I have always frowned on posts which pat themselves on the back for having an idea long before it was ever being uttered here.
But, if you look back at the post 9ers game, and even before that by a few games at the end of last season, you will see what Martz is saying has been in post after post I have made.
While a great number of people assign blame to one player, the truth is the offense was a hot mess before the season started. Primarily because of the GM, who decided to move Cooper along, and have Cee Dee and a cast of crap sandwiches playing behind him.
Gallup was healing from an injury late the previous season. And he seems to be giving less effort since he signed a contract for more money. I question him now, and until he shows he is interested in winning, he is just a guy to me. Prove me wrong, Michael.
Then the same GM made one right move in Tyler Smith, and then settled with Tyron still seen as an answer, and no exit strategy if things went south. Steele went down and Dallas hopped a southbound train ever since.
When you look at the 9ers game you see when the running game went to the locker room the offense was essentially non-existent, and the defense held on for dear life.
You saw the same paradigm when the 9ers lost Kid Cool, their QB, against the Eagles and they couldn't score. Same dynamics. Unbalanced offense against a top flight defense.
So allow me this moment to state that I have been calling this for a while. And if the brain trust do not pull their heads out of their butts and draft a stud guard very early and a WR, Dallas will be in the same zip code they were in at the end of the year, because Jerry is relying on Tyron and an injured Steele to come back early, and people who shouldn't even be back-ups on a pro team as projected starters on this offensive line.
So, yeah me for now wallowing in the mire of self aggrandizement.