Observations

[Westcoasthabsfan]

Exactly. Kind of interesting to see folks upset over the absence of plays on defense and special teams, then folks upset when we don't rack up impressive numbers on the offensive side of the ball because we made plays on defense and special teams. It shows up on the scoreboard, and that's where it counts. The fact that this team can win in all phases is huge.

Couple of points to add:

• Kiffin and Marinelli can just flat coach. Their guys play harder than any group I've seen this season. I don't care what the numbers are. They have a bunch of street free agents playing great football. Which leads to ...

• How many more times did you hear "Nevis" last night than "Cofield," "Kerrigan" and "Orakpo?" Huge kudos to Callahan and his boys. Everyone is talking about Waters, Free and the rook, but Leary has been solid too and Smith is quietly having a Pro Bowl year.

• Carr had a tremendous game last night. Scandrick too. All the corners played good football. More press-man coverage, please!

what happened last week? Man this fanbase is fickle...

 

[Manwiththeplan]

We won last year because of the Offensive Line and ability to run at will when needed. For some reason this year we abandoned the run...even though Morris can easily go for 120-150 and 25 carries a game...

You guys abandoned the run in weeks 1 & 2 because of early turnovers/3 & outs, plus the inability to stop anyone. Against Detroit, Morris had 15 carries despite being largely ineffective, outside of the 30 yard TD. Against Oakland, Morris had 16 carries before getting hurt, and Helu ran 13 times. And against us last night, Morris was largely ineffective, outside the long run.

Hatcher has never been a factor against us...but for some reason this year we can't block him. Ugh.

In years prior, he hasn't played in a 4-3. Truth is, this year everyone has had trouble blocking him.

In the finale last year...RGIII only had 100 yards passing, yet Morris ran for over 200 and we win.

Last year, when we were without Bruce Carter, Sean Lee, Barry Church and Josh Brent. 4 starters, all located in the middle of the defense.

Power run game wins games in this league. Same offensive line as last year. More practice running the system should lead to more efficiency. Something isn't adding up.

Who was the last power running team to win a SB?

 

[pastordug]

Part iof the reason for the lack of offense is the fact that we had, what, three drives starting inside the Commanders 20? Something like that. Anyway you cant really fault the offense for that.

Why not? If not for those plays along with the D we could have very well lost that game. Once again Romo things he and he alone has to make things happen. I say trust the running game a little more. I have come to the conclusion that Romo is the reincarnation of Farve minus the SB.

 

[BaybeeJay]

I like what I saw from Nevis.

I think this guy could be a player moving forward. Nothing more than a rotational guy this year, but one offseason to slim down could yield a nice 3-tech (out of nothing).

 

[roughneck266]

Why not? If not for those plays along with the D we could have very well lost that game. Once again Romo things he and he alone has to make things happen. I say trust the running game a little more. I have come to the conclusion that Romo is the reincarnation of Farve minus the SB.

Well, because the offense can't pick and choose their starting position. If a frog had wings he wouldn't bump his butt. My statement was responding to low yardage totals for the offense. I dont disagree with picking our running game up a bit though.

 

[starfrombirth]

We won last year because of the Offensive Line and ability to run at will when needed. For some reason this year we abandoned the run...even though Morris can easily go for 120-150 and 25 carries a game...

Hatcher has never been a factor against us...but for some reason this year we can't block him. Ugh.

In the finale last year...RGIII only had 100 yards passing, yet Morris ran for over 200 and we win.

Power run game wins games in this league. Same offensive line as last year. More practice running the system should lead to more efficiency. Something isn't adding up.

Good God! If your a foreskins fan then put some of your teams imagery in your sig or something. It took me forever to reallize that your not a real dallas fan... yeesh! There oughta be a law..

 

[mldardy]

Naw.

1. Falcons
2. Texans
3. Giants
4. Commanders
5. Steelers
6. Vikings

That is really telling and that stat where 'half the teams that made the playoffs one year don't make it the next year' is so true. The only team on that list that didn't make it last year are the Steelers and Giants. The Ravens might be a team that gets added to a list like this. It's just weird how that always works out every year.

 

[Hostile]

That is really telling and that stat where 'half the teams that made the playoffs one year don't make it the next year' is so true. The only team on that list that didn't make it last year are the Steelers and Giants. The Ravens might be a team that gets added to a list like this. It's just weird how that always works out every year.

Parity driven league.

 

[pastordug]

Well, because the offense can't pick and choose their starting position. If a frog had wings he wouldn't bump his butt. My statement was responding to low yardage totals for the offense. I dont disagree with picking our running game up a bit though.

No team has that option. But it still is not an excuse for poor performance.

 

[Hoofbite]

True but when you have a return td, that takes away an offensive series, then we had to drives start at about the 10 and the 2, so we got three touchdowns while only traveling about 12 yards. That skews our offensive yardage total way out of whack with reality. I'm not worried about the yardage totals under those circumstances. Now if we had started at our own 20 all night and only got 213 total yards I'd be more concerned.

The team punted 5 times and gained about 90 yards from the 12:00 mark in the 2nd quarter and beyond.

Short fields only skew the numbers if the team would have gained all those yards without the short field, something that is far from a given.

Considering the improvement along the OL, I think the offense has underperformed in 4 of their 6 games thus far with only STL and DEN being two strong games.

 

[roughneck266]

No team has that option. But it still is not an excuse for poor performance.

Never said it was an excuse for poor performance. I said it was a reason the yardage total was skewed.

 

[CowboysPhan]

The team punted 5 times and gained about 90 yards from the 12:00 mark in the 2nd quarter and beyond.

Short fields only skew the numbers if the team would have gained all those yards without the short field, something that is far from a given.

Considering the improvement along the OL, I think the offense has underperformed in 4 of their 6 games thus far with only STL and DEN being two strong games.

I don't disagree with this. My only point was, if you only look at total yardage as a measure of how effective your offense was, it can be skewed by starting field position, even though the offense is scoring. You're correct in that we have no way of knowing whether the offense would have driven the field and scored with normal starting position on those drives, and I agree that the offense didn't look in sync enough to expect that it would have happened in this game. I'm still hoping to see more consistent offensive performances as well. I keep thinking if we can play half as well on offense as we did in the Denver and St. Louis games, we can beat about anyone. The problem is we don't always play half that well.

 

[waving monkey]

Exactly. Kind of interesting to see folks upset over the absence of plays on defense and special teams, then folks upset when we don't rack up impressive numbers on the offensive side of the ball because we made plays on defense and special teams. It shows up on the scoreboard, and that's where it counts. The fact that this team can win in all phases is huge.

Couple of points to add:

• Kiffin and Marinelli can just flat coach. Their guys play harder than any group I've seen this season. I don't care what the numbers are. They have a bunch of street free agents playing great football. Which leads to ...

• How many more times did you hear "Nevis" last night than "Cofield," "Kerrigan" and "Orakpo?" Huge kudos to Callahan and his boys. Everyone is talking about Waters, Free and the rook, but Leary has been solid too and Smith is quietly having a Pro Bowl year.

• Carr had a tremendous game last night. Scandrick too. All the corners played good football. More press-man coverage, please!

VA Cowboy your right on the money.