Yakuza Rich
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- I would like to say that I was right in my Saints game analysis in pointing out that Owens had ran out of bounds on the deep bomb thrown by Romo early in the game as Madden echoed those comments made by the coaching staff. This year has been a microcosm of his career in a sense that while he's doing some admirable things (playing with a bad hand), he still is frustrating to watch and you have those off the field nonsense to deal with.
- I think there's one big issue that Romo has to curb. He's got other issues like not getting enough air on his deep passes consistently, but it's not the big issue. The big issue is that when Dallas is down by more than a TD, he tends to press and think he needs to make plays. The Dawkins INT was a perfect example. We were driving, only down by 9 points and the defense had actually stopped the Eagles offense in the second half up to that point. But then he thought he had to go deep to Owens and make a play quickly when he didn't need to. If we continue to keep hitting plays, we probably score a TD and we're only down 2 points with tons of time left. Instead he threw into double coverage and made an inaccurate throw and it was picked off. Hopefully with more experience he'll cut that down as that's where most of his INT's come from. But when we are either very close or leading, he doesn't seem to have this problem.
- Yes, the playcalling on the goal line stand was abysmal, but the play calling all year long has been pretty good on offense. Unfortunately, they did something that too many teams do in those situations....they relied on the jumbo package. Defenses can just committ to the run in the jumbo package and if a team play fakes, while it usually works pretty well there's not much seperation between the receiver and defender. How about going to a normal offensive set or perhaps a 3 or 4 WR formation and show the threat of a quick pass to help spread out the defense? It's frustrating, but it happens all of the time in the NFL and I don't understand why.
- Actually a worse call was on 3rd and inches to Marion earlier on (which was a horrible spot by the ref on catch by Fasano beforehand). Can't we QB sneak?
- GROZ has every right to thump its chest. He was terrible. This team does not disguise a blitz. We simply cannot show a full house blitz with 5 seconds before the snap and would it kill to show a blitz and then have guys drop off in coverage? Nope, we show blitz and then blitz and never stunt while the offense has plenty of time to change the line protection and call the right play. Please, somebody....Alabama....the Raiders...somebody take Zimmer off of my team.
- The question is whether or not Zimmer is Parcells' doing. Well, if you watch the offense, we are very versatile and creative on offense. Really, we are...Philly game withstanding. I'm sure if Parcells had his druthers, he'd remain conservative, but we actually blitzed quite a bit in 2003 and played an aggressive style defense that season. I think it's a case of where the offensive assistants have shown to Parcells they can succeed by being creative and versatile and Zimmer hasn't. Plus, Zimmer didn't blitz much under Campo and our blitz disguise stunk under Zimmer. Oh yeah, have we ever drafted one DB under Zimmer that could locate the ball in the air well? We've changed head coaches, schemes, and personnel and still get the same result. Well, there's one common denominator.
- Strangely, I think we are like the Saints in the sense we are a far better road team than a home team. Go figure.
- We need to hope that Carpenter improves to compete with Bradie (I actually think Carp is almost there) and that the coaching staff isn't afraid to start Carp over Bradie.
- Burnett stinks. He is what he is, he can't play.
- I think we need to trade Julius. Perhaps we can find a fairly inexpensive veteran 3rd down back and trade Julius for a 2nd to 4th round pick. All of the sudden he looks like JJ Arrington.
- Well, we are fizzling into the playoffs. Zimmer's defense once again becomes extinct in the second half of the year and our pass rush is on the back of a milk carton. Here's the thing, we don't stand a chance of winning the Super Bowl or going to the Super Bowl. So my hope is that we beat Detroit (which suddenly comes into question) and go 10-6 which sounds much nicer than 9-7. Then we win one playoff game and let the rest of the course set its way. That way we'll look just good enough so some team will be dumb enough to make Zimmer their head coach and he can teach them the Cover 2 and get 24 sacks a year and be clueless on offense. Then we can go after OLB's, see what Carp can compete with Bradie, sign a low cost solid cover free safety, a low cost veteran backup QB and then address some spots in the draft.
That's the best we can reasonably hope for.
YAKUZA
- I think there's one big issue that Romo has to curb. He's got other issues like not getting enough air on his deep passes consistently, but it's not the big issue. The big issue is that when Dallas is down by more than a TD, he tends to press and think he needs to make plays. The Dawkins INT was a perfect example. We were driving, only down by 9 points and the defense had actually stopped the Eagles offense in the second half up to that point. But then he thought he had to go deep to Owens and make a play quickly when he didn't need to. If we continue to keep hitting plays, we probably score a TD and we're only down 2 points with tons of time left. Instead he threw into double coverage and made an inaccurate throw and it was picked off. Hopefully with more experience he'll cut that down as that's where most of his INT's come from. But when we are either very close or leading, he doesn't seem to have this problem.
- Yes, the playcalling on the goal line stand was abysmal, but the play calling all year long has been pretty good on offense. Unfortunately, they did something that too many teams do in those situations....they relied on the jumbo package. Defenses can just committ to the run in the jumbo package and if a team play fakes, while it usually works pretty well there's not much seperation between the receiver and defender. How about going to a normal offensive set or perhaps a 3 or 4 WR formation and show the threat of a quick pass to help spread out the defense? It's frustrating, but it happens all of the time in the NFL and I don't understand why.
- Actually a worse call was on 3rd and inches to Marion earlier on (which was a horrible spot by the ref on catch by Fasano beforehand). Can't we QB sneak?
- GROZ has every right to thump its chest. He was terrible. This team does not disguise a blitz. We simply cannot show a full house blitz with 5 seconds before the snap and would it kill to show a blitz and then have guys drop off in coverage? Nope, we show blitz and then blitz and never stunt while the offense has plenty of time to change the line protection and call the right play. Please, somebody....Alabama....the Raiders...somebody take Zimmer off of my team.
- The question is whether or not Zimmer is Parcells' doing. Well, if you watch the offense, we are very versatile and creative on offense. Really, we are...Philly game withstanding. I'm sure if Parcells had his druthers, he'd remain conservative, but we actually blitzed quite a bit in 2003 and played an aggressive style defense that season. I think it's a case of where the offensive assistants have shown to Parcells they can succeed by being creative and versatile and Zimmer hasn't. Plus, Zimmer didn't blitz much under Campo and our blitz disguise stunk under Zimmer. Oh yeah, have we ever drafted one DB under Zimmer that could locate the ball in the air well? We've changed head coaches, schemes, and personnel and still get the same result. Well, there's one common denominator.
- Strangely, I think we are like the Saints in the sense we are a far better road team than a home team. Go figure.
- We need to hope that Carpenter improves to compete with Bradie (I actually think Carp is almost there) and that the coaching staff isn't afraid to start Carp over Bradie.
- Burnett stinks. He is what he is, he can't play.
- I think we need to trade Julius. Perhaps we can find a fairly inexpensive veteran 3rd down back and trade Julius for a 2nd to 4th round pick. All of the sudden he looks like JJ Arrington.
- Well, we are fizzling into the playoffs. Zimmer's defense once again becomes extinct in the second half of the year and our pass rush is on the back of a milk carton. Here's the thing, we don't stand a chance of winning the Super Bowl or going to the Super Bowl. So my hope is that we beat Detroit (which suddenly comes into question) and go 10-6 which sounds much nicer than 9-7. Then we win one playoff game and let the rest of the course set its way. That way we'll look just good enough so some team will be dumb enough to make Zimmer their head coach and he can teach them the Cover 2 and get 24 sacks a year and be clueless on offense. Then we can go after OLB's, see what Carp can compete with Bradie, sign a low cost solid cover free safety, a low cost veteran backup QB and then address some spots in the draft.
That's the best we can reasonably hope for.
YAKUZA
He was hot in the first half.
