Hoofbite
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Usually you take the good with the bad.
Robinson / Murray are about as good as it gets from that game. Everything else was garbage. (Edit: Have to throw Ware in as well. He was one of the few bright spots)
Rob Ryan was as bad last night as he has been good leading up to last night. Not really much more needs to be said. I think he'll get things going again and I'd bet he the next game against Philly goes much differently.
I really hope that Lee doesn't miss any time.
And WTH is up with McBriar? I've never heard of a punter getting hurt in practice. And how hurt can you possibly be? You stand still 90% of the time. Looked like he had one small leg and one giant leg last night. One Calista Flockhart leg and one Roseanne Bar.
Getting really sick of seeing the OL sink the offense. Even more, I'm getting really sick of the coaching staff's complete ineptness at finding a way to counter. Unless someone wants to tell me this is the worst OL in the entire league and quite possibly the history of the league, there is no excuse for not being able to find a way to keep Tony upright. That's all there is to it.
The Bears OL was way worse than this last year and they found a way to pull it out and get to the playoffs. I'd say the Packers OL was no better than what Dallas has. That unit gave up like 90 sacks between 2009 and 2010.
Since the start of 2009, the Steelers have given up 118 sacks. That's 40 per year if they didn't have another sack for the rest of this season. Halfway home, they've got 25 this year.
I said it about Houck in his thread, this guy is supposed to be a great coach because he DOESN'T need all the talent in the world to succeed. Same for Jason Garrett. Look at what the guy is working with.
2 Top WRS
Best All Around TE in the NFL & Best Blocking TE (So We're Told)
More than capable QB
Solid #3 WR
What Appears To Be A Potential Stud RB
If you're telling me that after all that he ALSO NEEDS a good OL to get the job done, I'm telling you the guy just isn't that good. You find me a OC who couldn't get the job done with this selection of skill players in addition to a good OL and I'll show you an OC who doesn't have a job.
Jason Garrett better find a way to sure up that line or this team will sink.
And here's a question about the 6th OL who's on the field nearly constantly. If Marty's only asset to the team is his blocking ability and the OL still isn't able to get enough protection against a minimalist rush with that additional help, what the hell value does he even provide? Seriously, what is the point? If it doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things to put him on the line in terms of keeping Tony upright, I'd rather they just put another WR out there and spread the defense a little thinner.
Martellus is a bust. Was a bust at the time and is only made worse by the fact that the front office turned down a 1st round pick for him.
While we're talking about the line, does anyone know what the hell is going on with those lollipop snaps? How can a guy get to the professional level at something and still suck so much at doing his most important job? Imagine a doctor who couldn't stich up a wound.
Back to Garrett. His redzone offense sucks. End of story. Has sucked and will continue to suck. Shotgun from inside the 5 is laughable. If I were playing this team and they were moving the ball and around the 40 yard line, I'd just let them get to the 15 yard line and accept the FG they'll kick. For the first few weeks when he didn't run in the redzone it was because the running game wasn't working. What's the excuse now? Takes too much time to run the ball once or twice from 2 yards out? Even if you ran it and got stuffed, you could line right back up and throw it. Might take 10-15 seconds per run and when you're down by that much, failing to score at all because you were an idiot is much worse than taking an extra minute (MAX) to run once or twice.
And does anyone know what was going on for that last drive? What was that? Sort of a half-committed attempt at scoring? You're gonna run the hurry up down 27 points with less than 2 minutes left, for whatever reason, but you won't fully commit and use timeouts? Either run out the clock with a couple of handoffs or just fully commit and try to score. Don't do this stupid in-between BS where you run a handfull of plays, extend the game longer than needed and come out with nothing.
Last night I was thinking there wasn't a lot of talk about Beuhler being back. Scoring very little will do that I suppose. But then it occurred to me that lost in all the talk of whether or not Dallas gets any benefit from Buehler is the fact that his opportunity to help is structured so he basically NEVER CAN.
If Dallas scores nothing, he doesn't kick. Pretty simple there. But, if Dallas scores a bunch, his value is minimal because scoring a bunch in itself usually results in a win with or without some Adonis-DNA kicker. There's really only one situation in which it works as intended. Dallas kicks an *** load of FGs in a close game which I guess is convenient giving the pathetic nature of this redzone offense.
All in all, a gutless performance on nearly every level. The team looked like they didn't even make the trip. It was every bit as bad as the Jags or Packers game last year.....probably worse than the Jags game and I'd say worse than the Packers because this wasn't supposed to happen this year.
Robinson / Murray are about as good as it gets from that game. Everything else was garbage. (Edit: Have to throw Ware in as well. He was one of the few bright spots)
Rob Ryan was as bad last night as he has been good leading up to last night. Not really much more needs to be said. I think he'll get things going again and I'd bet he the next game against Philly goes much differently.
I really hope that Lee doesn't miss any time.
And WTH is up with McBriar? I've never heard of a punter getting hurt in practice. And how hurt can you possibly be? You stand still 90% of the time. Looked like he had one small leg and one giant leg last night. One Calista Flockhart leg and one Roseanne Bar.
Getting really sick of seeing the OL sink the offense. Even more, I'm getting really sick of the coaching staff's complete ineptness at finding a way to counter. Unless someone wants to tell me this is the worst OL in the entire league and quite possibly the history of the league, there is no excuse for not being able to find a way to keep Tony upright. That's all there is to it.
The Bears OL was way worse than this last year and they found a way to pull it out and get to the playoffs. I'd say the Packers OL was no better than what Dallas has. That unit gave up like 90 sacks between 2009 and 2010.
Since the start of 2009, the Steelers have given up 118 sacks. That's 40 per year if they didn't have another sack for the rest of this season. Halfway home, they've got 25 this year.
I said it about Houck in his thread, this guy is supposed to be a great coach because he DOESN'T need all the talent in the world to succeed. Same for Jason Garrett. Look at what the guy is working with.
2 Top WRS
Best All Around TE in the NFL & Best Blocking TE (So We're Told)
More than capable QB
Solid #3 WR
What Appears To Be A Potential Stud RB
If you're telling me that after all that he ALSO NEEDS a good OL to get the job done, I'm telling you the guy just isn't that good. You find me a OC who couldn't get the job done with this selection of skill players in addition to a good OL and I'll show you an OC who doesn't have a job.
Jason Garrett better find a way to sure up that line or this team will sink.
And here's a question about the 6th OL who's on the field nearly constantly. If Marty's only asset to the team is his blocking ability and the OL still isn't able to get enough protection against a minimalist rush with that additional help, what the hell value does he even provide? Seriously, what is the point? If it doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things to put him on the line in terms of keeping Tony upright, I'd rather they just put another WR out there and spread the defense a little thinner.
Martellus is a bust. Was a bust at the time and is only made worse by the fact that the front office turned down a 1st round pick for him.
While we're talking about the line, does anyone know what the hell is going on with those lollipop snaps? How can a guy get to the professional level at something and still suck so much at doing his most important job? Imagine a doctor who couldn't stich up a wound.
Back to Garrett. His redzone offense sucks. End of story. Has sucked and will continue to suck. Shotgun from inside the 5 is laughable. If I were playing this team and they were moving the ball and around the 40 yard line, I'd just let them get to the 15 yard line and accept the FG they'll kick. For the first few weeks when he didn't run in the redzone it was because the running game wasn't working. What's the excuse now? Takes too much time to run the ball once or twice from 2 yards out? Even if you ran it and got stuffed, you could line right back up and throw it. Might take 10-15 seconds per run and when you're down by that much, failing to score at all because you were an idiot is much worse than taking an extra minute (MAX) to run once or twice.
And does anyone know what was going on for that last drive? What was that? Sort of a half-committed attempt at scoring? You're gonna run the hurry up down 27 points with less than 2 minutes left, for whatever reason, but you won't fully commit and use timeouts? Either run out the clock with a couple of handoffs or just fully commit and try to score. Don't do this stupid in-between BS where you run a handfull of plays, extend the game longer than needed and come out with nothing.
Last night I was thinking there wasn't a lot of talk about Beuhler being back. Scoring very little will do that I suppose. But then it occurred to me that lost in all the talk of whether or not Dallas gets any benefit from Buehler is the fact that his opportunity to help is structured so he basically NEVER CAN.
If Dallas scores nothing, he doesn't kick. Pretty simple there. But, if Dallas scores a bunch, his value is minimal because scoring a bunch in itself usually results in a win with or without some Adonis-DNA kicker. There's really only one situation in which it works as intended. Dallas kicks an *** load of FGs in a close game which I guess is convenient giving the pathetic nature of this redzone offense.
All in all, a gutless performance on nearly every level. The team looked like they didn't even make the trip. It was every bit as bad as the Jags or Packers game last year.....probably worse than the Jags game and I'd say worse than the Packers because this wasn't supposed to happen this year.
