Not passionate enough

[NoLuv4Jerry]

I think we are too cool. It would be ok of were ALLOWED to fly under the radar. But we are the Dallas Cowboys...teams, there families, the rest of the media around the world are watching. Heck teams made us there Super Bowl EVEN when we were 5-11.

James does not play with the passion of a Trotter or Ray Lewis

NONE of our OL plays with relentless rage like Eric Williams

Ware does not play with the crazed abandoned recklesness of Lawrence Taylor

Julious Jones does not play with the swagger that a RB of his speed and athleticism should...he is not a downhill guy...so how come he gets the ball and runs into the back of the OL time after time...does he ever keep his head up to see the countless cutback lanes?

I hate to say this..but I only see 1 guy who plays with the kind of passion we need...Marion Barber...that is unbeleivable.

Parcells has these guys like robots...and they just seem to lethargic and mentally worn down to me. Can you tell which guys on this team are having any fun?

 

[BlueStar22]

like I said, our defense needs to get pissed off. we have group of good guys and that's commendable but we need them to get mad.

 

[CrazyCowboy]

We have to work through this as a team.....

 

[dmq]

like I said, our defense needs to get pissed off. we have group of good guys and that's commendable but we need them to get mad.

I guess drafting choir boys has a draw back.

 

[canters]

The problem with this team, as I see it,,,and this plus .75 cent would buy you a cup of coffee, is:

We are a young team. The roster turn over in the past 3-4 yrs. was incredible. We play like an inmature team some of the time. We seem to lack veteran leaders who can step up and shove teammates in the chest.

The saying "players play and coaches coach" still holds true. However, for some reason, this staff cannot reach all the young guys. As a result, we play tentative and try to win by not losing. Mental errors abound.

We just don't have enough big time players.

On defense, with the exemption of Ware and Newman, no one is capable or willing to step up and take over a game. Canty and Spears are having quite years, and James looks slow at times. Ellis is a liabilty in coverage, but Carp can't make it on the field. We still need a FS. This side of the club is the most disappointing, despite their lofty stats. We were 6th in total D before this game, and gave up 300 yards, but I don't see a 6th rated D yet.

The offense is still waiting for the Oline to gell. At times we run with ease, then at others we struggle, when we need yards the most.

I still wish we had signed Mark Whale from the Pack instead of Rivera, but that would not help but so much.

We have a host of issues here, most of which are mental in nature. BP must be pulling out is hair. I can see him walking away this year.

 

[NoLuv4Jerry]

The problem with this team, as I see it,,,and this plus .75 cent would buy you a cup of coffee, is:

We are a young team. The roster turn over in the past 3-4 yrs. was incredible. We play like an inmature team some of the time. We seem to lack veteran leaders who can step up and shove teammates in the chest.

The saying "players play and coaches coach" still holds true. However, for some reason, this staff cannot reach all the young guys. As a result, we play tentative and try to win by not losing. Mental errors abound.

We just don't have enough big time players.

On defense, with the exemption of Ware and Newman, no one is capable or willing to step up and take over a game. Canty and Spears are having quite years, and James looks slow at times. Ellis is a liabilty in coverage, but Carp can't make it on the field. We still need a FS. This side of the club is the most disappointing, despite their lofty stats. We were 6th in total D before this game, and gave up 300 yards, but I don't see a 6th rated D yet.

The offense is still waiting for the Oline to gell. At times we run with ease, then at others we struggle, when we need yards the most.

I still wish we had signed Mark Whale from the Pack instead of Rivera, but that would not help but so much.

We have a host of issues here, most of which are mental in nature. BP must be pulling out is hair. I can see him walking away this year.

To be honest with you...he owes himself and this team one more year. If Romo proves to be the answer at QB AND we win 9 - 10 games this year...he should and will come back. But if we go 8-8 he is gone.

 

[Clove]

I do think they may be over coached and tought to be robots out there. It seem like when Roy Williams and company has the ball in the air coming at them, they turn into a "let me put my left foot here, and my right arm here, and turn 80 degrees left" so that I can make a play on the ball the way Parcells tought me.

Just go and knock the **** out of the receiver and take that damn ball and shove it down their throats like other wild teams like to do.

 

[canters]

I don't necessarily want him to go. We are a young and talented team. We are better off in this regard than we were when he got here. We just don't execute. We DO need about 4-6 more good players:

FS (Watkins? Too soon to say)
CB (Make Henry the FS)
PASS rushing LB or DE (Hatcher and Carp? Too soon to say)
OG Must draft or FA
OT Must draft or FA

We will still be in the playoff thing until we either lose or win in Atlanta. We win here, we will get in by beating Eagles and Lions. If we can't win these 2 games in Dallas, then we don't deserve it.

 

[MS17]

Mistakes galore yesterday, opportunities missed, by almost everyone wearing blue jerseys. The 2006 playoff window is closing for this team, and Im not sure it's valid to even discuss playoffs in the context of this year's team.

The way it's looking right now, I really think we'll all look back on this season as the one where the team finally solved the angst filled quarterback problem, and that's a good thing.

With the sky high expectations in August, I think this year's team is heartbreaking, just heartbreaking.

 

[canters]

It is heartbreaking, you are correct. But 10-6 is not impossible IF the team finds itself. That should get us in.

But with expectations for a Super Bowl out there since August, this is bound to end up as a disappointment.

 

[dr_hefley]

I do think they may be over coached and tought to be robots out there. It seem like when Roy Williams and company has the ball in the air coming at them, they turn into a "let me put my left foot here, and my right arm here, and turn 80 degrees left" so that I can make a play on the ball the way Parcells tought me.

Just go and knock the **** out of the receiver and take that damn ball and shove it down their throats like other wild teams like to do.

That's my whole point when I say they play frightened. They're too scared of being singled out for doing something wrong while trying to make a play, they just wind up not doing anything at all.

 

[Mr Cowboy]

The problem as I see it is TO. He screws up and BP whispers something in his ear. Aaron Glenn does something wrong, and he gets an *** chewing in front of everyone. The players see it and have lost respect for BP. They see BP is afraid of a TO blow up, so BP won't chew him out like his other players.

So far TO has not been worth it. He has dropped more passes than scored TDs.

 

[Doomsdayblitz]

Bill Bellicheck doesn't have half the talent on his Patriots, yet they play with twice the passion, composure, and discipline. If we traded coaches right now, the 'Boys go to the SB & the Pats go 8-8. Coaches don't play, but they're passion does flow down to the players. Parcells has lost his passion. He needs to go.

 

[L-O-Jete]

That's how Tuna looks and that is how the team comes out, I see absolutly no fire in Parcells, it's like he's going through the motions, he only gets "pumped" late in the game if things are looking great, it just seems his heart is not in it, and that reflects on the team, they come out flat like it's a day at the office, this game plays a lot on momentum, Jimmah was the best I can remember at getting momentum, this team seems to be just waiting to stall. I'm so disappointed, somehow the losses don't hurt as much since not a single player is really putting an all out effort from the begining...
Sorry for the rant, just had to vent a little.

 

[CrazyCowboy]

He77, I look FLAT today......just noticed it

 

[YosemiteSam]

NONE of our OL plays with relentless rage like Eric Williams

The greatest offensive lineman to ever play the game bar none! (Yes that includes Larry Allen!!!)

Nobody dominated like Williams. I remember him pancaking Reggie White all the time taking him completely out of the game during the prime of his career.

He (Erik William) is the meanest offensive linemen in the league. He is even meaner than any defensive linemen I have ever met.

I don't have the actual quote, but it went something like that...

 

[L-O-Jete]

BP must be pulling out is hair. I can see him walking away this year.

My problem is I don't see him doing this, he just stands with his arms crossed and may sometimes half turn his head and say in a loud voice something to a player...