CanadianCowboysFan;2261681 said:
Can Wade please tell the team they aren't allowed to tackle by the facemask?
Several face mask penalties are usually because players aren't ready to play. (one could be just an accident, but several are not)
Wade blames himself when players aren't ready to play. ...I agree 100%, This seems to be a reoccurring ordeal...
We have Terrence Newman, Pacman Jones, Orlando Scandrick, Anythony Henry and Mike Jenkins at CB. All capable of playing man defense, yet we hardly ever see it. (though don't play Henry man on speedy receivers) Does that bother me? A little, but not as much as playing 12-15 yards off of a receiver when you're blitzing 5-6. That should be when you bump the receiver with man over. I don't know how many times the defense gave up quick routes on 5-6 man blitzes. That style of defense allows teams to convert third and up to 10 pretty easliy.
Roy getting beat deep is a tragedy, though he tends to cover deep balls better than medium and short passes. Just not against speedy guys like Santana Moss and now DeSean Jackson.
Question: The Cowboys punted the ball and then the Eagles got a penalty that backed it up to the 10 yard line. The game goes to commercial and then comes back and the Cowboys are re-punting the ball? PLEASE don't tell me someone on the Cowboys made the idiot call to rekick instead of letting the Eagles take the ball at the 10 yard line.
The Cowboys offensive line was pretty much completely dominated in the running game for most of the game, specifically the first half.
Today, Brian Dawkins == Roy Williams. Both can play the run great, but they both suck *** against the pass.
Stanback was a liability last night. After Romo's INT he started chasing Samuel, then just stopped. Samuel was still running with the ball and he just pretty much stopped chasing him. With his speed, he could have easily ran him down from behind. F for his effort. He followed that up with something else, but I seem to have forgotten, I think it was on a kick return. I will have to rewatch the tape. THEN he had a false start on the very next play! Stanback gets an F F F F F F.
Polk was great. 2 FGs one from 51 and one from 48 and 5 for 5 on extra points.
We made no attempts to block any field goals or extra points. Why? Because we don't want a running into the kicker penalty? Scandrick is supposed to be a kick blocking machine. Why don't we use him?
The Cowboys had containment troubles early in the game. Generally that can be corrected by half time. It wasn't. Why?
I think it's offical now. We have the next Brett Farve in Romo. It will be feast or famine for the life of his career. Like Farve, he gets excited and gets tunnel vision and begins to rush (see force) things. We saw it on the INT last night. He was almost sacked and rushed the pass which caused it to sail on him. The TD to Tony Curtis last year in the corner of the end zone was the same thing, except nobody was anywhere close to Curtis. If someone had been just a little closer to Curtis, he sailed that ball so much it could have easily been picked.
Anyway these are a few thoughts on the game. No I'm not bashing the Cowboys as I saw great effort from the defense especially in the second half. Witten is a golden egg, I don't even think it's arguable that he is the best TE in the game. Some players make the pro bowl for a single facet of their game. He is a pro bowler in every facet of his game and he is tough as nails on top of it all.
