I have been a fan since Eddie LeBaron was the QB. I was young and new to the US and fell in love with the Pokes and with Dandy Don Meredith. I went to all of the Cowboys Super Bowls when Jimmy set the table for the best Cowboys team of all time. Jerry broke me three years ago. Like you, I do not define my schedule to accommodate the Cowboys any longer. I stopped buying anything Cowboys-related ten years ago. The only thing that Jerry cares about is his pocketbook, I therefore will not contribute one penny of my hard-earned money to Jerry's private bank account. The team is mismanaged in ways that are hard to believe. You have to be brain-dead not to see three things that are true about the Cowboys. 1. They have the worst running back room in the NFL; 2. They have the worst Defensive Tackle room in the NFL; 3. They have a quarterback who is just above average and based on his last two games perhaps losing the ability to throw the ball with any zing or accuracy. Tolbert had to make a phenomenal play to haul in the duck that Dak threw deep to him. All three of these truths have been evident even to the most casual observers. Jerry did not one thing to deal effectively with these three problems. For the first two, he went shopping in the bargain bin to find Phillips, and Joseph to pair with Odighizuwa, and Mazi Smith. Do any of those remind you of Bob Lily or Jethro Pugh? Through the first two games, those four have eight tackles and one tackle for loss. An embarrassing disaster.
Let's move to the running backs. The longest run over the first two weeks belongs to Cee Dee, 12 yards. Not one running back has had a run longer than 10 yds. Total yards and yds per carry = Zeke 56 yds 3.5 a carry, Dowdle 56 yds. 3.7 per carry, Vaughn 15 yds. 3.0 per carry. Those numbers are atrocious. Jerry says the committee is working. He is not expecting Cook to play this weekend. Why wait? Our running backs are totally feckless. We cannot set up the pass with runs and we cannot set up the run with passing. Fundamentally, the best we can hope for is some good blocking on passing downs. The defenses of our competitors will dare us to run the ball and will stack against the pass. We essentially have no ability to move the ball into the end zone. The touchdown to Lamb was a fluke. He somehow ducked under two players and ran into the end zone, other than that all we had was Aubrey making all the field goals. He is the biggest weapon we have on offense. We have not solved the red zone problems we had last year. Same old Cowboys. Embarrassed at home by Green Bay and then a reprise this week against the Derek Carr led offense of NO, who looked all world, scoring on their first six touches. Carr only had to throw the ball 16 times and they scored 44. The essentially took the second half off because the game was out of hand for Dallas.
This brings me to Dakota Prescott, who like Romo before him are the two luckiest QBs to ever play in the NFL. Everything broke right for a 4th rounder and an undrafted free agent. They are now wealthy men who never delivered a significant post season win. And now Dak tells everyone that they were not going to go undefeated this year. That explains getting beat by 25 at home? We weren't going to go undefeated. It appears from the last game that Dak is not delivering the ball better now than he has in the past. I see some real worrying signs. His long passes are off target and short. Dak has never been able to hit our receivers in stride or to lead them at all. Every pass is high, low, short or long. He cannot deliver the ball like a true QB stud. Remember Aikman? When he threw the ball it was right between the 8 and the 8, and he could throw the slant pass so that the receiver never broke stride. Do you see that from Dak? I don't. Dak is a good guy, good for the image of the team and for the community but he does not have any killer instincts. He shrivels in front of any significant playoff game. He actually looks afraid every time we play the 49ers. The look on his face says it all. It says, "I do not want to be here". "I do not have what it takes to compete", even against a QB who was picked dead last in his draft class. Dak is a front-runner who piles up statistics when the defense delivers points for him.
I expect this season to be over early for our hometown heroes. If you can't run, you only have one viable wide receiver, and you cannot stop the run how, in heaven, are you going to win games?
More golf for me on Sundays! Jerry is a great owner and an awful GM. Until it hurts in the pocketbook nothing will change. If people continue to go to Jerry World and get ripped off on all their offerings, this will not end and we will have a continuation of the 30 years of mediocracy!!
See ya, Jerruh.
