Offense scores 4 TDs in their last 16 quarters...

[InmanRoshi]

From an offense that was averaging 30+ points a game through Thanksgiving and on pace to be one of the Top 5 scoring offensive seasons in the history of the NFL to ........ averaging one touchdown per game? It's easy to try to pin it all on the TO injury, but 10 of the 16 quarters TO was playing. We even had something resembling Terry Glenn during this time, which we didn't have when we were averaging 30+ per game.

2007 Offensive collapse = 2006 Defensive collapse?

 

[Cowboys&Caps]

Thanks

im like on suicide watch over here

 

[BourbonBalz]

Unfortunately, this post is right on the $.

 

[InmanRoshi]

You could make a strong case that the Eagle debacle was every bit as much of a turning point as the Saints loss was last year. I don't want to throw out the dreaded 'blueprint' word, but somehow the Eagles found a way to nullify TO and our passing attack in that game and it seems like our offense has struggled ever since.

 

[theogt]

You could make a strong case that the Eagle debacle was every bit as much of a turning point as the Saints loss was last year. I don't want to throw out the dreaded 'blueprint' word, but somehow the Eagles found a way to nullify TO and our passing attack in that game and it seems like our offense has struggled ever since.

Ugh...the parallel is sickening.

 

[Everlastingxxx]

I thought the second half had that Eagles game feeling. What happen to that explosive offense? I just don’t get it.

 

[scottsp]

From an offense that was averaging 30+ points a game through Thanksgiving and on par to be one of the Top 5 scoring offensive seasons in the history of the NFL to ......... averaging one touchdown per game? It's easy to try to pin it all on the TO injury, but 10 of the 16 quarters TO was playing.

2007 Offensive collapse = 2006 Defensive collapse?

Recurring theme? I'd say so. In fact, well beyond '06. This team, this offense has tailed off considerably the past several seasons once the calender flips to December.

 

[sbark]

Yes, but i think Garrett had started to adapt..........

Austin catches a few balls in the Skins game.............and Crayton and Fasono in this game..........diff outcomes.....

Romo laid the ball into them...........enough to win the games with skins and Gints...........Crayton has alot to prove to me.....vrs a Welker type....ennergizer bunny man

Wade cannot catch the ball for Romo......
17 points given up by the D is good nuff'............

 

[theebs]

It really is dissapointing.

The offense had two drives and good field position on the last one to go down and win. It really is an enigma how owens and witten were just non existent those last two drives.

As bad as I feel tonight I cant imagine how bad those guys feel. They had this whole city behind them like I have not seen since I have been here. I think they are going to have to be even better next year in the regular season to get this much support back.

Its a strange thing. This will be a critical draft this spring.

 

[InmanRoshi]

It really is dissapointing.

The offense had two drives and good field position on the last one to go down and win. It really is an enigma how owens and witten were just non existent those last two drives.

That's the amazing thing to me. September, October and November ... if the offense had a chance to mount a game winning drive is there any doubt that Romo uses his Jedi magic and just march right down the field and win it? (and make it look easy?) We had the opportunity TWICE and .... just zilch. The only time we did anything is when Romo just ad libbed a sandlot play to Witten. And if someone had told me on Tuesday that MB3 would have 100 yards rushing in the first half alone ... I would have thought we were putting up 40.

 

[phildominator]

Teams are supposed to improve from Game One to Game Sixteen.

I don't think we improved. As a result, in December, we don't execute as well as we did in September.

Dropped passes, missed tackles, stupid penalties, points surrendered before end of half...

Same problems that have plagued us from Day One.

 

[EPL0c0]

From an offense that was averaging 30+ points a game through Thanksgiving and on pace to be one of the Top 5 scoring offensive seasons in the history of the NFL to ........ averaging one touchdown per game? It's easy to try to pin it all on the TO injury, but 10 of the 16 quarters TO was playing. We even had something resembling Terry Glenn during this time, which we didn't have when we were averaging 30+ per game.

2007 Offensive collapse = 2006 Defensive collapse?

Another scoring stat.

Dallas scored 111pts in the 3rd QTR of their first 10games.

Dallas scored 9pts in the 3rd QTR of their last 7 games.

This is one puzzling stat. Defenses were adjusting...we weren't.

 

[windward]

From an offense that was averaging 30+ points a game through Thanksgiving and on pace to be one of the Top 5 scoring offensive seasons in the history of the NFL to ........ averaging one touchdown per game? It's easy to try to pin it all on the TO injury, but 10 of the 16 quarters TO was playing. We even had something resembling Terry Glenn during this time, which we didn't have when we were averaging 30+ per game.

2007 Offensive collapse = 2006 Defensive collapse?

This team will be better for this next year. I think we'll have a much more focused team next time around.

 

[kingwhicker]

It really is dissapointing.

The offense had two drives and good field position on the last one to go down and win. It really is an enigma how owens and witten were just non existent those last two drives.

As bad as I feel tonight I cant imagine how bad those guys feel. They had this whole city behind them like I have not seen since I have been here. I think they are going to have to be even better next year in the regular season to get this much support back.

Its a strange thing. This will be a critical draft this spring.

I doubt they ever get that kind of support again. The city has been crushed by this team and the Mavericks the last several years. The Mavs losing the title in 05, then choking last year, the Cowboys looking like world beaters in 05 then choking away the playoffs, then choking again in 2006 and this, the worst of them all in 2007. This was a psyche scarring, franchise crippling loss. People will always expect them to choke in the playoffs now. I hate to admit it, but I could never really enjoy this year because I feared what happened would happen. It just makes you pine for the 1990s and realize that was a once in a lifetime thing.

 

[SultanOfSix]

Yeah, a guy with a Princeton degree who's played in the NFL for 10+ years, "coached" several of those years, but not technically, during those years according to Aikman, then coached for real for a few years, created the best scoring offense team in the second half of games, all of a sudden couldn't make adjustments in weekly prepartion for games what he was doing during half times of games.

Yeah, I believe in tooth faries too.

 

[phildominator]

I doubt they ever get that kind of support again. The city has been crushed by this team and the Mavericks the last several years. The Mavs losing the title in 05, then choking last year, the Cowboys looking like world beaters in 05 then choking away the playoffs, then choking again in 2006 and this, the worst of them all in 2007. This was a psyche scarring, franchise crippling loss. People will always expect them to choke in the playoffs now. I hate to admit it, but I could never really enjoy this year because I feared what happened would happen. It just makes you pine for the 1990s and realize that was a once in a lifetime thing.

Who cares about the city? I can't speak for the plethora of fairweather fans out there.

There are enough hardcore fans to pack the ship anyway.

Just remember this...Favre lost his first three playoff games. Steve Young lost two straight Championship Games. Elway lost three Super Bowls.

This loss hurts, but hopefully it won't be the last playoff game for this group.

 

[Chocolate Lab]

The Eagles game was just Romo inexplicably misfiring on passes he normally hits in his sleep. There wasn't any blueprint there.

I wonder if Romo is okay physically. We know about the thumb, but I wonder if there's something else. We better hope he doesn't have the yips or some kind of problem with pressure, but I don't know how else to explain it.

I do think that one thing Romo needs to do is work on his basic fundamental mechanics for about 8 hours a day this offseason. Looks to me like he got just a little sloppy with his footwork and a little more "sandlot" at the end of the year. And when those little things cause some bad throws, it can mess with your confidence and things can snowball.

 

[AdamJT13]

The offense had two drives and good field position on the last one to go down and win. It really is an enigma how owens and witten were just non existent those last two drives.

Witten was non-existent on the last two drives?

He had three catches for 42 yards on those drives, plus an 11-yarder that was wiped out by a penalty because Terry Glenn couldn't even line up properly.

 

[newlander]

phildominator is right. we didn't get better. just progressively worse after peaking during the g.bay game. ALL down hill after that. Anyone that doesn't blame that on two things doesn't know football: 1: coaching 2: leadership, or lack thereof

 

[TNCowboy]

From an offense that was averaging 30+ points a game through Thanksgiving and on pace to be one of the Top 5 scoring offensive seasons in the history of the NFL to ........ averaging one touchdown per game? It's easy to try to pin it all on the TO injury, but 10 of the 16 quarters TO was playing. We even had something resembling Terry Glenn during this time, which we didn't have when we were averaging 30+ per game.

2007 Offensive collapse = 2006 Defensive collapse?

In spite of that, I've been assured the sky is not falling.....