Yakuza Rich
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- I think I have to start with Brad Johnson, who is officially done with/stick a fork in him. If Dallas wants any real chance of winning against the G-Men, they need to start Bollinger which is a sad state of affairs, but we’re not going to beat the G-Men with a QB that can’t hit a 747 if it’s more than 10 yards away.
- The defense seemed to execute better as the playcalling didn’t seem any different to me.
- One thing that frustrates me about the defense is that they get confused quite often pre-snap. Too many times did I see the pass rushing OLB get out of position and not make much of an attempt at rushing the passer.
- Great to see the defense stiffen up though. In the past few games it seemed like every time a negative play would go against the defense, they would be bound to give up a TD in the next few plays.
- Something that made me a bit giddy….Roy Williams’ TD. I think Dallas, even with Romo, is not as good in the red zone as they should be. And I think one of the reasons is that they don’t have somebody that’s good at the jump fade route. Owens isn’t very good at it and is more of a stop fade receiver. Roy made it look easy and once Romo comes back, I like what the Cowboys can now do in the red zone.
- Jenkins still makes some rookie mistakes, but he seemed to have the light go off today.
- This entire team could take lessons from Orlando Scandrick on how to tackle.
- I’ll say it….I think right now that Ratliff is the team’s best defensive player…even better than Ware.
- His numbers were far from exotic, but I thought Barber showed signs of a true leader today.
- I thought this was a huge win today. I thought we needed at least 1 win before the bye week to have a decent shot to make the playoffs (I figure 10-6 gets you in). The team showed some real mettle today which may carry over to when Romo comes back. There’s been talk of Wade’s changes on defense not making much of a difference, but I remembered back in 2002 when the Giants offense was struggling badly under Sean Payton and Jim Fassel took over the playcalling and more notably “dumbed down” the offense and the G-Men’s offense took off. Hopefully the same can happen here.
- The defense seemed to execute better as the playcalling didn’t seem any different to me.
- One thing that frustrates me about the defense is that they get confused quite often pre-snap. Too many times did I see the pass rushing OLB get out of position and not make much of an attempt at rushing the passer.
- Great to see the defense stiffen up though. In the past few games it seemed like every time a negative play would go against the defense, they would be bound to give up a TD in the next few plays.
- Something that made me a bit giddy….Roy Williams’ TD. I think Dallas, even with Romo, is not as good in the red zone as they should be. And I think one of the reasons is that they don’t have somebody that’s good at the jump fade route. Owens isn’t very good at it and is more of a stop fade receiver. Roy made it look easy and once Romo comes back, I like what the Cowboys can now do in the red zone.
- Jenkins still makes some rookie mistakes, but he seemed to have the light go off today.
- This entire team could take lessons from Orlando Scandrick on how to tackle.
- I’ll say it….I think right now that Ratliff is the team’s best defensive player…even better than Ware.
- His numbers were far from exotic, but I thought Barber showed signs of a true leader today.
- I thought this was a huge win today. I thought we needed at least 1 win before the bye week to have a decent shot to make the playoffs (I figure 10-6 gets you in). The team showed some real mettle today which may carry over to when Romo comes back. There’s been talk of Wade’s changes on defense not making much of a difference, but I remembered back in 2002 when the Giants offense was struggling badly under Sean Payton and Jim Fassel took over the playcalling and more notably “dumbed down” the offense and the G-Men’s offense took off. Hopefully the same can happen here.
