of mind-altering substances - you are in the minority of these post-game rants. You are correct that the blame, as Garrett mentioned, should be doled out to all participants in the game. Some of our fan base, however, has become complacent as have some of the cowboys staff. Perhaps they are dealing with bad contracts and promised made by previous employees? Alas, these questions must be answered by hossy and those closer to the facts revolving around the Dallas Cowboys.

 

[Eskimo]

No the Cowboys failed in all 3. Offense failed to ice the game. Special teams had the poor punt and blocked field goal. Defense failed to hold a lead.

You're probably never going to get a perfect offensive performance. If you truly could you could forget about the other two phases (wouldn't even have to kick extra points, just go for the two points every time) and still win.

Our offense was about as good as it could be outside of the two mistakes forced by JPP: one safety and one strip of Felix. They couldn't ice the game but it is hard to do when your interior OL is that bad. We started off weak and were down two of our original starters in this game (Costa and Nagy) at the end. Unfortunately Romo and Austin couldn't hook up on 3rd down. That occasionally will happen on a deep ball.

I actually like where this offense is right now with Fiammetta and Miles back. It would be nice to have Smith at LT and Free at RT but that will happen next year. I think 2 of the 3 interior OL need to be changed. The WRs are a good unit so long as Austin is healthy. The TEs are good when Bennett is around to block (we really, really missed him today). I think we are pretty good there.

 

[realtick]

You'll have to forgive any spelling errors, I've been drinking at a record pace for the past two hurs...

Tonight has proven that we have the most mindless fanbase in football. Yes, tonight sucked. I'd go so far as to say I've never been this upset. I'm not denying this was an epic collapse, because it it was. It was pathetic...in fact, beyond pathetic, I was historical. I've been as big a Jason Garrett basher as there is, and Romo and the offense have not escaped my wrath either. Every part of this team has sucked at one time or another.

However, those blaming Romo, Garrett or Ware tonight are pathetic and don't know footbnall. Period. Romo played great, had a 141 QB rating. Ware had SIX QB pressures, the most in the NFL today. Garrett called a great game offensively. The vast majority of the anger is misdirected tonight. This game falls squarely on Rob Ryan, the one guy I havent ripped on this year. His defense didnt show up in the clutch. It choked in epic fashion and may have just cost us our season. The offense gave us a 12 point lead with 5 minutes to play, we have NEVER lost a game like that in our history...and yet we did tonight.

So, be mad. Be irate. Be so angry it makes you put a fist through the wall. However, please don't direct your anger at the wrong people because its the cool thing to do.

I agree (about blaming Garrett, Romo, et cetera), but I disagree with blaming Rob Ryan.

The blame should lay at the feet of the players who didn't perform. No scheme can prevent Terence Newman from playing with poor technique or just simply being outplayed.....again. I gaurantee you Rob Ryan didn't create a coverage scheme that involved letting a receiver run freely down field (Manningham).

 

[Dodger]

His blitzes and coverages were too obvious.

Eli knew he had favourable one on one matchups. It was easy to see who has manned up and he delivered the ball so his guys could make the plays and our guys couldn't defend it.

Did you notice how he totally avoided Jenkins. He went after Tnew over and over again whenever he had that matchup. Ryan should have never given it to him.

I guess my point is it didn't matter. Blitz or play zone. It wouldn't have mattered. With the players Ryan has to work with, Eli would have just sat back and disected zones as easily as he did single coverage.

Of course we'll never know because Ryan didn't play much zone, so I could be wrong...but I don't think so....

 

[Eskimo]

I guess my point is it didn't matter. Blitz or play zone. It wouldn't have mattered. With the players Ryan has to work with, Eli would have just sat back and disected zones as easily as he did single coverage.

Of course we'll never know because Ryan didn't play much zone, so I could be wrong...but I don't think so....

No, Ryan made it too easy for Eli.

He needed to be mixing up his coverages and blitzes more than he did.

I actually would have been fine with mostly rushing four but they applying many different coverages to confuse Eli. This could have given us more opportunity for the 4-man rush to get there and disrupt things.

Are all-out blitzes were met with a decisive pass to a wide open WR every time.

 

[Dodger]

No, Ryan made it too easy for Eli.

He needed to be mixing up his coverages and blitzes more than he did.

I actually would have been fine with mostly rushing four but they applying many different coverages to confuse Eli. This could have given us more opportunity for the 4-man rush to get there and disrupt things.

Are all-out blitzes were met with a decisive pass to a wide open WR every time.

Eh...I think our players made it too easy for Eli, between the blown coverages and penalties.

Okay, sure, Ryan could have mixed it up more, but do you really think that would have bothered Eli?

 

[Clove]

I stand by every word I said tonight. I have nearly 2 decades of evidence on my side. This is the same junk we see every year. Every year, people tell us we're going to be great and go to the SB. Then they get on fans who see the real problems, call us fairweather, whatever kind of crap they want to come up with, I personally don't care what they call me, I refuse to be a nice guy after years and years and years of pure trash.

I don't care who's on this team, no player IN MY EYES, is beyond getting their *** ripped. This is a group of nobodies. No one will remember them in 14 years, maybe the QB, Ware for his stats and Witten.

IT seems like Ryan is here on name only. Because Buddy was a great coordinator and Rex was a HC. You can't blitz teams when you can't cover 1 on 1. If anyone's been paying attention to Eli, he doesn't hold on to the ball very long, he gets it out of his hands quickly. Sometimes I wish Romo would do that, but I'm not going to dog Romo out too much, but at the end of the day, his guy was wide open and he missed him. On the other side, Eli marched his team down the field, didn't miss receivers and got his team the victory.

Even if the kick wasn't blocked and we made it, why did it come down to that when Garrett sits on the ball instead of moving it. This guy is not ready for prime time, he makes more mistakes than his players do.

And speaking of Garrett and his organized, wear your freaking suit to the air plane crap, why is it that his players still jump offside, and multiple false starts during the game, STILL? I'm frustrated as I've been.

The owner goes out and purchases a freaking billion dollar stadium, but he can't come up with the capital to sign some of these corners and other pieces that would've helped this team be much better. Since when did Jerry become cheap too?

 

[Beast_from_East]

Great post. I am glad to see you are not going to hang this loss on Jason Garrett. If a person on this forum does not like Garrett then they go out of there way to bash him even when it is not his fault. The same can be said about Romo. There are to many people on this board that hidden agendas when it comes to a certain coach or player. Try to look at it objectively. Give blame when blame is due.

Sorry, but the last time I checked the head coach is responsible for the performance of the team. If Ryan was blowing it with all of those blitzes, then it was up to Garrett (the guy who hired him) to go over and tell him to stop it.

The fact that Garrett stood by passively says he didnt have a problem with it. Also, the fact that Jerry is in the booth yelling at Garrett to call a freaking time out tells me all I need to know about Garrett's game managing abilities.

If we would have had another 10 or 15 seconds we could have had time for another play or two and who knows what could have happened.

Garrett needs to be either HC or OC, he clearly cant do both.

 

[ThrowuptheXDez88]

Thank Rob Ryan & his players on the defensive side of the ball, this is now the 4th straight game where they let a team drive right down the field and tie it ala the Arizona & Washington game or take the lead like the Giants-Dolphins did.. Add in the Patriots choke job by the defense, I can't wait til Brooking-James-Newman-Spencer are gone & I gave Rob Ryan a break after the Washington game, but his defense continues to fail game after game ... 12 point lead with 5:30 left and you let them go 80 yards in 2:30 minutes!! Then some fans have the nerve to critique Romo, who made play after play & put us in the position we were in to win the game & just missed Miles to put the game away... Plus even after the defense choked!!! He drove us right down the field and put the Cowboys in position to take it to OT just like he has all season - the Jets-Lions game.. Romo has been a stud 4 straight weeks in crunch time & people have the audacity to bash him??? REALLY?? REALLY??? WAKE UP to the people with the blinders on that just look for 1 individual player to kick around & realize how ridiculous you sound when you choose to talk out of ur arse tomorrow at the work place or to friends, the DEFENSE is absolutely horrible & to blow a 12 point lead with 5:30 is inexcusable, you can talk about Romo missing Miles all you want, but just like last week after the FG blunder the defense came out once again and got ran over in OT

 

[RoyTheHammer]

You'll have to forgive any spelling errors, I've been drinking at a record pace for the past two hurs...

Tonight has proven that we have the most mindless fanbase in football. Yes, tonight sucked. I'd go so far as to say I've never been this upset. I'm not denying this was an epic collapse, because it it was. It was pathetic...in fact, beyond pathetic, I was historical. I've been as big a Jason Garrett basher as there is, and Romo and the offense have not escaped my wrath either. Every part of this team has sucked at one time or another.

However, those blaming Romo, Garrett or Ware tonight are pathetic and don't know footbnall. Period. Romo played great, had a 141 QB rating. Ware had SIX QB pressures, the most in the NFL today. Garrett called a great game offensively. The vast majority of the anger is misdirected tonight. This game falls squarely on Rob Ryan, the one guy I havent ripped on this year. His defense didnt show up in the clutch. It choked in epic fashion and may have just cost us our season. The offense gave us a 12 point lead with 5 minutes to play, we have NEVER lost a game like that in our history...and yet we did tonight.

So, be mad. Be irate. Be so angry it makes you put a fist through the wall. However, please don't direct your anger at the wrong people because its the cool thing to do.

Romo, Ware, and Garrett all share part of the blame tonight.

Romo played very well, but he also could have sealed the victory at the end and missed a wide open Miles.

Ware played pretty well, but got no sacks, and committed two bad penalties at the end.

Garrett still doesn't have this team mentally prepared and focused enough to overcome adversity and pull these close games out.. now when it matters most.

All three share a part of the blame, as does the rest of this team.

Our O continues to put the D in bad spots at bad times, our ST's continues to make mistakes at bad times, and our D continues to break down at bad times.

The only thing this team is consistent at is being inconsistent.

 

[bayeslife]

I don't think I can ever forgive Austin for not putting in any effort to make the catch that would have iced the game.

 

[ThrowuptheXDez88]

Our O continues to put the D in bad spots at bad times

Oh, they put them in bad spots?? Yeah especially when they take the lead right?? lol give me a break at bad spots. teams are driving 80 yards on this defense easily... Commanders game up 7, lead goes bye bye.. Arizona game up 7.. lead goes bye bye. New England game up by a FG...Miami's offense had an answer every time the Cowboys offense scored.. It's not like this defense is protecting a game winning FG from the opponent, these teams are having to drive the length of the field to put it in the endzone and are doing it easily making a clinic out of the Cowboys d.. Do I still believe we can pull off a string of wins, of course but Rob has gotta find something that works, b/c this is UGLY!!!

 

[RoyTheHammer]

I don't think I can ever forgive Austin for not putting in any effort to make the catch that would have iced the game.

He was running at a full sprint.