***Official Blame Parcells and the Playcalling Thread***

[crazytown41]

You know any Pro Bowl kickers out there for us to pick up?

What an amazing question! Amazes me all the time!

You don't need to be a Pro Bowler to be above average.

My buddy is a huge 9er fan and wondered why anyone would pick this guy up.

He loves him though, cause thanks to him, the 9ers got the #1 pick.

 

[Juke99]

...Cortez seems to be developing a disturbing habit of calling out his team mates on the field when things go wrong.

I would take another kicker who isn't such a finger pointer.

On the nosey. That was terribly disturbing today. AND to top it off, he pointed to Romo who made an excellent play. Where's Larry Allen when ya need him?

 

[SultanOfSix]

Injuries aren't an excuse anymore in the NFL. Every team is going to suffer them. Seattle had them as well.

We had this game won if we could score one touchdown in two tries going less than 15 yards of field each time. We couldn't and so we deserved to lose.

I'm sorry, but the blame ultimately goes to the headchoke.

 

[stokee]

This scrub have to go. I hate this coach. He is a control -----. I dont understand why you through a all out blitz when the game is on the line. This lost hurt worse than the Commanders loss.

 

[JohnsKey19]

Why didn't we pick-up a better kicker!?!?!

If you're gonna play to make FG's you might as well get an above average one!!

It's really a good point. Not only at kicker, but also the long snapper. Robinson had been basically perfect for 2 years and we cut him to save a few hundred thousand dollars. :bang2: The snapping has been shaky at best in at least 5 of the 7 games. The decision to stick with Cortez just boggles the mind. The guy has a history of clanking FGs. There were better kickers out there when we had the chance....

 

[MapleLeaf]

Eddie, what about the last two mintues of the game when Seattle sat Alexander on the sidelines. they were basically saying to us that they were not going to run. They put out Urban, Hanram, Jurevicious and company to take care of the Cowboys. Not names you would be scared of in Fantasy Football.

Without the threat of a ground game they attacked us and scored. Where were we when it was our turn to answer?

Something is wrong with the attitude of the offence on this team and the defence when things are on the line.

BP has to diagnose and address this.

 

[joseephuss]

Dave, I feel your pain.

But look at it this way, we shut down the #1 rated Offense in the NFL. We hung with the team which will probably be playing in the NFC Championship Game this year ... and almost beat them in their own backyard.

We made too many mistakes. If we want to play these types of close games, we can't make mistakes. We made WAY too many .. penalties and dumb plays.

But the bottom line is, without a running threat, we're back to 2004. Without Julius Jones, teams have no fear of our ground game. Almost cost us last week, and it killed us this week.

We should have murdered the C-hoks. But without a ground game to set up the passing game, their D shut us down also. With holes at both OT positions, they had our number.

We should have beaten them, but they made the plays when it counted. We didn't.

If BP hadn't attacked to get into FG position with 40 seconds, and we lost in OT ... I think we'd hear the same second guessing. The only problem was the poor sideline pass with 15 seconds which wouldn't have put us in FG range anyway.

I'm sorry, we lost ... but to a good team which we dominated for 58 minutes. Same story, same ending ...

Attacking with 40 seconds left was fine. Pettiti's holding penalty changed the situation. Pushed the offense back, one less time out and much less time. Bad coaching decision amplified by a horrible decision by Drew.

 

[big dog cowboy]

Cortez wasn't our first choice. If Cundiff doesn't get hurt...........

 

[Dawgs0916]

Yeah I posted about that much earlier in the game. The thing that pisses me off about Cortez is his annoying finger poiting and wanna be gangsta stare at the people who he thinks fault is that he shanked yet another kick. He truly is a horrible kicker, and I can imagine how much of a cancer he must be to the team with his finger pointing, he has to go.

 

[MapleLeaf]

On the nosey. That was terribly disturbing today. AND to top it off, he pointed to Romo who made an excellent play. Where's Larry Allen when ya need him?

...on a 28 yarder you don't actually need the three steps to get the ball up. There's been many instances where snaps have been bobbled on short field goals or extra points but they have been converted.

A good kicker should have a "check swing" but be able to drive the ball from pure leg strength through the uprights on a short kick.

What I saw in the Cortez miss was he swung his leg flat leading to a shallow kick. he should have dorve his head down and his leg up and it MIGHT have had a chance then to clear the defenders and deal with the uprights.

Clearly he gave up on the awareness on that kick then blamed it on Romo.

Like taking a chip shot when someone disturbs you and you quit on it leading to a sculled shot.

 

[sbuscha]

Why do we run up the middle every first down, run up the middle 2nd down, long pass dropped on 3rd and punt on 4th... The play calling is unbearable....

 

[jack2]

Agree, lots of dumb penalties, bledsoe played for@##$%, and made two of the biggest mental mistakes and plays of the game, but the conservative play calling ( twice inside the 10 yd line witha first down) six running plays and 3 points, and that has to gon the coaching staff!

 

[sbuscha]

The play calling is terrible....every 1st down is a run up the middle, then another run up themiddle, then a long 3rd down and then a punt....pleay calling is terrible!!!! Just terrible!!

 

[Bob Sacamano]

Jose Cuervo...SUCKS!!

bottomline, Bill didn't lose this game, our stupid chip-shot, wait, can't even call him that, lost it

 

[ZRO]

This may be a knee jerk reaction thread, I don't know, but I really think he's worn out his welcome here.

His coaching today was nothing short of pathetic. One of the most conservative games I've ever seen coached.

- Anthony Thomas has absolutely NO BUSINESS being on this football team.

- He should be slapped for letting go of Jeff Robinson

- 3 years into his tenure and the Offensive Line, the most important unit on the football team, is as bad ( IF NOT WORSE) than when he got here. An overpaid, overrated Marco Rivera, who's a finesse blocker and doesn't fit the smashmouth style Parcells wants. Then we have Rob Pettiti, who possibly played the WORST Right Tackle i've ever seen in NFL history. He had guys I've never even heard of abusing him one-on-one. The starting center can barely snap the damn ball.

- Having THREE posessions inside the 10 yard line and coming up with only 3 POINTS is unacceptable. We get inside the 10 and totally roll up like little biatches.. run, run, run, run, run, run, run. They weren't even TRYING TO trick the defense, it was pathetic.

What happened to the offense we saw against Philly? It's gone. We come out spreading the field and attacking Philly, who's got a MUCH better D than Seattle, and blow them out. Then we play Seattle, the #1 offense in the league, SHUT THEM DOWN, and the offense can barely muster 1 touchdown.

Pathetic.

 

[Champsheart]

Coaching, well yes there is some blame that goes here, but not like many people are yelling about.
I think we needed to get more aggresive in some situations, but when we tried look at what happened.
Penalties, Sacks, and Turnovers. We went deep and a INT, We tried a flea flicker and fumble, we tried to throw a pass at the end of regulation to get in position to win and INT.
A dropped pass by Witten, and that non call to Witten in the endzone was a horrible non call. And a few other times we tried to get aggressive and throw down field it was almost intercepted.
Everytime we tried to get aggressive something bad happened.
I blame the coaching for not having some more plays to help keep the heat off, more screens, dump offs, and maybe another reverse or 2.

You really should give Seattle's Defense a lot of credit for this, because they played just not to get beat by big plays and dared us to move the ball down the field. With the pass protection we had it just was not going to happen.

 

[Bob Sacamano]

The offensive line is killing us. Whether it is untimely penalties by the o-lineman, sacks, or Johnson snapping the ball into his gooch, they are hurting the offense.

It seemed that everytime we started to get something going on offense we would get a penalty on offense.

Cortez is a loser. I don't know if we still have the other kicker on the practice squad or if Cundiff is available, but a change is needed...badly.

Bledsoe held onto the ball way too long. To me it was much more noticeable in this game than in previous game. I thought he would never get rid of the ball.

Price? Where were you buddy? You have been grumbling about playing time. If you are going to complain you need to do something when you get in there, and what in the he!! were you thinking when you didn't call for a fair catch on the punt?

Defense meltdown. Great game for 58 minutes. Why do we laydown at the end of every game? Are the players pressing, are we dropping back into soft zone coverage?

Offensive Gameplanning. Why is it that we come out with an aggressive gameplan against the Eagles (supposidly a defensive juggernaut), yet when we play the Giants and the Seahawks we come out playing conservative with many formations having only one receiver on the field, WTH? You can say execution, and that is fine, but it is the coaching staffs job to get the players prepared.

what defensive meltdown? the D did their part, our stupid kicker did not, but I do agree that our Oline is a serious problem, although they provided some holes most of the day, but really, the only fault I see is Jose Cuervo, what a loser, and the gameplan isn't the problem, it's the execution, we just didn't execute all day on offense, untimely pentalties killed us, dropped balls too, and the Oline not giving Drew too much time, he was holding the ball as long as he's held it in all of our wins, the Oline was just atrocious pass-blocking, plus our receivers didn't do a good enough job getting open...

bottomline, blame the Kicker

 

[Kilyin]

One drive we had in Seattle territory consisted of 3 consecutive Barber run plays, and a punt. Not even one pass attempt. That is playing give up football.

That Jacque Reeves fumble recovery drive was crap too, and then Cortez shanks it. Majorly disappointing.

We had no momentum.

 

[Wolfpack]

The D did fine...you are stupid to expect to win against the top rated offense in the NFl with a 7 point lead. Period.

Offense couldnt get it done and the couching was subpar.

 

[TheEnigma]

First of all, we had more running yards than we had passing yards, and that was with less running attempts than passing attempts. Our passing game was not working. So, for those of you complaining about the running, it was working alot better than the passing game we were fielding today.

Secondly, the conservative playcalling is a result of our O-Lines horrendous play. Had we tried to open up a little more, Bledsoe would have been sacked 10 times as opposed to the 5 he suffered today.