There are so many fans here who are so willing to believe anything bad about this team. Suddenly we're going to ignore all the years of articles that mention film study? How about the ones about Jerome Henderson when he got hired? Do you remember that before he even spoke to the media he had broken down film on every DB?
When everyone was wondering if we were retiring Kiffin there was an article saying he was at VR working. How was he working? Studying film.
How many PCs by Jason Garrett on the day after a game do you need to hear that they have already studied the film once to get any idea of what happened? Is it ever going to sink in that the entire team 24 hours after a game, win or lose, has moved on to the coming opponent? You think they do that without film study?
How about Mike Jenkins a couple of years ago saying that no matter how early he arrives to VR he finds Tony Romo already here studying film? Remember him saying that he asks Tony for advice on other QBs?
How about the stories about Sean Lee? There was one recently that said a night security guard found him asleep on his duffel bag at 3 in the morning. There was another that said his tremendous football instincts are honed by watching film for hours just to get a read. Wasn't that by Peter King? It doesn't matter.
People actually believe Jason Witten rose to the heights he has without film study? That Ware did too? Dez Bryant sharpened his route running without film?
I hate Kickers, but didn't Todd Archer post an article before the Bears game saying that our Kicker studies every Kick Returner and Kicker for the other team, especially for away games? Did he say something about wanting to have a feel for how they battle the elements? The freaking Kicker people.
We have mountains of evidence that says our players hit the film room. One comment, by an unnamed player and suddenly these guys are slackers. Hilarious and typical.
Barry Church did NOT say that we do not study enough film. You want his exact comment? Here it is.
http://espn.go.com/blog/dallas/cowboys/post/_/id/4721197/church-dallas-defenders-need-to-study-more
There's a big damned difference between let's do more and we don't do enough. If you can't see it that's your problem.
The question isn't whether these guys study enough film. There is no Mendoza line or litmus test to determine that. If you believe that all we need to do is watch more film and we can win football games in the NFL with warm bodies at multiple positions then you are an idiot. Plain and simple. Note that I did not name anyone that I think is an idiot. If you feel guilt, that is your problem, not mine. The question is whether they are good enough to beat the other team. The answer to that is, not with that many injuries forcing us to play guys who we would all consider camp fodder any other year. We were forced to start guys like Nick Hayden and George Selvie. We were forced to move Kyle Wilber yet again. We were forced to start Jeff Heath.
You may think all those guys need is the requisite amount of pre-approved film study to become Anthony Spencer, Jay Ratliff and Roy Williams for us, but I don't. They are decent enough to fill in when needed, but not what we should rely on as starters.
But by all means, keep looking for scapegoats and believing every bad thing said about this team. I know Commanders and Eagles fans who say less bad stuff about this team that many of you. Who have more respect for this team than many of you.
