Week 4 My Meaningless Thoughts On the Game...
Yakuza Rich Blog
- 'I feel like I just gave birth...to an accountant.' - Thornton Mellon 'Back To School.'
- The offensive line seems to have real problems just as it crosses the 50 yard line, particularly in the first half, and we also seem to have trouble getting in the play when we cross the 50 yard line as well. Just something I noticed about the team.
- There is a perfect situation to set an example here, something the organization sorely is lacking, especially since Parcells has left. When Roy Williams comes back from injury, let's bench Crayton and start Miles Austin. Crayton was a nightmare out there today and Miles had his breakout game. You reward hard working guys who keep their mouthshut, especially when they have 10 catches, 250 yards and 2 TD's. You don't keep rewarding the loud mouth who plays a whale of a terrible game which included 2 fumbles.
- Give it up fans, Spencer played a really good game today. And I think he's been doing quite well this year, just hasn't been able to finish plays. He's really on the verge of having a big game, IMO.
- I'm getting sick and tired of people saying we don't have any leaders on this team. Of course we do. Tell me that Choice isn't a leader. Or Ware. Or Ratliff. Or Marion. Etc, etc. The problem is that we have a complete lack of discipline and too many coach killers. The appeal of this team to non-Cowboys fans who look at them objectively is that there is talent on this team. For instance, not many Cowboys players had a bad game today and a lot of Cowboys players had really good games today. But when Crayton can't catch and turns the ball over and when Flo looks horrendous and they commit 13 penalties, you're now making a game that should've been a blowout into an OT victory against a team that has won a total of 6 times in almost the past 2 1/2 seasons. We need a coaching staff that instills discipline and can still be smart with the X's and O's.
- Flo was getting beat all game long by Tamba Hali and had his usual penalties. Yes, I'm looking forward to the end of the Flozell Adams era after this season.
- Ugh, the officiating is so bad right now and it was again for both teams and it's been going on around the league. As I type this up the refs just missed a PI call on the Patriots claiming it was 'by rule incidental contact.' No, that's not 'by rule incidental contact' when the defensive back is not looking for the ball and the WR is. This is particularly troublesome this year when it seems like the refs really don't know the rules to the game. People may laugh this off, but I vividly remember the officiating being the same problem in the 2005 regular season when people also laughed it off and it came back to rear its ugly head in the postseason and was on full display in the Seattle vs. Pittsburgh game. It's funny that when one punt in a preseason game happened to hit the videoboard at the new Cowboys Stadium that it was deemed 'an embarassment' to the game, but the lousy officiating sinking to new depths is supposedly okay.
- Give it up to Pat Watkins who played pretty well today as well.
- I'll give Garrett credit for finding ways to get all 3 of the RB's involved, but he needs to understand that these tailbacks tend to have 'hot hand' and he really needed to go to Choice today who obviously had the 'hot hand' early on today.
- We are now up to 27 games. That is...in the last 27 games we have had ONE interception from our safeties.
- Romo played quite well today and it's obvious that he is protecting the ball when it comes to being sacked (well, except for last week on the blitz by Denver). Two things I gleaned about him today are...1) He was accurate today and has been accurate in 2 out of 5 games, which leads me to believe his accuracy issues are purely mechanical, so a good QB coach should help with that. 2) I *think* he works best with very fast WR's, judging by his production with Owens and his production today with Miles Austin's first start at WR.
- Lots of poor discipline on display today and I kept thinking this looked like a 5-11 or 6-10 team that had the most talent that wasn't on I-R of any 5-11 or 6-10 team I can remember. A win is a win and I want to get my hopes up, but tough to get up for a team that has gone 4-12, 2-14 and now 0-5 in the past 3 seasons. We're too inconsistent with too many of our personnel and facets of the game. Our QB is inconsistent, our safeties are inconsistent, our O-Coordinator is inconsistent, our tackling is inconsistent. A bye next week and I believe we'll get up for the Falcons at home after the bye, but can we put some consistent play and avoid dumb mistakes? So far this year I'd say no.
YAKUZA
